Re: PT stage act

["Michael D. Mullins" <mullins@ecn.purdue.edu>]

   Ah, interesting point, and something else I've always been curious about.
The earliest performance I've ever seen with the full-on Pete aerial show is
the Rolling Stones R&R Circus footage, which (if i'm not mistaken) was filmed
around the time the Who were recording Tommy.  That seems to be kind of a
pivotal, transitional performance, from what I can tell; you see first real
signs of where the Who will be for the next few years: Pete with SG, jumping
around, Roger with long, curly hair and fringes.  It almost seems like kind of
a prototype for the Who's Tommy-era stage show.  
   I've always wondered, only half jokingly, if Pete's leaping about didn't
have something to do with his change in clothes; it seems to me that it 
would be hard to do all of that athletic maneuvering in a tailored suit with
dress shoes, or with frilly ruffles and dress shoes, etc.  Maybe it was 
switching to those comfy Doc Martens....


                                                       M.M.