Pete Townshend Joins “Tommy” Cast for “Tonight Show” Medley
It’s a rock opera. And if Pete Townshend’s appearance on “the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” with the Broadway cast of “the Who’s Tommy” is any indication, Tommy should’ve stayed that way.
With Townshend on acoustic guitar and background vocals, the cast played a medley of “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me” and “Listening to You.” Whether it was the unfamiliar voices, the Broadway staging, the fact that it was a medley or just that it seemed kind of pathetic in myriad ways, Sound Bites wasn’t feeling it and won’t listen again.
Townshend recently said he plays with the remnants of the Who for the money. One has to wonder about the rationale for this television appearance.
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