Re: WHAT IF?

[JB2TheWho@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-06-08 15:30:22 EDT, wolfson@allegheny.edu writes:

<< 
 SEPTEMBER 1978: the who release a statement similar to the one led
 zeppelin would release two years later. "the who cannot continue without
 keith moon". besides, the band wasn't functioning with keith either.
 
  >>
Mike,

that's an excellent chronology you presented -- thanks...

One comment...on the statement I cited from your note (above) re: "thre WHOP
can not continue without keith moon....."

This would have been a difficult if not impossible statement for the band to
have made for this reason....

By that time, poor Keith had deteriorated so badly that he wasn't exactly a
full partner in every WHO endeavor for at least a year of 1.5 yrs. preceeding
his death, so such a comment would have ripped to pieces a lot of the stuff
the band had done in the sad months leading up to Keith's demise!

This, at least, is what TOWNSHEND told Phil Collins, when Collins called
immediately upon hearing the news and begged PETE for the job as drummer for
THE WHO....As Phil tells it, and he and Pete went a ways back and were pretty
tight, PETE explained to PHIL that KEITH had been so out of it for some time
that Kenny Jones had ALREADY been covertly doing a bit of unspecified
"filling in", which was why Kenny Jones already had the job the day after
Keith died, which otherwise astonished and bitterly dissapointed Phil
Collins...

Now that would have been something to ponder...THE WHO with Phil Collins as
drummer...For those who saw the tape (or saw the actual show as I was lucky
enough to do) of the TOMMY 1989