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Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V7 #44
Two important questions guys:
1)Sorry if this is a dumb question but I cant seem to find exactly where I
can buy the LifeHouse set or BBC sessions. Ive heard about bestbuy.com but
when I search for the Who or Pete Townshend on there I dont see these. Can
someone give me exact info? Im dying for this stuff but have been a little
out of touch due to a serious illness in the family.
2)Can anyone (Jacqueline?) give me Kelly Giles (Yellow Ledbetter)'s new
email address? I lost hers when Prodigy Classic died and am dying to see how
college is going.
Thanks all you who people!
-Ellen
>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 V7 #44
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:06:27 -0800
>
>The Who Mailing List Digest
> Thursday, February 17 2000 Volume 07 : Number 044
>
>
>
>In this issue:
>
> My Who Weddding Song
> Lifehouse box Set
> Life(house)less
> Re: Lifehouse box Set
> Still Avartar (less) Bonus CD Liner notes
> BBC Sessions
> New tabs at WHOTABS
> Best Buy Online Answer--Bonus Disc--Yes!
> Best Buy Online BBC--Not Shipped Yet
> RE: Lifehouse and BBC not so Best Buy!
> ML's question- What Best Buy does she work at
> lifehouse comments
> Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V7 #43
> Chatting with Roger
> The Who Guitar Chord Songbook
> hhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
> RE: Lifehouse and BBC not so Best Buy!
> Dig out your WHO stuff, Atlanta
> AOL Transcript
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:01:42 -0500
>From: "Ligouri, George P." <GLigouri@oxhp.com>
>Subject: My Who Weddding Song
>
> Thank you EVERYONE who has contributed their suggestions for my Who
>Wedding Song.
>
> I think I am going to go w/ LMLOTD but I don't know how my soon to
>be wife will react to this decision, seeing that she is not the biggest who
>fan. I am working on her though...
>
> I will keep you all posted and again thanks very much.
>
> -George in CT.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:20:49 -0000
>From: "Martin Bailey" <mobailey@cwcom.net>
>Subject: Lifehouse box Set
>
>At last it's arrived! A week after Avatar turned up on my doorstep, the
>LifeHouse box set is now here.
>
>Wow. That's all I could say for a while. Wow.
>
>The box, packaging, design and contents are just awesome. Puts Avatar to
>shame. £40 for this? Don't tell Pete, but I would have paid £100.
>
>And as for the music...
>
>I'm half way through the 3rd CD so far (ie: I've heard most of the 'new
>material'), and I am in awe. Wow. (Did I say that?) The demos are
>magnificent. The simplified, cut-down sound really works - I always was a
>big fan of the Scoops. One song in particular has really stood out as
>being
>even better than the Who's version: Slip Kid - I thought it was a great
>version even before the brilliant piano solo started.
>
>Best karaoke moments: WGFA & WAY, at the end of the instrumental, when
>Roger
>would normally shout "Yeeeaahhhhhhh!" / "Whhhhhhoooo arreeee yooouuuuuu?",
>but instead its just music. I'm more than happy to fill the gap with my
>own
>RD impression, at great volume!
>
>Having the Lifehouse boxset is taking my mind off not having the BBC
>Sessions yet. My dad is currently in America (Tulsa) working for a couple
>of weeks. I've told him not to come back without the CD, and I've given
>him
>idiot's instructions of how to get it (now dad, repeat after me : "Best
>Buy,
>The Who, BBC Sessions, Bonus Disk"). I can wait a few weeks for it; maybe
>in a year or two I'll also buy the UK version if I find it on sale...
>
>Right, time to watch today's video diary. I'm starting to really excited
>about next week's Sadler's Wells concert. Is it just me, or is this the
>best month ever for Who fans? I can imagine Brian in Atlanta getting RSI
>in
>5 years time having to write all this up!
>
>- -MB
>
>Uh-oh, the rapping's just begun on the Lifehouse CD.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:33:13 -0500
>From: "Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>
>Subject: Life(house)less
>
> > That's OK. I can take it (briefly). I hope you and Brian and everyone
>else
> > waiting finds some Royal Mail in your mailbox today.
>
>Jim:
>
>Thanks for understanding. But alas (alack, faraday) no Lifehouse again
>today...although there may be a yellow slip in my mailbox, which would
>anger me since I was here when the mail was delivered. I can't use it until
>tomorrow, if so, so there's no point in getting angry until I leave to go
>home. Then I can get it all out during the drive and not force my wife and
>daughter to suffer.
>
> > Wow, that far (and none in VT). I thought I had it bad being 45 miles
>from
> > the nearest Best Buy. Due to circumstances more complicated than they
>need
> > to be, I won't get my BBC 'til Sunday or Monday.
>
>I have a friend who went to Charleston today, and is going to get it for
>me...but I won't get it until tomorrow, of couse. But hey, that's one
>anyway.
>
> > I'm really interested in getting Lifehouse!!! Thanks.
>
>Lisa:
>
>Aren't we all, aren't we all...as I recall, you have to download Shockwave
>to use the PT site, perhaps it's the same with Eelpie. It's free; you can
>find it on the web.
