The 'French Grasshopper' Interview

[Jim M]

----- Original Message ----- From: <JOELTLE515 at aol.com>
>
> unfair that entwistle had to die first and THEN give pete the inspiration 
> to
> go ahead with a new who album as oppose to releasing one, say, in 2002 or
> 2001. I for one think it would've made a better album. I know some may 
> disagree
> with me on that, but it's just what I think.

Ernie, you (and others) are talking about a hypothetical album that you feel 
Pete *should* have been able to make.  You ignore  Pete's assertion, in the 
recent interview I mentioned, that those kind of expectations are what kept 
them for making an album for 20 years in the first place.  In fact, you 
don't ignore that issue, you *prove* it.  The album would have been 
"better".  It would have been more "Who like."  Well, *that* album, the one 
that many imagined Pete was withholding from us, didn't exist.  It simply 
wasn't in him.  What we got was Endless Wire...and I love it.  I say I'd 
have gotten more albums like that if so many fans weren't clinging 
stubbornly to what The Who *used* to be for so long.  So there!

Jim M