The Who - Live in Boston
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Movie Reviews of The Who - Live in Boston
Movie Review: Not The Same Without The Quiet One
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD is actually pretty good. However, Entwistle's bass riffs are really missed. Especially on the songs from Quadrophenia. Roger and Pete did their best on songs like "Sea And Sand" and "5:15". However, without John's bass, you could tell something was missing. His background vocals are missed as well, especially on "Another Tricky Day". Pete's voice was a little weak on that one. I could hardly hear any bass in any of the songs. It's almost as if they don't have a bass player. Roger as usual was awesome. The guy never ages! And, his voice keeps getting better! I would suggest buying this DVD to add to your Who collection because they do have few songs on there that aren't on their other live DVD's. However, overall this isn't as good as the Live at The Royal Albert Hall DVD.Movie Review: Very good and often very moving music from the new Who
Summary: 4 Stars
A more mature, jazzier Who does very well in this surprisingly strong and varied set. Townshend is on fire here, and Roger Daltrey does a very good job (despite singing virtually blind, so to speak, as he was unable to hear himself in the stage monitors), and talk about a great song selection. My faves are 5:15, Love Reign O'er Me, the revised version of The Kids Are Alright, and the mini-Tommy numbers, but overall a fine showing all-around from a band that chose to keep going in the face of tragedy and in the process re-invented and re-invigorated itself. And Ringo may have been a good drummer, but Zak Starkey is a great one. The interviews with Pete and Roger are brief but fascinating, and the subtitles are nice for lyric referencing. Highly recommended.Movie Review: Good for the most part
Summary: 4 Stars
This DvD was good for the most part except the only thing I didn't like was the scene selection. Let's say you wanted to play 5'15. Well, when 5'15 was done playing it would go back to the menu instead of the next song. Otherwise, it was great. Sparks was explosive, including Daltrey's Tamborine.Movie Review: I was there
Summary: 4 Stars
My wife and I were at this show at Great Woods. It was the first show after Entwhistle died in Vegas. New base player, Pino Paladino is good but not much to look at. Townshend on fire as he ripped thru some popular and lesser known songs. Get this...maybe last great tour they did.Movie Review: DEAR JOHN : WHO MISSED OUT IN BOSTON
Summary: 3 Stars
by: Greg Bauder
It is so sad about us not hearing your input in THE
WHO's "LIVE IN BOSTON". You were "The Quiet One" behind your booming bass, a steadfast Ox, lionized by rock fans and critics, and you proved that THE WHO's mighty "Success Story" could be graced with humility surrounded by anarchy and millions of pounding dollars. Your loss has almost turned your fans into
"WHISKEY MEN" as THE WHO fiddle about half-assed on this average
live album - by their numbers' standards. "IT'S HARD" to take.
Now,"It's Your Turn" to be the focus of THE WHO's latest eminent front line battles: but unlike Keith you slipped innocent as a kid through this "Heaven And Hell" into (as Townshend once said) "beyond the beyond."
We know you had not "Had Enough". If only someone had
been coming earlier we would still have the Hendrix of bass guitar players. Still waters run deep in this "Dangerous" world and you anchored the flying WHO even when they'd spent everything like your character "Silas Stingy" many decades ago. Your spirit and bass had progressed with THE WHO's magic in each generation's eyes. You were better you bet than any other bass
player - so when this album's songs were over, I was left with
only tears. Even this album's "Won't Get Fooled Again" version
didn't move me. Probably because this new WHO sounded strange
and its cobwebbed 60's songs lacked energy.
Now like "Boris The Spider" you've been silenced beneath life's hard knocks and like Pete's guitars our hearts were broken, but the only lonely consolation is that you are with Keith, in a lifehouse where nothing is everything and you are still, still playing your bass. Down here, "LIVE IN BOSTON" is "Melancholia" as the rock world misses one of its truly
great artists on what should have been your 60th birthday. Rock is dead they say; now it's up to Pete and Roger to make it live today. John you were "One Of A Kind". May "Love Reign Over You."
IN MEMORY OF JOHN ENTWISTLE ON HIS MISSED 60TH BIRTHDAY