Re: A little perspective is needed. Life is short.

[magik <magikman2@sprintmail.com>]

Alan, I think you got your finger on the pulse!

Alan McKendree wrote:

> >Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 01:08:34 -0400
> >From: "O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@vtmednet.org>
> >
> >       Go talk to a Dead fan if you don't believe me.
> >       They may not show it, but they're in pain.
> >       Someday, hopefully not for 20-30+ years, we'll be in pain.
> >
> >       So I say, don't listen to all the shit.
> >       Don't listen to all the nay sayers.
> >       Don't listen to all the negativity.
>
> Or as someone once wrote,
>
> "Don't listen to people talk
> Don't listen to them sell their souls
> Don't listen to me or words from men above
> Don't hear it in your needs and don't hear it in your greeds,
> Just hear it in the sound of time passing."
>
> I may as well say it now, before the first note of the tour is
> played, to those about to rock (sorry :-) the same thing I said in
> '96 and '97 to people who were about to see them for the first time:
> someday you will realize your good fortune to be alive to see The Who
> play live.  In the short generational space of our time, those
> Quad-tour first-timers are now the experienced ones introducing their
> little brothers and sisters to the music. Those who see them this
> go-round, in this configuration, could be the last.  For now -- go,
> enjoy, and try to keep up with Kevin :-).
>
> God bless The Who and all who sail in her,
> Alan
> --
> Alan
> "That's unbelievable, if that's true."
>    -- Howard Stern