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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