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Re: Pete about Page



On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 16:41:50 -0300, Ian <istanley@quartz.nbnet.nb.ca>
wrote:

>
>>
>>Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 "Mark R. Leaman" wrote:
>>Subject: Pete about Page
>>
>>I believe I can help you here. It so happens that I got my hands on a
>>copy of a transcript from the ICE recording session...and Pete said to
>>Page, quote: "Piss off, you wanker." Page was heard to mumble to an
>>engineer, somewhat later in the session: "One day I hope to be JUST =
like
>>Peter Townshend. He's brilliant."
>
> I don't believe this shit for one moment.Yes,I can believe that Pete =
might
>have told Page to "piss off" and called him a "wanker",but I do NOT =
believe
>that Page told an engineer that "One day I hope to be JUST like Peter
>Townshend. He's brilliant." It makes it sound like Page was a 12 year =
old
>kid looking up to some hugely respected rock star,when in actual fact it=
 was
>Page who was the respected session musician,while Pete was the (not
>especially great) guitarist in an up and coming pop band,cutting their =
first
>single as The Who.
> Don't get me wrong,I think Pete IS brilliant,although it some years for=
 him
>to develope his talent so that this "brilliance" shone through.The =
dialogue
>that you credit to Page sounds like a line from a bad 'made for tv'
>movie,and I don't believe that he ever said it,ESPECIALLY at this early
>stage of The Who's recording career and Pete's writing career.I =
mean,let's
>face it..."ICE" is a great pop tune,but it's hardly =
"brilliant".Especially
>when you take into consideration the fact that Pete wrote it accidently
>while trying to play a Kinks song that he'd heard.

Stand up, son, they're going over your head.


- --=20
Kevin B. O'Brien                  TANSTAAFL
kob1@ix.netcom.com
"A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat =
that goes
on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it." -- Saki

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