He told George Harrison his tour sucked – and five other things we learned from Ben Fong-Torres.
“There was this undercurrent of dissatisfaction and dismay over how the tour appeared to be going,” he says. “I had to talk with George and face him with this situation – and it was great. He was proud of what he had managed to do up to that point. He was happy with the show. He was not swayed by any criticism. He just felt like, ‘I didn’t say it’s a Beatles show. If they want a Beatles show, they can go see Wings.
Fong-Torres was a little skeptical of disco and punk in the late Seventies — and was hesitant about Bruce Springsteen, too. “I was not as open-minded about punk and disco as I might have been,” he says. “We were slow to respond to both phenomenons. Once you got commercial, then you were no longer of interest to us. And disco came on commercial all the way. I also was skeptical of almost anything that got tremendous media hype. When Bruce Springsteen was on the cover of bothSpending time as the only Asian-American kid in an entire Texas school helped turn him into a professional observer.
“I had no choice but to be an outsider in Amarillo, Texas,” he says. “It was around the time that I probably began to feel more comfortable talking to people about themselves than about me.”
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