I'm taking a much needed break

Rest. Relax. Re-focus. Re-juvenate. Lots of "re-words". Just kick me when they get to LA.

This was written in response to nay-sayers who "doubt they'll go and see the Who because either:
1. Keith is dead or
2. both Keith and John are dead...
3. ...Pino is playing bass,
4. It isn't 1970 anymore or
5. Pete and Roger aren't in their 20's anymore or
6. it will have festival seating and pot smoke makes them sick or
7. it won't have festival seating and they need pot smoke to be happy or
8. Not enough new music, if any or
9. they don't care that there isn't new music but sick of same old set list
10. don't care what the set list is because the show is < (greater then) 200 miles from their driveway.
11. or, it is close to home but tickets are too expensive or
12. just any damn reason they can think of just to complain about the Who because they have practically made a career of it.

I guess it is all how you look at the guys in the Who.

If one looks at them as *God's* of rock and roll, then suddenly again they appear on stage, less then that, it really shatters that perspective and breaks the unearthly pedestal that they have unfairly been put on.

If one looks at them as very talented fellow human beings, then they see that they have aged a bit, like we have, yet they didn't crawl up in a ball, hide under a rock and disappear, like some fans think (and wish) they should.

I thank the guys for not hiding that. I support them for still rocking. I applaud Pete for still writing. I think he is avery, very talented artist and still has something relevant to say in his music and art and I want to experience it. It may not be the "Young Man Blue's" these days, but I couldn't "feel it" if it were. When Pete and Roger are up there with their grey hair and aches and pains, I feel very much united with them. We have traveled a long road together (not together, together, but you know what I mean). Times have changed. We must move on.
We aren't in touch with reality if we honestly expect them to come out and: Pete smash his guitar, do frightening, angry jumps and lurches (wait, he still does, doesn't he?), Roger to growl and swing and fight passionately sing his way through each song (I think he still does that too though), or for John and Keith to raise from the dead and deliver the thunder and lightening like they did back in the day.

Then, if they don't, the fans mope and complain their gods have let them down, DAMN THEM!!! How dare they not stay EXACTLY how they were in the 70's!!! How dare they listen to a large segment of their fan base and continue to perform!!! How dare they not crawl up in a ball and hide for the rest of our lives not contributing anything musical or artistic ever again!!!
How dare they!!!

So, all of those, who think that Pete and Roger have no business on stage anymore should practice what they preach and never do what makes them feel good again. Never do what you are/were good at anymore. Please don't even TRY and re-incarnate something that might resemble ANYTHING you have ever done in the past. Because there might be people who will be thoroughly disappointed in you when they find out you are no longer in your prime (as society views prime, not I, Jo).

Damn those boys for not dying before they got old DAMN IT!!!!

Ahhh..that old angry Who fan, raises her head, in honor of the boys in the band.