| September 9th, 2005 12:46 AM |
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| time is on my side |
This one is for Joey
Townshend Delays Who CD
Legendary guitarist cites differences with frontman Daltrey
Who fans anxiously awaiting a new album may have to wait indefinitely, according to Pete Townshend. Though the guitarist had hoped he and Roger Daltrey would begin recording a disc tentatively called Who2 in 2006, Townshend now says that the process of writing songs worthy of the Who could take another five years or more.
In a recent post on his Web site, petetownshend.co.uk, he compares his songwriting to reproduction, saying that for every ten songs he writes, just one is "right for fertilization by Roger"; and for every ten they record, "four sadly die at birth."
According to Townshend's calculus, he is required to demo more than fifty songs just to get one finished Who track, and each demo costs him close to $900 to produce. "If I keep at it," he writes, "with luck we should see a great new Who record before I drop dead."
Though Townshend's remarks might sound as if he's prepping fans for the worst, he tells Rolling Stone that the situation isn't so dire: "Read it again," he says. "It doesn't say there will never be any new Who songs at all. It says I've been writing for ten years, and it may take fifteen."
JENNY ELISCU
(Posted Sep 08, 2005)
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| September 9th, 2005 02:32 AM |
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| Happy Motherfucker!! |
Thats just retarded! 5 years to write songs for 1 lousey album. Hey, Pete get your priorities straight, ya ain't going to live forever, and who the hell is holding out hope that an album will even ever be released! |
| September 9th, 2005 03:04 AM |
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| hotlicks |
Title for new who album " WHO CARES" |
| September 9th, 2005 08:41 AM |
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| glencar |
LOL |
| September 9th, 2005 09:26 AM |
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| Joey |
I am quite visibly shaken to the core |
| September 9th, 2005 09:30 AM |
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| nankerphelge |
Confirms my belief that THE WHO are the most aptly named band in rock and roll history! |
| September 9th, 2005 09:44 AM |
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| glencar |
quote:
Joey wrote:
I am quite visibly shaken to the core
At least you finally got your Qwest show. Everyone at shidooobe is happy for ya! |
| September 9th, 2005 10:32 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
glencar wrote:
At least you finally got your Qwest show. Everyone at shidooobe is happy for ya!
Bless You Blue ..........
Send them my love !!!!!! |
| September 9th, 2005 10:33 AM |
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| Jumping Jack |
Amen!!!
Macca -10 days and counting young Joeykins. Pray for my soul. |
| September 9th, 2005 11:27 AM |
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| Gazza |
For Chrissakes, how can it take anyone FIVE years to make an album (aside from the fact that Townshend's been talking about it for a couple of years already and presumably writing during that time). Is he planning to spend the next few years in a coma or something?
Its a collection of about 10-12 songs put to music and committed to tape. Its not like he's splitting the fucking atom and its not like they're doing something they have no prior experience of.
If Townshend is talking like that, he may as well give up because his muse clearly has deserted him. I'd have more faith in Joey being able to compose enough songs in the next 5 months for a new Who record, never mind 5 years.
The album should be called "Why Bother"
[Edited by Gazza] |
| September 9th, 2005 11:30 AM |
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| Saint Sway |
I like his approach. Especially after listening to some songs on Bang like Rain Fall Down.
nothing wrong with scrapping a song because it doesnt hold up to your bands standards |
| September 9th, 2005 12:09 PM |
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| Lethargy |
Every time I'm tempted to complain about the Stones productivity or last-20-years album quality, I'm reminded how utterly pathetic the Who are, and that I should be thankful as a Stones fan. Stones studio albums since 1982: six. Who studio albums since 1982: zero. |
| September 9th, 2005 12:26 PM |
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| Saint Sway |
I am also thankful that there have been no Who albums since 82 |
| September 9th, 2005 03:50 PM |
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| Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
quote:
Lethargy wrote:
Every time I'm tempted to complain about the Stones productivity or last-20-years album quality, I'm reminded how utterly pathetic the Who are, and that I should be thankful as a Stones fan. Stones studio albums since 1982: six. Who studio albums since 1982: zero.
