Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me? Page #2
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- 2013
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The trouble is with Pete,
working with him,
kernels of ideas
but then he would want to pitch them
and make them into stories.
But we got the essence of it.
This guy's got all the personalities
and it's just one guy.
And that was enough for me to say,
"Great idea, let's go for it."
This is how the album starts, OK.
No other Who album starts with
ambient noise.
And it very specifically
is putting you in a place,
it sets a scene, which
none of the other Who albums did.
Once we had the sea noise going,
we just introduced each
theme of the four themes.
is I Am The Sea,
"I am the sea."
And do-dee-do-do-do, which is
the Helpless Dancer.
Then you hear, is it me for a
moment, which is the romantic side
and so on.
Instead of having
a straight overture,
you get pieces of the songs
and it comes back as memories.
You're automatically put
on that rock.
And you hear the themes and then
bang into the first track which is,
Can You See The Real Me?
He's at the doctor,
he's going to the shrink,
he's going to the priest,
he's going to his mother for advice,
and I wanted to establish
very, very quickly
that this is not just a troubled
boy, this is a boy that has
mental illness.
He's bipolar
or he's manic-depressive.
And this idea of him being,
you know, doubly schizophrenic.
I went back to my mother
I said, I'm crazy, ma, help me
She said, I know how it feels, son
Cos it runs in the family
Can you see the real me, mother,
mother?
Can you see the real me, mother
Whoa, Mama...
Once you hear that track,
you know that this is going to be
the revelation of a condition.
Jimmy gets up in the morning,
goes to see his shrink,
goes to see his priest because his
mum is a deep, dark Catholic.
Goes to look up at this girl's
bedroom that he's in love with
who won't shag him.
The cracks between
the paving stones
Like rivers of flowing veins...
You're going right inside the boy's
head. You know where you are,
you've come from the peace
of the sea,
and the idea that this is
a little bit of this,
and a little bit of that and then,
bang, you're into the action.
Lives in this yellow house
Yesterday she passed me by
She doesn't
want to know me now...
a friend of mine had it and they had
the gatefold sleeve and everything
and I loved it, but it was
quite costly, so they recorded it
for me on what was back then a C90.
I remember for ages thinking that
he'd started on side two
because it begins with
"I went back to the doctor."
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