Out now is the Who's latest vault DVD, called Live In Texas '75. The show was videotaped during the Who's November 20th, 1975 concert at the Summit in Houston during the band's tour behind that year's The Who By Numbers album. The footage was shown on the Summit's in-house video system and features one of the band's classic forgotten songs -- the Pete Townshend-sung "However Much I Booze" -- a tune that the band only performed 11 times during the '75 dates before being permanently dropped from the band's repertoire.

 

Roger Daltrey, who's successfully pushed for the band to include rarities like "Tattoo" and "Slip Kid" in the band's setlists, admits that there's a fine line between rediscovering a lost classic and knowing when to let a track live only on record: "We are trying to do obscure stuff. But there is sometimes a good reason why those numbers are obscure -- they're just not quite as good as the other ones (laughs)! It doesn't mean that the songs aren't as good, I'm wrong there. What it means is that some songs exist much better in the studio, and when you try and put them on the stage they become a clumsy thing. Other songs just get on the stage and they just take a life."

 

Rarely has any song been more confessional than "However Much I Booze" -- or any of the others Townshend wrote from The Who By Numbers album. Townshend told us that he always felt that his work was one of a singular artist who adapted his material to fit the Who's structure: "Well, obviously, every writer, every individual that creates has to draw on their own experiences and when I set out to write songs -- I shoot from the hip. I don't actually write for any particular voice." 

 

November 1 - Sunrise, FL - BankAtlantic Center 

November 3 - Orlando, FL - Amway Center 

November 5 - Duluth, GA - The Arena At Gwinnett Center 

November 8 - Greenville, SC - Bi-Lo Center 

November 9 - Greensboro, NC - Greensboro Coliseum 

November 11 - Pittsburgh, PA - Consol Energy Center 

November 13 - Washington, DC - Verizon Center 

November 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center 

November 16 - Boston, MA - TD Garden 

November 20 - Montreal, QC - Bell Centre 

November 21 - Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place 

November 23 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada Centre 

November 24 - Detroit, MI - Joe Louis Arena 

November 27 - Minneapolis, MN - Target Center 

November 29, 30 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena 

December 2 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone Arena 

December 5 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden Arena 

December 6 - Newark, NJ - Prudential Center 

December 8 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center 

December 9 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena 

January 28 - Anaheim, CA - Honda Center 

January 30 - Los Angeles, CA - Staples Center 

February 1 - Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena 

February 2 - Reno, NV - Reno Events Center 

February 5 - San Diego, CA - Valley View Casino Center 

February 6 - Glendale, AZ - Jobing.com Arena 

February 8 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel / Casino 

February 12 - Denver, CO - Pepsi Center 

February 14 - Tulsa, OK - BOK Center 

February 16 - Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! Center 

February 17 - Columbus, OH - Schottenstein Center 

February 19 - Hamilton, ON - Copps Coliseum 

February 21 - Uniondale, NY - Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 

February 22 - Atlantic City, NJ - Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall 

February 24 - Manchester, NH - Verizon Wireless Arena 

February 26 - Providence, RI - Dunkin' Donuts Center