Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members seem to have dredged up out of themselves a new vein in rock music--one that sounds like no other group for more than the odd fleeting moment. If you can imagine a music that sounds a little like the Beach Boys in their early 'I Get Around' stage but harder, or like The Stones' 'Jumping Jack Flash' but harder, you have the Who at their medium mellowest, i.e. doing 'Out in the Street...
Within a musical framework of this frenzied a pace there is no place for the eloquent bass guitarist building up elegant harmonies a la Paul McCartney, and John Entwistle knows and does better. A big solid unsmiling figure on stage dressed in black with a white ruffled vest ("I don't move around so I can wear fancy clothes") he is jovial and enourmously pleasant in the dressing room. "There's no other bass guitarist that's better than me because I don't play it like a bass guitar." And it's true, he doesn't. He plays...
Daltrey too is an impressive asset to the group, marvelously tuned as he is to the Townshend-Moon beat. A really tough man, he sings with great overflowing zeal for the material and of course his controlled hysteria on stage--flailing arms, slinging mike, tossing haunches--is legendary...
...tone therefore had clearly changed since Bob Dylan's abortive performance in 1964 when he was hooted from the festival's stage because he appeared playing electric guitar accompanied by a rock band. Perhaps not strangely, with Dylan's return to grace, many unhappy aficionados spent a good portion of this year's festival waiting for and speculating on the possibility of his appearance. And with some of Dylan's more zealous followers speculation lapsed into exhortation and attempted conjuration. Nevertheless all such efforts failed...
...feeling of waiting and speculation permeated all the concerts, however, and this feeling made it difficult to enjoy or appreciate what actually was happening on the stage. The reason for this was partly due to the audience, its great impatience and at times actual rudeness, and partly to the directors' mismanagement. Too many artists were scheduled for any given concert and time was allocated insensitively. One could not help being disturbed when the Junior Wells-Buddy Guy Blues Band was hustled off the stage because time was pressing only to be subjected to forty minutes of Janis Ian's middle...