The Who: Moving On!

[Marjo]

Hi everyone, I hope you had a lovely weekend!

The Who will be performing their Moving On! Show at the Wembley Stadium in London, on 6th July 2019! Priority tickets will be available on Wednesday 30th January.

The gig will be backed by a symphonic orchestra! On stage you will see guitarist/backup singer Simon Townsend, keyboardist Loren Gold, bassist Jon Button and drummer Zak Starkey. There's also a a couple of special guests announced so far: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder as well as Kaiser Chiefs!

I've just read on their official website something that should add even more excitement for the fans: The Who will also be releasing a new album later this year, for the first time in 13 years! 

Here's one of my favourite songs by The Who:

Let us know in the comments if you're a fan of The Who, what your favourite songs are from them, and if you're interested in the new show in July?

[Cleoriff]

Massive fan of The Who and have been since they started.

Favourite songs..Too many to mention...but here goes.

Wont Get Fooled Again

Baba O'Reilly.

My Generation

Behind Blue Eyes

I Can't Explain,

Love Reign O'er Me.

Pinball Wizard

Substitute.

Who are you?

A brilliant live band and if anyone wonders whether they should go and see them....just go. You won't be disappointed

[Bambino]

I agree @Cleoriff. I saw The Who in 1965 at the Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey. They were the bottom of the bill. We'd gone to see Herman's Hermits. When The Who opened the show we all sat there with our mouths agape. They were so incredible that we didn't care about the rest of the show.

[Marjo]

@Cleoriff Did you ever attend their live performances yourself?  Will you be interested in the new album? I saw on their site that it will come out sometime towards the end of this year.

@Bambino I had to google Herman's Hermits as I'm not familiar with their music, and have just listened to 'No Milk Today"  I realised it was familiar after all, just one of those that I didn't know the artist.

[Bambino]

I think I'm a bit older than you, @Marjo 

Legend has it that Animal from the Muppets was inspired by Keith Moon, but apparently it is just legend.

[Cleoriff]

Hi @Marjo

I've seen them live 5 times. 

The Coventry Theate in 1967. They were supported by Dream, Marmalade, The Herd, Traffic and The Tremeloes. 

Leicester in 1973, supported by The Steve Gibbons Band.

Birmingham three times (twice at the NEC)  they we supported by Nine Below Zero on one occasion. 

They were supported by Kasabian at the NIA)

I think I mentioned before, we took our two lads to one of their gigs at Birmingham and they have been great fans of The Who ever since.

Problem is, the price of tickets to see them now, is exorbitant.

Edited to add: No doubt one of the lads will buy the CD for us at Christmas

[Cleoriff]

@Bambino

My husband has confirmed that Animal was based on Keith Moon. A fact he picked up by reading a book about The Who

[Marjo]

@Cleoriff 5 times!! That's really cool. Have they remained the same through all those gigs you attended in terms of the presentation and "style" of the gigs, or do they vary the shows a lot?

@BambinoI had to google Animal from the Muppets just now as I wasn't familiar with that either. Learned a lot today!

[Cleoriff]

@Marjo

I went back and edited my post to show the support acts.

I thought they were brilliant at the Coventry Theatre, not so good at Leicester as they were heavily into the drug scene

However, once they kicked that habit, they were wonderful when we saw them in Birmingham.

I personally think they are better as they got older. Superb performances and the light show is spectacular.

[Bambino]

@Cleoriff I'm sorry to say your husband is incorrect. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Animal 

Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac) and Ginger Baker (Cream) have also been thought of as inspirations for Animal, but according to the link above, none are true.

Also just found this. Look at Saturday, August 12. I got the year wrong. It was 1967.