{"id":7583,"date":"2011-06-13T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7583"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:48:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:48:58","slug":"reconsider-me-the-whos-relay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/reconsider-me-the-whos-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconsider Me: The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Relay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lmJFdZGalE4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I can do without the lousy chorus in <strong>The Who<\/strong>&#8216;s 1972 oddball single &#8220;Relay,&#8221; as lip-synched here on <em>Old Grey Whistle Test<\/em>, and I can do without Keith Moon&#8217;s mugging for the camera in this particular performance, but after years of completely dismissing this song I watched this clip and wondered if I needed to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>The Entwistle-Townshend funky bass-guitar action is excellent! Considering that &#8220;Eminence Front&#8221; is my least-favorite Who song ever, and one of my least-favorite songs in the history of rock what I&#8217;m about to say might\u00a0damn the song with faint praise, but the funky bass-guitar\u00a0action in &#8220;Relay&#8221; is\u00a0all that\u00a0&#8220;Eminence Front&#8221; could have hoped to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7584\" title=\"whopatch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/whopatch-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/whopatch-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/whopatch-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/whopatch.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then there are the intangibles, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daltrey&#8217;s perfect <strong>sideburn:curly locks ratio<\/strong>, which may eclipse the best ratios achieved by the likes of <strong>Joe Cocker<\/strong> and <strong>Rob Tyner<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Medieval bass<\/strong> Entwistle plays (the headstock could kill a one-eyed giant!)<\/li>\n<li>The dog-ugly <strong>Who patch<\/strong> on\u00a0The Ox&#8217;s dog-ugly\u00a0denim jacket<\/li>\n<li>Daltrey&#8217;s really into it, for god knows what reason<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m on the fence about Pete&#8217;s peasant shirt, but let me know what you think about this possibly overlooked piece of rock costume jewelry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can do without the lousy chorus in The Who&#8216;s 1972 oddball single &#8220;Relay,&#8221; as lip-synched here on Old Grey Whistle Test, and I can do without Keith Moon&#8217;s mugging for the camera in this particular performance, but after years of completely dismissing this song I watched this clip and wondered if I needed to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/reconsider-me-the-whos-relay\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[168,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}