RE: In it for the money?Sun Dec 7 13:17:06 PST 1997

[Gary Lang <garylang@ccnet.com>]

	If you have the SHAKIN' ALL OVER boot, Townshend makes a similar
comment about America - "We feel very strongly about America... we take
a lot of your money home and feel strongly about it.  No, but
seriously..." - just before Young Man Blues, I believe.  That was in
1968.  He was joking then, and I'd suspect he was joking (at least
partly) in the above quotation regarding the 1989 Tour.

No he meant it. By the way it didn't bother me; he was just being honest.
Hence the rest of this is a bit of passionate overkill.

	As for Pete's other comments about money, I never saw anything wrong
with his acknowledging the economic dynamics involved in the music
industry.  It's an adult industry, requiring an adult, like Townshend,
with a grasp of the financial issues involved.  Moreover, Townshend
never, at least to my ears, sounds obsessed with money... he just
prefers to make a profit.  Nothing wrong with that.  He's certainly not
bilking anybody, so far as I can tell.  I mean, what's Townshend
supposed to do to prove his sincerity, eat Granola, wear sandals and
live on some Hippie commune with Wavy Gravy?

He doesn't have to do anything from where I sit.

	So, yes, Townshend my talk about money as a motivator, but at least
he's not duplicitous about it like some *other* folks from that
generation....

You should note that I didn't editorialize, although I guess it wasn't clear
from the context.

 	Every good wish--Tom Farrell