From: iddwiz@yahoo.com (Scott Perschke)
Subject: Not "Who Are You"... Who Were They?
Received on Mon Feb 8 11:04:16 2010.
I watched with extreme sadness as the remaining parts of the Who ran through the medley last night.
By "parts", I'm not referring to the remaining members - I'm talking about the parts OF the remaining members. Part of Daltrey's voice, Part of Townshend's guitar playing, the smallest conceivable fraction left of what once was.
Absent without leave were the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Entwhistle. Were they alive, they would no doubt have realized how bad they sounded, and how horrible they looked, and flatly refused to be seen or heard in public.
At times during the "performance", Roger started to look, and worse, sound like Randy Newman doing a bad Roger Daltrey impression, and Pete looked like Frank Perdue or Ed Koch.
Whatever happened to dignity? And "who" will "sell out" for 12 minutes of humiliation next year?
Loudon Wainwright said it best (at the writing of the song, George Harrison was still alive)..
"Paul and George and Ringo, just a fraction of the Fab Four
Some still survive from Dave Clark's Five
Washed up on the Mersey shore.
Gerry has a pacemaker, that hermit's name is Herman
That old man's Manfred Mann, and the Animals merely vermin.
.... Rock and roll will never die, neither can her heros
Just pick a figure with three digits, then tack on about six zeros.
Here's what gives, Elvis lives,
What is, in fact, is not.