Re: Complete TKAA on VH1Classic

["Scott Schrade" <schrade@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Re: The *edited* TKAA movie.

Here's a snippet from an Entwistle interview from the Sept. '81 issue 
of Trouser Press magazine:

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TROUSER PRESS:  Townshend & Entwistle have openly expressed
displeasure with the Kids (movie) venture.  Entwistle & Who man-
ager Bill Curbishly even trimmed the movie's one true find, "A Quick 
One" from the Rolling Stones' Rock 'n' Roll Circus T.V.show, from the 
European print.  How come?

ENTWISTLE:  What happened was, we finished dubbing the film.  In
between my going home & the the film actually being cut together prop-
erly, an extra ten minutes of dialogue was added in such a way that I
couldn't cut it out without half of the "Quick One" segment; it fit togeth-
er that way.  So I had to cut "A Quick One" short.  The English distrib-
utor wanted the fim cut down to 100 minutes; they were cutting out 
parts I wanted left in & leaving in parts I wanted cut out, so I went into
the cutting room & cut about 10 minutes.  It made for a faster-paced
film.  Also, I felt after Keith's death that (director Jeff) Stein was cash-
ing in by sticking lots more Keith in than he had done before.  I didn't
think that was right; it completely unbalanced the film.  There was also
far too much dialogue & not enough music, so I tried to cut out enough
dialogue to balance the music. 

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- SCHRADE in Akron