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The Who Hits Back! Tour: TD Garden, Boston, MA, May 18, 2022

And so here we are, on the East Coast in Boston, Massachusetts to be precise, and as Pete Townshend once remarked all those years ago in Long Beach, CA, . . .”Either sit down or stand up, but shut up! This […]

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The Who Hits Back! Tour: TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, OH, Backstage Blog Part 2

Photo © Steve Ziegelmeyer CINCINNATI Part Two: I promised you a Part Two, even though we covered so much ground in the last posting. This one concerns not so much the concert as things behind and around the show. Bill […]

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The Who Hits Back! Tour: TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, OH, May 15, 2022. Backstage Blog Part 1

I listened and I heard music in a word And words when you played your guitar The noise that I was hearing was a million people cheering And a child flew past me riding in a star . . . […]

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The Who Hits Back! Tour: FedExForum, Memphis, TN, May 13, 2022

May 13 and we’re in Memphis. Memphis, Tennessee! But not only is it Memphis, Tennessee, we’re playing tonight on Beale Street at the FedExForum. We’ve got a statue of WC Handy just across the street in Handy Park and up […]

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The Who Hits Back! Tour: Paycom Center, Oklahoma City, OK, May 10, 2022

“Oklahoma City is oh so pretty” . . . so sang Nat King Cole (and many others) in Bobby Troup’s ‘(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66’ and Pete Townshend even sang “Oklahoma, Oklahoma, OK!” at the end of ‘Jools and […]

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The Who Hits Back! Tour: The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX, May 8, 2022

“The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas” . . . so sang Perry Como and a great host of people – and the stars are certainly shining bright this week as Pete and […]

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