Face Dances - The Who
You better you bet it was the last Who album I bought

It's Hard - The Who

Lucky for you The Who only put out on more studio album and it was 24 years later.

Hard to believe you didn't check back in with the ABB in the 90's.

Interesting topic! If I truly love a band or an artist, I usually give them many chances. I often find that even lesser albums or lesser line-ups still have bits of what I originally loved.

However, there are a few:

No Fleetwood Mac after Welch left.

The first Blackmore' s Night was enough for me.

No Peter Gabriel after "So."

I think after "High Tension Wires," I was exhausted with Steve Morse.

No Smashing Pumpkins after "Mellon Collie."

No John Mayall unless it has Mick Taylor.

"Dynasty" was my last Kiss album.

No Iron Maiden after "Somewhere In Time."

No Rainbow after "Difficult to Cure."

"The Story of the Ghost" was my last Phish album.

The "Mama" album was my last Genesis - no, I bought that lousy one after Phil left.

No King Crimson after "The Power To Believe."

[Edited on 9/15/2016 by JimSheridan]

Hard to believe you didn't check back in with the ABB in the 90's.

Followed a lot of these folks live, just heard a little studio stuff on the radio and wasn't thrilled. The ABB and the Dead were always live bands for me anyway.

And that's right, it was Face Dances that did the Who in for me. It's Hard was the next one, with Athena, what were they thinking?

[Edited on 9/15/2016 by BrerRabbit]

Athena? She's just a girl. She's a bomb!

Hahaha - a bomb is exactly right ! Saw the Who in 82 and they were still bringing it - this is all a question of studio work , I have hundreds of live recordings of ABB into the 21st century, Dead, and tons more.

Even missed some great records from giving up on bands - Pink Floyd good example - stopped listening for fifteen years, and then finally heard Division Bell years after it was made, awesome record.

I played Going for the One every day for a month after it came out - my neighbors probably didn't like me coming home after work back then.....

Haha - I do the same thing, but I will do it with singles . . . hit repeat and drive the world nuts. Ok, on second thought, I gave up on Tull in studio after Passion Play. Bought that record and maybe listened to it 3 times, and quickly became irritated by it, especially that Wind In the Willows-ish tripe. But then there was Minstrel in the Gallery which was pretty good, but I never bought it. And then centuries later I missed Catfish Rising (is that the title) which I have heard some of and quite enjoyed.

Reach for the Sky! (vomitus eruptus) - ABB

Haha - I do the same thing, but I will do it with singles . . . hit repeat and drive the world nuts. Ok, on second thought, I gave up on Tull in studio after Passion Play. Bought that record and maybe listened to it 3 times, and quickly became irritated by it, especially that Wind In the Willows-ish tripe. But then there was Minstrel in the Gallery which was pretty good, but I never bought it. And then centuries later I missed Catfish Rising (is that the title) which I have heard some of and quite enjoyed.

When my friend came into some money and wanted to buy a stereo, we took Songs From the Wood into all the stereo stores as the test album...

I just recently picked up the War Child boxed set with the Steven Wilson surround sound remaster - I think it is his best yet - the album sounds fantastic in surround sound. I have many of his King Crimson and Yes remasters, and also picked up Oranges and Lemons from XTC. They are about to release Yessongs, and I think Going for the One is next. The Yes album was my favorite one until War Child. Close to the Edge is good, but I was a little disappointed in Relayer - maybe because it always sounded like surround sound in the headphones anyway - the sound is so dense I don't think he could pull much out of it to move around...... But anyway, I have a new appreciation for War Child with the surround sound version - makes it all come alive...

I gave up on Tull in studio after Passion Play

That's the record that soured me on Tull as well. And the Passion Play Tour was the first time I saw Tull. I actually dug the show, but like you said, how many times could you listen to that record before you got tired of it?

I just recently picked up the War Child boxed set with the Steven Wilson surround sound remaster

Thanks for reminding me of War Child. I had forgotten about it and I remember I dug it a lot when it came out in the late 70's. Probably one of the stronger Tull albums, actually. I need to pick that up (had it on vinyl back in the day).

Never heard of Steve Wilson surround sound remasters! Sounds interesting for sure - is it like MFSL ? I have a bunch of their stuff, it is fantastic.
Saw that Passion Play tour as well, very good - that's when they got their arena sound and theatrics polished and gleaming, those few years they really soared. And Songs From the Wood, great choice for a soundcheck record. I always use Dark Side of the Moon, that heartbeat thing at the beginning of Breathe is a great bass quality detector.

I have yet to hear a decent mix of Close To the Edge since the days of vinyl and earbleed Stereo-henge. What's Steve Wilson do? Is it new 24bit or anything like that, 5:1 for surround , or can you play it like in the olden days where you put the CD in the little tray thingie and it goes in, then comes out two speakers?

Sounds very cool, would like to know more. Yes, Relayer is an amazing record, but it is such a wall of sound I could see it being a bitch to do anything with it. My storebought regular Close to the Edge CD was so flat and two dimensional I actually threw it away, well got a dollar credit at the record store, same thing. Sounded like unicorn poop:

For an ABB fan on this site to not have the 90s/'00 releases is a big surprise. There is some amazing music on those 4 albums and no embarrasing duds (even if every track isn't a classic):

I call these classics though....True Gravity, Seven Turns title track, Shine It On, Nobody Knows, End of the Line, Get on With Your Life, Kind of Bird, Come On In My Kitchen, No One To Run With, Back Where it All Begins, Desdemona, High Cost of Low Living, Old Friend and a few others As much as I love the original band and the 1973 version, I wouldn't love the ABB nearly as much without those 4 records.

Steven Wilson is from Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, and he is building quite a solo career. He basically writes all his stuff for surround sound - I always buy the blu-ray versions of his albums. They are all fantastic..... Hand..Cannot...Erase is his latest one.

He has been remastering the King Crimson, Yes, and Tull catalogs. They have been putting them out as multi-disk sets, with the original cd, a remastered cd, and a DVD (mostly blu-ray) with the surround sound mixes - there is usually a PCM, DTS and Dolby version of the surround sound. Most of them include a lot of extras, like other stuff they were working on in the studio.

He also recently did a couple Gentle Giant albums, and is also doing XTC.

Do a Google search for Steven Wilson remasters, or check his pages at:

http://stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/an-update-on-steven-wilsons-remix-work/

https://burningshed.com/

[Edited on 9/16/2016 by Sang]

For an ABB fan on this site to not have the 90s/'00 releases is a big surprise.

I have hundreds of live recordings of the Allman Brothers from all eras, I just happen to prefer the live sound, that's all. Same thing happened with the Grateful Dead, I liked the live sound so much after a while the studio stuff just sounded dead to me. Ok to hear on the radio here and there, but no point in wasting home stereo time on, when you have a couple lifetimes worth of live bootlegs to catch up on.

Thx Sang for the Steve Wilson info - will check it out for sure!