Pete as a kid

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

>I could have continued to perform live with the Who, or solo, or whatever. 
>But what I did, was I walked away from the whole caboodle and went to be an 
>editor at Faber and Faber. And that, in retrospect, was a big mistake."

Wish he had elaborated some here.  Seems like that at the time, he felt it 
was the right thing to do to preserve his sanity or to find his own voice, 
or whatever.  But looking back he must feel he missed some opportunities by 
doing so.


>"I now realize I can, whenever I like, go out with The Who or
>whenever I like, I can go out on my own and play Who songs and I don't have 
>to apologize to anybody.

Suppose he's felt sometime or the other that he needed to apologize for 
playing them?  Wonder who to?  Himself?  John and Roger?


>What I do have to apologize to myself and to anybody who's stuck with me 
>creatively, is for the fact that I still find it very very hard to write 
>the kind of songs I wrote when I was a kid. But if you're valued because 
>you wrote great songs when you were a kid, then that's an inevitability."

What do you suppose he means by "when I was a kid?"  "My Generation?"  
"Pinball Wizard?"  "Baba O'Riley?"  "Won't Get Fooled Again?"  "Who Are 
You?"  "Eminence Front?"

It's true that all these songs had The Who behind them to add that extra 
spark, but I don't think he has to apologize at all for his later work.  
Somebody mentioned "Uneasy Street" just the other day, and nobody here seems 
to complain when PSYCHODERELICT is described as a masterpiece.

The Houston TKAA mini-opera seemed to have all the markings of 
Pete-as-a-kid.  Suppose he'll look back in twenty years and think what a 
youngster he was in the year 2000? ;)


keets
_________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at 
http://profiles.msn.com.