RE:

[Gary Lang <garylang@ccnet.com>]

At 12:37 AM 12/3/95 -0500, you wrote:
>   If the "cabaret act" line sounds familiar, it's because it's straight from
>the mouth of Pete himself. 

Yes I saw the TKAA a dozen times, own the video, etc. That was my point, it
wasn't an original comment and the tying the observation to Jones seemed 
a bit simple.

> In his choice of drummers, Pete condemned the Who to
>the very fate he had always feared for the band.  

He chose Jones?

>obvious that the Who, with Moon, were still capable of great performances into
>the late seventies.  

Well, they didn't play live much after the Swansea show, and for most of the
late seventies, Moon was dead. I am not sure I agree, but YMMV.

> The main problem for Moon was the Who's sporadic touring 
>schedule in the late 70's- it was during the off-time between tours that
Keith's
>skills deteriorated the most. 

Prob. true for all of them. It's true for me.


>   But the fact is, the members of the Who made a very poor choice to replace
>Keith.  Kenny not only couldn't come up with original stuff as good as Keith's,
>but he couldn't even replicate Keith's playing on the older material- the Who
>just didn't sound like the Who with Kenny.  Were they still a good band?  Yea,

This is all fine - they did not sound like the Who with him, but I don't think
Jones is the only one that did not sound like the Who... Listen to PT's guitar
work on I Can't Explain on any show after 1973. He just lost interest in it. 

Blaming Jones for this is too simplistic, in my view.