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The Who (Deluxe)

Just downloaded this album yesterday. I have to listen to it some more. It is listenable but it is not The Who. Pete is an excellent song writer and a great guitarist but if you listen to all their records I can't believe that you can not say the Who died with Keith Moon. John Entwistle's death put a stake through it's heart. This is the Pete Townsend Roger Daltrey group. Music has evolved but they have not. As Richard Thompson likes to say,"The Who, now they were art." If you ever saw them live you know how true this is. They were the Nine Inch Nails of their day. This record does not reflect that. 
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So, they're not the same band from 1970? Who is? Thank goodness they've evolved some. "Hope I die before I get old..." Really not a sentiment I can embrace. Love the early stuff, still blast Live at Leeds, Quadrophenia, Who by Numbers...Like Face Dances too, it's different. Like Pete's solo stuff.

Saw them with Kenny Jones on the Face Dances tour. He's no Keith Moon, but Who IS? Saw them do the entire Quadrophenia with Zak, who is amazing. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I don't think, "Everything since is a vain attempt to recapture the glory days". Pete and Roger probably don't care to go there.
The Who Rock, still.
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