The Kids Are Alright Page #3

The fact is that our group isn't...

hasn't got any quality.

It's just musical sensationalism.

You do something big on the stage,

and a thousand geezers

sort of go "Ahh."

It's just basic Shepherd's Bush

enjoyment.

Our sound appeals to mods

in the case for aggression.

For example, for a brief period,

I stopped smashing guitars.

Kids started shouting out

"Smash your guitar, Pete.

Smash your guitar"

and getting quite annoyed

that I wasn't

because to a large percentage

of geezers that come to see the group,

they paid their money to see me

re-amplify with the guitar

or see a guitar break, you know?

A lot of girls come to see the group

because of various things

which people in the group wear

such as John's jacket of medals

and my jacket made out of flags

and Keith who wears sort of fab gear,

pop art T-shirts

made out of targets and hearts

and things like this

Because the group is a fairly

simple form of pop art,

we get a lot of audience this way.

Off stage, the group get on

terribly badly.

There's a lot of just spite

and things which flash around.

The singer is

a Shepherd's Bush geezer

who wants everything

to be a big laugh,

and when it isn't,

he thinks something is going wrong,

Terribly wrong

The drummer is a sort of

completely different person

to anyone else other than me.

The bass player

just doesn't seem to be

interested in anything, you know,

which makes it all very difficult.

You've been together 10 years.

You must have been subject

to a great deal of strain

and inner tension.

I now cannot ask that...

- Actually...

- We do try to ignore each other.

We've always been very close,

you and I.

No.

Most of the thing

is that I loathe Pete Townshend.

- Keith and I...

- The group has had no history,

and I've hated him

ever since we began.

Since I've been doing the bulk of the..

The thing is that he does no writing.

I do most of it.

I end up doing most of the lyric work.

He keeps taking the tapes.

He thinks he does the lyrics.

What about musical quality, though?

You said that you don't think

your group have got any.

Why don't you try and give it some?

If you don't...

If you steer clear of quality,

you're all right, you know.

No, really.

This is the truth, you know.

But wouldn't you say

The Beatles and people like that

have a certain musical quality?

You know, that's a tough question.

I... actually this afternoon,

we, John and I were listening

to a stereo of The Beatles

in which the voices

come out of one side

And the backing track

comes out of the other.

And when you actually hear

the backing track to The Beatles

without their voices,

They're flipping nails.

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