RE: New Who Album ? Pete's working on it.............Phwoar!

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

>and friendly.  But, it may not have been perceived as such by others
>mentioned in the post.  WHO knows.  I hope Rog didn't get pissed by it, but 
>if he did, I don't think I could blame him.  Might (again, might) have been 
>a bit too honest for Roger's tastes.

It wasn't quite honest, as it's disguised with irony and humor.  Likely 
Roger is used to this kind of response from Pete, and so it's not a big deal 
as long as it's just between the two of them.  It's when things get in the 
papers that it becomes an embarrassment and needs some response.  Since Pete 
took it down, that's not likely to happen.


>Sounds like (can only go by what Pete is writing) Rog really doesn't have a 
>plan.  He just wants them into the studio to see what happens.  This is 
>good!  Roger pushes, and Pete orchestrates.  Hey it's worked fine in the 
>past, why change things????

You know, sometimes I wonder how Pete and Roger manage to work together at 
all.  You have to fill in behind what Pete says here, but when you think 
about the personalities, you get an idea about the different approach each 
would perfer.  Roger is very active and Pete is introspective.  So Roger 
really likes the improvisational approach that we got to see on the Who2k 
tour, and Pete prefers to sit down and plan things out ahead of time.

When Roger says they should go to the studio and have a "nice time," he's 
talking about collaboration and improv, but Pete doesn't want to work this 
way.  He want's to sit down and think.  So who's right?

Both of them.  Roger knows that Pete gets inspiration from playing with The 
Who, but maybe Pete can't work well in the studio.  Maybe John can, but Pete 
seems to need an audience to get him really into the channeling mode.  On 
the other hand, Pete's lyrics seem to have suffered from over-working in the 
last few years, so a little more improvisational-type freshness would be 
just the thing.

Interestingly, Roger doesn't seem to improvise well--he appears to sit down 
and think when he wants to write lyrics.  And Pete doesn't work as well when 
he sits down and thinks--we've been getting that artificial, over-worked 
quality to his lyrics since WAY, at least.

My picks for Pete's best work since WAY would be "Eminence Front," "How Can 
You Do It Alone" (the live improv version), and Flag TKAA from Texas 
(untitled).  All of these cut really deep, and we have the perfect example 
of overworking between the original "How Can You Do It Alone" and the studio 
version.  I'm sure there are people who prefer the studio version, but I 
really don't think it was good for The Who.  Raw emotion is what's made The 
Who what they are, and they still need that to touch people.


>Why is a multi-media project daft??  If it happens in short order, and is 
>put together well, it could be fan-fucking-tastick!  Ok, ok, there's the 
>"if-word".  But, it could be a "fresh, energetic rock album", and so much 
>more.

We were discussing the Disney paradigm just a little while back.  Movie, 
musical, album.  Wham, wham, wham.  It's all planned ahead of time, and it 
picks up momentum as it goes along.  I think maybe Pete would do it the 
other way, as music is his thing.  Maybe album, movie, musical?


>Boy, this is fun.

Yeah.  :P


keets


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