A few more odds and sods about WAY & IH

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

>Horror Rock, from his latest live album?

Martin:

That's one of the songs, yes. But there were several recorded in the studio,
and they have yet to be released...and probably never will be, now.

>Nobody has any answers to my questions about the "classical" Baba?  Cheee.
>Here I am ready to dig through it in depth now, and eveybody's ho-hum.

Keets:

Dig, my lad, dig! Don't mind us. I'll repeat myself: I'm not much on
Classical, no matter who it's by. Speaking of which, I'm listening to the
Sadler Wells show as I write...Pete's speaking about the orchestra and he's
going into Love Ain't For Keeping.
Ohmigod, Pete's not singing it!

>that it was too drawn out. ie it may have sounded better if they had
>recorded in a shorter period of time plus I did not like the quality
>of the audio overall. It was poor.

Derick:

I agree with you on both these points. "Too much of anything." The Who were
always best off the cuff.

>Face Dances: A really good album IMHO. I can't really fault it and
>of course it's kenney on Drums. In fact the more I play it the more I
>like it. It's TED, the beggining !

My feeling on FD is: Pete was trying to take The Who from a (OK, THE) Rock
band and make them a Pop band. And the square peg won't fit into the round
hole, as it were.

Ah, this version of Sister Disco is great.

>Hard" to have a rough, slap-the-tracks down sound.  He might have been
>trying for more of a "punk rock" feel (which, even as a fan of the album,
>it's apparent he didn't get)

Brian:

No, he certainly did not. However I do feel IH had more of a "Who" feel than
FD.

>interviews he gave about that album.  Apparently he was quite excited by
the
>album before it came out and thought it was going to be some of The Who's
>best work

Please check me on this...Cowboys came out before IH, right? Taking some
potentially great material, and then too Pete had just finished with Heroin.
And despite making Clapton a greater performer, I don't think the heroin did
Pete's songwriting a bit of good. So it was a bad time for great work, all
around.

>According to Roger in 1994 (admittedly when he was in a very anti-Townshend
>state) said that after the recording he begged Pete to let them scrap the
>whole album and start over calling the songs sub-standard

Well, let's face it guys...Roger has a lot in common with Mike Love, and
would have been content to redo Tommy for the rest of his life. Pete, on the
other hand, was much like Brian Wilson in wanting to move forward.


               Cheers                              ML