Having Begun Again To Give A Damn

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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:Quadrophenia?


Yes. And maybe the inspiration for "I Am a Mormon" came from this:

But I'm one.
I am one.
And I can see
That this is me,
And I will be,
You'll all see
I'm the one.

Quadrophenia came out while I was on my mission or maybe just before. I paid it no mind. Hendrix died and I never looked back. But WHO ARE YOU became my traveling song in 1979, driving my pickup truck to New York, Boston, and DC.
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I'm reading a lot of religiously inflected fiction at the moment, Nightlion. It just sort of crept up on me. Marilynne Robinson, Denis Johnson and Flannery O'Connor (and possibly some Hilary Mantel fits in here, too). When I can get more than a few minutes to myself this semester, I hope to use this as the basis for some blogging on literature and religion and the old smoldering question of: Mormon Literature, What the Heck?
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Nightlion wrote:Quadrophenia came out while I was on my mission or maybe just before. I paid it no mind. Hendrix died and I never looked back. But WHO ARE YOU became my traveling song in 1979, driving my pickup truck to New York, Boston, and DC.


I prefer Quadrophenia to Tommy. It spoke to me as a 13 year old when I first heard it. I'd spent my life trying to fit in, to be a good Mormon, and I lost my soul doing it.
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Blixa wrote:I'm reading a lot of religiously inflected fiction at the moment, Nightlion. It just sort of crept up on me. Marilynne Robinson, Denis Johnson and Flannery O'Connor (and possibly some Hilary Mantel fits in here, too). When I can get more than a few minutes to myself this semester, I hope to use this as the basis for some blogging on literature and religion and the old smoldering question of: Mormon Literature, What the Heck?

Indeed the Heck! Fuzzy Tennis Shoes for everyone.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Nightlion wrote:Quadrophenia came out while I was on my mission or maybe just before. I paid it no mind. Hendrix died and I never looked back. But WHO ARE YOU became my traveling song in 1979, driving my pickup truck to New York, Boston, and DC.


I prefer Quadrophenia to Tommy. It spoke to me as a 13 year old when I first heard it. I'd spent my life trying to fit in, to be a good Mormon, and I lost my soul doing it.


Its an age thing. We bond at a certain age more tenaciously to what have you. Damn RAP of my kids youth.
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Bob Loblaw wrote:I prefer Quadrophenia to Tommy. It spoke to me as a 13 year old when I first heard it. I'd spent my life trying to fit in, to be a good Mormon, and I lost my soul doing it.


Showing my age here, but I think "Who's Next" may be the best rock album ever produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g
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Quasimodo wrote:Showing my age here, but I think "Who's Next" may be the best rock album ever produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g


Agreed. I'm just saying that Quadrophenia is the better of the two rock operas.
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Quasimodo wrote:
Bob Loblaw wrote:I prefer Quadrophenia to Tommy. It spoke to me as a 13 year old when I first heard it. I'd spent my life trying to fit in, to be a good Mormon, and I lost my soul doing it.


Showing my age here, but I think "Who's Next" may be the best rock album ever produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g

Loosing another level of hearing thank you very much.
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Ended up listening to John Bonahm's drum solo in Moby Dick :cool: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbHC60b9eyE&feature=related
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Bob Loblaw wrote:
Quasimodo wrote:Showing my age here, but I think "Who's Next" may be the best rock album ever produced.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g


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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