Just Who Is Remaking an Old Who Album? ; Pete Townshend Praises Petra Haden's Version

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It's not that Petra Haden isn't taking this thing seriously. It's just that it was a private project taken on as an exercise, and she had no intention of playing it for anyone except friends, primarily Mike Watt, the Los Angeles musician who challenged her to try it in the first place.

Anyway, who in the world would want a start-to-finish, home- recorded re-creation of the Who's classic 1967 album "The Who Sell Out," done entirely a cappella, with Haden's multitracked singing emulating every instrumental and vocal line of the original? Especially when her results weren't exactly state of the art.

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Just Who Is Remaking an Old Who Album? ; Pete Townshend Praises Petra Haden's Version

That's why Haden, one of jazz musician Charlie Haden's triplet daughters and a longtime presence on L.A.'s pop and experimental music scene, can't quite get her head around the way this thing is taking on a life o...

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