The Who prepping tour documentary DVD

Clips for the upcoming Who tour documentary, called Fragments, can be accessed through director Justin Kreutzmann's webpage rockandreel.blogspot.com. Justin is the son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and a close friend of Pete Townshend's daughter Emma. Justin has been shooting the documentary for the past year, as well as filming Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller's regular In The Attic webcasts.

The clips featured on Justin's site include the band performing "Who Are You" and "Mike Post Theme" from their recent album Endless Wire. There has been no release date set for what is being dubbed a "fan club DVD."

Townshend explained that another of Emma's friends, Tom Petty's daughter, was in the running to design the Who's conceptual videos that were such an integral part of the band's recent tour: "We were going to use Adria Petty to do some work on the Who's stage videos. It didn't happen in the end, but I really like her animation style. She uses cut outs and props and models and things in her videos. And (it's a) very interesting style."

In other Who-related news:

A workshop performance of Pete Townshend's latest theatrical effort called The Boy Who Heard Music was performed on Friday and Saturday (July 13th and 14th) at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The production ran with the performers still reading from the script with little if any props in the intimate 375-seat theater.

The score featured most of the songs found on the Who's latest album Endless Wire, along with previously unheard Townshend compositions titled "There's No Doubt," "Heart Condition," "Uncertain Girl," and "She Said He Said."

The musical, which is based on Townshend's online novella of the same name, features the story of a mythical rock band named the Glass Household, along with the brooding character Ray High. The Boy Who Heard Music is connected thematically to Townshend's other multimedia projects, including Lifehouse and Psychoderelict, in which Ray High first appears.

Townshend and the show's producers are hoping for an extended run for the show in the near future, although no upcoming performances have been announced.
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