Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who - ITV4 9pm tonight (4th)

Hi,

I'm not sure there is much more that can be said that has not been said. I wonder if they will have some of the words that Mike Heron had for him ... they were funny!

Thanks for the heads up Strummy, I'm watching this now, it's a terrific documentary, only 50 mins in and already some material I have never seen before and revealing insights from the new interviews with Daltrey and Townsend - Great stuff

Hi,

Many of us in America will never see this ... it's part of the "no culture" syndromme of the part several years. Or as I like to call it, the Dawnopersonsyndromme.

Moshkiae


Hi,

Many of us in America will never see this ... it's part of the "no culture" syndromme of the part several years. Or as I like to call it, the Dawnopersonsyndromme.

Except I think it's the same as this:
http://www.amazon.com/Ama...=1281028954&sr=8-1

which has been out on DVD for a few years now, and also was on VH1 Classic a couple of years ago.

HI,

There is a side/part of the whole story that is kinda buried and not exactly discussed. Some of it may be unsavory and not exactly fun.

Oliver Reed and Keith Moon having drinking contests ... and we're not discussing any other contests, although there is a funny rumor about the number of women in one night, which apparently Oliver Reed won, and Keith said ... you cheated! ... you got me drunk!

Keith Moon appeared to be really good friends with the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and it was Legs Larry Smith that taught Keith to spill his drums at the end of the show. Vivian Stanshal stated at one time that Pete was trying to be more important than any statement in Marat/Sade by smashing a guitar ... and would have been more fun and effective and messy if he had used cabbages!

There was a story that in one concert both Keith and John were having a contest of sorts ... challenging each other to do something different in every song and not lose the time, place ... and if one did something the other had to reply within so many beats or measures. Story goes that John didn't stand a chance ... Keith had a lot more drums and cymbals around him to make fun of John and upset his meat on the bass.

In one of my dreams, which was a result of watching one of the recent concerts (about 4 or 5 years ago), there was a visual on the stage that Roger was singing "Who Are You?" ... and he closes his eyes and then looks at the microphone again, then closes his eyes and then he yells it out on the song. The unspoken words in that silent moment were "I don't want to do this any more!". I asked this to a good friend that was close to the band and knew them, and he said that Roger had felt that way a long time ago ... and it was one of the reasons why the band had pretty much stopped anyway.  We also asked about his work in Highlander, which was very good and nice, and he apparently just stared straight ahead ... and said nothing. I get the feeling that Roger is not exactly tired of what he does, but I think that time has not been kind ... and he wishes/wants to do something else ... and I am not sure that he really found it ... or simply he has felt that he has done enough already. I never thought that Pete was the "music" in that band. Without someone to tell Pete to take the music and shove it and I wanna sing this and do this and that right after, I am not sure that the band that we have come to know as "The Who" ... would have been here and been as good as it was.

I still think "Who Are You" is one of the best rock albums ever made!