charismatic leaders

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

come on tell me what`s Ian Anderson done against Pete Townshend - how did he
"stab`im in the back", so you all call`im Ian-the-dick. I`m a big Jethro
Tull fan, and I`ve always thought of Ian as an intelligent  gentleman, Tull
music is magic and well, having read a lot about Ian Anderson and his lyrics
and stuff, I simply can`t believe him capable of anything mean, like
stabbing Pete in the back!
Helen.
And, pardon me, who doesn`t have a charismatic leader? Jethro Tull? Oh my my
my... What`s a charismatic leader then? Examples? Proves? Well, of course
i`m not following your discussion.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Siegel, James" <james.siegel@hp.com>
To: "Who List" <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 7:04 PM
Subject: Picture Disc; T-shirts; Ian the Dick; Cult-ivate


> My, my ain't Jo a prolific topic starter-upper!
>
> Godmother,
>
> >What ever happened to picture disks?  Did The Who have any?
>
> I have a Who Are You pic disc that has the original album cover on one
> side, and then a group shot on the other.  I like it, even though I've
> never played it.  Makes a nice decorative piece.  Although the wife
> ordered me to take down my Quad poster and the WAY pic disc.  Damn.
>
> >I know what my favorite vintage <ouch> Who concert T-shirt is and
> >why.........Black Max R & B......2nd fav is the black insleeves style
> from
> >1985.
> >
> >Anyone else?
>
> Sadly, I had that very same black MaxR&B tshirt (which was my #1
> favorite as well) but that got swiped from a laundromat when I wasn't
> looking.  Ah, those shitty days back when I rented.  Anyway, my second
> fave was a grey Quad shirt from the Quad tours.  Nice greenish tinted
> front with the album cover proudly displayed.  I used to wear that one
> when I gigged with a working band.  That one mysteriously disappeared
> into the abyss too.  I was interrogating the wife about that one no more
> than a week ago as a matter of fact.  Wives have a way of making their
> husband's clothes magically disappear, so she was the number one
> suspect.  However, her ironclad alibi cleared her.  I guess the gremlins
> are Who fans and ran off with it.  Bastard swine.
>
> >>Yes they did. I seem to remember Pete making some complementary
> comments (about Jethro Tull)
> >>about the band from the stage...on the Tanglewood boot?
> >>
> >
> >yeah, that's right. it's on the maximum r&b DVD.
>
> What makes it worse is the fact that during the Tanglewood comments,
> Pete even goes as far to say that Tull were a "really fine English"
> group.  How great is that for a relatively new band, as Tull was at the
> time, to get such a nice endorsement from one of the heavyweight groups,
> i.e., The Who?  Nice of old Ian to stab Pete in the back when Pete was
> there plugging his group early on.  What a dick.
>
> >the one thing they don't have, in my opinion, is the most critical
> aspect to a true
> >cult:  a charismatic leader.
> >
> >I am not an expert on cults, and all of what I know I have learned from
>
> >reading news of cults that have been IN the news.  The most notorious
> cults
> >have leaders that WANT their followers around them, commune- like:
> (Charlie
> >Manson, David Koresh, Realians to name a few).
>
> In the spirit of these great leaders, I would like to offer my services
> as official figurehead, if you will, of the Who Cult.  I agree, Pete is
> far too insecure to handle the job, and I would like to volunteer my
> services.  One of my first decrees as Official Grand Poobah of The Who
> Cult would be to carefully interview each female member in the nude to
> be sure they are pure (and easy?).  Hey, it worked for Jim Jones before
> the Kool Aid debacle.  Charlie Manson too; if we are to form a cult,
> then diddling the female memebers is policy - sorry it isn't my rule, it
> is a precident set by former cult leaders.  Secondly, I would like to
> cultivate ideas from the female members, in the nude of course, in order
> to have a more balanced sort of fanaticism.  I haven't thought of a
> third policy to put in place yet, but you can bet that the female
> members will be naked.  Lastly, if elected as Caesar of the Who Cult, I
> will have my rivals killed off or exiled, and all the women naked.  Did
> I forget about nude women?
>
> Grand Poobah in Colorado