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Re: Ox quiet on Who activity, while Roger talks
> How is it that John is "not at liberty" to discuss Who projects while Roger
> is chatting with NME about them?
>
> Any theories?
OX probably didn't want to answer the question, that's all. Daltrey likes to
use the press to kinda push Pete's buttons so-to-speak. Sometimes works,
sometimes doesn't.
This got me to thinking that THE WHO have been a band who have had a
weird kind of reciprocal relationship with the press. Roger, & more often
Pete, will *use* the press to flush out ideas. Like in 1968 when Pete was
still grappling with the TOMMY concept, he gave a long, detailed interview
to Rolling Stone magazine about the forthcoming album. He admitted later
that some of his answers were made up on the spot, but he also said that
*that* interview helped cement a lot of TOMMY's concepts for him.
And don't forget the Great Feud of 1975 between Daltrey & Townshend, in
which their only communication (barbs & insults!) was *through* the press,
giving interviews to eager reporters pining to write about the "horrible, feuding
WHO."
John? He's the quiet one.
Wait a minute.....he's not quiet, etc., etc.........
- SCHRADE in Akron