Reply To Yellow And BW About Pete on Letterman

[Beau McCrury <Beau.McCrury@ucop.edu>]

Well what I got out of BW's post (a good one I might add) is
it's simply bad manners to get on network TV and trash Roger,
the one guy who if it wasn't for, Pete wouldn't have had such
an elustrious career.

Both Roger and Pete have donated to charitible causes over the 
years and I don't think I'm particularly concerned with who might
be out in front.

Maybe BRS wasn't the greatest undertaking in Roger's career but
it wasn't bad. (I'm always surprised at how it gets trashed on
the lists.)  I just don't think Pete is taking the 'high road'
by putting ol Rog down.  Hell, there not even band mates anymore.

One other thing, why doesn't Roger put a band together like John
has done and do that?  If Pete ever gets off his arse to do other
Who stuff they can still do that.  I think Roger can have more than
just one band.  John does.

Two other thing, BW...WATCH OUT!

Beau (CEO of The Save Beau's Mind Foundation) McCrury

>Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 16:03:58, -0500
>From: THRH79B@prodigy.com ( K D GILES)
>Subject: Re: Pete on Letterman
>
>BW Radley wrote:
>
>>Roger agrees to go on tour with a bunch of young musicians, 
>including a fair
>>number of inner city kids, who otherwise would not have had the 
>chance to
>>experience traveling across the country, and being able to perform 
>in front
>>of appreciative audencies, and PERHAPS, get the idea that there 
>might be
>>something more to life than can be found outside the narrow confines 
>of the
>>ghetto.
>>Part of the proceeds of the tour is to go to a program to revitalize 
>school
>>music programs, something that is all too often one of the first 
>victims of
>>shortsighted budgetcutting schoolboards.
><snip>
>>And the reason why Pete decides to go on a mini-tour?????  (or 
>should it be
>>$$$$)
>
>Mr. Radley, as much as I have enjoyed your previous posts, I must 
>disagree with this one.  I think it is unfair to imply that Pete's 
>sole reason for touring are the vast piles of money he's making, 
>while Roger is out there doing it for the kids.  The Chicago show in 
>Pete's mini-tour was a benefit for Maryville Academy, which I would 
>call at least as noble a cause as Preserve the Music.  Pete has also 
>both donated to and raised money for any number of charities - too 
>many for me to list here.  Just the other day a local newspaper made 
>mention of Pete's many contributions to charity, and contrasted him 
>with Mick Jagger, who is far wealthier but apparently has not done 
>anything for charity at all with his money.  Pete is no saint, but he 
>cannot be accused of refusing to use his money to help other people.  
>I strongly suspect that he may have done even more in this respect 
>than Roger.
>
>- -Yellow "Ka-ching!" Ledbetter
>
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