Re: ROGER ON FD/IH

[mleaman@sccoast.net (Mark Leaman)]

>     Roger said he loved Pete's songwriting on FD and said it would have 
>     been a great album if the drumming had been better.  When the 
>     interviewer says about Kenney's drumming, "Well, it wasn't Moon,"  
>     Roger replies, "Yeah, but was it anything?"  He then goes on to berate 
>     Kenney's drumming, at one point calling it "shit."
>     
>     On It's Hard, Roger said he was disappointed with the material, that 
>     he begged Pete to scrap the album and start over writing from scratch, 
>     but Pete said words to the effect that "this is where The Who is now." 
>     Roger's language concerning this album is as strong (and similar) to 
>     his opinion of Kenney Jones.

Brian:

That certainly brings home the point about The Who members trashing their
latest. I tell ya; it's in their very nature.
Roger never liked Kenny, as far as I've seen. It would be interesting to
know if he would have been happy with anyone; I would imagine that he would
have been down on whoever had replaced Keith. No matter how bad he wanted to
tour.


                   Cheers                   ML

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."  L. Long