Two Old Fuddy Duddys

[78/84 guy]

I thought the same thing. I don't think they are completely washed up and usless by any means....but the music is starting to sound a little powerless....lacking that ballsy bass. Entwistle was/is vastly underrated.

He was the backbone of that band ! Live for sure. Big chops and tone. The New York thing was their last stand. At least on film.

[78/84 guy]

All they are doing is a Page/Plant tour but their own names together can't sell tickets like Jim & Rob's did, so they still call it The Who. I don't mind Zak. Great player. But no John makes it sound thin. So bring in the 8 piece band to cover it up. Well they are trying anyway. I would go see them if it wasn't an arm & a leg for a ticket. Even with Rogers vocal limitations these day's.

[Nitro Express]

To be honest, when Pete got caught with the kiddie porn it bothered me. I don't buy his excuse of doing research. Clearly he probably was an abused child himself and that's probably why he seems ready to snap just under the surface. The Who was a band of misfits with Moon being the biggest one. They made some great songs and were great live but not really a band I like to look into the details on because there seems to be a lot of skeletons there. For me it's just the music and that's it. I actually could care less about that band.

[Terry]

It seemed for a few years there (1999-2002) that the sonic emphasis had shifted back to the traditional Who 4 piece, with Townshend, Starkey and Entwistle churning out some good stuff live...good enough to mask Daltrey's fading vocal abilities.

But yeah...when you need 6 other musicians up there to pull it off...it's kinda like the 1989 show I saw, where there were just too many fucking people onstage to the point where the original spirit and sound of the band was just lost in excessive instrumental augmentation.

[Jack68]

Saw em last night with the old man. Good show.....age is definitely catching up with them, but still better than anything that was at the grammys.

Im gonna check out the show they are doing @ the theater @ msg with Elvis costello next thursday.Probably just a condensed quadrophenia and the hits encore but im hoping for just a few of the basics,substitute,cant explain shit like that.

[Jack68]

Daltrey as Scrooge was the last time i was there also..what year was that?Concerning the quad show it wouldnt of killed them to rehearse afew rarities like you said and mix them in with the CSI encore.Dump tea and theater for the love of god and play fucking magic bus,naked eye or something.End with boris the spider the place would go apeshit.

[Jack68]

Yeah the who on ice tour was overblown but they played a lot of different stuff on that tour.Why they never played join together again is beyond me.my wife always rocks.

[Jack68]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-the-who-strip-down-at-their-1999-comeback-show-20130226

[Mushroom]

I saw the 1989 show in Jack Murphy Stadium, CA and they showed they still owned the stage! These two old geezers are not Fuddy Dudds, they're still rocking! albeit they are boring nowadays. A Fuddy Dudd is a fucking party pooper, jeeze Kristy.

The WHO would not be half the legend they are now without John "Boris the Spider" Entwistle.