Re: John & cocaine & Who fandom at an ebb

["L. Bird" <pkeets@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark, I'm starting to get seriously worried about you.  You're sinking into 
a pretty severe depression here.  I visualize you sitting in the dim, 
twillit back reaches of the store and moping about what might have been.

The doctor prescribes live Who.  Get your butt to a show.


keets



> All you say is true. I'm not undermining or trying to make irrelevent the 
> work JAE did, or the effect it had on myself and others through the years. 
> I was only voicing my own feelings about the unnecessary death of a person 
> who helped make me the person I am today. We get what we get from artists, 
> and more often than not an artist's life is full of strife (and it's a 
> popular theory this makes them the artist they are). But like what Jason 
> posted about Pete onstage comment, I'd rather see John LIVE for Rock music. 
> The opportunity was there for more, and I selfishly would like these guys 
> to make more great music because they have the capacity AND wasted (in my 
> mind) so many years being broken up...that seemed finally to be behind 
> them, as they've been a functioning unit from 1996 till the present. Very 
> hopeful indeed.
>
> For I think Who fans have had it rough. For one thing, the band has never 
> gotten the respect and recognition they deserve. Other bands, from The 
> Beatles to Pearl Jam, have taken from and gotten more famous using thing 
> The Who literally invented. I have never heard a RnR pre-Entwistle bassest, 
> for instance, who did much more than hit a note at the "change." Other 
> bands have gone on endless reunion tours, yet it's The Who that take the 
> "hit" for doing so. Townshend is trashed for years about comments 
> concerning homosexuality, while people like Robert Plant get a pass. And so 
> on, and so forth.
>
> Now, finally, The Who were getting the level of respect they have deserved 
> all along. They were alive and active, while bands from their time all seem 
> old and tired. They were even taking a chance to make new music thirty 
> years after their "time." That is quite a risk, and one I wasn't completely 
> comfortable with (although hopeful). And what happens? Entwistle kills 
> himself with a drug a man (or woman) 30 years their junior would hesitate 
> to use...and the band, instead of bowing out with heads held high and 
> universal praise, goes on tour within a few weeks. Oh, I don't hold their 
> reasons for doing so against them, but it has brought out the naysayers 
> again. Some performances, as Kevin cites for instance, were less than 
> great. And this is where their legacy will be left. They won't be 
> remembered for the great shows of this tour...but the least of them. They 
> won't be remembered for going on through adversity...but instead the 
> "disregard" for a 40 year partner.
>
> So, you see, I'm not completely thrilled with the situation. It's just 
> where I am right now. As commented earlier, the package from Irish Jack 
> perked me up a bit. I managed to listen to By Numbers last night, because I 
> wanted to hear Success Story. I'm trying.

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