>
> > Thanks also - again - to Brian Cady for sharing with us his seemingly
> > unfathomable knowledge of all things WHO. I suppose if someone wanted to
> > know JAE's favorite colour hankie's he'd know too!
>
>Hans:
>
>I second and third that.
>
> > Mark; I for got to mention that sometimes when the British Mail
> > system gets a little overloaded, they route the mail rather than a
> > straight line across the atlantic, say London to New York but thru
> > somwhere on the west coast, Washington for some reason.
>
>Derick:
>
>You certainly have a way of making me feel better.
>
> > that a pissed off postman can direct USA bound mail thru Afghanistan
>
>Now what did *I* do to piss off the postman? He didn't even run over my
>scooter! "There it is...on the floor..."
>
> > It's not an uncommon occurence for mail that was posted years and
> > years ago to suddenly show up at the intended address !
>
>Aaaaiiiieeeeee!
>
> > I was supposed to do the liner notes for the bonus disc.
>
>Brian:
>
>Yes, I was wondering about that. Wondering why no one had mentioned it.
>Sadly but hardly unpredictably, MCA dropped the ball again. Hey, it's their
>loss, unfortunately along with a large number of Who fans.
>
> > Maybe next time. I'm cheap guys and just a click away!
>
>You're too good for `em! WE appreciate you, anyway!
>
>
> Cheers ML
>
>If you own a CD player, you need to check out our website:
>
>http://www.generations.theshoppe.com/
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:49:01 -0500
>From: Brian Cady <cadyb@home.com>
>Subject: Re: Lifehouse box Set
>
> >The box, packaging, design and contents are just awesome. Puts Avatar to
> >shame. £40 for this? Don't tell Pete, but I would have paid £100.
>
>Isn't it great? If I didn't want to hear the CD's every once in a while,
>I'd
>put it behind glass and hang it on the wall.
>
> >I can imagine Brian in Atlanta getting RSI in
> >5 years time having to write all this up!
>
>Whattya mean 5 years? Between this, BBC Sessions, Atkins new book, a
>two-album
>Pete interview I just bought, a 1973 Melody Maker with a Pete interview I
>just
>bought, I'l be in one of those wrist braces by the end of the week!
>
> -Brian in Atlanta
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 12:54:31 PST
>From: "Derick Bhupsingh" <circles01@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Still Avartar (less) Bonus CD Liner notes
>
>Still Waiting for Avatar. Maybe next week.It's a mail thing.
>Mark, did not mean to rub it in but some of my experiences with the
>various mail systems that exist have been less than pleasant. In the
>meantime.some are saying that BBC Sessions are not Live. I assure you
>that those songs were recorded in one take,in other words Live.
>Brian, as Mark says, it's their loss. Sorry it did not happen this
>time. Your liner notes would have been great.
>Regards,
>Derick.
>
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>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:49:55 -0500
>From: Marc/Carolyn Hurwitz <hurwitz@ieee.org>
>Subject: BBC Sessions
>
>Just to put my two cents in here...I thought that by and large this was
>a marvelous release. I'm not crazy about the packaging; it just looks
>cheap to me, somehow (the typeface on the cover, the plain red label on
>the CD, etc.). The music, however, is quite good. I've never heard
>MAXIMUM BBC, so I can't compare, but the sound quality was what I'd
>expect from 25-35-year-old recordings done in mono in a hurried
>condition. I was a little dubious at first about some of the covers
>("Good Lovin'", "Dancing In The Street"), but have decided by now that I
>like them. "Just You And Me, Darling" should have been on MY
>GENERATION; it beats the JB numbers on that album by a mile. For those
>who fussed about "Relay" and "Long Live Rock" being vocal overdubs onto
>studio recordings, I'd like to point out first that the studio takes
>were the instrumentals only, so it wasn't as if they were singing to the
>finished record. "Relay" was noticeably longer than the single, which
>gives us the chance to hear Townshend and Moon jam over the synths for
>at least two minutes. And on LLR, Daltrey sings the middle verse, which
>he did not on the studio take, and Townshend memorably flubs the final
>verse. There's also a difference in the middle eight ("Rock is
>dead....") which enables the piano part to be heard much more clearly.
>If that doesn't make those tracks worth having, I don't know what
>would. My fave tracks so far are "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere",
>"Substitute" (version 1--don't know why they included the 1970 take),
>"Run, Run, Run", "The Seeker" and probably just about everything else.
><g>
>
>Now, as far as the Best Buy bonus disc goes, that *was* a
>disappointment. While it's somewhat interesting to have slightly
>different mixes of "I Don't Even Know Myself" and "Heaven and Hell",
>it's not worth the space that could've been used for something better.
>"See Me, Feel Me" is supposedly "live", but it sounds just like the
>studio take to me, except remixed to bring out the harmonies better. "I
>Can See For Miles" is an utter waste, the only difference between it and
>the single being an overdubbed bass by Entwistle which sounds like a
>twanging rubber band. "The Seeker" (version 2--the album version is an
>original and is quite good) enables us to hear Daltrey singing karoke
>with a Who record--whoopee! The Townshend interview is interesting the
>first time or two you hear it. That leaves "Pinball Wizard" and
>"Summertime Blues", both of which are excellent, but there could've been
>a lot more. BTW, "Summertime Blues" is almost identical to the ODDS &
>SODS take--to the extent that I had to play the two simultaneously to
>ascertain that they were, in fact, different recordings.
