Performing before Townsend and Daltrey

[Tom Dunlap]

I thought that The Who version gave me chills...until I heard Bettye LaVette sing. Can you imagine what it would be like to have Townsend and Daltrey sitting in the box? A bit of pressure on the singer and guitar player. I think that was Kenny Aronoff drumming, not as theatrical as Moon but in the top five drummers in my book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJi6maTueSc

In the comments someone wrote that Roger found her later and knelt to her...moved Pete to tears...made me shiver, in the best way.

 

[TreeCo]

 

[tcsafety]

Songwriters always enjoy someone singing their songs. From what I've been told it's a sureal sense of curiosity to see how they will interpret it. When you've recorded a song and had a hit with it, then someone comes along and knocks it out of the park with a different interpretation, it's beyond words.

Dottie Rambo wrote "I go to the Rock" and had a Gospel hit with it. Whitney Houston recorded it for "The Pracher's Wife" and Dottie finally knew who's voice she wrote it for.

Thanks for the post.

 

[whiz]

You can see that those 2 are moved by her. I was too. Good post my man of such impecable taste. Quadrophenia helped me indentify with the pain of being so misunderstood as a kid. From the bone crushing opener, The Real Me, to the final wave slamming into that ancient, forbidding shorline. I was so fortunate to see them perform it live in '96 before the Ox kicked.