VH1 Rock Honors: The Who Red Carpet

Saturday VH1 held its Rock Honors concert for The Who at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. VH1 had everything running like a well-oiled machine. Photographers were assigned numbers and led onto the carpet in small groups, kind of like boarding Southwest airlines. I was assigned the very last number of the very last group. There was none laster than me. We were led to the back row of a riser, which caused some photographers to insist upon a new area being specially created for them. The rest of us chose a more zen approach -- I saw one of the uber-competent organizers from The Florence Henderson Show there and knew they would pull it together. Our patience was later rewarded by having the photography gods smile down upon us.

Who would have thought sitting in a midnight movie watching Tommy as a teen that someday I would be standing here right in front of Roger Daltrey? He was carrying around a small dufflebag and all of the photographers kept demanding to know what was in the bag. I didn't care if it was a human head. (Elise Thompson)

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