Re: Gary Glitter, and my comments about the Quad tour

["Joe Cozzarelli" <cozz@lucent.com>]

I saw the Quad Show starring "the Who on Ice" at Madison Square Garden then
at the Meadowlands about six months apart.
 At the Garden, Roger forgot and misplaced lines, Billy Idol created his own
lines, and Glitter was a bafoon.
The Meadowlands show was much better. They had lyric monitors everywhere,
Billy finally realized
that the bell boys hair was cut neat and not short, and Glitter calmed down.
They also blended Jimmy's  dialogue much better.
I truly enjoyed the show.
Joe Cozz

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Craine <jcraine@hotmail.com>
To: thewho@igtc.com <thewho@igtc.com>
Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 4:59 AM
Subject: Fwd: Gary Glitter, and my comments about the Quad tour


>Funny you should mention the no-name rocker forgetting lines -
>I saw the first show in Hyde Park  june '96 with Gary Glitter,then2
>showns in Earls Court in London later in the tour,then the final show of
>the tou in Wembley.
>The 2 shows in Earls Court featured PJ Proby as the rocker who forgot
>his lines - I think this is the no-name guy - he wasnt highly
>publicised..
>The 1st night he slurred through the Punk  Meets the Godfather...both
>Roger and Pete were not impressed..
>the 2nd night he did'ntm iss a word! it was evident words were shared
>backstage after the 1st night...
>
>re:Gary Glitter porn charge -
>It was BIG news here in Ireland/UK...
>he left a computer in to be repaired and the shop reported to the police
>that there were paedophile pictures on his hard drive...
>
>
>
>>
>>I haven't had much to say about the Quad tour since I've opened my big
>>mouth and begun posting on the list, but when I saw it in Chicago Gary
>>Glitter and Billy Idol were there.  Much later, quite near the end of
>>the
>>tour, some no-name "talents" were on-board (I saw them in
>Indianapolis).
>>
>>The Godfather (which had been Glitter's role) forgot lines, sang poorly
>>when he did remember, and totally pissed off Roger, who was practically
>>knocking the loser in the head with his microphone to cue him that he
>>was
>>supposed to be singing.  Roger never really lost his composure, but I
>>was
>>close enough that I could tell he wasn't pleased.  The guy was just
>>absolutely not concentrating.
>>
>>Anyway...
>>
>>Does anybody know what happened to Glitter?  With ticket sales a bit
>>less-than-expected, were they cutting costs?
>>
>>What brought this up was Glitter's child pornography charges... was
>this
>>
>>part of his dismissal from the tour?  I read about the charges at
>>classicrock.miningco.com/msub7.htm
>>
>>My comments about the Indianapolis show:  SUCKED!
>>
>>My comments about the Chicago show:  Sound quality was poor, but this
>>was my first Who concert.  It was no Live at Leeds, as it was more of a
>>show than a concert, but I was mesmerized by John.  Some bass players
>>pluck with one finger, good players use two.  John's the only one I've
>>seen
>>using at least three... I couldn't tell, because they were a blur!  The
>>Who are
>>greater than the sum of their parts, but John is one helluva part.
>>
>>The concert was elevated above mere entertainment during the encore.
>>Pete said something like, "Well, this is what's left:  Three men and a
>>corpse."
>>(The rest of the orchestra was left out... Just John, Roger, and Pete)
>>And then he went on to do his first aggressive playing for the night,
>as
>>he
>>showed everyone just how hard an acoustic guitar can rock when it's
>>played right.  When Pete's playing.
>>
>>This is, to me, the moment when I first heard The Who live.  It still
>>wasn't
>>Live at Leeds, but Keith was there... conjured by Pete and Roger, who
>>were playing some pretty interesting drums by stomping their feet!
>Man,
>>
>>if you weren't moved by that, you weren't there.
>>
>>If there is a video of one of the Chicago shows, I'd love a copy... If
>>anybody can offer me some leads (or is it Leeds)?
>>
>>By the way, to whoever had requested that we long-winded folks keep
>>our posts short, all I can say is I'm sorry.... I just don't know how
>to
>>
>>express myself without using a lot of words... I hope you don't mind
>>too terribly much.
>>
>>Long Live Rock!
>>
>>Howard P.
>>
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