Re: Wired Mp3 and my sorrow

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

>keets said "Well, okay, I don't like it."
>
>I am with you but for very different reasons.  It is just too un-Who for 
>me.  But I guess if it were Who-like, we wouldn't get to hear it yet(that 
>makes me happy).  Not organic at all.  Completely stiff.

It's stiff because he's used some kind of composing software instead of live 
performers, and it's made the tempo too strict.  Normally Pete/The Who/live 
performers interpret music to suit themselves and don't stick to a 
metronomic time.  Pete doesn't like to write music; he wants to play it, so 
this kind of software is great to start with, but it does have some 
drawbacks.

This track sounds like he ran through some styles to see how they'd work 
out, but I can hear the shifts:  experimental, pastoral, Oriental, and the 
cymbal clashes to break it up some.  I'd like to hear it without the flute, 
and with a more even volume.  I can't hear some of it at all on Windows 
Media Player, even with the volume maxed out, and I had the same problem in 
my cd player with the Baba track last year.  That one sounded cold to me, 
too, and I wonder if he set it up the same way.  That was the London 
Symphony playing, wasn't it?
Also, I wonder if he's used only elements supplied by the software.  He said 
something a while back about wanting some application that would convert his 
guitar chords to symphonic scoring, and I think a demo would be a good 
(organic) way to start--like the rap version of Who Are You from last year 
where he added techno effects over the live show.  I think most of the 
softwares allow you to record and incorporate your own wave files, so if he 
recorded a guitar or piano track to work over he'd maybe have the organic 
beginning (and a theme, for god's sake!).


>If he wants to find an audience for this stuff (and it may be good in its 
>own right), he's going to have to seek out some listeners outside of the 
>normal Who fandom.

Hey, the more, the merrier.  Pete already has something of a separate 
audience, as he's often into more mellow music and more abstract ideas than 
he explores with The Who.  The audiences tend to overlap though, and to 
migrate from one style to another.  Most die-hard Whofans don't like the 
Broadway TOMMY, but it brought some of the Broadway audience to The Who.  
You can't complain about that.


>I can't hear any punk in it at all :-)

Uh, me neither.  ;)


keets
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