Re: subject matter

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>I like the defiance theme very much.  I would like to see them  mix the 
>simple old AAA idea together with the maturity of trying to be free in the 
>context of working and playing well with others.

TED?  Play well with others?  I think they'd get sent home with their 
mothers right away.  ;)

>Not unlike what the band has been doing on this tour, and some of the stuff 
>Pete has touched on in his diaries.

Oh, you mean with each other.  :)


>Again, I would love to see another opera or operetta but I
>just don't see that happening.  The implied patience to create it and the 
>possible production costs to tour something like that are real deal killers

I dunno.  I don't see that it would be more difficult than any other kind of 
album.  Pete seems to think in fairly large terms, and if he were to feel 
inspired, it might be easier to continue with the same theme than to make up 
whole bunches of single, unrelated songs.

Quad was definitely a major undertaking as far as a tour was concerned, but 
with a little more restraint in the recording, they might be able to take it 
on the road as simply as TOMMY played the first time around.  Of course, I 
love the big band, orchestrated, theatrical stuff, so I wouldn't object to 
another project like that.  If they make good money on this tour, then 
they'll have some capital to finance more expensive projects.


>I hope TKAA2K is some some sort of rough version of something to come.   
>The new lines that Pete added are quite powerful, but the melody and 
>backing rhythms are incomplete.  I am not real hip to Roger's "lucky" ad 
>lib, good sound but not great poetry.

I'm not so sure that was an ad lib.  The harmony sounded like they had 
practiced it.


keets
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