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Guitar World
Pick up a copy of the new guitar world. (March 2000, Pink Floyd's The Wall
Cover)
There is a 5 star review of the Who's BBC Sessions (MCA) by Jonathan Valania.
Very long article. Some highlights include: " A worthy bookend to Live at
Leeds, The BBC Sessions is flush with sterling live takes of classic Who
material, rare covers and interesting odds and sods (check out the stinging
beehive of Guitar that Townshend kicks up on 'Disguises,' a rawboned
obscurity from 1966.) "The smart ones will find this 26-track collection of
the Who's Radio One performances which contains. . . Pete Townshend's
windmill power cords and peerless rhythm playing, Keith Moon's
falling-down-a-flight-of-stairs drum fills, John Entwistle's boombastic bass
salvos and Roger Daltrey's singing like there's a riot goin' on."
Also, in the magazine is a nice memorial to Keith on the last page, as they
refer to as The End Page. A little from it says: "As the Who's drummer
during the Sixties and Seventies, Keith Moon, with his frenetic, flashy
style, played a key role in the development of the guitar-driven power trip.
With Moonie at his double-bass kit, there was no need for rhythm guitar or
keyboards, which gave the Who great improvisational freedom onstage and
opened up a direction subsequently explored by Creem, the Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Led Zeppelin and countless others"
Finally, a comparison with 'The Wall' to 'Tommy' As they point out that it
was hard not to notice that The Wall had many similarities to an "earlier
rock opera, the Who's Tommy (1969), which also formed a basis for a double
album, rock concert performances, a film and years later a stage play"
Janet