Re: Shel's answers to my queries

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 22:43:14 -0400 (EDT), "Gary M. Gillman"
<garyg@inforamp.net> wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:16:18 -0700
>>From: (Shel Talmy)
>>To: garyg@inforamp.net
>>Subject: My answers
>>
>>Hi Gary and Who list members,
>>
>>Here are the answers to the questions you posed.  I think they're
>>about as complete as I can make them.

Thanks for obtaining this interview, Gary. Very interesting.

>><4: What do you think of the Who's recording
>>career after you stopped working with them? What is their finest studio
>>album in your view? Their finest single? When you worked with them, did you
>>foresee that this band would become one of the most famous rock bands in
>>history?>
>>
>>Let me answer this in reverse.  Nobody thought that The Who or
>>anybody for that matter would last longer than 5 years.  And that
>>I "stopped working with them", is a euphonism for being told by
>>Lambert and his lawyers that my services would no longer be
>>required, despite the facts that I'd only ever produced hits,
>>that I financed it myself and that I had a contract for further
>>recordings.
>>
>>My "retirement" wasn't voluntary and I regret having to sue for
>>my rights, which I won hands down by the way, and I regret not
>>producing "Tommy", which I feel would have been a much better
>>recording had I done it, and I won't even apologize for my "ego"
>>showing this time!
>>
>>I'm of course delighted their career went on for decades, after
>>all I still collect royalties.  I hope they continue for another
>>25 years.

I wonder what Talmy would have done with the Lifehouse project?


Kevin B. O'Brien
kob1@ix.netcom.com
"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much."
                                         Oscar Wilde