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Re: faith, trust and magic
>"The magic of The Who is the coming together & playing of TED.
>*That's* what's been getting us off all these years. The Who are great at
>making Who music - not blindly grappling with musical genres."
>
>Very well said, sir.
>That is what has been getting me off, and the lack of it led me away from
>the band.
A lack in their albums, or in their live performances?
>It is so hard to capture this on record, this essential Who element. It is
>difficult for most punters to 'get it', even at a show. It takes an extra
>effort from the audience to understand this.
It's what I was getting at with the "Whoification" comment. They can take
pretty much anything and make the same magic. It's all in the way they play
together.
>I'll take a quote from a *great* movie I saw yesterday:
>"A little faith, a little trust, a little bit of pixie dust and you can
>fly." The Who can fly if they put these things together. The pixie dust
>is granted; it is in their blood.
Oh, you noticed that too? ;)
keets
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