Frater_Kork wrote:
For several years, they've been on my short list of performers I'd most like to see live. Just great! Thanks for the link!

Everybody in my church loves this song...

 

 coloradojohn wrote: 
great fun memory. you always share neat things!

And now: The sea shanty version for ukuleles!

This Tommy cover art reminds me of David Gray's White Ladder.
 

 mandolin wrote: 
Of course not. But let me recommend you a very funny movie: The blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2004). It could easily be titled Katana Wizard.

nice song nice movie

Now play "dogs part 2" the B side of Pinball Wizard 

 mandolin wrote: 

Great cover of an Elton John tune.........What????

I had a friend that just had to make a replay of the intro a few times before letting it play through.

 eswiley2 wrote: 
My memories are equally vivid. This tune blew my mind. Oh to be a 14-year-old listening on my little white portable stereo and hear this for the first time  ....

...call me a skeptic, but i really don't think it's possible to play pinball by sense of smell...

Great tune.

Roger is touring the US doing Tommy, good reviews in Florida.  Seeing it this Sunday.  I fell in love with the Who when that came out, and still love it and them.  Rock and Roll! 

It never ceases to amaze me how listening to a song I haven't thought about in DECADES will zap me right back in time, with memories so vivid I could swear I could reach out and touch those people from that time.  So many good friends...  gone too soon. 

On a tangent to the song, which I couldn't give a monkey's fart about, I used to play an awful lot of pinball in bars and got pretty good at it, so I thought. Much to my dismay, seeing as I rarely become good enough at anything to draw admiring comments from onlookers, pinball machines have disappeared from pubs and clubs in the UK - I've not seen one in a pub for years and years. Probably they're nothing like as profitable as electronic gaming machines and bandits and are more difficult to maintain. Similarly, you can't find a table football table in a pub for love or money these days, supplanted no doubt by pool tables which are again more profitable. Which is also a shame as I wasn't half bad at the old table footie...

There used to be a truly fine breakfast establishment in Boulder called The Aristocrat, (that became, sadly, a GAP), where Nick's Greek Omelet and a Blueberry Pancakes, Short Stack were sure to fix that hangover, and the cooks used to JAM to this nearly every Sunday morning — complete with air-guitar spatulas and chef knife drums! and we would all jam along.  The Who, especially on Tommy, made one hell of a Soundtrack for Life!

First time I heard this was Elton's version in the movie. The whole movie was mind-blowing at the time. No idea if it holds up.

I was 11 and I had an aunt who worked in a theatre. I got to see this and a lot of movies free because of her :)

Good times. 

 mandolin wrote: 
Anything's possible. Haven't ever heard Abba's 'Dancin' Queen' on RP either.

I was a tyke when this came out - I thought it was kind of freaky..."a deaf, dumb and blind boy ..." playing PINBALL????

 

...hah - first play, really?..

Sho plays a mean pinball. This makes me feel about 8 years old again.