Re: Sparks v. Sparks

[David & Rachael <arizona@itis.com>]

Brian S Cady wrote:
> 
> Maybe this will answer your question about why "My Generation" is the way
> it is on "Live At Leeds."  These are Pete's remarks immediately before
> The Who launch into it:
> 
> "We'd like to say goodbye, now. (Audience groans) It's a long time to go
> yet, in actual fact.  We do a number now which is kind of a little bit
> of everything.  Mainly, it's mostly The Who and it's mostly The Who of
> about three years ago and probably mixed in are little bits of The Who
> today and this is the [something] is more or less our hymn.  The reason
> we reprise 'Tommy' in it, in other word we repeat a bit of it, is to mix
> all the bits of our history together in a one, great, huge, deafining
> din.  And this is dedicated to you, really, because you've been really
> incredibly kind and nice and friendly and that. (audience goes "awwwww")
> No, really, considering (Keith says something), it's really wonderful to
> be back in Leeds consdiering, yeah I was just going to say, remembering
> the last time. [Pete indecipherable for a bit]  Anyway, we'll make it up
> for you know with a special, long, drawn-out version of 'My Generation.'"
> (Audience cheers).
> 
>                                 -Brian in Atlanta


I know that this is tangential, but I remember when The Who album, Live
At Leeds, came out the big rumor was that it was a fake concert
concocted in the studio. The theory was that nobody on the western US
coast had ever heard of Leeds, so...

oh well...