Re: Pete's cash cash

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

>OK, me being the cynical financial type, thinks it was Curbishley who told 
>Pete to take it down.  Aren't The Who without a current record deal? 
>Doesn't Trinifold have more leverage if they hold out for more $ saying 
>Pete is reluctant?  Do they lose that if Pete talks of recording again?

Reactions to this post have been as interesting as the post itself.  If you 
read through it, there's nothing you can pin down as a real slam to Roger, 
and actually a couple of possible compliments.  There's no statement that 
they're currently working on an album, or that a tour has actually been 
organized and approved by Trinifold.

This seems like another one of Pete's little notes when he's in a mood to 
share his current thoughts with a million or so fans.  Assuming it does 
include an allegory, it sounds like possibly he and Roger had a talk that 
ran long enough that Roger missed lunch with their former publicist, and 1) 
Pete and Roger still have an aesthetic gap that Pete has mentioned before  
2) they've postponed work on a possible new album again (no surprise) in 
favor of warm-up gigs for Royal Albert Hall  3) they've postponed work on a 
possible new album again in favor of a concept project Pete wants to work on 
  4) Pete has agreed to go on tour with The Who again next summer (assuming 
that everyone else agrees and Trinifold can get it together)  5) Pete is 
still pissed-off at various rock critics that he expects will review his new 
concept project poorly.

Since Pete posted the little follow-up note about irony, I'd say he's gotten 
unpleasant feed-back from somewhere about the perceived slam to Roger, and 
decided to take the post down rather than try to justify it.

We've discussed the likely difference in rock aesthetics before.  Pete has 
complex and classic leanings, and Roger wants practicality--and perhaps 
Pete's comment about brain-farts relates to this collision and Roger's 
decision to go on a tour instead of insisting on immediate recording 
sessions.  Also, it sounds like Pete may have offered material that Roger 
views as inappropriate for The Who.  The two of them have worked out 
excellent albums together in the past--maybe just because of the tensions 
brought about by their different styles--and likely fans second-guessing the 
decision-making process is worse than useless.  I do love the rock opera, 
though.  F*** the critics.  ;)


keets