>
>Questions: What, besides "So Sad About Us", was left off the official
>release (not counting "Man With The Money" and "Spoonful")? Did the Who
>play "Spoonful" with "Shakin' All Over" at Leeds, or just the latter by
>itself? Does "Man With The Money" sound noticeably different at the
>Beeb compared to the studio recording on A QUICK ONE (bonus track)?
>
>Enjoy!
>
>- --Carolyn
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:04:34 EST
>From: Litgo@aol.com
>Subject: New tabs at WHOTABS
>
>The following new transcriptions have been added to WHOTABS:
>
>- - Parties & Lies
>- - Sleeping Dog
>- - Teenage Wasteland
>
>You can find them at www.thewho.net/whotabs
>
>Litgo
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 11:22:07 -0500
>From: "Janine" <janine@ncci.net>
>Subject: Best Buy Online Answer--Bonus Disc--Yes!
>
>Finally got an answer from Best Buy...wrote to them Monday...they are going
>to reduce my
>price from $17.99 to $12.58, & I will be shipped the BBC Sessions w/the
>Bonus Disc. I
>assumed that all online orders would include the bonus disc, but others
>have said
>no...that it will only be available at the stores, so maybe they only gave
>it to me
>because I wrote to them. Still unclear...but those of you who ordered
>online may want to
>e-mail them if your order hasn't shipped yet. (Even though I ordered last
>week, my order
>still hasn't been shipped--still listed as "Open"!)
>
>I'm sure those of you who ordered on line will be letting us know whether
>or not you
>received the bonus disc.
>
>E-mail response from Best Buy received today:
>
>****************************************************************
>Hi there Janine!
>
>Thanks for shopping BestBuy.com! As always, your questions and requests
>are
>extremely important to us.
>
>I'd be glad to send you a new copy of the BBC Sessions that includes the
>bonus disk. We will also be crediting the difference in price to your
>account. I hope this helps!
>
>If you have any other questions or requests, don't hesitate to drop us a
>line.
>
>Kenn :-)
>Thanks again for visiting us at BestBuy.com!
>
>**********************************************************************
>
>Still waiting patiently.....................or not so patiently!!!!!!
>
>Janine
>Janine@ncci.net
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:16:30 -0500
>From: "Janine" <janine@ncci.net>
>Subject: Best Buy Online BBC--Not Shipped Yet
>
>My order status finally lists my order as shipped, BUT, they sent
>everything in my order
>EXCEPT BBC Sessions--it's listed as "in process". Anyone else experiencing
>this? Did they
>run out or what? (I preordered last week.)
>
>Frustrated & still waiting to hear BBC...................
>
>Janine
>Janine@ncci.net
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:23:00 -0500
>From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>
>Subject: RE: Lifehouse and BBC not so Best Buy!
>
> Am I to understand that the BBC CD that I ordered just yesterday via
>the net will not include the bonus disc???????
> Must I shoot someone at Best Buy??? AAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhh!!! I
>thought I read on Pete's site that you could order on line with the bonus
>disc?? AAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!!
>
> On a more cheery note.....IT HAS
>ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Lifehouse in all it's glory is here!!!
> Jumping right into the Orchestrations now as I type here at work!!!!
> I must be a dork, 'cause I'm almost moved to tears!!
> A grand day in VT indeeeeeeed! (I truly hope others have received
>theirs now as well)
>
> Why we shouldn't listen to critics......There is a link to a review
>of Lifehouse on thewho.net/news. The reviewer states his frustration with
>having to hold the entire box on his lap in order to follow the track
>listing because.........the booklet is glued to the box!!! What a
>MARROOOON (as Bugs Bunny would say)!!! Slide the damn booklet out of its
>holder ya fool!!
>
> A couple of questions on Lifehouse:
> What is the deal with all the geometric designs? Pete's site has a
>bunch as well. Is this to represent 'the grid' and the future??
>
> Also (I say this with everyone knowing how much I love Pete and The
>Who), what the heck is the deal with L-I-F-E-H-O ???
> For those of you not in the US, "HO" is street slang here for Hoar
>or Prostitute. I mean, I don't get it!! LIFEHO??? Where is the
>U-S-E???? What marketing guy did this, and why did Pete approve?? I mean,
>if it doesn't fit, then you must acquit!!! Why not find some 6-letter
>word
>instead?? The ONLY thing I can think of is that in the future will be 3
>more CD's (of live Who tour Lifehouse materials....please, please, please
>!!! ) to complete the set??
> Is there a logical reason to be found????
>
> Peace all and Stay in Tune,
> Kevin in 'a snow overwhelmed with another foot+ on the way' VT
> I'M GETTING TIRED OF SITTING ON MY PLOW!!!! MY BUTT HAS FROZEN AND
>THAWED MORE TIMES THAN I CARE FOR!!! sorry.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:56:27 EST
>From: JJPMahoney@aol.com
>Subject: ML's question- What Best Buy does she work at
>
>Mark,
>
>I don't know, cause it was Scott S. who mentioned his attempt to bribe a
>Best
>Buy store Clerk to bring a copy of BBC out one day early. I think her
>reply
>was (if I remember correctly), "Not for $ 10,000 will I bring out the CD".
