Re: Who/Beatles/LALC

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

> > Seems like the better strategy would have been to take some of the edge 
>off the material so it would have a broader appeal.
>
>Taking the edge off The Who's music? Are you kidding???? I'll pass.

Just a comment on possible strategy.  Do you have any suggestion as to why 
the album didn't sell well?


> > was the Seventies Who that captured the US, not the power-pop Sixties 
>version.
>
>
>Wrong. It was Tommy and their performance at Woodstock which captured the 
>US. I guess we can credit Pinball Wizard most of all, because the album was 
>their first to enter the charts at a reasonable level and go up.

1970 was the next year.  They were making their shift away from Mod in 1968 
and set their image for the new decade with TOMMY.


> > Becoming the establishment is what killed rock.
>
>No, getting used up and bands playing it safe and/or trying to make it 
>"mature" killed it. Hey, how much Rock do you think there can be before 
>it's repeating itself? I haven't heard anything new since the early `70's, 
>just rehash. Still Rock was the number one music until the late `90's.

Rock's still number one--and by a wide margin, too.  That's what makes it 
The Establishment.  Once it's fully accepted, though, and no longer the 
underground genre, then it loses much of it's power to make a statement.


keets

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