Sad times: "Who's Next" gets the Classic Albums Live treatment at The Grand

Seems like a cool enough concept: A cracker-jack band comprised of impeccably professional musicians crank out some of the greatest albums of all time.

But see Classic Albums Live is not some corny tribute band. It's a recreation of the music and the album, in order, from opener to closer.

We're especially intrigued in cases where this simply could not happen otherwise: The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Abbey Road" and "Rubber Soul"; Queen's "Night At The Opera"; Led Zeppelin's "I" and "IV,"; Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon,"; The Doors' "L.A. Woman"; and and Bob Marley's "Exodus" are among the many that would be kind of cool to hear recreated.

Bowie was best with Mick at his side.

Kind of annoying in cases where this might actually be happening, could possibly happen, or could definitely happen but probably won't: David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" (wouldn't be the same without Mick Ronson), The Eagles' "Hotel California," (yeah, well, naw) and AC/DC's "Back In Black" (seriously, why would you not just go see the real deal?).

Welcome to the Hotel Douchefornia.

So where does The Who's classic 1971 album "Who's Next" fall? Since Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey continue to trot around using The Who name, even performing entire albums like they did on the recent "Quadrophenia" tour, it's not out of the realm of possibility that these two stubborn bastards could line up a "Who's Next" tour where they go from "Baba O'Riley" to "Won't Get Fooled Again" in cities all over the world.

But is this something that could really happen, even if it did? As in, would Townshend and Daltrey really be recreating the album? Missing John Entwistle's monster bass (and vox on "My Wife") would leave me feeling empty. And no Keith Moon? That means no machine-gun take-off at the end of "Baba." And no lightning-crash entrance on "Bargain." And no motor on "Goin' Mobile." And no rolling break out of the Moog and patpatpatpatpatpatpatpatpatpat "YEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH MEET THE NEW BOSS" on "Won't Get Fooled Again."

So this is sad, because we'd love to hear the early 1970's version of The Who do "Who's Next":

But we don't really want the current "Who" to do "Who's Next":

And while it appears they do a more-than-capable job with it - we kind of don't want Classic Albums Live to do it:

Maybe you feel differently. And if you do, you can check it out on Saturday April 6 at 8 p.m. at The Grand, which is at 818 N. Market St., Wilmington. Tickets are $28, $32 or $37, and you can get them here.

A Craic with the Saw Doctors at the TLA

Ol' Owen hit the triple crown of badass - diddlin' the boss' wife, diddlin' the boss' help, and punkin' the boss' bro.

If you dork out for HBO shows like I do, you suffered one of those patented holy shit moments when a New York mob faction went all "Seven" on Nucky Thompson right-hand man Owen Sleater toward the tail end of the most recent ah-meah-zing season of "Boardwalk Empire."

Maybe we shoulda saw it coming, but if your first thought was "ah, what's in the box" when Nucky received what looked like the lamp from "A Christmas Story" at 4 a.m. and thought you'd find this inside, then give yourself a prize. Me? Yeah, I was all kinds of torn up for ol' Margaret Schrooooeeder, but I was also so scared of Gyp Rosetti I felt like he was coming after me next.

Nothing soothes the soul of losing one of our own from the Ol Sod like some good old Celtic Rock, and, if it's St. Patrick's Day, anything featuring a dude with an accent and a band boasting fiddle, banjo, accordion, mandolin or any other similar instrument will suffice.

I said kelly green, not ... ah nevermind.

But if you want the top shelf stuff, you reach for The Pogues, Black 47 or the Saw Doctors, who will be at the Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St., Philadelphia, on Sunday March 17.

Take some Beatles, add a little Bruce, stuff it with a punk sneer and smother it in kelly green and voilà - you've got stuff like "Never Mind The Strangers," "Ivana in the Brogue," "About You Now" and "I Useta Love Her."

Sunday's show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25. Visit the TLA's website to buy em or for more info.