>Maybe Scott needs to fill us in on the store location, amount of intended
>bribe, etc.
>
>Evanston John
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:40:14 PST
>From: "Nick Boyer" <slipkid905@hotmail.com>
>Subject: lifehouse comments
>
>Coupla quick things.
>
>On the geometric designs with lifehouse...if you flip through the book
>there
>is a kindof cartoonlike rotation of the designs.
>
>and the LIFEHO thing....the USE is in the back of the booklet.
>
>Also, Litgo is amazing! I can't believe he has already tabbed out teenage
>wasteland!
>
>- -Nick
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:39:45 -0600 (CST)
>From: gregory thomas harris <gtharris@students.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V7 #43
>
>From the AOL Daltrey interview:
>
>I'd like to write at least four
>AOL LIVE: to five songs on the next two
>AOL LIVE: albums.
>AOL LIVE: And I'm right in the middle of
>AOL LIVE: doing it.
>AOL LIVE: I think -- I'm not certain, but
>AOL LIVE: I think I've got a few good
>AOL LIVE: songs here.
>AOL LIVE: I think Pete's going to be very
>AOL LIVE: pleased.
>
>Did he say TWO albums?!
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 01:52:50 GMT
>From: "Sarah The Who" <shouldah@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Chatting with Roger
>
>Hi. I never really say anything on here but I've been on the list for like
>a
>year so it's about time I finally say something! Well, I was in the
>chatroom
>on AOL and Roger got my question. I was set515, the 16 year old who Roger
>said should be arrestesd! Anyway, when I tried to save it and print it, my
>computer said I preformed an illgal operation and kicked me off! I was
>SOOOOOOOOO mad! Then I couldn't get back in! Anyway, I was just wondering
>if
>anyone knows if he answered any of my other questions? Or if he said
>anything interesting? Thanks!
>- -Sarah
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 02:52:03 +0000
>From: dbowler@pcug.org.au
>Subject: The Who Guitar Chord Songbook
>
>Anyone heard of this? A friend said they saw it in the new releases
>section of a local store - sounds like a greatest hits type thing with
>guitar chords shown but targetted more at beginners (which I am...).
>
>
>Denis.
>
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>*** Ultimate Rock Symphony touring in Feb/March 2000 ***
>
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:06:12 EST
>From: "Jeff Duvall" <why_today_i_said_no@hotmail.com>
>Subject:
>hhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
>
>I run. Polar bear club started. NANO!!!! One time i listen to who well i
>run. Did i ever tell you about the time my daddy picked me up naked with no
>clothes on. I saw his Pee-Pee. I laughed. it small. I listen to the who. my
>mom has foot problems and walks retarded. the who are my idles. i like
>Tommy
>the best. it good movie, like when the mom has relations with the penis
>like
>pillow. it make me hard.
>
> Jeff
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 04:25:09 GMT
>From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: Lifehouse and BBC not so Best Buy!
>
>Uh-hum. <cough> I'd say Pete's done it.
>
>
> >For those of you not in the US, "HO" is street slang here for Hoar
> >or Prostitute. I mean, I don't get it!! LIFEHO??? Where is the
> >U-S-E???? What marketing guy did this, and why did Pete approve??
>______________________________________________________
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>------------------------------
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:50:14 -0500
>From: "Carol Zimmerman" <bczimmer@mindspring.com>
>Subject: Dig out your WHO stuff, Atlanta
>
>For those of us in the Atlanta area, "VH1 Rock Collectors" will be in town
>Sunday taping a show. Let's innundate them with WHO memorabilia in the
>hopes that some may make it on the show. E-mail me privately if you want
>to
>know where/when. Now I just have to decide what to take....
>
>Carol Z.
>
>------------------------------
>
>Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 05:05:31 GMT
>From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
>Subject: AOL Transcript
>
>AOL Live presented a LIVE chat with one of the most influential rockers of
>our time - Roger Daltrey. The Who's former lead vocalist joined AOL Live
>on
>Thursday, February 17 at 8:00PM ET to promote his latest release, The Who:
>BBC Sessions. This 25-track collection of live BBC Radio broadcast
>performances includes such tracks as "My Generation," "Subsititute" and
>"Long Live Rock."
>
>Scroll down to read the full transcript...
>*****************************************************
>OnlineHost: AOL Live event captioning made possible by the National
>Captioning Institute.
>
>Host: Well, it's not very often we are joined by a legend here in studio.
>I'm Matt Wagner from America Online. Today I'm pleased to be joined by
>Roger
>Daltrey. Thank you very much for being here.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Good to be here.
>
>Host: And we are going to be talking about “The Who: The BBC Sessions,”
>which is released very soon. Is that right?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yes. It took forever to get out. It's being released this
>week, I think.
>
>Host: Yep. And we're going to take your questions. I know there are a lot
>of you out there. We're going to get right to your questions right away.
>N-suity wants to know: Tommy, or Roger, can you hear me...?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Tommy?
>
>Host: During the heyday, you were called Tommy?
