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  1. Originally posted by stj0691Welcome to The Who's last studio album (to date) and certainly their most controversial. It's Hard received some rave reviews when it came out but quickly became their most reviled studio release and one of the biggest reasons why The Who didn't record another for 24 years. Before it was released, however, Pete Townshend didn't just promote the album, he was enthused about it as a revitalization of the band and there are Who fans (and I'll admit I'm one of them) who find this album very under-appreciated. It's Hard began under curious circumstances and it is impossible to properly approach the album without knowledge of both what was then happening in The Who and in the world at large.


    Okay...nice opening lol...
  2. Originally posted by easports43[..]

    I think I'm gonna form the LNC (Late Night Crew) for Myself, Steve, Nick and Jeremy....


    I'll be the singer!
  3. Face Dances, The Who's previous album, had been commercially successful but was very disappointing for the group. Both Roger and Pete talked of the band being disengaged from the material and Pete was determined that it wouldn't happen with the next album. However, he had problems of his own to solve first. By the end of 1981 he was not only drinking heavily, but was also addicted to Ativan and sleeping pills and was freebasing cocaine mixed with heroin. When he went to his parents' home for Christmas holidays, he looked so close to death that they begged him to get help. Reuniting with his wife Karen, from whom he had been separated for the last two years, Pete flew to California to a clinic run by Meg Patterson. Here he underwent the same NeuroElectric Therapy that had helped Eric Clapton overcome his drug addiction. While he was there he sent word back to The Who that he wanted to return to work. Pete: "I managed to convince the guys in the band that I would stay alive if they allowed me to work with them again. After the Rainbow fiasco [the 1981 concert where Pete drank four bottles of brandy and got in a backstage fight with Roger], I had difficulty proving to Roger in particular that I was going to enjoy working with the Who, and that it was important to me that the band end properly, rather than end because of my fucking mental demise."



    When Pete returned from California in February, The Who were ready for him, having been rehearsing at producer Glyn Johns' house. "The band was working, they were active, they were writing. Roger was playing the guitar. If I had said right then and there, 'Listen chaps, I don't feel like making the record,' they looked as if they would have gone on and done something without me. And they weren't making any demonstrations to me, either. They were just doing it because they wanted to do it. It was really strange. I thought 'I'd really like to play with those guys.'"

  4. Well guys, I don't mean to bug you. I've never meant to. If you don't like me using too much lols, smilies etc. I'm really sorry, but I don't mean it like spam. I never want to annoy anyone. You just have to take me the way I am. I'm the type of person who never changes. And if it really doesn't work with me, just give me a permanent ban to sort it out.
  5. Originally posted by stj0691[..]

    I'll be the singer!


    I'll play guitar or Drums (I was a drummer for about 2 weeks lol)
  6. Feck I really should stop to listen Acrobat every day
  7. Originally posted by yuri31Feck I really should stop to listen Acrobat every day


    Don't let the bastards grind ya down is a really powerful line
  8. Originally posted by yuri31Well guys, I don't mean to bug you. I've never meant to. If you don't like me using too much lols, smilies etc. I'm really sorry, but I don't mean it like spam. I never want to annoy anyone. You just have to take me the way I am. I'm the type of person who never changes. And if it really doesn't work with me, just give me a permanent ban to sort it out.


    Juraj, my friend, NO-ONE here dislikes you! Really, everyone seems to like you, including me! I like the lol's and the smiley's, they make GC even nicer!
  9. Originally posted by stj0691[..]

    Don't let the bastards grind ya down is a really powerful line


    it is indeed
  10. Originally posted by yuri31Well guys, I don't mean to bug you. I've never meant to. If you don't like me using too much lols, smilies etc. I'm really sorry, but I don't mean it like spam. I never want to annoy anyone. You just have to take me the way I am. I'm the type of person who never changes. And if it really doesn't work with me, just give me a permanent ban to sort it out.


    Juraj we love ya here! Dont go!
  11. But what would they play? Pete only had two songs ready for the new album and the failure of The Who to respond to the Face Dances material was foremost on his mind. "Before we started recording, I sat down with everybody and I said, 'listen, what's the fucking album going to be about? What are we going to say? I can't just go and write a load of songs again and bring them in and hope that you're going to feel good about them or hope that they are going to be right for the band or hope that the band's fans are going to think that they are right for the band. Let's at least all decide how we want the album to fucking sound, whether we want it to be different or old sounding, open or loose or tight or what, and even further, what we actually want the subject of the songs to be about before we commit ourselves and then at least we know when we've completed the album, we won't feel like we did about Face Dances.'"


    "'What do you want to fucking sing about? Tell me, and I'll write the songs. D'you wanna sing about race riots? D'you wanna sing about the nuclear bomb? D'you wanna sing about soya bean diets? Tell me!' And everyone kinda went, 'Uhhh.' So I said, 'Shall I tell you what I think we should be singing about?' So I told 'em. And it actually turned into a debate...what was it that each one of us shared, our common ground? Well, after establishing quite quickly that there was very little common ground, we did find that we all cared very deeply about the planet, the people on it, about the threat to our children from nuclear war, of the increasing instability of our own country's politics."

  12. Originally posted by stj0691[..]

    Don't let the bastards grind ya down is a really powerful line


    yeah, but the song at all takes you to places in your mind you never usally go to
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