Looking for the BEST Version of Quadrophenia?

anyone heard the japanese version?

btw, where the hell do you find all these diff versions? i'm struggling.

i just got a guitar. its b/c of pete.

Rhyno,

I was lucky enough to score the Track version here in NYC many years when everyone was unloading their vinyl to local record stores as they rushed to change over to CD.

I strongly suggest you don't model yourself after Pete. Otherwise you'll be likely to end up a used car jingle writer/kiddie porn "researcher" and so strapped for cash you perform shows 72 hrs. after your founding bandmate dies :>

emailists, i hear ya. to me, the whole band died when moon died. its easier to think of them that way. touring w/o ox is almost comical in its money grab nature. ---and that's not the who. the who is teenage angst meeting wagner in a blender on puree.

they came to town a few months ago; i never even considered buying a ticket.

RIP, the Who.

btw, what is "the track version" you speak of.

I saw them live a half dozen times at the zenith from 1969-1974, once in 1985, and finally in 2007. With minor concessions for aging, the quality & energy level of last year's performance was impressive. PT's guitar technique has actually improved over the years, and the youthful & worthy back-up band of Starr & Pallidino have deep lineage in R&R. In the old days just as now, Daltry was sometimes hoarse. Moon was often drunk and Townshend pissed at Moon. While some of that friction served the music, it obviously couldn't sustain for the long term.

The original great-sounding vinyl was issued on Track Record/MCA. I'm foggy on this but recall reading somewhere that the original mix was compromised by layers of analog tape overdubs used to create this complex album. One of the later CD remasters may have tried remixing using first-generation multitracks.

>>06-02-08: Emailists
I have the orig Track UK, which some people felt is the best<<

Agree.

I have both UK and US original pressings; the US is very very close to the UK.

There is no digital version approaching either.