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The Who Rocks America - 1982
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k***@gmail.com
2012-09-20 22:01:39 UTC
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Was all of The Maple Leaf concert shown on Pay Per View also on the Video/VHS copy or was stuff cut out of it?
Beaver Fever
2012-10-11 20:56:17 UTC
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Post by k***@gmail.com
Was all of The Maple Leaf concert shown on Pay Per View also on the Video/VHS copy or was stuff cut out of it?
The pay-per-view was the complete show.
Ted Maloney
2012-10-12 05:29:24 UTC
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Was all of The Maple Leaf concert shown on Pay Per View also on the Video/VHS copy or was stuff cut out of it?
All songs performed that night were shown on the original live "closed
circuit" broadcast (pay-per-view), but the VHS video (Who Rocks
America) was edited with some songs deleted (Cry If You Want and Dr.
Jimmy being two that come to mind). If you notice, in the the VHS
video, Roger Daltrey introduces Drowned by saying "Here's another one
from Quadrophenia, this one's called Drowned". The observant viewer,
like myself, would have noticed that they hadn't performed a song from
Quadrophenia at that point....at least on the VHS version, but they
had indeed performed Dr Jimmy, it was just cut from the VHS. Can you
tell I watched this about a million times in high school?

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FYI, here's the setlist from that night:

The Who
Fri, 17 December 1982
Toronto, ONT, Maple Leaf Gardens
Setlist
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My Generation
I Can't Explain
Dangerous
Sister Disco
The Quiet One
It's Hard
Eminence Front
Behind Blue Eyes
Baba O'Riley
Doctor Jimmy*
Boris The Spider
Drowned
Cry If You Want*
Who Are You
Pinball Wizard
See Me Feel Me
Love Ain't For Keeping
5.15
Love Reign O'er Me
Long Live Rock
Won't Get Fooled Again

Encore:
Naked Eye
Squeeze Box
Young Man Blues
Twist And Shout

*not included on the "Who Rocks America" VHS

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