The Who are going on another tour next spring.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Or at least 1/2 of the original, Roger and Pete. Queen did the same thing with 1/2 the originals, Roger Taylor & Brian May.

As we fans know, it's been a running joke since '78 when Moon died. Farewell tour, another farewell tour, another one...it just goes on.
I don't care as long as they can crawl on stage and drag a guitar behind them!!

Now it's the Fiftieth Anniversary Tour!!

When I was younger I liked Pete better as being the poet, but I think Roger gets deeper and has more character the older he gets.

GEEZER ROCK LIVES!!

[In_The_Wind]

1. Gonna start saving for it now.

Mr ITW is a huge Who fan.

Thanks for the heads-up.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. They just announced it this week, I believe.

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high
You'd laugh and say, "Nothing's that simple"
But you've been told many times before
Messiahs pointed to the door
No one had the guts to leave the temple

I'm free, I'm free
And freedom tastes of reality

From "I'm Free" from "Tommy", 1969.

[OriginalGeek]

19. ^^One of the greatest songs ever.

Ever.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. Another musing on the human condition by Pete:

This is about as succinct as it gets.


Did you hear the stuff that Krishna said?
Or know for you that Jesus' blood was shed?
Is it in your heart or in your head?
Or does the truth lay in the centre spread?

--"Jools and Jim", Pete Townshend(angry at critics), Empty Glass album, 1980. It also includes the line "They don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead".

[GOLGO 13]

15. Very good idea

Wanted to see The Allman Bros in NYC for this "last" tour but those prices for tickets ain't gonna happen.

[sharp_stick]

3. One of my first big concerts

was their farewell tour in Vancouver back in 1989.

I think it's become a competition between them and Motley Crue to see who can have the most farewell tours.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. groan,

I saw them in Toronto that year too. I thought they were over the hill back then (same as the Stones, also in '89).

[lame54]

4. I've seen them twice - post Moon...

and it was no joke - they kicked ass both times

[nolabear]

5. I saw their first "Geezer Tour" in the early 80s.

Now I'M the geezer!

[kwassa]

7. Saw them in the '70s doing Tommy.

Fuck, I'm old.

Moon was still alive. He is still my favorite all-time rock drummer.

[Hula Popper]

8. Damnation..

Is there any music made after the mid eighties that was any good??????????

Last time Pete was in a concert , I still enjoyed him.

But I'm screwed up, I listening to Wilson Pickett.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Hula, I'm in your same camp.

I was pissed that The Police broke up in '83 right after I saw them on the Synchronicity Tour. They had gotten really, really good and were on top of the world. Some of their stuff was quite complex rhythmically. Their last two albums, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, were great. Andy Summers has now gone into jazz and he started on classical, which is typical for excellent musicians who get bored with classical after a while.


After that I gave up on rock and roll except for a bit of late '80s Robert Palmer, who was your basic Sharp Dressed Man white boy British soul singer, and possibly a few other things I have forgotten about.


i started out taking classical piano lessons at age five, and started violin lessons at age ten. I cut my teeth on classical and Sixties & Seventies rock. I had one ear in the classical station and the other ear in the Top 40 station, first on AM, then on FM Album Oriented Rock (AOR). I was in elementary school when the Beatles blew our minds on the Ed Sullivan show, and loved them just as much as all the older girls.


I did see one of my Sixties-era loves, Steve Winwood, a few weeks ago.


Last week I saw Chick Corea. That was awesome. He jammed on Pastime Paradise, by Stevie Wonder, from "Songs in the Key of Life" from 1976, which was later used by Coolio as Gangster Paradise, and that was then parodied by Weird Al as Amish Paradise. Now that was a strange musical journey that that song took.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Oh, hell yes. So much great music.

There's a world of music out there from all the years, and now with the Internet we have access to it all. I'm middle aged and diggin' the new music that these young whippersnappers are into.

[Wolf Frankula]

9. I always grin when I hear "My Generation'

"Hope I die before I get old"

Roger, you got old. You're seventy.

Wolf

[orleans]

23. don't blame roger. he didn't write the song/lyric

he just sang it. blame pete!

[Wolf Frankula]

28. Pete's Old Too!

And may they live much longer. And I miss Keith Moon, a gorilla who was taught how to play the drums, and did it very well.

Wolf

[WinkyDink]

10. Tickets have been on sale.

[Yavin4]

11. Who's going on tour? n/t

[nomorenomore08]

12. I've always wished I could somehow go back and see them in their prime (around '69/'70).

'Live at Leeds' is still one of the best live albums ever, and 'Isle of Wight' is pretty close.

[sendero]

14. As long as they can play..

.... and there are scads of middle-aged people willing to pay to see them, I guess it's ok. I guess there might even be a smattering of youngsters that know rock and roll when they hear it, who knows.

I loved the Who but the idea of someone my age (their) going to a rock concert I find laughable. Oh, I can still party, but now I prefer to do so in more intimate settings

[U4ikLefty]

16. Not interested. Zep did the right thing by disbanding after Bonzo died.

I'm not interested in seeing 1/2 of the Who. I saw them in their "farewell" tour in the 80's & they were okay, but w/o Moon something was missing. Now that Entwistle is gone, they should hang it up.

Not interested in 1/2 of Pink Floyd or 1/2 of Slayer either.

[Initech]

17. They're already taking pre orders for tickets for a show next September.

I understand planning things in advance but an entire year seems quite a bit redundant.

[Orsino]

18. I will treasure their recorded music, and that show on the 2000 tour...

...where they performed brilliantly. Zak Starkey was a credible Moon impressionist, Daltrey could still scream, and Entwistle was still Entwistle.

There was a televised tribute show several years back, though, that wonderfully showcased their music through many other acts. The Who themselves, however, sounded terrible. I would never require them to sound the same fifty years on, but what they'd become wasn't appealing.

Okay, Pete solo probably still sounds good. Perhaps there's material in which they have something to offer.

[ailsagirl]

20. Love them

Their music is brilliant and I like to show today's teen that THIS is rock

And Townshend is a trailblazer

[whistler162]

21. The retirement community tour......

then the nursing home tour with Oxygen hook ups.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

25. I'm waiting for the Stones on the Steel Wheelchairs Tour.

Bad joke I stole from The Simpsons.

[UTUSN]

22. Oh. I thought we/DUers were going on some kind of tourist tour together. Never mind. n/t

[Recursion]

26. Meh. At this point, The Who are a The Who tribute band (nt)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. I thought

if you are two original members of the band, and you own the rights to the name of the band and its music, then you are not a tribute band.

One-half of Queen plus Adam Lambert went on tour last summer and called themselves Queen because two of them were original members and they had the rights to the name and the music. And the third guy, John Deacon, bass player, who is still alive but retired, and also owns a share of the rights to the name and the music, approved of the other two using the name and no doubt got a cut of the profits. And probably Freddie's girlfriend, who owns the rights from his estate.

Yeah, people were staying away from that tour in droves. So much so that they did over 25 dates in North America, then went to Korea and Japan, and then added Australia and New Zealand. And now they're planning on taking that same tour to Europe and South America.

[Arugula Latte]

29. Yeah, I got suckered into the "Farewell Tour" in 1982, but The Clash opened!

That was awesome -- I'm so glad I saw The Clash!