RE: Gay Who Fans / SpiritualitySun Dec 7 13:22:25 PST 1997

[Michael Hanley <mhanley@microsoft.com>]

>
>>In a message dated 96-03-19 09:39:57 EST, jboswel@emory.edu (James Marshall
>>Boswell) writes:
>>was was letting on that evening.  I now think Who Are You is a very
>>spiritual
>>song and now I can ignore the WHO WHO WHO WHO part and concentrate on the
>> awesome musicianship of the song.
>
>I, too, was really put off by the whowhowhowho stuff. I never liked
>alot of
>Entwistle/Townshend harmonies ever since Quadrophenia ("inside,
>outside...")
>and this seemed like one more case of them trying to be different and
>clever
>when, really, it's just so wimpy-sounding that it actually helps to
>make the
>rest of the song sound even harder by comparison. BUT, I do love that
>song
>-- great chord patterns and aggression. I remember that Pete took this
>whowhowho stuff from some exotic music he'd been listening to at the
>time.
>Well, I guess if that's the kind of different perspective that a genius
>songwriter needs to get out the great songs than there's no point in
>complaining.


You don't like the "Who Who, Who Who"?
My kids LOVE it.  Got them started on The Who, now they're into AQO.  Of
course, there are the roadtrips where they want to hear WAY over and
over and over......
:--)
Mike