A question and a couple of comments about the Albert Hall video

["B.W. Radley" <bwradley@earthlink.net>]

Last weekend I obtained my copy of the Albert Hall PPV show, thanks to my
sister who has Direct TV.  (If you don't have one and are interested, look
into getting the system with the TVIO gizmo, which is well worth the money.)

I was looking forward to seeing it, as when I saw The Who in August 2000 at
the Hollywood Bowl and Irvine, I was rather underwhelmed by the performance.
At the time I was going through a nervous breakdown and was leading up to
filing for divorce.  As a couple of people pointed out to me after:

(a)	I started taking "happy pills;"

(b)	I lost 60+ pounds, and;

(c)	Filed for divorce and moved out.

I was literally a zombie for more than a year.  Several months before seeing
The Who, I saw Springsteen.  I was also very disappointed by that concert
when I saw it in person.  However, when I saw the concert that HBO broadcast
(and the live album) I was blown away, and felt like a complete idiot for
not appreciating Springsteen when I saw him in person.  (Springsteen/Mad Max
haters please send your mail to Silvo Dante at the Bada! Bing! club in New
Jersey.  If he invites you on a boat trip with Paulie Walnuts to see Big
Pussy, you might want to make other plans.  Oh yes, your opinions are as
welcome as any from my soon to be former wife!!!!!!!)

However, having now seen the video twice, I was less than impressed by the
performance.  I'm thinking that perhaps the editing of the show perhaps left
something to be desired, as the flow of the show I felt was more than
interrupted by stream of guest "stars."  (Brian Adams, for the love of
Christ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!)

Could someone who was actually there tell me if the songs were edited
completely out of order.  The song order was not a typical Who show.  Were
there a lot of interruptions for the filming?

Thanks!

BW Radley
bw@bwradley.org
Oh yes . . . in response to . . .
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:06:09 -0600
From: Sigel James Civ 10 ABW/LGCW <James.Sigel@usafa.af.mil>
Subject: Michael Jackson

"...I wonder if my other glove is in the pants of that six year old boy
scout."  Mike "He's told old for me" Jackson
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As the father of a Cub Scout . . .

1.	Doubt if the BSA would let him near any of their members.  They have
become very paranoid about that sort of thing., which sort of feeds into the
whole gay scout issue.  (There is a section in front of the various scout
manuals concerning child abuse/molestation.)

2.	If it's a six year old, it would have been a Tiger Cub or to use the more
generic term, Cub Scout.

Nice try though.
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 22:14:22 +0000
From: "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Michael Jackson

. . .Regardless of the MTV hype, he looked pretty pitiful at the awards
show.  . .

keets
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Sorry Keets, but Whitney Houston at the Jackson tribute show on Friday takes
the cake for pitiful.  Either she is filming the race version of the Karen
Carpenter Story, or she has snorted the entire GNP of Peru.  I'd bet on her
in the death pool.