Pete Townsend in general

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... coming. And that was something else about you as a guitarist. Your treatment of guitars was appalling in the extreme (apparently. I actually loved it. Smashing them to pieces and thrusting the broken neck of your Gibson into the stack of Marshall amps is bizarrely arousing. No wonder my mother was worried for me). There is a poster of such an event that I MUST have. It's a shot of you with the guitar hanging helplessly behind your head just before you arc it over and destroy it on the ground. The caption reads &...more

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Pete Townsend in general: You'll be sorry you didn't listen to him when he' ... (921 words)
by - written on 05/05/01 (Very useful, 164 readings)
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Sorry about that Pete. I know you're only in your mid-late 50's, but you have to think about the kind of abuse you've given yourself over the years. I mean, you really set yourself up as one of THE wild men of rock, didn't you? Christ, look at who you had to party with! Moonie, Nilsson, Lennon, Clapton.. some names that made drugs lonnnnng to be part of their scene. Not content with the drugs, you also hit the bottle pretty badly too. But do you know what, Pete? You wrote some bloody brilliant music as well. No, I mean it. Some really ground-breaking music. Angry music. Bitter music. Soul-shaking music. Your songs gave me answers to ... Read the complete review

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