The Who Sell Out

Perhaps a Little is NOT Enough. From Pete's Diary - 23 May 2004: "We played for the CBS presentation of their forthcoming season and introduced the song they are going to use for their CSI New York series - 'Baba O Riley'

"Coincidentally Hewlett Packard have just started to use an original version of the backing music for the same song for their great new TV commercial....

"In a very real way the use of Who music in this manner keeps it alive, and brings it to a new audience in an era when our music would otherwise never be heard on the radio or TV."

Gee, isn't that just swell, Petey? If only the Beatles had thought of some way to keep their music alive -- like by not tarting it up to go out and sell consumer electronics.

If you're going to be a whore, just be a whore, man -- don't pretend you're "dating" and that $300 for the powder room is just a thoughtful gift.

I suppose he has to finance that Internet "research" somehow, and trading on the work and "brand equity" he and his dead bandmates built by touring under the "Who" moniker, and selling songs to the highest bidder (as long as they're not anti-imperialist documentarians) is one way to do it. And it doesn't affect the greatness of the records the original quartet made.

But f*ck Pete Townshend.