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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.
If you have not listened to the Guess Who’s January 1970 classic “American Woman” album recently, I predict you will be amazed at how strong the songs were, such as “No Sugar Tonight”; how environmentally aware lyricist/ gifted singer Burton Cummings was on “New Mother Nature” and “Hand Me Down World”; and how rockin’ Randy Bachman could complement Cummings’ pop side on “American Woman” and before that, “No Time”. So why did Bachman leave at the Guess Who’s peak? Find out here from Burton Cummings & Randy Bachman In the Studio.
I suppose you can file this ultra-rare 1983 performance of “No Sugar Tonight” by original Guess Who bandleaders/songwriters Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman under “never say never”. Even though the Guess Who were dizzying prolific hit monsters from 1968 to 1972, with Cummings on piano and vocals and Bachman with a distinctive sustained electric guitar […]
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.
This performance of the “Tommy” medley December 1982 from the Redbeard archives is official and far superior to the bootleg that circulated for years.
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