Re: Lightweight Who, Obsession, John's shaft, a retraction

[amck@eden.com (Alan McKendree)]

At 8:53 6/22/97, The Who Mailing List Digest wrote:
>Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 14:05:17 -0400
>From: "Mark R. Leaman" <mleaman@sccoast.net>
>Subject: Lightweight Who, Obsession, John's shaft, a retraction
>
>> Poor John always gets the shaft.
>
>As good a bass player as he is (the best), he's not Pete's equal as a
>songwriter.

The best way I ever saw it put (apologies but I can't think of the source
- -- maybe the 30 Years booklet? -- maybe not) is that John was a good
songwriter in a band that already had a great one.

Alan

"When I'm on stage, it's not like bein' possessed...it's just...*I* *do*
*my* *job*."                 - Pete Townshend