AEB laying in the weeds

[Sroundtable@xxxxxxx]

> > All he has to say is, "We're goin
> > into the studio in the fall to work on a new album, but if it's not up to
> > what I consider Who standards, we won't release it."
> 
> 
> 
> Yep, it's just that easy, easy as counting 33 windmills on a tape
> of a show nearly 30 years old.
> 
> Hey, mc, why don't you call Pete up, tell him YOU will take the
> pressure off him, he can stay home and relax working in his garden,
> and YOU will play the tour, write the new songs, can carry that
> weight for the next 40 fuckin' years.
> 
> It's that easy, right?
> 
Let me preface this by stating the following:  Pete Townshend is the most 
important member of the Who, is today the most amazing on-stage who member, 
is possibly the most talented rock musician ever, and is by far my favorite 
who member.  Now:

Come on, AEB.  I wasn't the one who ripped Pete left, right, up, down, and 
sideways about his negative attitude toward the new album.  I think it WOULD 
be easy to "say" what I suggested he should say about the new album.  I never 
said anywhere that any creative work with the Who would be "easy."  Not sure 
how you
could interpret anything about my post that implied that.  I just wish he 
would stop expounding on all the obstacles to the album and just say "we're 
going to give it our best shot.  I really hope the material is good enough to 
release."  Pete's best work (and I know you will fly into a rage over this) 
was what he did with the Who.  It revolutionized rock music in a number of 
dramatic ways.  His solo stuff may be excellent, but none of it has had even 
a fraction of the impact on music that his Who work did.  Is it such a 
stretch to believe he could do it again after 20 years?  I don't want him to 
mislead us or be dishonest, but I also don't want him to go into the studio 
with such a defeatist attitude and I am tired of hearing that roger is 
dragging him into the studio and the stuff they do will probably be terrible 
(i'm reading in between the lines) and not worthy of release.  I also don't 
get your comment about counting the 33 windmills at swansea during WGFA.  
Maybe you can answer that question for me.  Was it 33, or was he just playing 
the guitar in another way?  I wonder if it was as easy to count the windmills 
as it was for you to count the number of times I used "I" in my posts?

mc

"Just fucking listen and shut up!"- Pete Townshend live in Long Beach 1971