Ian interview from oct 18

[crystal daze]

I don't think this one's been posted yet.

https://www.walesartsreview.org/intervi ... mcculloch/

[Voodoo Billy]

Think I'll wait for FC's concise version.

[fat cherry]

Flattered as I am, I must be losing it because I couldn't be arsed reading it. Just read Roger Daltrey's autobiography though, and half way through Kenney Jones's - I could do them for yu if you like?

[Voodoo Billy]

Flattered as I am, I must be losing it because I couldn't be arsed reading it.

Me neither.

[Voodoo Billy]

I got all the way to "But the Royal Albert Hall – since Sinatra died, that’s my gaff!" and just couldn't be arsed.

[Dr Cheese]

Sounds like the usual self-aggrandising bollocks.

[Voodoo Billy]

self-aggrandising bollocks.

I bet they don't work, we've got a self-cleaning oven, does it fuck, I can still smell remnants of last Christmas' turkey when I put my chicken burgers in.

[crystal daze]

[Dr Cheese]

[Mr. Brian]

Flattered as I am, I must be losing it because I couldn't be arsed reading it. Just read Roger Daltrey's autobiography though, and half way through Kenney Jones's - I could do them for yu if you like?

Does Daltrey come off like an asshole like Townsend does in his? I couldn't even finish that one because I already had issues with that pedo allegation stuff from years ago and I didn't want to dislike him even more because I really love The Who. It seems Daltrey's been a curmudgeon lately in interviews too. Oh well, what's the saying...hate the sin, love the sinner?

[fat cherry]

Not at all, bits of it even made me laugh out loud. The story of how he wrote it is quite interesting (really??) - worked with a ghost writer and then when he read the result decided it didn't sound like him so he wrote it again himself - and it comes across as cheeky london boy made good (as the title suggests). Quite light of touch and I read it in just over a day - but then it was christmas and didn't have much else to do but sit and drink and avoid the madness - but there's a few insights you wouldn't get anywhere else - such as how he has effectively taken over as the who's live manager/director as it were (all stemming from townshends inability to function during and after the internet incident). Also moon-based anecdotes kept to a minimum. My mate lent me Kenney Jones's book and that's very similar - london boy etc and his version of how he was treated byt the who pretty much matches Daltrey's version (no love lost there) but with extra financial info. Also, didn't know for instance that The Small Faces had a another go at it in the mid-70s. Also insights (which I guess we generally know about these days) of the way bands were stiffed on contracts - I was reminded of J Marr's book - who says he admired the mavericks of the 60s, naming Andrew Loog Oldham (signed the small faces to his label), who in the name of artistic freedom did exactly he same contract-wise, released singles etc without them knowing etc. Contracts eh Jonny?
Woops, sorry VB, there I go. Eh speaking of which, just looking at the Chris Adams turquoise days book and some of the pictures are credited to a voodoo billy'????? hmmmm?

[Voodoo Billy]

Woops, sorry VB, there I go. Eh speaking of which, just looking at the Chris Adams turquoise days book and some of the pictures are credited to a voodoo billy'????? hmmmm?

Still got that Chris Adams book somewhere, "The Cut and Paste Chronicles", in the good old days when cut and paste meant scissors and Pritt stick.