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Daze of Yore
- Subject: Daze of Yore
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:21:58 -0400
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Hello all...I've lurked long enough.
Interesting Who content on the Hendrix list.
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>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 23:23:29
>From: <ssw::internet::heyjoere>
>Subject: Daze of Yore
>To: pit1::mccunem
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>From: HEYJOERE @INTERNET @SSW @MAILVX
>To: hey-joe
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>At 11:01 AM 7/17/96, Steven Szep wrote:
>
>>I saw Ol' Bob on HBO the other night {Ron Wood as a sideman}: I swear he
>>changed some words to his older stuff...The band backing up Alanis on that
>>Prince's Trust gig was the best presented, IMO: the Who lacked that raw
>>energy I saw 30 years ago {they used to open for Herman's Hermits,btw}
>
>It's true! I saw the Who in Vancouver in 1967 -- or was it '68? In any
>case, they were second on the bill, with Herman's Hermits headlining! (The
>opening act was the Blues Magoos, who did their psychedelic version of
>Tobacco Road and We Ain't Got Nothin Yet. The final number was of course My
>Generation, in which Townshend smashed the bejesus out of a Telecaster, and
>threw the neck into the audience.
>
>MANY years later, the Who played in Vancouver again -- a woman who was in
>the audience for the '67 show got hit in the face with Townshend's guitar
>neck, and at the '89 show, she was given free admission to the concert!
>
>Keep on rockin,
>Colin
>
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>Colin Hartridge (Captain Maniac) * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
>colinh@wimsey.com * "Past the outskirts of infinity"
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