Re: New Pete not re-Pete

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

>Right now, all the pressure's on Pete to come up with actual songs.

When Pete's inspired, I don't think he feels under pressure.  When he's 
inspired, he's got way too many songs to use, and he doesn't give a damn 
what anybody says about them.  When it's right, it's right.


>Give me one raunchy guitar track & an acoustic track beneath it.  That's a 
>"classic" WHO/Pete studio sound.  And it always works.  Let THE WHO keep 
>their "old," "classic" sound.  If it ain't broke.....

It's unlikely we'll see major changes from the tour.  I suspect they've 
settled on the various adjustments by this time--even though Zak as a 
drummer is fairly new to the group.

Is it's the sound that makes the difference, though?  What is it that gives 
a song balls?  You can break the sound up into elements and say it's this or 
it's that--the complainers from last summer did that, but I'm not sure it's 
valid.  I suspect it's the attitude of the band that's expressed in the 
music.


>It was corny because it just wasn't Pete's bag.  Reactionary because Pete 
>came across as manipulated, not inspired, by the medium.  And besides, that 
>club/dub/remix/swishy/wishy dance music started in Britain back in the 
>early to mid 90's. Hardly cutting edge in 1999.

It was a fun experiment, but you're right that it's already been done.  For 
that reason, I don't think Pete or The Who would go down that road any real 
distance.  You might find some surprising interpretations of it that appear 
somewhere, but they're not a band to copy trends.


> > I'd rather have a Who album that takes me a few weeks to fully 
>appreciate than yet another Who's Next.
>
>I want one that hits me hard, right off the bat!  And it doesn't have to be 
>a WHO'S NEXT clone.  I'd rather have a WHO BY NUMBERS clone, to
>be honest.

The best thing is to have both of these--something that works on more than 
one level.  It has to have immediate impact to catch your attention, and 
then depth to engage you after the new has worn off.  Of course, that's The 
Who's big thing.


keets
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