Re: kid stuff

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

>All kidding aside.  This type of discussion is good because we really
don't know what Pete has up his sleeve.  We do know he has some ideas and 
would likely want to part from the traditional Who themes vessels.  It is 
very healthy for the hardcore Who fan to consider the possibilities of 
seeing The Who outside of their tradional box.
>
>If Pete (with or without The Who) puts something together that is
>fantastic on its own terms, shouldn't we applaud even though it's nothing 
>like Tommy, LAL, Quad and WN?

I certainly would.  There are people who shape reality, you know?  Look how 
much of The Who's music has entered popular culture.  At the least, you see 
references to Magic Bus and My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again 
everywhere, and Pete's ideas have flowed along with that.  He's become 
something of a Twentieth Century philosopher as well as a songwriter and 
composer.

It's not just Pete that does it, though.  He's had the ideas, but he can't 
always sell them.  It's taken the rest of The Who vehicle to get them out 
into the public consciousness.  It's been a hard trip, considering how 
contentious the band has been, but it's worked.  If they've established a 
real, cooperative relationship now, they might accomplish even more.  I'd 
like to see the three of them get behind John's ideas and Roger's ideas as 
well as Pete's.  They can accomplish much more together than working one at 
a time.

Think Boris the Spider would make it on Broadway?  Let's see a show of hands 
here.  How many Whofans would go see it?  :)


keets

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