Re: Mastering and Slavery

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

> > > writing music for The Who.  I don't get it.  He seemed completly
> > > comfortable with cutting loose on stage last year.  We've not seem him 
>that inspired in years.
>
>Maybe because Pete considered the 200 tour as Pete Townshend and the
>Who, rather than the Who?

The Who was his security blanket?  Or do you mean that he only considered 
them a back-up band this time around?  They seemed pretty well integrated to 
me.


>Maybe Pete thinks if he writes songs for the "Who" he will be admitting 
>that he just can't do it as a artiste, except by writing for the Who, and 
>above all he desperately wants to prove he is a serious composer outside of 
>the Who?

Pete does very well as as solo artist.  His solo albums are quite good, and  
if he's suffered from low sales, then I think it's a failure of marketing 
strategy more than anything else.  There's a difference between writing and 
producing quality work and marketing it well.

There's a difference in what he's produced for himself, though, and what 
he's produced with The Who.  His solo work tends to be more introspective, 
but when he's out with The Who, he seems to get in different fans, or feels 
something different from the audience, so he ends up with different ideas on 
how to work.  Also, I think the other band members serve as a sounding board 
for his compositions.  There's a little more fire in work he does with The 
Who.

It all amounts to the same thing, though.  It's Pete that gets recognition 
as the composer, regardless of how he comes up with the music.


keets

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