Here’s a brief show report from last
night’s Who concert, sent to Just Backdated by my roving East Coast Who
correspondent Lisa Seckler-Roode, who also took the pictures.
The sleeping dragon has shaken off the
dust and is spewing fire again. The Nassau Coliseum show was (for the way
things are now) pretty damn great. ‘A Quick One’, ‘I Can See For Miles’ and ‘Bargain’
were pretty damn fantastic, ‘Amazing Journey’ and ‘Sparks’ remarkable. Great stage
banter about people smoking dope in the venue, prompting an offering from Pete to
shove the weed “up the smoker’s ass”, a vintage Pete style comment. Roger made
it very clear he would walk off if it didn’t stop. He had problems with his in
ear monitors, leading him to repeatedly yank them out, going so far as too tell
the poor guy trying to put them back on him to fuck off. More great piss and
vinegar! Overall, thoroughly great set by what exists as The Who today.
Next week Lisa will be reporting from Forest Hills, where The Who last played in July, 1971, two shows that opened their Who's Next US tours that year.
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