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And I Moved



I'm surprised that no one ever made the connection between And I Moved and 
Keith Moon. I think it was on that Good Morning America appearance with Keith 
that Pete said something like,"the only time Keith is telling the truth is 
when he's crying." "His tears his only truth" indeed. I always thought the 
guy in that song was Keith's ghost. Of course the song does have gay 
overtones as well. Pete said he wrote it for Midler (who's career started in 
the gay bathhouses of NYC, and who had a huge gay following), but he 
performed the song on the same album where he revealed his gay side (Rough 
Boys). Incidentally, it took Pete years to realize what Rough Boys was really 
about. Just as it took him years to realize what his favorite Who song, BBE, 
was really about -- see Storytellers. Works by the great artists often have 
varied roots that are not always immediately (if ever) clear to the artist 
when they're being created. Another example is WGFA. Pete's changed his mind 
on that many times and even once said that it was the dumbest song he ever 
wrote, to the extent that it can be interpreted as a refutation of left-wing 
resistance to our "Rulers." I think that Face The Face was something of a 
correction of WTFA, and much more indicative of Pete's ultimately socialist 
political leanings. If memory serves, I believe Pete spoke a good deal about 
socialism in those great early 80's Trouser Press interviews. And he offered 
an eloquent, posthumous apology to the heroic Abbie Hoffman in that great 
Playboy interview from the (I think) early 90's (can anyone find that 
online?). These are some of the reasons I always found the Gush-Bore 
exchanges on this list so ridiculous. The collective values of the Who-Pete 
canon are obviously in the Nader camp. I assume everyone has "Had Enough" of 
"Oil in a tea cup." No?