Re: 2000 Tour vs 2002 tour - Rock, Paper Scissors

[Alan McKendree <amck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:30:49 -0500
> From: Joe Lewinski <lewinski@icanon.com>
>
> Pete is the scissors.
> Roger is the paper.
> John is the rock.
Interesting but I'm not sure this strictly works.  Does Pete really 
dominate Roger, who dominated John, who dominated Pete? So far, the 
tripod analogy is the best I can think of.


> At the Camden preshow I met a man named Terry at Hanks.
> Terry had a bunch of John photos that he had taken over the years.
> He was firmly in the John camp, and  probably would
> have been back-stage with John on this tour had
> John still been alive.   This really hit me hard as I realized that there
> were probably countless people from every city that would have
> normally had Who access on this tour if John were still alive.
>
> I'm sure that when you strongly throw your support to one member
> and form a friendship you are considered to be one of *their* people.
> I am interested to know whether John's people were still welcome
> in the camp, or whether they were cut off.
>
> Any thoughts on this?   Alan?
You mention "the camp" as if it were one thing, a group of people all 
connected to "The Who" in one big camp.  There are some people who 
know each of TED personally and are thus in that group, but there are 
are also "camps" of people who only knew one of them -- relatives, 
personal friends, business associates, etc. -- and sets of people who 
are close (for whatever reason) to any two of them.

From my limited knowledge, people who were truly in the "John only" 
camp, with little or no contact with Pete, Roger, Trinifold, etc. 
probably _are_ a bit cut off, not from any malice but just because 
that's the way humans structure their relationships. An example that 
comes to mind are the owners/operators of Walnut Street Gallery, who 
sold John's art.  They had little or no connection (that I know of) 
to other members of The Who or their management before they started 
working with John, and no particular reason to keep up with the 
remnants of The Who now that he's gone. It's beyond expectations that 
Roger, Pete, Trinifold etc. would seek out everyone John knew 
personally and be sure that they still had backstage access. But if 
they only knew John, one has to wonder what the point of backstage 
access would be now, anyway, beyond a drink in the hospitality area.

Another point is that, even if John were alive, his "close circle" 
wouldn't necessarily  have "Who access" anyway, in terms of visiting 
Pete or Roger backstage.  People who had "Who access" before John's 
death likely still have it...those who had "John access" only, don't 
have it (and how ... :-(  ).

It's all moot as far as Terry's concerned, anyway...he was banned 
forever from Roger's dressing room during the '70s as the result of a 
prank gone bad involving a cat, firecrackers and a water balloon.  ;-)

Cheers,
--
Alan
R. I. P. Ox
John Entwistle 1944 - 2002