RE: MSGLifehouseendingstupidinterviewtournextyearandQuad ;-)

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

>	[O'Neal, Kevin W.]  Yep. I need to spend a quiet evening locked in my 
>office with candles and 'what-not', and do a re-listen/read.  I remember 
>the explosion, but didn't interpret it as a negative thing necessarily. 
>Just a more dramatic way of taking that "journey" to the "higher ground".

Could be.  Maybe they just launched with an Apollo rocket or something.  The 
fact that it's an explosion and they left ruins behind is significant, 
though.  Pete's talking about what Lifehouse has done to his own life.  
Either those people died or they went on to a better place, but whichever, 
they left our hero behind (and lost again).


>	[O'Neal, Kevin W.]  Don't forget that the interview took place
>before the first show.  I know, details....details.

I dunno.  Roger comments about how the tandem tour is going--that they're 
not saving as much as they expected.  They must have been into it when the 
interview was done.


> > Uh oh.  Wait a minute.  What was that?  *Zak* pushed Pete to get back on 
>electric?  A-ha, here's a little nugget of "behind-the-scenes" news. Gotta 
>give Zak some credit.

I think Zak wants to play with The Who, not just half of it.  ;)  The kid's 
waited a long time for this.


> > There are two or three stories hidden in Quad. 	[O'Neal, Kevin W.]  
>Sorry to do this to you again.  Can you please elaborate on the 
>relationships with fans and The Who part?  I fear I'm blinded by the things 
>in Quad that I lived through, that I'm not seeing this other hidden 
>message.

When I hear this played, what I generally get is the main storyline that 
follows Jimmy's journey through adolescence to whatever place that is where 
he ends up.  It's hard to pick up the whole thing in performance, but if you 
sit down and read the lyrics, the other levels of it come through.

First the story:  Jimmy seems a long way from being bright, what with taking 
drugs and a gang and quitting school and so on, but he's struggling to be 
accepted by his crowd and this pretty much sets him against his parents, who 
can't seem to cope with their own problems, much less his.  I guess this is 
the part that speaks most strongly to kids.