Re: Who's Next

[jgg@iac.net (Joseph Grimes)]

I read this recently on alt.music.who.  I know some people can't get this
group.  Don't know if the authors are on the list, but anyway thought
someone might be interested.

> :! In article <3qtftj$n70@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com>,
> :! Richard M. Entrup <riche@nyc.pipeline.com> wrote:
> :! >What is the concept behind the Who's Next cover? The boys are pissing on a
> :! >monolith in a wasteland of sorts. Any ideas???
> 
> cannot remember the source, but the story that I heard once (and it may just
> be made up), was something to do with Stanley Kubrick's refusal to direct
> some Who project. So, taking a piss at the (cement) monolith was to take a
> jab at Kubrick and his (2001) monoliths.
> 
> I like this story, but I do not know if it is true. How this stayed in
my memory
> for such a long time puzzles and troubles me =+)
> 
> 
> later,
> 
> 
> fernando
> 
> <> fernando (fl12@cornell.edu)

I have heard that the Lifehouse story resembled A Clockwork Orange.  Maybe
there's some truth in this?

Joe