Bob Loblaw wrote:Agreed. I'm just saying that Quadrophenia is the better of the two rock operas.
I saw The Who in DC when they did their quadrophenia tour (or maybe it was a follow up tour). It was awesome.
I went with a fellow Mormon buddy of mine whose father was bishop at the time. We were about 16 years old I think and we basically sneaked off to the concert.
Anyway, Lynyrd Skynyrd was the pre-show (which seems weird now) and after the preshow --maybe even during the preshow--a big bold message showed up on the "jumbotron" screen calling for my friend to go to the "main office". We knew it was his mother calling to demand that he come home and get away from the pot smoking hippies. His name was John White and when he got to the main office in the arena/theater there was a whole line of John Whites waiting in line (did they each talk to his mother??). So he just returned to his seat and ignored it. Later we verified it
was his mother. I am still utterly amazed that they acquiesced to her demand to basically disrupt the show. There is something so Mormony about her behavior.
I recall that Townsend was wearing a sort of one piece jump suit of some sort and might have been playing a light colored Telecaster outfitted with a humbucker pickup.
I had at home only the album "The Who Live at Leeds" which I played over and over again. That recording seems hard to get a hold of now.
*memories*
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