Re: Who's Next

[Mike.Westbrook@hcsd.hac.com (Mike Westbrook)]

} From: jgg@iac.net (Joseph Grimes)
} Subject: Re: Who's Next
} 
} I read this recently on alt.music.who.  I know some people can't get this
} group.  Don't know if the authors are on the list, but anyway thought
} someone might be interested.
} 
} > :! In article <3qtftj$n70@pipe4.nyc.pipeline.com>,
} > :! Richard M. Entrup <riche@nyc.pipeline.com> wrote:
} > :! >What is the concept behind the Who's Next cover? The boys are pissing on a
} > :! >monolith in a wasteland of sorts. Any ideas???
} > 
} > cannot remember the source, but the story that I heard once (and it may just
} > be made up), was something to do with Stanley Kubrick's refusal to direct
} > some Who project. So, taking a piss at the (cement) monolith was to take a
} > jab at Kubrick and his (2001) monoliths.
} > 
} > I like this story, but I do not know if it is true. How this stayed in
} my memory
} > for such a long time puzzles and troubles me =+)
} > 
} > 
} > later,
} > 
} > 
} > fernando
} > 
} > <> fernando (fl12@cornell.edu)
} 
} I have heard that the Lifehouse story resembled A Clockwork Orange.  Maybe
} there's some truth in this?
} 
} Joe
} 


The "monolith", which to me looks a lot like a bridge support without any
bridge [visible] on top, was used for a photo session (one picture of which
I believe appears in the book for the 30YrsMaxR&B box set?).  As I recall
in my usual vague-but-I-really-did-see-it fashion, one of the boys said in
an interview years ago that they took a bunch of pictures with them posing
by this concrete jobbie, looking up at it, maybe even pretending to worship
it, and at the end, they decided that there was nothing else to do with it
but to piss on it...

> Mike <

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