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Posted: November 06 2010 at 13:17
Face Dances all the way.
This was the first tour that I saw of the Who. Unfortunately it was at CNE stadium (outdoor) and they had the band set up at the west end of the venue facing the lake. A dark and stormy Oct eve had high winds actually blowing the sound away so the band sounded like they kept putting the PA on mute. .
And if that wasn't enough, Joe Jackson had opened for them but only performed maybe 4 songs before he got hit with flying hotdogs so he left the stage. That sucked.
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Posted: November 06 2010 at 14:38
I love those songs Pablo
The album has a Pretenders influence, which I noted in my review. I tracked down a comment made about digging the Pretenders which Townshend made around this time. I maintain you can hear it in these songs and gave them a certain energy.
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Posted: November 06 2010 at 15:08
JD wrote:
Face Dances all the way.
This was the first tour that I saw of the Who. Unfortunately it was at CNE stadium (outdoor) and they had the band set up at the west end of the venue facing the lake. A dark and stormy Oct eve had high winds actually blowing the sound away so the band sounded like they kept putting the PA on mute. .
And if that wasn't enough, Joe Jackson had opened for them but only performed maybe 4 songs before he got hit with flying hotdogs so he left the stage. That sucked.
What a waste of hot dogs. I could understand if it were Nsync opening for The Who.
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Posted: November 06 2010 at 15:31
Both are bad albums, but Fance Dances is simply atrociously bad.....
Not that It's Hard is essentially better than FD, but it does have the excellent Eminence Front track that saves the album from sinking to FD depths
I was also at that CNE show on the North side rafters of the stadium but we didn't have much sound problems..
I just wished we'd had The Clash as an opening act, like they had in Buffalo,
The show was much better in the farewell tour's closing nights at the Maple Leaf Gardens a few weeks later
let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Posted: November 08 2010 at 13:41
Looks like a lot of us were at the same show(s) in Toronto. Yes, the conditions at the Gardens for the final shows were better, and I suppose it didn't hurt that I was close enough to count the strings on Entwistle's base while at the CNE I was pretty far back. I remember being particularly annoyed at the audience at the CNE for booing the opener, Joe Jackson, off the stage, though I learned later on that lots of Who openers got booed off the stage. A high point was the fact that the CNE show was Oct 9, 1982, John's 38th birthday. Not that it matters, I suppose, but I remember a lot of signs in the audience wishing him the best.
As for the actual question of the poll, I chose It's Hard even though my favourite song from the Jones albums is Entwistle's "The Quiet One" from Face Dances. I think It's Hard is a more consistent album, and has some very interesting lyrics.
Also, for anyone who is interested, in 1986, Pete put out a book of short stories titled Horse's Neck. Some of the stories were written around the time that he was working on It's Hard, and it is interesting to see some of the same ideas and images worked out in prose rather than in music. Worth tracking down.
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Posted: November 09 2010 at 03:26
rod65 wrote:
Looks like a lot of us were at the same show(s) in Toronto.
Well minimum twice the MLG capacity ....
Provided that all of them had filled the CNE show, this is minimum 40.000 persons.... but if none had gone to see them more than once on that tour (aside you and me) in T.O..... that would make it 120.000 persons
let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword
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Posted: November 09 2010 at 09:56
Who cares. Both albums flirt with mediocrity, and Jones was unceremoniously dumped from the band. Don't know why or care, really, but I did see him on their '80 tour and thought he filled in quite nicely. These two albums ain't even prog.
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