Re: Pete reviews Kurt Cobain's journals

[fox <l.van.kammen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I didn9t know Pete Townshend is a classified Psychiatrist.

Fox

On 04-11-2002 16:18, "Schrade, Scott" <sschrade@ascpl.lib.oh.us> wrote:

> Well, I *thought* Pete wouldn't be able to resist responding to
> the recently revealed comments from Kurt Cobain; I just believed
> he'd do it on his website, not in a newspaper as part of a "re-
> view" of the actual book.
> 
> Regardless, it was nice to see Pete get a few thinly veiled "re-
> venge jabs" in his wonderfully written piece.  He remained calm &
> focused throughout the review & succeeds in showing that Mr. Co-
> bain wasn't the fully-developed, deep-thinking genius he is now
> sometimes made out to be by fans & the press.
> 
> Let's take a look at the word choice in some of Pete's counter jabs.
> I realize the quotes that follow are out of context; my goal here
> is only to examine the phrases Pete has used to defend himself &
> at the same time deflate the pomposity of Cobain's original, conde-
> scending statement.
> 
> Below are some beautiful examples of a defensive yet controlled Pete
> commenting on Mr. Cobain:
> 
> 
> "...the scribblings of a crazed and depressed drug-addict..."
> 
> "...the resentful, childish, petulant and selfish desire to accuse,
> blame and berate the world for all its wrongs..."
> 
> "...infantile scribblings..."
> 
> "...the scribblings of a once beautiful, angry, petulant, spoiled,
> drug-addled middle-class white boy..."
> 
> "I sometimes get letters from people who write and draw like Cobain.
> I put them in a file marked 'Loonies'..."
> 
> "...gothic in its grossness."
> 
> "...the striking but puerile, classroom-brat drawings..."
> 
> "...his resentments, his political naivety and his extraordinary
> self-obsession...is simply sad."
> 
> "...so obviously sick, so mentally deranged, so angry and unstable..."
> 
> "A once beautiful, then pathetic, lost and heroically stupid boy."
> 
> 
> Woe to the next immature rock musician who decides to berate Pete.
> 
> 
> - SCHRADE in Akron