Re: Pete About Page

["Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>]

>  I must admit that I didn't realize you were joking.

Ian:

My fault; I wasn't quite obvious enough. I shouldn't have resisted the
urge to write that Page was on his knees to Pete saying: "Pleeeease let
me play the lead on your absolutely brilliant new single ICE." That's
what I get for restraining myself...

> Then again,with all of
> the books that have come out over the past few years giving detailed
> information about the recording sessions

So what you're suggesting is that I should write a book about it, then?
Good idea! If my accuracy need be no better than Behind Blue Eyes...I
hope I can depend on all of the list members to buy a copy? I promise it
will be entertaining, if not too accurate. Take, for instance, the time
Robert Plant made a pass at Keith Moon...cheeky devil...this was, of
course, during Keith's Nazi phase, and...

>  In *your* opinion he never wrote a song this good.

Yes, IMHO. Good Times, Bad Times is a good song but not particularly
noteworthy (IMHO) in the grand scheme of Rock music. If I were going to
cite a song from that album, I'd use Communication Breakdown (a very
Who-like song) or Your Time Is Gonna Come.
But a classic? Yes, I'll agree with you there.

>  My recollection is that the song he said that he was trying to play was
> "All Day And All Night"

That does make more sense. Davies himself must have liked it, because he
rewrote it several times...

> More inventive chord structure?Well let's not push
> it...we're talking *3* chords here! :)

It's how they're used that counts. Speaking of which, tomorrow I will be
seeing The Who (and several of you, I hope) at Raleigh. The recent
reviews give me hope that it will be even better than MSG last year.

- -- 

            Cheers                ML

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