RE: Keith and The Wave keeps rolling

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

Didn't see this come through on the list, so I'm reposting.  Apologies if 
it's a duplicate.

>I'm a firm believer that Keith could have regained *all* of what he was. 
>It's amazing what drying out and a good fitness plan can do for a human. 
>BUT, naturally at 50+ years there is going to be a reduction in speed and 
>stamina.  "Keith-Moon-Drummin" isn't for the weak.

There's always the problem of character, and of having it and not.  Besides 
being unstable, the man had a lot of deeply ingrained bad habits.  You'd 
never have dried him out and gotten him to maintain any kind of a fitness 
plan.  He got away with a lot of crap when he was young, but the lifestyle 
just caught up with him.

The drumming style was symptomatic of his philosophy, completely in excess 
of what was reasonable and expected.  He was highly creative, but completely 
undependable.  Whenever everything was working, then it was terrific, but 
you forget all the times when it didn't.


> >And how would he have made the transition to what Pete
> >wrote later on?
>
>You're assuming that the transition still would have occurred.  Didn't Pete 
>write/state that Keith's death allowed him to take the music in other 
>directions?

I think the transition had already begun with WHO ARE YOU.  It might not 
have taken the same rocky directions with Keith on board, but it still would 
have happened.  Pete was feeling at a creative dead end in rock music and he 
was looking around outside the limitations of the genre.  Though Keith did 
some brilliant work on WAY, he refused to work on some of it, and was so 
undependable that there was talk of bringing in another drummer to finish 
the album.  Though Roger says they'd have never replaced Keith, they might 
have had to bring in some help to do the kind of thing Pete wanted to do.  
Jody Linscott maybe?  I believe she can keep time. :)


> >He's almost too accomplished, don't you think?
>
>Is there such a thing? ;)

Well, Keith always had a sort of wild, unexpected sound because he WAS wild 
and unexpected.


> >Did I mention that I can hear speed-metal in TED's early eighties stuff?
>Speed Metal?? You'll have to show me where.

Listen to the '82 WHO ROCKS AMERICA video.  They've really upped the tempo 
and Kenney Jones regularizes the beat on the old stuff.  It completely 
changes character, and that's where I hear the speed metal sound that became 
so popular later in the eighties.


keets
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