>
>Roger Daltrey: It was weird times. Today, it's a period of my life that I
>cannot -- that I can barely remember.
>
>Host: Really?
>
>Roger Daltrey: It was so surreal. I was put in a world so different from
>rock & roll, the film world. I wasn't ready for it. It was terrifying. It
>was like I was on the strongest drug you could ever take. I was drowning
>all
>the way.
>
>Host: Are the fans different, movie fans versus rock fans?
>
>Roger Daltrey: I was used to being famous. I was not prepared for the
>difference in film fame. It's like being unknown. It was extraordinary. All
>of a sudden I felt I don't want to be part of this. I just want to be in my
>band.
>
>Host: Right.
>
>Roger Daltrey: It was weird.
>
>Host: Wow.
>
>Roger Daltrey: It was a weird period. Now, like I say, it just seems like
>a
>dream. I did -- did I really go through all that? I find it quite difficult
>to even remember, remembering much of it, because I was really completely
>and utterly out of my depth. And the part, you know, not being a trained
>actor, I just kind of had to do it method.
>
>Host: Right.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Because I was deaf, dumb and blind. I virtually became it.
>And I had this gorgeous woman, the beautiful Ann-Margret, as my mother. The
>only way I was going to get through doing anything with her as my mother
>was
>to be deaf, dumb and blind.
>
>Host: That was a brilliant move to have her as your mother. The next
>question is from Tom: Do you remember your first guitar? Do you still have
>it? Can I have it?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah. My first guitar, I do remember. It was made out of
>plywood and it was an acoustic guitar. And it lasted about two weeks before
>it just went. I wasn't very good at connecting the neck to the body. But it
>worked. It did work for two weeks. It literally sawed through the ends of
>my
>fingers. But the action, I think -- I think it was about an inch off the
>board. I got a few tunes out of it.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Then the next guitar of mine, another acoustic, an uncle of
>mine who was a carpenter helped me make the neck. And that lasted for a
>long
>time. Then I went on to start making electric guitars with solid bodies.
>I'll never forget it. Because a guitar at that time, you could buy a house
>in London for the same price of a Fender guitar. When we first saw our
>first
>Fender guitar, it was like out of outer space. What is that? You know. And
>there was one in London. There's a group called The Shadows had them. They
>were the first -- that was the first time we ever saw them. And there was
>one in a shop in London, in an English shop in Crossroads, hanging in the
>window. I spent hours outside that shop looking at that guitar. We measured
>it and copied it, made my first electric. It's lasted quite a long time. I
>think I had it about three years. I wish I still had it.
>
>Host: Do you ever still make guitars?
>
>Roger Daltrey: No. No. No, no, not now. It's quite a funny period of my
>life, because I was a sheet metalworker apprentice, and I was working in
>the
>sheet metalwork factory, and it was really difficult to hide all the wood
>shavings, because I used to make guitars behind the carpenter's back. And
>wood shavings and metal shavings don't quite look alike. He put up with a
>lot.
>
>Host: Our next question is from who babe 1: Hi, Roger. Erica here. Wanted
>to know how much input you had for the “BBC Sessions” CD.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Well, nothing. The input on this album really was put in,
>apart from playing on it -- how long ago is it now? God, a long time ago,
>anyway. The only input is in the early songs we used to cover, like the
>James Brown stuff. I used to do all those song selections in those days.
>That's when we were a blues band. I mean, this album is dictated by what
>was
>recorded. This is the BBC archive, and that's what's on the album.
>Whatever's there, I think it's interesting to be out there for the public
>as
>part of history.
>
>Roger Daltrey: What people don't understand with the “BBC Sessions,” at
>that time in England we didn't have any pop radio at all. We had ships
>offshore beaming in stuff. But the BBC did this kind of gratuitous thing of
>having the occasional rock group on a variety show, which would be usually
>at 12:30, at lunchtime, and it would be from 12:30 to 1:00. It would be
>like
>"The Jerry Ross Big Band Show," and it would be a live show in the West End
>of London. Jerry Ross' big band would be copying what would be in the top
>20
>at that time. Extraordinary. Really dreadful copies.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Then they used to, like, have a guest group. And a lot of
>these songs -- when we happened to have a record in the charts, and we got
>invited that week to be on the show. And you used to have to play two
>songs.
>It was extraordinary. Usually we were playing some God-awful type -- for
>us,
>that was a God-awful time of day, because we'd usually been up the night
>before at a gig at the other end of England and didn't get back till sort
>of
>5:00 in the morning. To get up at 12:30 to do another show on the radio in
>front of a bunch of old ladies, usually, and men in [bowler] hats, not rock
>& roll at all. It was extraordinary.
>
>Host: That's a surreal experience. I mean, you've had a lot of them, from
>the beginning all the way through.
>
>Host: Theodorekmd: Dear Roger, The Who long ago established themselves
>individually and collectively in the Parthenon of rock music. There's a
>huge
>crescendo building for a tour. What can you tell us fans?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yes, there's going to be one. We're going to tour this
>year.
>It's not a big tour. We're doing arenas, and it goes -- there's some shows
>in late June, early July. There's shows in August. And there's shows late
>September-October. And hopefully in between then, we'll be doing some
>benefit shows.
