re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I’ve always been a fan of Who Are You, Magic Bus, Happy Jack, I Can’t Explain, and so relevant now: Won’t Get Fooled Again…

And then there’s this little known one:

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I saw The Who live in late 1971 just when Who’s Next came out. As I remember, the songs they played using the tape backgrounds didn’t go very well that night. The show felt like “The Who plays Bumfuck, Nowhere”. They didn’t give a shit.

Bloomington MN really was Bumfuck Nowhere back in 71. It’s close to the airport but it was a suburb that had been cornfields 10 years earlier before. This photo is of the Metropolitan Stadium where the Twins played. The hockey arena where The Who played was built just behind the ballpark. That site is now The Mall of America and Ikea.