Old School Who;

["Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>]

> #1 The British School - The Who were at their peak with their first seven
> singles; that is, I Can't Explain, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, My Generation,
> Substitute, I'm a Boy, Happy Jack and Pictures Of Lily.

Brian:

If you are leaving off ICSFM, that's where you lose me. Besides, a lot of
their best material wasn't released as singles, some not released until the
reissues.

> that (with Moon) is good but a bit overblown and pretentious, never
reaching
> the compact highs of those first singles.

What about a song like I'm Free, then?

> #3 The Live School - The Live School really doesn't care that much for the
> songs or Pete Townshend's contribution as a writer.  For them, The Who are
> all about the live performances.

Well, now I don't know. I was firmly in the second catagory until you wrote
this. I DO care (a lot) about the songs, particularly how well the lyrics
work with the structure of the song. But I also love the way the band has to
adapt the song to work live.

> Or you could just listen to Rush Limbaugh for all your information.

Jeff:

Oh, like he doesn't already. PLEASE!

> Now this I get.  If he were a real leader he would have said "I will".

Bushism: "He delegates." translation: "He doesn't lead."

> Now that's pretty funny.

In a painful way. Images of Duh-Bya dancing with Ricky Martin surface...I
try to force them back down...

> "Daddy, Prime Minister Cheney, General Powell, General Electric,
> Microsoft, Enron, AOL Time Warner, RJ Reynolds, Smith & Wesson, Charlton
> Heston, Exxon, Merck, CitiGroup, Reverend Ashcroft and I will lead."

That's one too many.

> Did I mention the Bush Boys are all crooks?

Keets;

.Some things can't be mentioned enough.

> Well, I live in Brazil and here the term "psicodélico" (psychedelic
> rock) is the term used for that style most of the time.

Lucas:

Fair enough.

> Anyway, he just
> asked if both were the same thing, which is quite true. As someone put,
> the style was supposed to reproduce the sensations of LSD effects, so

Maybe not so much reproducing them, but stimulating them. Adding to them,
perhaps.

> not only they experimented with sound, but also with projected images on
> their shows...

If you mean the light shows in California, they were done by a seperate
group of people. I don't doubt some bands did have their own effects,
certainly Pink Floyd did later on. The Who had a laser show, for that
matter.


       "The California crunch really is the result of not enough
power-generating
            plants and then not enough power to power the power of
generating plants."
                      George "Sometimes they even let me sit at the desk"
Bush

                     Cheers                ML