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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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stereo5
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Now I am in a dilemma, I have the new Who vinyl under the Christmas tree waiting for me. While I agree they are not The Who of old, Roger Daltry said the new record is the best Who record since “The Who by Numbers” came out.  I hope I am not going to be disappointed.  
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stereo5
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I @uberwaltz, I agree especially since it is Daltrys band. I do not like the badmouthing Townsend said about their 2 deceased band members. He said Keith Moon always played at the wrong tempo, and that Entwistle couldn’t keep time to the music. True or not it is horrible to say that about people you worked with for all those years.

Personally, I think Pete May be a pedophile but he got out of it by saying he was doing research.
Regardless , I consider Live At Leeds and Who’s Next to be the pinnacle of their careers.
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