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New York Daily News review of Oceanic Concerts



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PETE TOWNSHEND & RAPHAEL RUDD "The Oceanic Concerts"
three stars

Who has a more heavenly voice than Pete Townshend? While it takes Roger Daltrey's instrument to voice the writer's anger and
virility, Townshend expresses purity in his solo performances. And never has he sounded more sweetly yearning than in this rare, old
concert tape cut with the harpist Raphael Rudd.

Pete Townshend, who performed with the Who at this weekend's benefit concert for the WTC victims, has a new album out.
Rudd met Townshend in 1978, when the Who leader asked him to arrange the orchestrations for the movie version of "Quadrophenia" and
to oversee the horns on his solo album "Empty Glass." In '79 and '80 the pair gave two performances in honor of their mutual
spiritual leader, Meher Baba. The result should interest not only Who absolutists but also casual fans of good music.

Townshend gives especially gracious performances of well known songs like "Drowned" and "The Seeker," as well as obscurities like
"The Ferryman" and "Sleeping Dog." Rudd intersperses his own classical harp and piano pieces between Townshend's songs, and
accompanies him on six cuts, including the then-new "A Little Is Enough." Their belief in each other's talent, and in the material
itself, gives these performances a special glow. - Jim Farber

-Brian in Atlanta
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