acoustic guitar on WAY

[Neil E. Weissman]

They have also been using pre-recorded "who are you, who who, who who" in addition to the background synth track.  This drives me nuts.  When I see Roger lip synching, I think of Britney Spears.

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From: sroundtable at aol.com
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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:47:41 PM
Subject: acoustic guitar on WAY


For no particular reason I just visited The Who portion of Pete's website and clicked on the diary from Live 8.  Looking at the pics reminded me of something that has bothered me for the last few years and I want to get everyone's opinions on it.  Why on EARTH has Roger been playing an entirely irrelevant and inaudible acoustic guitar on Who are You since 2001 CFNYC?  It's a very energetic Who number and a live staple, yet Roger takes himself entirely out of the physical/visual impact of The Who on this one song.  I can understand it on Eminence Front because the riff he plays is an integral part of the song, and on TKAA it fits with the general tone of how they play that song these days.  But on Who are You??  I think it also hurts Roger's vocals because he can't fully use his body to reach the notes.  For example, his performance at RAH 2000 sans guitar was awesome, and he actually did the big WHOOOOOOOOOOOO are you right after Pete's interlude/before the Ooh ahhs.  He
 oesn
't do this anymore even though "ooohs" are one of his strong points even today (see BOR).  Thoughts?

Mc
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