I missed John (saw him in ‘89). Never saw Keith (I was 8 when he died). John’s bass lines were certainly missed yesterday. A full orchestra really meshed well with the music. Pete was great. Roger still had a few high notes left in him. He hit one in Love Rain o’er Me (the second last high note while forgoing the last one). I didn’t think they would even try that song.
I loved watching a beautiful, formally dressed orchestral violin player hopping wildly about the stage during Baba O’Riley in their finale.
I tried to karaoke Riding the 5:15 once. What a disaster. :)
If you’ve never seen “The Kids are Alright”, I highly recommend it. I have it on Blueray. It’s a documentary on The Who. It has a lot of special features. One of them is watching a “studio concert” in the movie, but listening only to the John Entwistle track. Pretty amazing, actually.
I think it’s free right now on either Netflix or Amazon Prime video.
They played the original woodstock at something like four in the morning, BTW. And they hated it.
I could put Quadrophenia on a continuous loop and just let it play for days.
I seem to recall an effort to take Tommy to Broadway. A Rolling Stone critic panned the symphonic production values, saying that there was something about rock-n-roll that confounded skill, and yielded only to genius.