Re: The Who Mailing List Digest V8 #337

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

>I have a problem with the Who authorizing broadway-type opera treatments to 
>their two rock operas.

I think the deal is, Pete gets royalties.


>I see right now that Tommy is going to play in LA very
>soon. This is a plain stupid idea. Hard rock can never cross over to the 
>opera stage because rock and roll people just aren't the type to listen to 
>boorish, falsetto bullshit. And that is what the Who music becomes in the 
>hands of people who think hard rock is Barry Manilow. Furthermore, the 
>people who go to these events are wimpish snobs who would never really 
>respect a band like the Who.

You shouldn't go to the show.  You'll get into a fight with all those nice 
people.  Well, okay, I'll agree that they are strange folk, but still they 
respond to Pete--he speaks to them and they listen.  Just don't consider 
this to be TOMMY.  It's a translation for the hard rock impaired.  ;)


>The Tommy movie was great,

I thought that one sucked.


>but I thought the Quadrophenia movie was poor because the guy who played 
>Jimmy Cooper was very weak. It would have been better had he looked more 
>like the Jimmy in the Quadrophenia album insert - he looked like the guy 
>who should be in the movie.

A good one here.  This looked like formative influences.  The kid was pretty 
strong when he got through with all the mess.  You get the feeling he's put 
childhood and peer influence aside and become his own man.


>Also in the Quad movie very little Who music was heard. In addition, it 
>wasn't true to the story line from the album.

Following the opera would be hard to do in a movie.  The storyline isn't 
clear enough for a visual medium.  The director beefed it up considerably, 
but it's still not a hard-plotted film.


keets

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