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[QUOTE="suttree, post: 876252, member: 710"]
Spot on, Matt.  And Entwistle played lead bass.  For all that Townshend had such creative authorship and control over the overwhelming majority of the band's product, he didn't crowd out his mates but rather seems to have adapted his own style to make it work.  Listen to long stretches of Quadrophenia (their best album, IMHO) if you need any examples.  Drums, bass, and vocals dominate The Real Me and many other tracks, even after Pete's recent remastering of the album.  Andy Summers seems to agree about some of this:

[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123/pete-townshend-20111122[/url]

I was surprised to see a Daltrey video interview snippet from a couple of years ago where he defended Moon the Loon after noting that Pete didn't think he was a very good drummer.  Roger said that Keith might not have been a perfect metronome (apparently Pete's chief gripe), but that his manic style and relentless fills were essentially perfect for the quadropheniacal alchemy that led to the band's success.  I agree completely.

Also love Pearl Jam's adulation for the band.  They played two Who numbers when I saw them headline the Austin City Limits Music Festival a few years ago, and Eddie V. himself wrote the Rolling Stone tribute to Pete when RS issued the controversial list of the best rock guitarists several years back.  E.V. has summarized the accomplishments of The Who by lamenting that they broke down so many doors that it left very little for their successors to do afterwards.

But now I digress.  Pretty soon we're going to get this thread transported to the toxic wasteland that is the OT Board.  Shhhh...
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