Who are They's thursday show

[Sroundtable@xxxxxxx]

We had an up and down, but overall a good show last Thursday at a place called Rotolo's in Baton Rouge.  My voice sucked due to a cold, which affected my hearing and lung capacity.  I couldn't do the long "she GO-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-ES like thunder" on magic bus the way I wanted, and the Bargain high note was sickly.  I made faces after each one to play it off.  After the song, I told the audience I could hit that note usually.  They didn't seem to care.

Highlights:

See Me, Feel Me, Listening to You- actually got the people there, mostly not Who fans, to get into it.  We played it with some fire and passion for the first time.

Magic Bus into My Generation to finish the pre-intermission part of the set.  Drummer at one point during MB was up front playing his sticks on the stage with the guitarist miking it.  Crowd dug it.

Enter Sandman- Look, I may get roasted here for playing a Metallica song in a set with Tommy songs and Baba O, and The Real Me, and Behind Blue Eyes, etc, but it's a crowd pleaser and I have guitarists to keep happy.  The lead guitarist also gets to sing lead and let me rest the voice while playing a floor tom and singing back up.

Life in the Fast Lane- pretty complex song to coordinate, but we played it really well, actually.  It's easy for me to sing, which helps.

Behind Blue Eyes- finally have the band sold on this song.  Disliked at first, now they understand.

Low lights:

Technical problems with our frontman/rhythm guitarist.  It's been quite a saga with his equipment, w/o going into detail.

Atrocious version of The Real Me, with those hard as shit screams that Roger does and me having voice problems.  Guitars didn't sound right to me, either.  It took us until the chorus to get in rhythm.

Relay sped up ridiculously, which the band likes but makes it ridiculous to sing.

Screwed up timing at the end of Baba O'Riley between rhythm guitar and bass (guitarist plays the violin part on guitar).

*We have an important gig in New Orleans Friday night opening for a friend on mine's band (he's the drummer).  Too bad it wasn't 2 weeks ago and Bjorn could have come by.  My plan is to rock The Who's music to the point where we obviously upstage them and they never want us to play with them again.  Any thoughts on a 45 min setlist?

Mc