Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #150

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

I enjoyed Who's Who. <shrug>  Haven't thought much about it, but I'll devote 
a couple seconds now.  Um, okay.  I don't much like the look-alike business, 
as it seems to cheapen the performance.  I'd rather have a band present 
themselves honestly--they have to be quite compentent to perform the music, 
after all, but no band can actually replace The Who, or even TED.

keets


>From: simon malia <malias40@hotmail.com>
>To: TheWho@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #150
>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 03:29:16 PDT
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>>From: TheWho-Digest-Owner@igtc.com (The Who Mailing List Digest)
>>Reply-To: TheWho@igtc.com
>>To: TheWho-Digest@igtc.com
>>Subject: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #150
>>Date: Tues 22nd June 1999 (11:18:10 UK time)
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>>Re: Mark Leaman - I agree with Jon; Mark's contribution did seem a bit
>>snooty - unnecessarily so. But viva diversity I suppose.
>On another tack entirely: how do members of this list feel about "tribute"
>bands? I went to see such a band, "The Maximum Who" at a club in Liverpool
>on Friday night - and it was a bizarre experience. A small but hugely vocal
>crowd packed into a tiny club, sweating to the rafters - and singing along
>passionately to every number. The band, not great look-a-likes, managed a
>fair stab at covering the numbers. Starting with "I Can't Explain" and
>"Substitute" they romped on through "Anyway, Anywhere, Anyhow", "Happy
>Jack", "A Legal Matter", into "Tommy" ("Overture", "Acid Queen", "Amazing
>Journey", "Sparks", "Pinball Wizard", "We're Not Gonna Take It" and
>appropriate finale), onto "Summertime Blues", "5.15", "Baba O'Riley",
>"Behind Blue Eyes" and rounded off the night with an encore of "My
>Generation" and "WGFA". It was odd to be seeing a band making a fairly
>decent swipe at THOSE songs in such surroundings. Somehow it made seeing 
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>real thing even more real, and even more wond'rous. But then I get carried
>away too easily...
>So - the big question - tribute bands - are they a fun night out, giving us
>the chance to hear the material in a real, live format - or a traducing
>insult to the godlike genius of our true heroes?
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