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Re: Just For Fun!
>NAME: Jim Topp
>AGE (optional!): 30-something
>CITY YOU LIVE IN: easy to guess
>PROFESSION: it's a secret (but not impossible to figure out)
> *HERE COME THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS!
>FAVORITE WHO ALBUM(S) : Who's Next is their best, but Quadrophenia
>is my favorite.
>FAVORITE WHO SINGLE : I don't think of Who songs as "singles" or
>"non-singles". In other words, I couldn't even pick one favorite Who
>song.
>FAVORITE WHO MOVIE : The Kids Are Alright, I suppose.
>FAVORITE WHO-RELATED BOOK : "Full Moon" is the funniest. "Moon"
>(Fletcher) is IMO the best researched and one of the best. I have
>most of the Who books that I'm aware of except "Decade of The Who",
>which I have borrowed. I own but have not yet read "The Who Concert
>File" and "The Who On Record." The Peter Goddard book "The Farewell
>Tour" (recently referenced here) is the worst written Who book I
>know of, but I bought it for the pictures, since I couldn't sneak a
>camera into the 1982 Pontiac, MI show.
>FAVORITE WHO MEMBER! : Pete
>FAVORITE BANDS BESIDES THE WHO: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The
>Kinks, R.E.M., Roxy Music, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Counting Crows
>FAVORITE CONCERT EXPERIENCE: Who - St. Louis, MO, 1997. I know it
>was the augmented Who, but, as I said above, Quad is my favorite and
>the sound was much better than Pontiac 1982 or St. Louis 1989. Close
>second - Chicago, 2000. Non-Who: Bruce Springsteen, St. Louis, solo
>tour for the "Tom Joad" album (I forget the year). The part that
>made it so great was the fact that I had a seat in the 5th row.