Mixing and Nixing (Contact Roger)

[L. Bird]

http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=360&zone=diary

>24 July 2006
Mixing and Nixing

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MIXING

Three days off from the tour – I am mixing the last few tracks of the new 
Who record at my house in France. It’s starting to sound pretty good.

Rachel’s birthday today. We shopped for some clothes for her last week, so 
today she was supposed to just try them all on again – but she spent the day 
planning and budgeting for her new style In The Attic series for the U.S 
tour.

The show at Ulm was a pleasure in every way. I managed to get on top of my 
wayward guitar sound by doing a guitar-only sound-check, and got in the zone 
with my playing. For those of you who bought tickets to watch the show live 
on the web, I hope you enjoyed it. I did.

Looking forward to our first shows ever in Spain – Madrid and Zaragosa – 
later this week, and then we take a break for a month before we ship off to 
the USA.


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NIXING

I’m afraid that it looks very much as though after Zaragosa there will be no 
free webcasting of any more Who shows, or even segments of the shows, Live 
or streamed on demand. I may be able to post some segments of the shows in 
Rachel’s In The Attic series, but only if we can work out some way to pay 
Roger for exhibiting (or should I say exploiting) his magnificent image and 
vocals.

Seriously, he seems to be unconvinced that the web has any real contribution 
to make to our career, and I am not going to spend any more time or money 
mortgaging my half of the stage – though I may webcast some Who shows and 
not show Roger at all. Only kidding. For now we have a famous Who stalemate.

If you believe Roger is wrong - and if 2.5 million minutes of Who clips 
viewed by fans on the web won’t convince him, we’ll need a lot of emails - 
please write and tell him at thegreatevilweb at hotmail.com

There will perhaps be some Pay For View webcasts for charity, news later. Do 
enjoy the last two shows at www.thewholive.tv. After Zaragosa www.thewho.com 
is also coming down from inside www.petetownshend.com where I have run it as 
a microsite for a number of years. I am hoping I can persuade Roger to put 
in some money to help run it. Again, your emails to urge him on could be 
useful. If you feel you can live without a Who website – and there are a 
good number of wonderful fan-run sites and chat-rooms – then you could say 
so. But if you feel the Who site has some special value to you, and you 
would like to see more about – and from – Roger, then let us know.