Re: The Who 1989

[Joe Giorgianni <giorgianni@globalone.net>]

In June 1989 the Who spent two weeks in my town rehearsing for the tour. The
first show of the tour was in our 6000 seat Glens Falls Civic Center (Glens
Falls, NY). While it was great to be in the second row right in front of
Townshend this was but a shadow of what the Who once was. I was lucky enough
to see them in 1967, 71, 73, 75, 79, 82 and 89. I am glad that Townshend is
letting them rest in peace. I hope they never do another show as the Who. I
agree 100% with what Scott James said. IMHO, he is totally correct.

At 11:05 AM 10/29/95 -0500, you wrote:
>The Who's 1989 "Nostalgia" tour was pretty much just that. If you want to
>say that Bolton did not fit in, the same holds true for the whole band. The
>horns did not belong there, the percussionist did not belong there (and she
>is quite excellent and an expatriot of the USA) and that overplaying
>bombastic simon phillips and the Takamines that Pete was playing were
>hardly worthy. This was not a who tour. it was a bunch of guys who did a
>fair job a sounding and looking like the who, occasionaly Though roger was
>drowned out more often than not. All this aside there were some really nice
>moments. The sets at Giant Stadium as well as Radio City opened with a good
>chunk of tommy as the sun was beginning to set and the performances were
>quite good. The who and pete have been imitating themselves for quite
>sometime now. Of course, it goes without saying, that this is all in my
>own, pitiful opinion. Long live Rock, Rock is dead they say...
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>Scott James
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