HP PAVILLION (was RE: Who setlists)

[An English Boy]

...and, does anyone wonder why I chose to see TRS*, Jeff Beck twice,
Ray Davies and Robin Trower rather than, for the same $, The Who->,
with this show/setlist and the disappointing reviews its received?

No, all said n done, The Hollywood Bowl show was incredible, so me mate
Nathan reported, as did all the journalist that reviewed it.

HP Pavillion= Bum _ _ _ _ California !!

Hollywood Bowl= The PLACE TO BE !!!

Gotta DVD comin' of that baby, and I truly should have attended, but
my wife's health prevented us from being that far from home....surgery
in 6 days for her...!

AEB~


>From: sroundtable at aol.com
>Reply-To: The Who Mailing List <thewho at igtc.com>
>To: thewho at igtc.com
>Subject: Who setlists
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 10:18:28 -0500
>
>I read the San Jose Mercury review of The Who's HP Pavillion show, and 
>while I vehemently disagree with the author's depiction of crowds as 
>"uninterested" during the new material, he made a few valid points.  New 
>material from an established band that released its album less than two 
>weeks ago is never going to bring people to their feet or create huge roars 
>of excitement.  One doesn't evaluate music while jumping and yelling.  The 
>audience sits to take it all in.  Of course, some assholes who aren't close 
>followers of the band get annoyed, but fuck em.  This album has been a long 
>time coming, is yet another departure from prior Who albums (as most of 
>them have been) and The Who should be playing a good bit of new stuff.
>
>That said, I agree wholeheartedly that stringing together three 
>full-length, non-opera songs in the middle of the set is a bad move.  Other 
>than W&G, they ought to play no more than one new tune between the classic 
>stuff.  While we were all excited about hearing new live material, we were 
>also told that the band would be playing some vintage Who that we haven't 
>heard live in recent years.  These have not been forthcoming.  It would be 
>much more effective to rotate the new songs (keep 3 of them in with W&G), 
>and fill the openings with songs like Naked Eye, Young Man Blues, Long Live 
>Rock, Relay, etc. on a rotating basis.  The current setlists leave the 
>casual fans a bit disappointed because there is too much new material, and 
>may annoy the die-hard fans because we get only hits and new stuff with 
>nothing in between.  Seriously, they remove RGLB from the set and replace 
>it with another new song and then play three of them in a row?  Come on, 
>Roger.  The reviewer was right in th
>  at this can really kill the momentum of a show.
>
>Mc
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