Re: What got you hooked ?

[Shanon Dell <tommy@selway.umt.edu>]

	Well as you may have guessed from some of my posts I'm a younger 
Who fan (I'm 19 to be exact) so my story isn't too exciting.
	I was led out of my musical darkness about three to four years 
ago.  I'd been listening to the pop music of the day and found myself 
getting bored with it.  I used to watch VH-1 a lot and at the time they 
played "Baba" from '89, "My Generation", "Magic Bus", and "Eminence 
Front" quite a bit.  I was somewhat intrigued so I had a friend of my 
mom's make me a sort of greatest hits tape from his collection.  Within a 
few weeks of getting the tape I found myself unable to stop listening to 
it.  I would sit in class and just think about how bad I wanted to get 
home to listen to my Who tape.  About a month later I bought Who's Better 
Who's Best on CD.
	I began buying more CD's and reading more of the band's history.  
I think their history and their individual personalities fascinated me as 
much as the music.  I wanted to be part of this entity.
        Besides my future career, there is nothing else in the world I care 
more about than the Who and their music.  They've kept me company on a lot 
of hard, lonely nights and I will forever be thankful for that.   
	In the past few years I've managed to buy all the studio albums, 
a few bootlegs, and few solo albums.  Also in that short time I've 
destroyed my hearing by about 20%, LaL being the major cause of my 
hearing loss.  
	My only real regret in life right now comes from knowing 
that I will never get to see the Who play live.  
	Hope I didn't put any of you to sleep.

Shanon

It sounds like I've been brainwashed or something doesn't it.  I feel 
some "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "See Me Feel Me" lyrics creeping into 
my head.
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Shanon Dell                     |       
Radio/Television Broadcasting   |  "Deaf, dumb, and blind boy, he's in a  
University of Montana           |   quiet vibration land..."               
tommy@selway.umt.edu            |                   -- The Who's "Tommy"     
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