>
>Roger Daltrey: We did something last year which we really enjoyed. We did
>one show that we got paid for, which was an Internet show, which we did in
>Vegas. And we got very well paid. But it allowed us to do four benefit
>shows, where we raised more money than we actually got paid. And it went to
>great causes. So we thought, well, this is how capitalism really should
>work. This is a great way of doing it. So we're going to attempt to keep
>that going. And we played as a five-piece band again, and it was -- we just
>had the time of our lives. I mean, there is an album coming out. I don't
>know what it's called. I don't think it's been announced yet. It's one of
>these things that you download.
>
>Host: MP3, perhaps?
>
>Roger Daltrey: It might be. I don't know. It goes beyond me. But we
>haven't
>got a title for the album now. I've heard the tracks. Some of them are
>extraordinary. They sound fantastic, this new version of “Magic,” "Getting
>In Tune," songs that have never been out live before. And we hope to, in
>the
>summer when we're touring -- we don't want to have an album out before we
>tour. We would feel like we were being salesmen, or we've going something
>to
>sell, let's go do a tour. But we're going to do new songs within the show,
>which will be interesting.
>
>Host: Our next question is from killian's 090: How old were you when the
>band really took off? Do you think you were too young?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Can you ever be too young? You've got to remember that when
>the band took off I was 19, but 19 all those years ago. We were very much
>more immature than a 19-year-old today. Far more sheltered. Although, we
>were -- it was strange, because it was post-war -- post-war England. We had
>nothing. We really had nothing. We had our asses hanging out of our
>trousers. We just got roofs put back on our houses, and windows. Really, it
>was that bad. So you can't just measure the age in years. We were very
>naive. I look back on it, I look back at myself in horror. I look at Pete
>with absolute admiration, because he was so articulate, and how -- how was
>he so together and we were so shaky and flaky? But it worked. What a life.
>
>Host: How fast of a transition was it for you?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Well, we were a band from -- I started the band when I was
>14 with John Entwistle. Pete joined a year later. I think Keith joined when
>I was 17, and then within two years it had taken off.
>
>Host: Wow.
>
>Roger Daltrey: It was weird. And Keith was 21. I think he used to lie
>about
>his age. He took a year off. He wanted to be the baby of the band. We let
>him get away with it. He had his 21st birthday on our first big tour of
>America in 1967.
>
>Host: That's quite a way to celebrate a birthday.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah, he celebrated, actually, and we paid the bill. With
>the whole of the tour money.
>
>Host: RDaltreyyeah wants to know: Hey, thanks for all the great music
>through the years. Loved the show in Vegas. Any plans to release the 1999
>music on CD or video? Thanks again, Larry Gibson from Phoenix, Arizona.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah, it will be on downloaded -- I don't know what you
>call
>that. I'm not very up on this. I should get one, shouldn't I? I try to be
>free of computers. I've got enough problems in my life without adding
>another one, you know? I've got a large family. I don't think we need a
>computer as well.
>
>Host: Will there be a video version of any of those concerts?
>
>Roger Daltrey: I don't know if anybody videoed them. One of my great
>sadnesses is that we never videoed the “Quadrophenia” tour. It would have
>been so easy to have made that show, because it was a theatrical arena
>show.
>It would have been so easy to have made it into a really interesting video
>production of a rock & roll show, and we never did it, mainly because we
>didn't make any money off the show, because the show was so expensive to
>put
>on. Typical. As usual, we toured just long enough to pay the start-up
>costs.
>
>Host: Right.
>
>Roger Daltrey: It's the craziest band ever. Everybody else has Learjets.
>We're still running around on bikes.
>
>Host: Next question: I heard you once got kicked out of The Who for
>starting too many fights. Whose ass did you kick? Pete's?
>
>Roger Daltrey: We used to fight a lot. And I mean a lot. We really did.
>The
>band was built on friction. That's what made the -- that's what made The
>Who
>interesting. But I got kicked out of the band because of one fight in
>particular, and that was a fight I had with Keith Moon. We were touring in
>Europe, our first tour of Europe, and in those days we used to take a drug
>called purple hearts, which was a kind of speed. I took it further along. I
>wasn't against taking the drugs, but as a singer -- it used to dry your
>throat out, and you'd end up chewing your lip so much, it got really sore.
>I
>used to find it -- I just couldn't sing on it. So I stopped doing it.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Of course, when one person's straight and everyone else is
>out there boxing, it starts to become very difficult. On this particular
>tour of Europe, the drugs were flowing thick and fast, and we did one show
>in Copenhagen, and I was just getting so upset because the band were
>playing
>so bad. It was nothing to do with personality. It had nothing really to do
>with the drugs. I didn't mind the drugs, but what I did mind was the way
>the
>drugs were affecting the band.
>
>Roger Daltrey: One thing I cared about more than anything was the way my
>band played. I always felt it was my band. Pete felt it was his band. Keith
>felt it was his band. That's great. That's how everybody should feel about
>it. The musical quality of the band was going down and down and down and
>down.
