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[Michael Berson <msbinla@yahoo.com>]

This is taken from the Arrow 93FM site(LA Classic Rock Station)

(04/10/00) -- So much for dying before they got old. The Who introduced their music to the
Internet generation on Monday (April 10) when they released their live album, The Blues to the
Bush on the web and announced a summer tour of the United States. 
The album, which will be available only on the Internet at Musicmaker.com, features songs recorded
in 1999 by the surviving members of the band, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle, at
recent charity reunion shows at the House of Blues in Chicago and in the Shepherds Bush section of
London. The album features new versions of classic Who songs such as "My Generation," "Substitute"
and "Won't Get Fooled Again." 

To support the album, The Who will launch a summer tour beginning June 25 in Chicago. They will be
joined by drummer Zak Starkey, son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in the place of the late Who
drummer Keith Moon and former drummer Kenney Jones. Longtime supporting musician, John Bundrick,
will also tour with the band on keyboards. 

"This is the way The Who was meant to be heard," singer Daltrey said. "We have more power than
ever before. And we're rediscovering what these songs are all about. And we're rediscovering new
energy in ourselves." 

The band is looking forward to playing their classic hits live again, and realize it is exactly
what fans want to see. 

"I saw the Eagles reunion tour, and I saw the Stones a couple of times in the last few years,"
Entwistle said. "When they played their new material, I was bored out of my ... mind. I wanted to
hear the hits. That's why I was there. So I know how the audience feels." 

Daltrey agreed. "It is nostalgia, but it's also my life. That's my blood, sweat, a lot of tears
and a lot of broken bones that went into those songs,'' the singer said. 

CBS Morning Resource reports that The Who will share a road crew with Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page
and the Black Crowes to cut production costs. No dates have been annouced for the Page-Crowes
shows. Daltrey said the plan to share tour costs "is a stroke of genius" that The Who's manager,
Bill Curbishley, came up with. 

Don't look for the band to force themselves into making an album of new material. 

"Nothing is going to get me into a studio with some big producer for six months to a year to wring
new songs out of me," Townshend said. "I can't do that anymore." 

The Who come to the Los Angeles area on August 16 at Irvine Meadows. Tickets go on sale April 15. 


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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."                                                                        John Lennon

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