Re: It's a girl Mrs Walker....

["Jeremy Craine" <jcraine@hotmail.com>]

Take her to the show!!
she'll remember it for the rest of her life...
if you dont it'll always be "remember that time you wouldnt take me to see 
them....."
and then you'll be paying for counselling.......
;-)

JC


>From: Justin Trout <jtrout@holly.colostate.edu>
>To: pete.clark@talk21.com
>CC: thewho@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: It's a girl Mrs Walker....
>Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:08:12 -0600 (MDT)
>
>Awesome story Pete, thanks for sharing!  It brought a much needed smile to
>my face!
>
> ><> Justin D. Trout
>
>On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 pete.clark@talk21.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I thought that you lot may be interested in my 6 year old daughter, 
>Stephanie.
> >
> > Being a girl who takes an interest in what her Dad is up to, she started 
>listening to The Who - not much chance of listening to anything else in my 
>house; The Who's ALWAYS playing. Anyway to say that she started to get 
>heavily into Tommy is an understatment.
> >
> > Can you imagine a 6 year old girl who knows every word to the album? A 
>girl who knows the film version word perfect & watches the video, & the IOW 
>1970 Live version of it, 3 or 4 times a week? A girl who goes to sleep 
>every night listening to The Who on her personal stereo.
> >
> > This is a girl who, for her sixth birthday present, wanted a guitar. We 
>presented her with a 3/4 size acoustic thinking that she must want to learn 
>to play. I got home from work to hear "See me, feel me" blasting from my 
>speakers - I walked into my living room only to find her launching herself 
>into mid-air, screwing her face up & windmilling as if her life depended on 
>it! I only just managed to prevent her smashing her guitar on the floor! It 
>was a movement that Pete himself would have been proud off.
> >
> > She is deeply upset that I won't take her to Birmingham NEC, UK, in 
>November to see the band - she says I must take my mobile phone so that I 
>can ring her & she can listen in! She has also told me that when I die I 
>have to leave her my Vespa so that she can ride around like Quadrophenia.
> >
> > As a direct consequence to all of this, my wife now rants whenever I go 
>into one of my mammoth Who sessions when I have a day off work. Then again 
>my daughter and I are a lot closer as a result. When she's 8 I'll probably 
>introduce her to drums & cherry bombs!!
> >
> > LONG LIVE ROCK!!
> > Pete Clark
> >
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