Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V6 #126

["gern blanston" <gernblanston67@hotmail.com>]

You can't blame Marsh for writing his opinion. Just because he spent lots of 
his career writing about The Who doesn't mean that everything he writes 
about them has to be nice. How realistic would that portrayal be? Especially 
about a band that has done everything in the book (from corporate 
sponsorship, spotty tours in '82 and '89, and touring without any new album 
to support) to debunk their own legendary status!?

As for the motivation behind the /82 tour, I believe it was Pete himself 
who, when asked what the tour meant to him, replied in essence, "about $10 
million," or some other astronomical number.

Mook

>
>Hi All, Dave Marsh (hueyelclch,excuse me while I puke!) does write
>all in all a pretty good book,however as Brian points out there
>are a few mistakes and the like therein. My major objection of
>and about this book is that Marsh is a blood sucking hypocrite
>who has made his living off people like The Who and has the gall
>to say nasty things about them in the book all the whilst
>seemingly forgetting what a wonderful  journalistic life They
>and many others have given him.
>                               Marsh suggests or implies that the
>1982 'Farewell tour' was one that The Who did only for the money.
>What Rubbish. How ignorant can the man be?  AS USUAL, The Who
>paved the way and pioneered the way for corporate sponsorship
>of rock concert tours amongst other things as well as saying
>goodbye (at the time) to the fans.
>                               Furthermore,Marsh suggests that
>The Who should have stopped altogether either earlier or at the
>time the book was written,calling for them to do so and not come
>back for any 'special occasion' as someone within the band had
>said. What gives Marsh the right to tell others what to do with
>their lives? What did he expect Four of The world's biggest Rock
>Stars from the World's Greatest Band to do,become travel agents
>or something? The Who never said to Marsh 'you should stop writing'
>There was no way that they could  stop either playing or making
>music,it's in their blood.  The Who profession is Rock band,
>Rock Star, whatever you want to call it,Musicians,etc... They
>threw most of their life into it, why should they stop because
>Marsh says so.
>               Marsh writes and or researches the book at the flat
>of Chris Chappel, then longtime Who assistant to Bill Curbishley.
>Must have taken a while. Wonder if he paid any rent or did he
>leech off The Who again.
>Regards, Derick.
>
>


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