bobzilla77 wrote:It includes a searing Young Man Blues that may be the best I have ever heard.
SOLD!
bobzilla77 wrote:It includes a searing Young Man Blues that may be the best I have ever heard.
Jonny Spencer wrote:fange wrote:I've got my quad pants on and i'm ready for some Cock.
By CHRIST you're a man after my own sideways sausage, Ange!
Rayge wrote:Interested to see that I am apparently the only one who experienced them in real time.
Guy E wrote:But Jessie and Jimmy weren't getting along that night so we drove around for a couple of hours, me fuming in the back seat while they argued with each other in the front seat, occasionally pausing to tell me to shut up when I suggested we follow-through on the evening's plan. We never got to St. Charles and it remains a huge rock 'n roll regret.
kath wrote:i will make it my mission to nail you.
Guy E wrote:I did manage to see The Who at the Auditorium Theater a year or two later. They did Tommy and all that... a great concert.
Guy E wrote:Count Machuki wrote:Remember the St. Charles Incident!!
For the record, I dearly love my sister.
And here I thought I was the only one who felt the same way about the book.Bent Fabric wrote:Kippy Pratt wrote:Bent Fabric wrote: I cringe to hear the author HIMSELF discuss/describe his process, because he seems almost determined to spoil his own effect on others - I've said similar things about Neil Young's autobiography...what could Pete Townshend possibly know about his own work?!?!?
JESUS, that is a thread in itself. I read Who I Am once (just once?!?) and about halfway through I realized that old man Townshend was trying to crawl into the mind of young man Townshend and the results were just embarrassing. I'd love to hear Quaco's take on the book because after reading Townshend's attempts to intellectualize the importance of, say, "Glow Girl", I really did hope to get some of my initial blissful ignorance back. No wonder Lifehouse didn't get made. Come out and smell the fresh air, Pete. You've been up your arse far too long.
In case anyone is actually hoping to read the book, you'll get very little insight into Keith and John other than "they like to have a bit of fun; go out on the town; have a larf", and then about 400 pages of Pete dropping to his knees in hotel lobbies across the globe pledging his love and devotion to any long-legged eye candy who was a) younger than him and b) not his wife. His poor fucking wife is all could think throughout that book. He's kind of a schmuck.
Bravo!
That was more or less my response to his awful book - to the letter. He comes off like a spoilt child in so many ways - serial philandering and deep self indulgence, all the while with some beautiful woman desperately attempting to build him a home, support him emotionally and raise him a family, and...yeah, he comes off (even when telling the story about what a general shit he is/was/is planning to be) as some sort of victim.
I consider him one of the few genuine geniuses of the rock era, but I would also say that you or Quaco could tell me a great deal more about the man and his work than he could ever hope to.
Count Machuki wrote:Guy E wrote:Count Machuki wrote:Remember the St. Charles Incident!!
For the record, I dearly love my sister.
You must to still think of her as a sister.
Bent Fabric wrote:bobzilla77 wrote:It includes a searing Young Man Blues that may be the best I have ever heard.
SOLD!
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
Jonny Spencer wrote:fange wrote:I've got my quad pants on and i'm ready for some Cock.
By CHRIST you're a man after my own sideways sausage, Ange!
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.
Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.