>
>Roger Daltrey: I came on stage and I said, we won't have any of more of
>this. I flushed them down the toilet. I wasn't looking for a fight, but
>Moon
>just actually came at me with a fire ax or something, a tambourine or
>something. He smashed me in the face with it. I used to be brutal in a
>fight. I used to be a growler. I used to love to fight. That's how I was
>brought up. I was very inarticulate. I found it very difficult to express
>myself. I was a little guy. I was bullied a lot. By being bullied, you
>learn
>to protect yourself. Of course, everybody else came out worse from that
>fight. And they fired me.
>
>Host: For beating them up?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah. Fired me for being the mother. I was heartbroken. We
>got back to England, I thought that was it, I'm out of the band. I was very
>lucky that the management, you know, they realized the value of what the
>band was. It was chemistry. And they managed to talk the other guys -- and
>I
>promised to be a good guy. And I went from being this raging, growling
>lunatic, and I became peaceful. I spent my four years in the doghouse. I
>mean, and I became the butt of all their jokes, and I just had to swallow
>it. And I took it, and I deserved it, I suppose, in a way. That was a --
>those were very miserable years for me.
>
>Host: But you've come through it.
>
>Roger Daltrey: I've come through it. And The Who came through it. And we
>went on to do our best work. That's the irony of my life, the relationship
>with Keith. It was very weird. We started off with these terrible, terrible
>- -- really good friends at the beginning when he joined the band.
>Everybody
>was good friends. Because he wanted to be in the band. We didn't know him.
>Then, of course, you know, Keith would have hated anybody standing in front
>of him. Keith had this thing, the singer shouldn't be at the front of the
>stage, the singer should be behind the drummer. Of course, my relationship
>with him was one of pure, utter animosity, for such a long period.
>
>Roger Daltrey: But then towards the end, as he straightened up, because he
>did start to straighten up towards the end. That's what interested me about
>his life and why I'm trying to make a film of his life, is because he did
>straighten up. The tragedy of Keith Moon was that the drug that killed him
>was a drug that was prescribed. It was alcoholism. So I mean, it was --
>towards the end we were, in some ways, the closest two of the band. I was
>trying to help him through that. It was a very weird relationship.
>
>Host: Right. Wow. Sets 515 says: Hi. I'm a 16-year-old girl and I've
>loved
>The Who for three years. Roger, if you're even reading this, I want to tell
>you that you are my idol. I love The Who.
>
>Roger Daltrey: A 16-year-old? Ought to be arrested.
>
>Host: I have 25 Who CDs. I'll have 25 when I get the BBC one. I want to
>say
>thanks.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Thanks. Thanks for being a fan. We get a lot of the
>accolade, but we've only been around for so long and been able to do it
>because we've had incredible fans. I mean, our fan base is amazing. And we
>do appreciate it. It might seem sometimes that we don't, simply from the
>pressure of the road. You can't assign all your -- I saw a thing on Tiger
>Woods yesterday on the golf course, where he was saying if you have your
>photo taken with everybody, you'd never strike a golf ball. And when you're
>on the road with the band, you know -- but believe me, we do appreciate our
>fan base very much.
>
>Host: What's it like when you hear from a 16-year-old who's now a fan?
>
>Roger Daltrey: It's fabulous. And it just proves what I've always thought
>about Pete's -- I think why young people like The Who is down to the
>courage
>of Pete Townshend's songs. The fact that he was above being a teenager, but
>he knew how to write about the angst and the problems and the passions and
>all those things that you go through. That will never, ever change. It's
>always going to be the same. But that's what makes it timeless, because
>there's always another generation. All of a sudden, they hear this music
>and
>think, that's how I feel at the moment. Then they identify with it, and it
>helps people through their lives. And I think that's -- but that was down
>to
>Pete's genius. And obviously, some of it was to do with the way we
>presented
>it, but without the songs, who knows? But there again, without the way the
>chemistry made them work, who knows it as well? You....
>
>Host: Next question is: What do you think of all the nonsense that went
>on
>at Woodstock this year?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Well, don't get fooled again, that's all I can say. It is
>nonsense. What these people keep trying to redo Woodstock fail to
>understand
>is that Woodstock wasn't the wonderful event because of the bands. We were
>just the catalyst that brought the event together. Woodstock was the event
>that it was because of the people, the audience. They were much more
>important than the bands. These stupid promoters can't get this together.
>They think you just get bands together, you get this happening. It doesn't
>work like that. Woodstock was all the very extraordinary time.
>
>Host: Right.
>
>Roger Daltrey: We, personally, we had a bloody awful time.
>
>Host: You played at 4:00 in the morning, didn't you?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah. We were supposed to go at the -- go on at 10:00. We
>hadn't eaten for, I don't know, 12 hours or something. We didn't get there
>until the day before, from England. So we were kind of jet-lagged. So by
>the
>time we got on the stage, what with all the drugs that laced every drink
>you
>drank there -- it was laced with some kind of drug, you know -- we were the
>worst, to be honest. I always felt it was one of the worst shows we ever
>did. But the film, when we saw it, we were completely blown away by it.
>
>Host: Jan dafy wants to know: How did you get the name for your band?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Just one stupid night of being drunk and disorderly in
>Pete's flat, shouting out stupid names, from The Hair... oh, lots of
>ridiculous names. Merwin. Ladies and gentlemen, No One! And then Pete's art
>school friend came up, who said The Who. There's just a sound. It's a
>question, but then it's a question. After a while, it doesn't sound stupid.
