Re: Before I Get Old

[Brian Cady <cadyb@home.com>]

Here's Roger on Dave Marsh's book:

I’ve read in Dave Marsh’s book where it talks about John and I wanting to get
Keith out of the band.  It’s really not true.  You have to remember that most of
that book is really an interview with Pete, when Pete was very bad on drugs.  By
Pete’s own admission he’s a compulsive liar.

The truth of what was happening there is we had to make a record and we had to
get it finished.  John and I were quite prepared to get in another drummer to
finish the record, which is not the same as getting Keith out of the band.  It
was a totally different thing.  It was totally, totally untrue.

This had been going on for a long time where we had to deal with these problems
when Keith took the overdose of the monkey tranquilizer in San Francisco and we
seriously had to consider what we could do.  We had this whole tour booked, can
we do it?  Keith couldn’t even walk for three days then.  We did seriously
consider getting another drummer in to get us through.  You do those things to
keep together as a band but you never, ever talk about getting rid of the
bloke.  I mean, the Who without Keith Moon?  Who do they think we are, f***ing
mad?  There’s no truth in that at all.  But I will admit to saying that we might
have to get another drummer in to finish this record.