Re: Who likes Who

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

No Roger solo?

I've got Kodo on my schedule already. :) They're coming here in the 
spring.  

keets

>Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 18:46:03 -0600
>To: thewho@igtc.com
>From: Alan McKendree <amck@thenetdr.com>
>Subject: Re: Who likes Who
>
>I agree with a button I've heard of from decades that said:
>
>NOTHING BUT THE WHO
>
>The Who is on its own level...then there's the rest of rock and music 
in
>general.
>
>That said, my top 10 would be
>
>The Who
>Pete's solo work
>John's solo work (especially factoring in the new songs that haven't 
been
>released)
>
>then, in no particular order:
>Led Zeppelin
>Little Feat
>Eagles (any album PRIOR to Hotel California)
>Fleetwood Mac (any album PRIOR to Nicks & Buckingham joining)
>Aerosmith (selected songs -- don't care for Dream On)
>Simon Townshend
>Jethro Tull
>
>Brilliant but erratic:
>Moody Blues
>Emerson Lake & Palmer
>Patti Smith
>
>Also, let me recommend a touring Japanese group called Kodo.  They're 
named
>after an island where they all live and study drums.  They tour the 
States
>every two years or so and will be here (Austin) in February.  The
>compositions are mostly for drums; on a song here & there they might 
throw
>in a flute or cymbals for some color, but most of them are just drums.  
Not
>every song (or composition) is a hit IMO, but within a concert they're 
sure
>to get 5 or 6 that are just great.  Get 15 people in great physical
>condition onstage whaling on drums ranging from 6 inches to 6 feet in
>diameter in complex driving rhythms, and you've got something sure to
>appeal to the same thing in me that responds to The Who's roar.  "Maybe 
you
>too." :-)
>
>Alan
>Be sure to read _McKendree: A Burning Novel of Murder and Revenge_
>by Douglas Hirt, ISBN 0-8439-4184-7  (available at www.amazon.com)
>
>
>


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