>When you first hear it, it sounds bloody stupid. After a while, it's a
>noise, just a sound. And it stuck. So we became The Who. Then we changed it
>to The High Numbers. Then went back to The Who.
>
>Host: The High Numbers?
>
>Roger Daltrey: Yeah.
>
>Host: Next question: Will you do any more live theater? You were terrific
>in "A Christmas Carol."
>
>Roger Daltrey: Thank you. Yeah, but it's a matter of finding the right
>thing. I love to play characters. I really enjoy the theater experience. I
>didn't enjoy the Madison Square Garden experience very much. I mean, a
>5,000-seat theater is a tall order. And four shows a day, or 15 shows a
>week. It nearly killed me. Let's put it this way, I just haven't got a
>cruise button. I either have to do it right and give everything, or not do
>it. And I think that's -- that again comes from the way The Who are. That's
>the way The Who have always been. That's why The Who have very rarely been
>dull. They haven't got a cruise button, either. That's why it might explode
>at any minute, you know, full in your face.
>
>Roger Daltrey: And I suddenly realized that the only reason that other
>people had done 15 shows a week was to cruise the part. And the part was
>playing Scrooge, so it would have been very easy to play it, just watch
>what
>was going on and say your lines. But for me as an actor, the challenge of
>the show was -- is to show the audience what watching your life would do to
>you. Now, that takes an awful lot of energy, especially to 5,000 people.
>And
>I just haven't got a cruise button, and it nearly killed me.
>
>Host: Last question here: Can you see for miles and miles, or has your
>eyesight diminished?
>
>Roger Daltrey: I haven't got any eyesight left. I have absolutely 20/20
>vision, until we did a charity show about four years ago in Hyde Park, and
>we had a guy on the show called Gary Glitter, the infamous Gary Glitter
>now,
>and he's a lunatic guy. He was playing the godfather of rock. And he spins
>the microphone stand on his head. Of course, we were doing a sound check
>the
>day before the show in Hyde Park, and it was for the Prince's Trust
>charity.
>There was going to be 250,000 people at this show. And we -- it was
>raining.
>It was midsummer in England. Raining, freezing cold. We're just checking
>out
>the sound, right? Having a sound check.
>
>Roger Daltrey: This lunatic comes on, and I'm walking around the stage
>checking so everyone can hear, you know, because we haven't been onstage
>for
>six years. And we're going to play in front of 250,000 people. I'm walking
>around checking the mikes, listening. This lunatic goes up to do his show,
>he's doing it in front of 250,000 people who will be there. Then he fell,
>for God's sake. I get behind him, right behind him, and he decides to swing
>the microphone stand around his head and he -- the full of it locks me
>straight in the eye and fractured all my cheekbone around here and my eye
>socket. Since then, I've got pretty good vision from there around, but then
>from there it's not. My eyesight has gone down very badly since then.
>
>Host: Luckily you were --
>
>Roger Daltrey: Since then I've been -- he's been arrested for pedophilia.
>If I had known then, I would have backed him back.
>
>Host: Next question: Did you really get in a fight with Jimi Hendrix at
>Monterey?
>
>Roger Daltrey: No. That wasn't true. Pete had a bit of an argument with
>him. A lot of Jimi's act was stolen from The Who. He came to England and
>was
>signed by our record company. He used to watch us. A lot of his feedback
>and
>stuff, the guitar stuff, was stolen from Pete. Pete was doing it a long
>time
>before Jimi. It built up a lot of -- not animosity, because Pete obviously
>admired Jimi's talent. We were blown away by the guy. He didn't need what
>we
>were doing. Just the way he played was enough. But a lot of the stuff, the
>banging of the amps and all that, was stolen from Pete. So obviously, when
>we got to hear that Jimi was literally on before us or after us, we
>thought,
>well, he's going to just do our show -- and I think Pete had a few words
>with us. It was no more than that. Of course, he didn't do our show, but he
>did very similar. He burned his guitar, which was a masterstroke. Jimi was
>far too quiet. He was a quiet guy.
>
>Host: What project have you not undertaken that you would like to in the
>future?
>
>Roger Daltrey: That I haven't undertaken? I don't know. There's so much I
>want to do. I'd like to write at least four to five songs on the next two
>albums. And I'm right in the middle of doing it. I think -- I'm not
>certain,
>but I think I've got a few good songs here. I think Pete's going to be very
>pleased.
>
>Host: Oh, great. Wow. Well, thank you so much for joining us tonight. That
>was our last question.
>
>Roger Daltrey: Really? Well, that's short and sweet.
>
>Host: It was a half-hour. It went by very fast. Thank you. It was a
>pleasure talking to you.
>
>Roger Daltrey: You too.
>
>Host: Be sure to get The Who's “BBC Sessions” in stores this week. We've
>been speaking with Roger Daltrey. I'm Matt Wagner. See you next time....
>
>Host: Thank you, everyone, for all of your great questions!! What a great
>chat!! Sorry we could not get to all the questions!!
>
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