Re: [TheWhoMaximumRnB] Re: Roger's voice

[AnEnglishBoy <campbell@fix.net>]

Dan wrote:


Well Daniel, glad to have you contributing, you wizard, you!!

'scuse me whilst I address your words.......



> As I follow the recent discourse about who is the greatest member of
> The Who, and examining  each members' strengths and weaknesses it
> reminds me of when in my youth ,my friends and I would debate who was
> the greatest member of the Beatles.
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> We all know it was John Winston Lennon, the mind and voice,
> the lyric and melody, that contained the magic and creativity
> that kept TheBeaTles from being McCartney's version of
> ThePartridgeFamily.
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> The Who, like the Beatles are greater than the sum of their parts.
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> This I will not disagree with, for in my experience, no single member
> of a mega talented band EVER went on to create solo material that
> surpassed the heights that "the band" aka "TheWho->, TheBeaTles,
> TheRollingStones, Simon and Garfunkle, TheByrds, etc. (choose your
> own bands and enter here) reached.
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> Like a fine Italian automobile a Ferrari perhaps,(British Cars don't
> quite reach the mark) Pete is the engine, the power house, a 12
> cylinder work of art that can be appreciated in it's mechanical
> magnificence and complexity even while viewed outside of the car.
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> While overly mechanical, for me, in its proffering, I cannot argue
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> Roger is the body, beautifully crafted, function following form,
> making a statement about what to expect when the auto is on the road.
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> Again I see Roger's physical appearance affecting his present
> impotence and prior importance within the whole of TheWho->.
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> He has become a poor interpreter of Townshend's
> music since the death of Keith Moon.
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> As much as Daltrey disliked Moon, it seems he needed Moon's
> lunatic, maniacal percussive personality and percussion to
> feed off of, because in my opionion, that is the only major change
> within TheWho->'s core.
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> I would prefer TheWho-> had Keith Moon lived and Daltrey died.
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> But.......that's not what happened so.........
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> Maybe Daltrey just lapsed into mediocrity after getting phat
> in the head playing Thomas Walker for too many years.
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> A one trick pony is Daltrey.
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> He is......................
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> Impotent in that we expect what we were gifted to receive
> from Roger when he was strong and confident, and no longer get it.
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> Important only because................
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> he, like Robert Plant, was a smooth, bare chested, Golden God
> (as was I in the 1970's, if I do say so myself) of Rock 'n' Roll,
> and in that time, they were strong interpreters of their bandmates
> genuis songwritng and vision (Townshend and Page).
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> Daltrey lost *it*, and made videos with Barbara Striesand for fuck's
> sake.
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> John and Zak are the rest of the high quality parts contributing to
> the sights and sounds and performance of one of the finest , I say the
> finest rock band in the world! I can appreciate all the parts , But
> there is a special magic when the are all together in one package.
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> Since Moon's death, gimme Psychoderelict and Lifehouse,
> if you please.
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> Disagreeing minds makes for interesting conversation, eh Daniel?
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So, Dan, have you heard Entwistle with Gov't Mule??????

Call me.

AnEnglishBoy!~!~!~!