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Re: Contemplating Quad
I would like to get a photocopy of this if possible,
email me off line and I will make it worth your while
:)
Dave...
--- Scott Schrade <schrade@akrobiz.com> wrote:
> I got the January 1974 edition of CREEM magazine the
> other day & besides
> having a nice, live, jumping shot of Pete on the
> cover it also has a short inter-
> view with him about the new (!) Who release
> QUADROPHENIA. Here are
> a few choice Pete quotes I found interesting:
>
> "This album is more of a winding up of all our
> individual axes to grind, & of
> the group's ten year old image & also of the
> complete absurdity of a group
> like The Who pretending that they have their finger
> on the pulse of any gen-
> eration."
>
> "What I've really tried to do with the story is to
> try & illustrate that, as a study
> of childhood frustrations, the reason that rock is
> still around is that it's not
> youth's music, it's the music of the frustrated &
> the dissatisfied looking for
> some sort of musical panacea." (Panacea means like
> a "cure-all" or "remedy.")
>
> "I think that our album clarifies who the real hero
> is in this thing. It's the kid
> on the front. He's the hero. That's why he's on
> the front cover. That's why
> he's sung about. It's his fuckin' album. Rock &
> roll's his music."
>
>
> - SCHRADE in Akron
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