RE: Quadrophenia in 1974

["Kent Compton" <KentC@msn.com>]

The High technical standard caused another problem.  They had to use 
prerecorded tapes and Keith had to play with headphones on, in order to follow 

the rather complicated patterns.  Keith could hardly hear the band and the 
band could hardly hear the tapes.  Sometimes they were completely out of 
synch.  As a result they dropped more and more numbers and so Roger's 
expalnations grew longer and Longer.  The failure of the concept became 
obvious.  

I remember reading in Before I Get Old that Pete at one point got so 
frustrated with the prerecorded tape and its set playback speed that he 
reached over the console and just started pulling tape off the reels running 
months of work.