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Post by NoShear on May 19, 2024 15:02:28 GMT
The following milestone rock opera album is said to have been released on the 24th birthday of its chief composer 55 years ago on this day:
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Post by BunnyWhit on May 19, 2024 15:19:19 GMT
Townshend was an acquisitions editor at Faber and Faber in the 80s. Had he been my AE when I was in publishing, I might have stayed longer. Nasty business, that.
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Post by NoShear on May 19, 2024 15:32:13 GMT
What a fascinating life you lead, BunnyWhit!!
And I will type it again: Why are Fading Fast, galacticgirrrl, I Love Melvin, jamesjazzguitar, TopBilled, et al., and you nowhere to be found in the TCM studio?
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Post by galacticgirrrl on May 19, 2024 22:10:57 GMT
Do you have insight on the space between them No Shear? Was it always thus or was there some incident that pushed them apart? “The Who are not done yet,” he tells MOJO’s Mark Blake. “[my relationship with Roger] is better than it’s even been. I wish it were more intimate, but that’s not possible because we are so different. But we value and respect each other more.”www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/pete-townshend-the-who-are-not-done-yet/ |
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Post by NoShear on May 19, 2024 23:03:16 GMT
Do you have insight on the space between them No Shear? Was it always thus or was there some incident that pushed them apart? “The Who are not done yet,” he tells MOJO’s Mark Blake. “[my relationship with Roger] is better than it’s even been. I wish it were more intimate, but that’s not possible because we are so different. But we value and respect each other more.”www.mojo4music.com/articles/stories/pete-townshend-the-who-are-not-done-yet/ I will try to impart some insight to the matter, galacticgirrrl if I can... Despite his outsized rock god stature, Roger Daltrey is physically small in stature, and this may have contributed to a toughness he displayed early on - backed by a pair of handy fists. With these fists, and also given that he was the original leader of what would eventually become the WHO, he bossed those early musical incarnations - eventually to the point that they called for his head. (Pete Townshend was to replace Roger Daltrey on lead vocals for the WHO - after already having replaced him as the proto-WHO Detours' lead guitarist.) Daltrey was not unaware that the WHO was his best shot at a life far from sheet metal work, so he acquiesced to the others and promised to drop his strong-arming style. In the other corner, Pete Townshend was not unaware of his own brilliance, whatever insecurities dogged him, and could be insufferable - especially to lesser gifted people around him. (Before dropping Pete Townshend in their infamous squabble over QUADROPHENIA, Roger Daltrey remarked that he resented Townshend treating him like he did the roadies.) So, galacticgirrrl, there was an early-borne tension there within the WHO. But there's also symbiotic give and take the pair have shared: Pete Townshend gave Roger Daltrey a mythic character to become onstage, TOMMY, while Daltrey realized Townshend's songs so much so that Townshend benefitted as well. Hey, galacticgirrrl, though not your focus, I couldn't help noticing the BYRDS there... I think of Jim - later Roger - McGuinn as something of a United States parallel to Pete Townshend - at least for the year of 1965: Both musicians were pioneers of Rickenbacker rock, and both influenced fashion on their respective sides of the Atlantic. |
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