By SANDY GARDINER

Last ‘night the Civic Centre
received its baptism in tire.

It played host to a rock 'n‘
roll show.

Since its opening the new
Ottawa hockey arena has been

the venue for the Liberal
leadership convention and a
few variety shows, all well-
attended" vand well - behaved
events. ’

But Tuesday night it was
the turn {or an invasion of the
'mod squad as local teenagers
half-lilled the auditorium. to
hear Britain's biggest fashion
end musical lrendsetters next
to The Beatles

They call themselves The
Who and what they do on
htage is as much visual as it.
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ORIGINAL MATERIAL
.' The quartet plays almost
entirely} original material.

.'Sbmetimes it is happy. Most-
'ly it is lrenetic. uninhibited
,and colorful; And i! it is not

Well-Behaved Mod S—quad‘Watches Instrument Wreckers at Work

The Who' Gives Civic Cenfre Ifs Rock 'n' ROII Baptism

controlled. it can also be quite
nalsy.

Led by Pete Townshend, one
of the leading guitarists in the
UK. The Who topped a bill
which included two other

chart - topping acts — The
Troggs from Britain and
The Ohio Express trom the
US.

The task of local represen-
tation tell to The Five D. a
group who faded into music‘s
valhalla with a farewell per-
formance. Today they are no
more.

NUMBER ONE

The Ohio Express, tresh
from a number one hit‘ “Yum-
my. Yummy. Yummy." hav-
not been around long enough
to he spectacular live.

When they first came on
they mentioned that they had
tmuhle getting into Canada.

After hearing them. Ottawa
now knows why. Sulfice to say
they were bad.

The nggs. who have had ‘

several US. and Canadian
hits. were almost fresh off
the ptane from England when

they came to the Civic Centre.
As the first venue of their
current North American tour.

the group came on in good
physical shape if nothing elSe.
However. the majority of the

HAVING A SMASHING TIME . . .

the heat of the moment—it was not. in .fact The Who

Lead guitarist Pete Townshend of British pop idols
The. Who smashes his guitar to the cheers of onlook—

ers during the Civic Centre's first rock

‘n' roll show.

But In case you think the destruction was done in

audience had cohe to see and stage.

hear The Who '— and when
they finally strode onto the

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get paid to torture their musical instruments. At right
Who lead singer Roger Daltrey dances while Pete does

the damage.

(Journal Photo by Domlnlon Wide)

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' teenagers

~songs had been built.

tf’

the audience excne-
ment hit fever pitch.

But. for the most part. the
controlled them-
selves — preferring to sit. lis-
ten and watch rather than
follow the screaming rage of
a couple of years back.

The Who. for their part, laid
the music on. thick. Their
trademark was evident as they

tortured their equipment to"
produce the sound ‘around
which their name and their

DUE REWARD V
They entertained with stor-

ies in song; including an in-

triguing mini~opera. and re-

ceived their due reward in
applause.

As usual they ended their
act with leader Pete Town-
Shend t e a r i n g his guitar
apart. All their equipment
comes free from a U.S. manu-
facturer "in return for adver-
tising considerations. But
what a wayJor a product
endorsement.

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