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re: Quadrophenia in Hyde Park:
i've heard that the band is down to about 18 people,  basically the deep
end/Who '89  with Zak instead of Simon Phillips on drums and Simon Townshend
instead of Bolton on lead guitar.  John Carin on keyboards(and possibly doing
some guitar work as well)  along with Rabbit.  Also the Kick horns and
backing vocalists aplenty lead by Billy Nichols.    Pete will be playing
acoustic guitar and piano (most likely piano on 'cut my hair' and prehaps
'love reign o'er me').   Phil Daniels, who played Jimmy in the movie of
'quad', will be the narrator, and a British TV news man, Trevor McDonald,
will be acting the role of the judge (what!!! you don't remember the judge in
the original story!!????!!).   Also on hand will be a couple of U.K. stand-up
comics including Steven Frye in roles yet to be named.... 

NakedEye10 writes: 
>>Re:  The Who touring debate...  There's no question that "The Old Who" died
with Keith.  Everything since has been a different band, whether a five piece
with Kenny and Rabbit or the big band of '89.  As for as I'm concerned,
however, anything Roger, Pete, and John want to do together and call the Who
is A-OK by me.  Anytime the three of them are on stage together, it is magic,
unlike any other I've yet to behold.<<

i've always found this to be true also.   i think there could still be a lot
of magic there yet.   certainly we saw it in Pete's recent solo tour.
i think the '89 tour tends to get a bad rap.   while it certainly had it's
'who on ice' moments,  it also had moments of brilliance like 'hey joe' and
'i'm a man'.    i think it's fascinating to see how artists change as they
mature.  Pete's interactions with Roger are almost always at least
interesting and at best very magical,  i think we'll get to observe this
again this year.  i think the amount of magic is directly related to how much
guitar work pete does.


re:Kansas City 12/1/75
i agree with Bruce 100% on this tape.   i'm sure it is a audience tape,  and
it's unlikely that it was ever b'cast.   his comments on how the sets on the
'75 tour developed also are right on the money.   
Chris Hinkle writes:
>>Mine has all the songs you mention, but I don't know if this is the full
set or not.<<

yes,  the setlist that Bruce posted is indeed the full set. 

>>Does anyone know any good quality boot tapes like this that have not been
released on LP or CD?<<

there are many.   the bootleg folks have barely scraped the surface.

Blaine Bragg wrote re: sheraton gibson:
>>If I remember right, Pete recorded it on a cheap tape deck in a hotel
room (now he's not sure if it was at the Gibson or not).  I suspect it's
a limitation of the source....I was amazed at how much he got out of
it.  My Who Came First CD (Rhino) is "less than clean".<<


Pete revealed at his recent solo shows that he wrote this song and about 9 or
10 others by sitting in front of a cassette recorder in a hotel room and just
playing and singing in a stream-of-consciousness style.   he said he also
wrote 'classifieds' in this style at the same time.   this isn't what was
released however.   the 'who came first' version was a demo of the finished
song recorded at his home later.