Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Who's Next blog, which is not only the first Who's Next blog, hence our use of the word inaugural, but it also happens to fall on Jan. 20, 2009, the very day that Barack H. Obama was sworn in as 44th President of the United States of America, hence our use of the word inaugural.

You might wonder why I'm qualified to write such a blog and yes, dear reader I have an answer for you. Just the other day, when I was filing away some old vinyl records (certainly you oldsters and hipsters are familiar with those), I realized that I have multiple copies of the Who's acclaimed 1971 album titled -- you guessed it -- Who's Next. One is an old beat-up copy I probably bought used many eons ago. The other is a still-in-the-shrink-wrap "heavy vinyl" version. And then there's the two-disc "Deluxe Edition" in my CD collection, not to mention the digital versions on my external hard drive and iPod. As you can see, by the sheer number of copies in my possession, I'm