The 'French Grasshopper' Interview

[Scott Schrade]

> 4. Is it a final album, like some like to speculate?
>
> No. Roger and I have found a way to work together now 
> and we will not let it go.

Ugh.  Why couldn't he have reached this blessed understanding
while Entwistle was still alive.  It makes me feel sad.  And guilty.
Sad because I feel like we missed out on a bunch of great Who 
music that Pete could have given the green light to in the '80s & 
'90s.  Guilty because I know that what happened is what hap-
pened.  There's no turning the clock back.

Still, I was surprisingly moved to read the following:

> 13. Looking back on your career, are there things you 
> would've done differently?
> 
> ....I don't regret ending the Who in 1982, but I do regret 
> the reason I ended it. I closed the door too tightly, and it 
> has been hard for me to accept that although the Who were 
> in creative trouble in 1981, we weren't quite beaten. We 
> might have survived.

There's that honesty we all admire in the man....


- SCHRADE in Akron