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The Who – Live at the Oval 1971 (CD) artist-the-chris-robinson-brotherhood Carry the spirit of theSeptember 18, 1971 carried extra weight beyond the massive charity bill: it was the second anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death, a fact not lost on a band that had shared stages and a generation with him. The Who captured here were deep into the *Who's Next* era, road hardened and playing at a ferocity that studio recordings could never fully contain. Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle, and Moon were, by most accounts, the most dangerous live unit on the