DaveLaPorte53
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really want the Quad version!
Spinning on the Turntable now...
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I saw a Japanese CD-4 of “Get Ready” sold on ebay for high $100 figure. Yeah, we need a blu-ray!
Instant purchase for me.
DaveLaPorte53
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I looked at it but it was scratched, which shows up in the rear channels, this is from my experience. another one in much better shape starting price &500. I'll keep looking! lol
US Warner Bros ORG. I know for some, The Who ended when Keith Moon died, but I like this quite a bit. Haven't listened to it in years.
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If you listen to Kenny Jone's work with the Small Faces, it is easy to see why The Who chose him as Keith's replacement. He is an excellent drummer. I don't know why people slag the Who albums he played on.
I agree with you completely about Kenny Jones. And, his playing on the re-recorded version of "The Real Me" is great. Different, but great. I guess it is perhaps Keith's persona more than any animosity towards Kenny Jones as a player.
It's perhaps a little like Alan White replacing Bill Bruford. Both great, just different. I play, or played, drums. There are so many good drummers out there, it is ridiculous to feel the need to criticize another drummer. John Bonham fans are the absolute worst I have seen in this regard. Many of them think Phil Collins was a crap drummer based on Live Aid.
Laugh if you like, but all of the DynaFlex pressings I have heard sound pretty darn good. I've only heard 3 of them, but still
The Rang
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
Sad Cafe - Facades
Great band that should have been bigger over here. Singer Paul Young when on to sing with Mike + The Mechanics.
Good album that sounds great despite a rather vicious warp.
Small Faces were contemporaries of The Who as the Mod "New Wave" of the early/mid 1960's in the UK. So Kenny definitely had the pedigree to qualify once The Who were obliged to find a new drummer after Keith's death. To my ears, Kenny was more than adequate, but I always felt like they were just coasting after Keith died, "punching the clock" & putting out mediocre albums because this was their job. I hasten to add that no one is wrong to like Face Dances, It's Hard, Endless Wire, but I sure couldn't warm to any of them. Actually, I thought that "Who Are You" was a phone-it-in placeholder, and I've read that Keith was so unreliable by then, the band had to use session drummers for more than one track.
There's a great Quadrophenia documentary on YouTube (just an hour long) detailing the band's struggle to birth this project, but at the end Pete opines that Quadrophenia was "our last great album," and I agree 100%. Interesting to note that despite its title, and 1973 release, Quadrophenia was NEVER intended to be released in quadraphonic. Pete says they tinkered with some quad mixes, but he didn't like them, and chose to just stick with 2-channel. TOO BAD, though I did acquire a 2000-something blu-ray 5.1 mix which I confess I haven't auditioned yet.
I was 16 when "Quadrophenia" came out, and I felt like Pete was speaking directly to me. I was (and remain) AWESTRUCK by the entire album, especially the two big instrumentals, "The Rock" on side 1, then "Quadrophenia" on side 4. Just SUBLIME. The big climax on "Quadrophenia", where Keith's drums roll us into the grand finale, where all four themes combine, just makes me weep. SO intensely POWERFUL.
I'm glad to be able to say that I WAS able to see The Who in Chicago during their "Who by Numbers" tour. Even at the time, it seemed kind of perfunctory, they just came out & went through the motions (no encore, they were notorious for that), but all four were alive on stage for us. I must say Keith REALLY looked bad, though he got through the show without incident. I was dissapointed that they didn't play a single Quadrophenia track, though I had already read that they couldn't really successfully play along in synch to taped backing tracks while touring Quadrophenia on the preceding tour. I'm grateful that Roger & Pete reworked touring shows circa 2005 or so, with a full complement of sidemen who could completely & passionately do justice onstage to both "Tommy" AND "Quadrophenia". As we all know, Ringo's son Zach more than competently filled in for Keith on the drums for those shows & beyond.
I'm not a huge neo-prog guy, but I enjoy IQ.
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