THE WHO - New DVD

THE WHO - New DVD Gives "Behind The Scenes" Look At Recent Tour

The Pulse Of Radio has issued the following report from Howie Edelson:

A new DVD from THE WHO, called Fragments, has just been shipped out to platinum members of their fan club. The film combines live footage from the band's 2006 dates with an in-depth behind the scenes look at The Who on the road. There has been no official word that the DVD will be released commercially.

The movie features unprecedented access to Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey's offstage life on the road, showing them traveling from gig to gig, meeting fans before the shows, and warming up prior to hitting the stage.

Among The Who classics included in the documentary are
'I Can't Explain',
'Who Are You',
'Cry If You Want', 'Relay',
'Eminence Front',
'Baba O'Riley',
'Won't Get Fooled Again', alongside newer material including 'Mike Post Theme', 'Black Widow's Eyes', and 'Man In A Purple Dress'.

The film was directed by Justin Kreutzmann, who has been the primary cinematographer for Townshend and girlfriend Rachel Fuller's In The Attic webcasts over the past year. He is the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann.

Kreutzmann, a die-hard Who fan nearly his entire life, says that the band doesn't have the crazy backstage scene that you might expect: "Not on any kind of rock star level. It's pretty much bare bones. They just come in there to work. I mean, it's comfortable. It's bare bones. It's another town. A lot of towns, they didn't even stay in. We would just fly in, do the show and then fly back to say, New York, or L.A. A lot of those dressing rooms were used for an hour, an hour or two and that was it. They're just a working band. It was all about making it comfortable for the show and getting in and out and the focus was the show."

Kreutzmann is currently editing footage from Townshend and Fuller's various Attic Jam concerts performed in small venues in New York, Chicago, Austin, and Los Angeles. Among the various guest performers at the shows were Lou Reed, Sean Lennon, Ben Harper, and Martha Wainwright.