Showing posts with label Pete Townsend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pete Townsend. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 06, 2016

PLAY WHO POWERCHORDS ON AN ELECTRIC UKE!


This music store find was a little weird:  The Who songbook for ukulele.  But there the book was, shelved below the wall mounted ukes and, as if to save the day, there were a few electric ukuleles in stock.  I do know that Pete Townsend wrote a song which appears on the collection, "The Who By Numbers", which features a ukulele.  "Blue, Red and Grey" finds Pete strumming on an acoustic uke.  I saw Roger Daltrey in concert a few years back and he did his own rendition of the song along with accompanying himself on ukulele.  The Vox electric ukuleles pictured here could be amplified up to "11" to reproduce the 140db sound level The Who were known to bombard their audiences with in the mid to late 1970's.  Play it LOUD!!!

Thursday, February 07, 2013

The Who - Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA., 2/1/13






The Who were in Northern California, Friday, February 1, 2013, performing the rock opera, Quadrophenia.  Here are Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend leading their who "Big Band".  A very nice concert performance of the Mods related conceptual music work. Windmills were very much in evidence.  Long Live The Who!

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Adventures in HD Music Selections

We got a 1080p plasma for the house. I was watching Comcast HD music channel. Regrouped Asia and Yes - Pathetic. Steve Howe is basically a skeleton holding a guitar. Also carried Royal Albert Hall clips of the Who in 2007. Roger's voice is godawful. The Seeker is already sounding well tired. Bright spot in group is Simon Townsend. Handling the high vocal parts and looking like he is actually enjoying being onstage. The rest are stiffs. Pete Townsend,too. Deep Purple - a train wreck. Only decent sounding band is Rush in a Frankfurt concert. But they are obviously only going through the motions. Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart are middle aged in appearance and spiritually fat. Geedy Lee always looked bad and that is nothing new here. Bryan Adams doing some solo guitar performance at some peace festival. Looks like hell but has a surprisingly strong and decent voice. Haven't watched old Joe Strummer video yet. More ugh for sure.

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