Re: Forgetting the begats & Freedom STILL tastes of reality

[Alan McKendree <amck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:53:24 -0500
> From: "Scott Schrade" <schrade@akrobiz.com>
>
> John wrote witty, sometimes comical, sometimes dark, 
> wonderfully-crafted songs & all you can see is him struggling with 
> God?!
Just FYI, this put me in mind of a brief passage from an interview 
(with John), so I looked it up.  From 
http://www.thewho.net/hyper/interview-john-95.html:

***
What are your spiritual or philosophical ideas?

What, religious ideas?

If that's what you have -- I'm not religious myself.

I'm not either, I believe in some kind of entity but it's more a 
matter of fate than an old man with a gray beard.

Is it "faith in something bigger"?

I guess so, yeah. I don't think about it that often. I mean, we could 
be a speck of dust lasting one second in a bigger time situation.

It pisses me off that we're going to die at all, which is why I like 
"Heaven and Hell" so much

That song was originally called, "I Don't Like the Sound of Either." 
[laughs] There could be something else. The chorus was changed a bit 
from the original. The original chorus was "I'd much rather stay in 
the middle with my friends, 'cause I don't like the sound of either."

That's great.

I don't particularly want to sort of go up, sit on a cloud and play a 
harp, but there again I don't particularly want to stand on my head 
in serious shit either. We don't get much choice do we? I'd rather 
come back.

***

So there ya go.  FWIW, I'd rather John (and me) come back, too.

Cheers,
--
Alan
"That's unbelievable, if that's true."
   --Howard Stern, 5/25/00