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Steve Hoffman wrote:Pete was mad at Roger so the entire album is mixed with the least amount of Daltry vocals as possible.
If the story is true it seems a silly way to complete a project that must have taken forever to conceive and record.
MK wrote:Check Dave Marsh's Who bio. Pete's confirmed this in interviews, too.
“When the album was completed, it took only a few days for Roger to express his disgust at the result,” Pete later wrote in Rolling Stone. "I had spent my summer vacation mixing it, and he had popped in once to hear mixes, making a couple of negative comments about the sound but seeming quite keen to let me ‘have my head,’ as it were, in production. Fundamentally, I had taken on too much, as always, and couldn’t handle the strain when things went wrong and people blamed me. I felt I was perfectly entitled to gamble and lose, as no one else seemed prepared to, either with Quadrophenia or even the Who’s career.
So, I felt angry at Roger for not realizing how much work I had done on the album - apart from writing it - and angry that he dismissed my production as garbage."
Rspaight wrote:The remix does bring up the vocals considerably...
Goldmine: Did you like John Entwistle’s remix for the Quadrophenia soundtrack album?
Roger Daltrey: No, not at all. I hated it. Everything was totally out of balance. I think that’s even worse. I mean, it’s all just bass. It doesn’t work having a lead bass guitar. You just lose a lot of the guitar power. I think it needs a great mixer, someone like Matt Lange, to do it. I think you would be surprised if you knew what was on there.