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Re: The Who in Coca-Cola school presentation
Kevin,
Now you're making sense! LOL! ;-)
magik
Sroundtable@aol.com 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.
>
> kevin mc