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> I think the problem was that Pete really wanted it to happen.
Sure...but wouldn't that indicate a certain lack of rational thinking due to
drug use? Pete is very intelligent and rational most of the time...all of
the time, now. BTW I count alcohol as a drug.
> As far as the nervous breakdown goes, it seemed to have more to do with
> project overload and the desertion of Kit Lambert.
Again, drugs would tend to make him more vulnerable to stress.
> Yeah, I know what you mean. I sure don't want a horribly sounding new
> WHO album!
Scott S:
No, none of us do.
> Yeah, that sounds bad & I haven't even heard it!
It's probably their best album (although I also like Facelift a lot). You
should give it a listen, you might like it. Go to your local used CD store
and ask them to play it for you.
> 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 did break (Face Dances, It's Hard). It only works now for the old songs.
> There are far worse bands than the Guess Who to pick on. They had quite a
few
> decent songs.
I like The Guess Who, it's great music to listen to while drunk (and sing
along). But: "Fifi said to Don the baker/Can you tell me where to get
another bun, Don/And I'm still sitting with my next door neighbor
saying/Where'd you get the gun, John?" (Rain Dance) The song is pretty good,
the lyrics are gibberish.
> It was corny because it just wasn't Pete's bag. Reactionary because Pete
came
> across as manipulated, not inspired, by the medium.
I think it WAS Pete, since Pete has been "Mr. Synth" since WN.
> 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 wasn't quite the same; it definitely came from that but it went beyond
anything I've been able to find to that point.
> Of course. Yes it would.
Or would it be The Stones? Pete broke up the band in order to avoid this.
> Me, too. Give me progression in Pete's song writing.
That would have to include the music too. Think how many My Generation fans
who were upset with Baba O'Riley.
> Pete's lyrics. Give me progression through Roger's mid-50's voice.
Uh, that's a regression.
> ression! I just feel there is no need to dramatically fuck with THE WHO's
nat-
> ural, classic, original, or whatever you want to call it, sound.
But they changed with every album!
> Well, Mark, we're finally here. We've reached the point where we're
arguing
> about a WHO album that doesn't exist! It's great to be a WHO freak, isn't
> it?!
Yeah. Always.
> Yes! That's the progression I was talking about!
OK...then they're going to have to change the music! Because that power
stuff won't work without the "Viking on the prow of his ship."
> 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.
But that was their first step backwards.
> BTW, it took me a "few weeks" to eventually appreciate 1/3 of PYSCHODER-
> ELICT. I don't want to go through *that* again.
But Psycho is his best solo album!
> Thats actually good news maybe someone else will buy the rights to it and
> fix the terrible sound on the current release.
Drew:
And I thought *I* was an optimist!
"A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And
the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically
owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate."
George "It's the economy, I'm stupid" Bush
Cheers ML