The fact is, I don’t really like performing. In the end, though, Townshend believes in art and its ability to reinforce not suffering, but hope. He … I hated them all. And I said, no, Roger, these are songs for you. Townshend even told the crowd: “We were 1967’s version of Adele or Lady Gaga or Rihanna or Bieber.” Which suggests that he was at least having a little bit of fun. It's part of our Making Sense series Unfinished Business. It would cost about a million dollars, maybe a million-and-a-half dollars to build. "Tommy," the film and hit Broadway rock opera about a boy struck deaf, dumb and blind by trauma, turns out to have been an allegory of that experience. The Who guitarist Pete Townshend discussed his friendship with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder in a new Ultimate Classic Rock interview. Townshend and Roger Daltrey have been performing together since the 1960s. Then there’s this from 2012: Pete Townshend admits, during an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, that “I’m a bit of a neocon.” The Who’s top guy also says he believed Mitt Romney was going to win the last presidential election. And you tend to kind of settle with the present. But I’m good at it. American Reckoning – A PBS NewsHour Special Report, Paul Solman And I should use the word sexual abuse. And I want to keep doing it, if I can. Our economics correspondent Paul Solman sat down with The Who's Pete Townshend to discuss aging, surviving child abuse and art’s ability to inspire hope. And barring that, there’s always the limitlessness of John 4:10. Guitarist Pete Townshend has disclosed the set list to Billboard. Our economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to an older worker of some note tonight about his music, his life traumas, his career as a rock star, and why he still feels the need to record a new album and hit the road at the age of 74. “I remember when I gave Joe Walsh an ARP 2600,” he said. It was a song I wrote when I was 18 years old. Back in 2006, prior to The Who’s appearance at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena and shortly after the band released its “Endless Wire” album, I interviewed Pete Townshend , the … It was great!’ It wasn’t great. Pete said he doesn’t miss the late drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle. It has consequences. For the "PBS NewsHour," this is Paul Solman in New York. Townshend doesn’t see Daltrey socially, but nor did he socialise with the band’s Keith Moon and John Entwistle who, he says, lived the archetypal rock star life (and ultimately paid the price). And then, when he did respond, he said, these are songs for you, Pete. There are several Gibson Pete Townshend signature guitars, such as the Pete Townshend SG, the Pete Townshend J-200, and three different Pete Townshend Les Paul Deluxes. It's now. You know, I try. Andy Greene May 19, 2016. That was pretty terrifying. . Nov 27, 2019 Pete Townshend says Keith Moon and John Entwistle were "f***ing difficult to play with". “I thought he was throwing the money in such buckets,” Townshend says. It's a moment of power. Maybe the generational anthem of the '60s, with a line for the ages, and ageists. Now it appears that this might have been to save themselves from the drag of having to repeatedly play live shows night after night. We pulled off another scam.’”. And I employ people and the band employs people. And my method, as a musician, is to try to create events, to try to create musical moments where people gather, where they unify, and where they realize that just standing together and understanding that we all understand is very, very important. I'm really — if I'm absolutely honest, I'm really only working as hard as I am at the moment for money. For Townshend, there's another economic incentive to keep going, his sizable retinue of dependents. He didn't connect with any of them. However, it’s fair to say Townshend doesn’t let his disinterest manifest itself in a lacklustre set. Sh*t went berserk online after THE WHO axeman Pete Townshend made a stupid statement on hate bandmates Keith Moon and John Entwistle. Townshend says his child pornography arrest led to his colon cancer diagnosis, which saved his life. They hated me. Seth Rogovoy looks back at the group’s Jewish influences and Pete Townshend’s abandoned plans for a Zionist rock opera. Now, unlike so many his age, Townshend can continue to work. Thank you. And, in a sense, for people of my generation, who went through the LSD era of trying, in a sense, to find out who is God, you know, who am I, all of that stuff, you know, you suddenly realize, well, here it is. I'm me. Well, I'm happy to be here as an old person. It doesn’t come from passivity. I might come off stage and look in the mirror and go, ‘Hee hee,’ but it’s mischievous. And I find it incredibly easy, so easy. Later, speaking with Rolling Stone in 1982, Townshend … And, as a high-living rock star, money to him means yacht racing, one of his boats a classic from 1906. We were just trying to demonstrate that banks needed to stop taking money for this. You know, one of us really, really, really wants to go on. Paul Solman has been a business, economics and occasional art correspondent for the PBS NewsHour since 1985. It’s, ‘What a load of crap. Desert Trip review - McCartney, Stones and co give Oldchella a hint of rebellion. Townshend himself says he survived childhood abuse. What I do has worked for them and continues to work for them. Let's say you tried to build it today. That isn't me. Pete Townshend from The Who arrives at JFK Airport on Aug. 29, 2019 in New York City. 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