Pete Diary: "My work is done.. Almost"

[L. Bird]

This is posted on a couple of different lists as today's diary entry, but I 
can't find it on Pete's site right now.  Must not have lasted very long.  
Also, it looks like he's taken down the rant about the press.

>In order to have an album released in September of this year I need to 
>deliver my completed production by the end of June.

My part as a musician on the Who album is now complete. I have recorded 
twenty three tracks and selected and finished my part in seventeen, of which 
eleven are ready to release. The remaining six tracks only require vocals 
from Roger (or a vocal test to see whether he should replace my existing 
voacls) this week, and by Friday everything will be ready for me to mix in 
the first gap in the UK tour between Leeds and Brighton on the weekend of 
17th/18th June and our return to play the Leeds O2 festival on 25th June. 
Originally I left this gap so I could give my son some support in his first 
big exams, and I will do that as well. But it is fortuitous I have this 
time.

The tracks line up like this: the complete Mini-Opera based on The Boy Who 
Heard Music consists of ten tracks (of which six are previewed on Wire & 
Glass the Maxi-Single to be released in June/July). The seven other tracks 
represent an even mixture of straight acoustic and conventional rock band 
tracks. As I've said before, this has been recorded as simply as possible, 
starting in my home studio on analogue tape, 8 tracks only, and moving on to 
my pro studios only for the final computer round up. It's an exciting sound 
to my ears. Not old-fashioned at all.

I will deliver finished masters to Polydor on June 28th.

Still not sure what to call it.