Re: News Conference

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

> > John mumbled once, you mean?  ;)  I though he did fine.
>
>One thing to remember is that John is probably relying on lip-reading. I 
>remember him pointedly leaning forward to see Roger's lips when Roger was 
>saying something at one point.

Good point.  John did seem to be following things perfectly well, though.  
Everybody laughed at his comment about TOMMY (the movie).


>The questioners were using microphones (which doesn't help if you lip
>read) and were sitting down in a crowd.  Even Roger mentioned he had a hard 
>time seeing the questioners in the audience at one point.

Roger was out to lunch. ;)  It WAS very dark in the back though, and they 
were on a lit stage, so likely they did have a hard time seeing anything.  
I'd suspect they like to know who they're talking to, as Pete apparently 
recognized Ira Robbins (and knew exactly who he was).


>I noticed Roger was being very hedgy when discussing the songs he's
>written.  He was saying he thought he had three songs that "might" be
>right for The Who; I got the impression he didn't want to build up
>expectations on something that might not happen.

He's been doing that all along.  They may yet decide the whole idea of a 
studio album is rubbish.


>Pete mentioned that during the past eight years he's written something like 
>450 "pieces of music" as he put it.

850 wasn't it?  You'd figure most of them could easily be developed into 
songs.  Plus they mentioned that a song might happen on stage at any time.  
I don't think they lack for material.


keets

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