Re: Baba O'Riley

[briancady@juno.com (Brian S Cady)]

Beau McCrury writes:

>What does Baba O'Riley mean?

Here's the story:  When Pete got his first ARP synthesizer around 1970,
he started looking around for approaches to the new instrument.  He
found the work of experimental composer Terry Riley.  Pete adapted one
of his ideas by taking people's biographical information and (somehow)
transforming it into a sequence of musical notes, putting this sequences
on endless loop, and then composing a song over it.

The background loop in Baba O'Riley is based on the biographical details
of the life of Pete's avatar Meher Baba.  So the resulting sequence is Meher Baba in the manner of Terry Riley.  Or for short, Baba O'Riley.

			-Brian in Atlanta

P.S. It's also a pun on the name of the dessert Baba O'Rhum.