{"id":13220,"date":"2016-02-28T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13220"},"modified":"2016-02-28T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:00:48","slug":"whos-left-of-the-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13220","title":{"rendered":"Who’s left of The Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I just saw something that forces me to veer sharply away from politics for a moment.<\/p>\n

The Who is going to play on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” later this week.<\/p>\n

The Who? Yes … or what’s left of The Who.<\/p>\n

Two of them are\u00a0deceased. Keith Moon was the wild-man drummer; John Entwistle was the smooth bassist. Zack Starkey, Ringo’s son, has replaced Moon on the drums and from what I understand he does a creditable job with the sticks; don’t know who’s thumping out the bass notes these days.<\/p>\n

I guess my point is this: How can a band that has lost two of its four distinct personalities still be called a band by the same name?<\/p>\n

Roger Daltrey still sings and screams; Pete Townshend still rips the guitar with that famous “whirlwind move.” They’re great, man.<\/p>\n

Keith and John aren’t there any longer.<\/p>\n

Other bands have sort of stayed together while key members have been MIA. The Beach Boys without Dennis, Carl and Brian Wilson tried to hang together; Brian came back and then got into a serious spat with Mike Love. Creedence Clearwater Revival has a new name because their front man, John Fogerty, got mad at his bandmates and won’t have anything to do with them.<\/p>\n

Think of The Beatles “reuniting” without John Lennon and George Harrison. Can’t imagine it? Neither can I.<\/p>\n

Nor can I imagine The Who without Keith Moon and John Entwistle.<\/p>\n

I’m out.<\/p>\n

Back to the other stuff …<\/p>\n

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I just saw something that forces me to veer sharply away from politics for a moment. The Who is going to play on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” later this week. The Who? Yes … or what’s left of The Who. Two of them are\u00a0deceased. Keith Moon was the wild-man drummer; John Entwistle was … Continue reading Who’s left of The Who?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13224,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13220\/revisions\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}