It's a Boy – "Captain Walker didn't come home his unborn child will never know him" – had to it a bluesy, acoustic-Zeppelin feel. The story (of a boy traumatized by events and family members into an autistic-psychotic pinball-playing savant-messiah figure) was performed in fairly unadventurous fashion, less grand than when the Who freshly and crisply played it here at Exhibition Stadium in 1989.
We're Not Gonna Take It, with the grey-curled Daltrey exhorting "put in your earplugs, put on your eyeshades" while wearing in-ear sound monitors and shaded spectacles.Īnd, oh, this was no spectacle – no choir, orchestra or special-guest spots, just a keyboardist who recreated the French horn parts synthetically.
It was presented stem to stern, from the bold Tommy his decision to tour the dynamic song-cycle as a solo act commemorated no anniversary. How do you think he does it? Genetics.īlood relatives and the microphone-swinging front man aside, the show at the Sony Centre seemed almost an arbitrary enterprise. The siblings share a high, nasal tenor voice and an ability to briskly strum an acoustic guitar, common traits established on On this current North American tour (which previously made stops in Montreal, Ottawa and, on Saturday, Windsor, Ont.), Daltrey shares the stage with three who-dats and a guitarist named Townshend – Simon Townshend, the younger, less accomplished brother of Tommy, injecting it with an exhilaration and fury onstage that the double-LP lacked. Or were we trying to forget that time, a year when the band first toured Daltrey, of course, fronted the Who, a "nice rock 'n' roll band from Shepherd's Bush, London," as they were introduced at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
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