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“In the case of The Who, the thing that comes across for me is that The Who started as a Pop band. Good Pop possibly is the sublime and the ridiculous, the important and the absurd.” Pete Townshend & Roger Daltrey are my guest In the Studio for “My Generation” @60!
“It wasn’t all painful, but it was all poignant,” revealed The Who’s driving wheel Pete Townshend regarding sifting through his memories of sixty (!) years of maximum R’n’B on the anniversary of My Generation from The Who, released in December 1966. “The Who started out as a Pop band who wore funny clothes and destroyed their equipment…I […]
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey here In the Studio hosting the tale of The Who “Live at Leeds”from May 1970, with archival classic rock interview from the late John Entwistle.
Was “Who Came First” a question or a declarative statement in October 1972? Pete Townshend joins me In the Studio for the answer on the golden anniversary of his first of many great solo albums, which we feature here.
Pete Townshend took his all-star Deep End band to the annual MIDEM music convention in Cannes France at the end of February 1986 to perform live on the legendary Rockpalast television show stage. His setlist included the song “Rough Boys”, which appeared originally on Pete Townshend’s solo album Empty Glass in 1980. -Redbeard
Woodstock Festival July 1969 was unequaled in sheer scale, still heard in the voices of Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, the late Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane, Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and the late Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, all here In the Studio in part one.
The conclusion of the story of The Who’s “Tommy” pt 2 with Pete Townshend In the Studio.
The many stages of The Who’s “Tommy” conception, gestation, and birth as the first successful rock opera are further revealed, it seems, every time “Tommy” composer Pete Townshend cleans out a storage closet. Townshend joins Redbeard In the Studio to present this rock sonogram of The Who “Tommy” while still in the creative womb, part 1.
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey join me In the Studio in this interview for the first in a two-part look at “Quadrophenia”, the last word on Townshend’s October 1973 rock opera, which certainly is much more appreciated today than upon its initial release …(more)
(cont)… As The Who’s recognized Quadrophenia auteur , Townshend has assessed their almost half-century of musical creation and found it to be good . Pete is a delightful , witty , thoughtful , and refreshingly honest conversationalist who can easily and effectively examine The Who’s epic 1973 opus through a slightly-detached , objective eye which only the passage of time , and maturity , can provide . -Redbeard