Re: The Who in Coca-Cola school presentation

[Bjorn Ciggaar <ciggaar@warande.net>]

At 20:56 10-1-02 -0500, you wrote:
>At my school today, Coca-Cola and Mothers Against Drunk Driving put on this
>multimedia presentation about drinking and peer pressure and "being
>yourself," not what others want you to be, blah, blah, blah.  I was with my
>AP world politics students who all know I'm a Who freak, so when the words
>"Who Are You" scrolled across the bottom as a girl was blathering on about
>soemthing, all my students started whispering to me that the Who song with
>the same name should be played there.  Not that exciting, but it shows I am
>spreading Who-ness to the youth of New Orleans.  The excitement comes later.
>At the very end as the credits were running, i heard a familiar guitar and
>drum intro to a song, but didn't see the who in the opening credits so I knew
>they weren't in it.  Sure enough, "Can you see the real me, Doctor! Doctor!"
>sounded thru the auditorium and I got fired up.  "That's a Who song!  That's
>a Who song!" i excplaimed in a sort of whspered yell.  "Quadrophenia!  The
>Real Me!"  I waited for the song credits and it turned out to be a cover of
>the song by a band named "Fastball."  I had never heard of them but the kids
>sang me a song of theirs that was popular and I recognized it.  I told
>them,"Just face it.  You can't escape the power of the Who.  They are
>omnipresent.  Just accept and embrace the fact!"  Just a little tidbit.

Yeah, that version is on the latest "official" WHO-covers edition...

BTW; didn't you do windmills or anything while hearing The Real Me? I just 
cannot hear that song without wanting to pogo! :-)

Bjorn