Re: a thought

["Larry Burnett" <lburnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> this thought of
> mine was challenged when I read that "Wearing and tearing" was written
> specifically to boost the bands profile when they were losing fans in the
> wake of the oncoming "punk" trend. ...just be nice to hear some feedback
> on this... are there other instances where they have sold out or am I
> being naiive???

I don't think it was them selling out, trying to sell records. More 
of an answer to the harsh critisism they were getting from the punk 
rockers, "Oh, were old and dead? Well, try some of THIS!" And it 
works, W&T rocks. I'm still convinced that this track could be 
released today, and compete with anything out there. They definitely 
weren't losing fans. I do believe that In Through The Out Door was a 
major seller, at least in the US, and probably elsewhere as well.

Robert quoted about the song "We wanted to put it out on a different 
label under the name of a different artist alongside the Damned and 
the Sex Pistols because it was so vicious and so emphatically fresh. 
And if you hadn't known it was us, it could have been anybody at all 
who was young and virile and all the things we weren't supposed to 
be"


Bless your socks,
Larry
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