I have a different opinion. :)
Posted on 01/15/2019 6:53:26 PM PST by DoodleBob
THE WHO ANNOUNCE 2019 NORTH AMERICAN MOVING ON! TOUR
29 DATES SET FOR SUMMER AND AUTUMN LIVE TREKS
ICONIC BAND ALSO SET TO RELEASE THEIR FIRST ALBUM OF NEW SONGS IN THIRTEEN YEARS
The band will share the stage with orchestras at marquee venues including Fenway Park, Madison Square Garden and Hollywood Bowl
For Who fans everywhere, the announcement of a brand new tour means only one thing: the world’s most untameable rock band is about to deliver the goods once again. Never ones for nostalgia, singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend will be unleashing the combustible force that is The Who, with symphonic accompaniment this summer and fall in 2019.
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Well you know it isn’t going to be like this show.
Young Man Blues - 1970 Isle of Wight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9boFzhUVG4
This was The Who on top of their game, nobody could touch them live before or since.
When, where and what will The Who be playing?
From Wiki:
Current touring musicians
Zak Starkey – drums, percussion (1996–present)
Simon Townshend – guitar, backing vocals (1996–97, 2002–present)
Jon Button – bass guitar (2017–present)
John Corey – keyboards, backing vocals (2012–present)
Loren Gold – keyboards, backing vocals (2012–present)
Frank Simes – keyboards, backing vocals, musical director (2012–present)
I have a different opinion. :)
Quadrophenia,,,
Love Reign o’r Me!
Easy. They hire a bass player and a drummer to play Keith and Roger's songs.
Keith and Roger ARE the Who.
But in 2012 when Alice Cooper opened for them, they were upstaged. Alice's band was tighter, more rockin, his vox was in super form...while Maiden was still working out the kinks in their Seventh Son set.
I don’t really remember Cooper’s set. Not to knock him and his band, but I guess they didn’t leave much of an impression on me. Now Ghost is an entirely different story.
Thanks. I have just passed the news on to my youngest brother — a rabid Who fan with about twenty concerts to his credit since his first one in 1982. He will no doubt be at several on this tour list. He now has the time, means, and contacts to travel to the best venues and get a seat in the first row or two — and then talk endlessly about the experience as if he was still a teenager.
Great band. Though a little tough for me, relating to Townsend’s later “research”.
Zak Starkey...why does that ring a bell?
Seems like yesterday (1989) they had their “farewell” tour. Maybe they can get Lynyrd Skynyrd to open for them like the Quadrophenia tour. Yawn
The Stones haven’t had two or three farewell tours in the last 30 years
I wouldn’t even put The Who in the top ten of greatest rock bands.
My favorite rock album of all time. And we got to see them do it!
Best band name, ever!
Alice was much better when he had Hunter and Wagner in his band.
Their first farewell tour was in 1982. Saw them then, and in 1989. Was a huge fan, still like their music, but live? In 2019? No.
They were horrible at the Super Bowl several years back.
It sure is. I was in college when that album came out, and worked part-time in an electronics store - had all the big name audio components of the '70s and early '80s... Pioneer, Sansui, Marantz. John Entwistle's bass in that tune sold a lot of the *big* speakers.
“Emiknance Front” was mothng like their earlier songs.
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Showed they had he guts for more though,
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