{"id":31985,"date":"2019-05-14T13:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31985"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T18:30:37","slug":"a-new-symphonic-tommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31985","title":{"rendered":"A New Symphonic Tommy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week I received an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewho.com\/\">The Who<\/a>.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewho.com\/the-whos-tommy-orchestral\/\">Roger Daltrey is releasing an album next month<\/a>, a symphonic version of The Who&#8217;s seminal album, <em>Tommy<\/em>, to mark the original album&#8217;s fiftieth anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Who\u2019s Tommy Orchestral.                                                                 <br> <br>Performed by Roger Daltrey, with members of The Who band and the orchestra conducted by Keith Levenson will be released on June 14th, and is available to pre-order now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rC4FVAolgk\">pic.twitter.com\/rC4FVAolgk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Who (@TheWho) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheWho\/status\/1126428308323938304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Confession time.  I wouldn&#8217;t characterize myself as a huge fan of The Who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/thewho-logo-640x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31986\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I have their  entire studio discography, not to mention several live albums.  I like their work, I admire their work, I&#8217;ve bought the endless compilations and repackagings over the years because they&#8217;re usually packed with something obscure.  When I listen to their work from about <em>The Who Sell Out<\/em> (1967) to <em>Quadrophenia<\/em> (1973), I like it.  Often, I like it a lot.  But I don&#8217;t turn to The Who <em>that<\/em> often, and when I do I&#8217;m more likely to put in a compilation album of the hits (2004&#8217;s <em>Then and Now<\/em> is a good choice) than one of the albums all the way through.  And when it comes to <em>Tommy<\/em>, it&#8217;s the London Symphony Orchestra version of the album that I prefer to listen to, not <em>The Who<\/em>&#8216;s original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daltrey&#8217;s new album, then, is something of mild, but not overwhelming, interest.  (One interesting note for me, personally, is that Scott Devours is drumming on the album; he was a fill-in drummer on several Carbon Leaf shows a few years ago, was very good, and looked like he was having an absolute blast.)  I&#8217;d listen to it, but I don&#8217;t feel the urgent need to add it to my library next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/jan\/14\/the-who-confirm-first-new-studio-album-in-13-years-tour\">The new Who album coming at the end of the year<\/a> is of much more interest.  This reminds me that I&#8217;ve listened to the <em>last<\/em> album, 2006&#8217;s <em>Endless Wire<\/em>, and can&#8217;t remember a thing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe, in the month&#8217;s to come,in this year of <em>Tommy<\/em>&#8216;s semicentennial, I&#8217;ll revisit my Who library.  Not making any promises, though. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Header photo &#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thinktk\/4405564910\/in\/photolist-7HiEXG-7HeKEr-8qDqNC-56nfu6-8iRx5T-8nVBKe-a4ASV6-a4ASRp-h1MSb-4QLuNd-RuQgAe-R7aGUu-2egsbLK-4F5BEJ-hH6W2-Q8AzY-hH715-7roXAT-5xgJWW-4ESvnE-4ENgNZ-4ESxdo-4ENh6k-4ENgkc-4ENfak-4ENfJM-4ESwc9-4ESwxN-4ESwSE-4ENfYc-4ENf4r-4ESwXW-HiXCo9-FMzH66-22FPK8y-24mZEw1-24mZTRN-FMzFY6-25nYdCy-22FPXau-7BpLbD-25nYmBu-25rDX6T-25nYaJC-22FPWk3-245J5S4-FMzLv2-HiXzdG-24mZSvm-HiXwdU\"><em>Roger Daltrey<\/em><\/a><em>,&#8221; by <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thinktk\/\"><em>Terry<\/em><\/a><em>, licensed <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/\"><em>Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I received an email from The Who. Roger Daltrey is releasing an album next month, a symphonic version of The Who&#8217;s seminal album, Tommy, to mark the original album&#8217;s fiftieth anniversary. Confession time. I wouldn&#8217;t characterize myself as a huge fan of The Who. Yes, I have their entire studio discography, not to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31985\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A New Symphonic Tommy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4772,78,4774],"class_list":["post-31985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-roger-daltrey","tag-the-who","tag-tommy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}