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The Who, a British Invasion rock and roll with a twist of R&B band, was "discovered" in 1963 West London and first gained attention in 1964 for front stage, guitar-smashing antics and raw emotive play here-to-fore unseen at early rock concerts. The line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon exploded onto the scene with an incendiary performance at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival, and the musicians later became true international stars with their 1969 rock opera "Tommy." The 1971 album "Who's Next" is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest rock albums of all time and contributed to the band's influence in modern rock and roll. After Keith Moon's death from an overdose in 1978, the band continued to record and saw more individual efforts from its surviving members. Despite the tragic death of Entwistle in 2002, the band plays on....more

  • Part II: Dawson and the Legendary Gig Wagon Races

    by Dinky DawsonMay 28, 2008Comments (1)

    As we reached Chris’ gig wagon, Moonie pointed at the front extension, a telltale sign that this thing had a huge engine under the hood. (read more)

  • Lord of the Amps

    by Max MobleyMay 21, 2008Comments (11)

    Some of the greatest amps in rock’s sonic history aren’t unique at all, but still offer great tone. They are perfectly respectable, some even honorable. (read more)

  • Yardbirds Question Time

    by Keith AlthamApril 30, 2008Comments (3)

    The Yardbirds were in no mood for pulling punches when I called on them in their dressing room at the Ready, Steady, Go! studios in Wembley Park. Keith Relf expressed the desire that they should be "the first group to tell the truth" and that he was tired of "watered down interviews which said nothing." (read more)

  • Down in the Scuzz With the Heavy Cult Figures

    by Charles Shaar MurrayApril 16, 2008Comments (0)

    Originally published in NME, 7 June 1975 CBGB is a toilet. An impossibly scuzzy little club buried somewhere in the section of the Village that the cab-drivers don't like to drive through. (read more)

  • Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Three

    by Paul WilliamsApril 9, 2008Comments (1)

    What kind of a fan am I today? In some ways I’m unchanged, and I still look for and sometimes find in the music exactly whatever it was I hungered after when I was 16 (proof that the world is a passionate place; a friend in the lonely night; release for my anger, confusion, idealism, desire fear and love). (read more)

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