Last summer Lou popped for tickets to see Rush Cinema Strangianto in the theater. I sported my Test for Echo concert tour t-shirt.
One night only! The house was full and the film was loud. I mean LOUD. No joke, about 15 minutes into the film and my right ear had gone numb. Great film. It should be loud. Just, perchance, a little less deafening next time.
This past February 14, 2020 marked - are you sitting down? - the fiftieth anniversary of the greatest-ever, recorded for eventual album release rock concert: The Who Live at Leeds. When I sent a text message notification regarding this historic observance to Lou and his family, it spurred a conversation about my having this album on vinyl. I replied to them that I had multiple copies on vinyl (and cassette tape, and compact disc) and that, so I thought at the time, one copy that was pressed on red vinyl.
Here is the photo I texted back of my 3 vinyl copies of Live at Leeds. The album at left is the 1980's re-issue I had back in high school. It's also the album I've listened to more than any other in my life. The other two copies are later variants of collector limited-editions.
Live at Leeds is not simply the greatest live album of all-time, it's the best album of all-time and you don't have to take just my word on the subject. Read this.
Alas, I do not have a red vinyl copy of Live at Leeds.
I do, however, have an original 1978 red vinyl Canadian-market copy of the Who Are You album.
Roll the credits!
