THE WHO, one of rock’s legendary and defining bands, announced a UK arena tour which took in Glasgow’s SECC on 12 June 2013 where they performed in full their iconic 1973 double album QUADROPHENIA , along with a selection of WHO classics.It started of quite a week in which Glasgow became the High Temple to the spirit of Music with Neil Young , Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Cliff all coming in the next few days.
I managed to get a second row ticket , a lot better than the ones allocated to the dedicated Who Fan Club diehards.
The two original members of the band ( the only ones with the advantage of still being alive) were joined on stage by Ringo Starr's son Zak Starkey (drums) and Townshend's younger brother Simon Townshend (guitar/backing vocals), as well as Pino Palladino (bass), John Corey (keyboards), Loren Gold (keyboards/backing vocals) and Frank Simes (musical director, keyboards/backing vocals).
If the last tour with Daltrey is anything to go by , they will do a lot of there classics like Baba O,Reilly at the end of the full album.And so they did.
The Quadrophenia album does get of to a slow start and them just explodes into life.The segment in the video below gives a semblance of the blistering raw energy generated on the night.
It shows the remarkable presence and , dare i say it, the ego of a man who has to take charge of a project ( like the thematic concept album which quadrophenia is) to stand shoulder to shoulder and give Roger Daltrey as good as he gets in the vocals department.
The stunning show was put together by Roger Daltrey himself , it features one of the most sensational parts of the concert for me which is a ghostly appearance by John Entwistle playing the best bass riff i know of during the song 5:15 , it comes ironically at 5mins15secs of the video below:a surreal and otherworldly spectacle.
The "classics" brought Daltrey and his vocals into their own , starting with "Who are You"
Then we had a crashing version of Baba O'Riley followed by a very prescient version of "Wont Get Fooled again" which chimes in with the current fashion of casual low attention span following of symbols of easy on the eye and even easier on the conscience following of protests on social media until the next attention diverting titillation comes along.
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