Bullshit. The Who officially broke up in 1983, every tour since then has been billed as nothing more than a reunion tour, no more no less. It's only been in the past one or two years that Pete has been talking about a new Who album, and that's less time than it took the Stones to get from Babylon to Bang. (And it's not like Pete himself hasn't been working in the past twenty years).
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| September 9th, 2005 03:55 PM |
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| pdog |
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Joey wrote:
I am quite visibly shaken to the core
You're good enough, and gosh darn it, people like you! |
| September 10th, 2005 03:25 AM |
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| corgi37 |
If anything sounds like the 2 crappy tracks they released last year (red, red wine and beautiful boy or whatever the hell they were called) they really, really, dont need to make another record.
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| September 10th, 2005 05:08 AM |
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| IanBillen |
[quote]Steamboat Bill, Jr. wrote:
Bullshit. The Who officially broke up in 1983, every tour since then has been billed as nothing more than a reunion tour, no more no less. It's only been in the past one or two years that Pete has been talking about a new Who album, and that's less time than it took the Stones to get from Babylon to Bang. (And it's not like Pete himself hasn't been working in the past twenty years).
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Steamboat,
The point is, Pete is just not that into it. It doesn't take any type of analyzation to figure that out. Comparing The Stones studio work vs. the Who's studio work since 1982-1983 is silly. The Who has none. It surely seems The Who, or at-least Pete are just not that interested. Anyonw who has been talking about / working on an album for a couple years then goes onto say that hopefully in five years it will be coming out if at all???....well like I said it is not too hard to figure out either his work ethic as of lately is horrid or he just isn't that into it. I personally think it is both.
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| September 10th, 2005 08:01 AM |
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| Rizollin |
Pete, pete, watcha doin...let's DANCE, babe. The best albums are made in five weeks, you senile old fool. |
| September 10th, 2005 12:26 PM |
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| Col |
Who are ye, Who are ye!!! (sung in a drunken footy terracing chant)
Fucks sake, if that's all the enthusiasm and hunger that he can muster for music nowadays, they should move over for good and let the band die! I'll shit out 5 half decent rockers tomorrow morning and send them to Pete in the post. That oughta get him started! |
| September 10th, 2005 12:45 PM |
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| star star |
whether u like them or not, they will sound crap without moony and entwistle anyway |
| September 10th, 2005 01:22 PM |
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| IzzyStradlin |
quote:
Happy Motherfucker!! wrote:
Thats just retarded! 5 years to write songs for 1 lousey album. Hey, Pete get your priorities straight, ya ain't going to live forever, and who the hell is holding out hope that an album will even ever be released!
Well, he's got a lot of time wrapped up in kiddy porn don't forget.it |
| September 10th, 2005 05:36 PM |
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| the good |
I think there is a lot going on with Pete psychologically. There is simply no rational reason an album has to take 5 years. He is distancing himself from his artistic creativity, perhaps he is afraid, afraid of what it may release in him, afraid of what he may find buried within himself. Or maybe he just has to do some more, ahem, "research," for it. |
| September 10th, 2005 05:48 PM |
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| snap13 |
who gives a crap about the who... they have some good music but after pete townsend was found out to be into child pornography i wouldnt support them ever again..!!!! |
| September 10th, 2005 06:52 PM |
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| MrPleasant |
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Saint Sway wrote:
I like his approach. Especially after listening to some songs on Bang like Rain Fall Down.
nothing wrong with scrapping a song because it doesnt hold up to your bands standards
Exactly. Even if self-criticism can become paralyzing, Pete has every right to wait for another five or ten years. That's how he chooses to work.
Morosity simply works for some, and so it doesn't have to succumb to what some audiences think they deserve. |
| September 11th, 2005 08:24 AM |
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| corgi37 |
In 5 years, it'll be Pino Palladino's band!!!!! |
| September 11th, 2005 09:06 AM |
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| exile |
quote:
snap13 wrote:
who gives a crap about the who... they have some good music but after pete townsend was found out to be into child pornography i wouldnt support them ever again..!!!!
Pete Townsend was completely cleared of being involved with child pornography. If your going to make a comment like that, make sure it's correct. dickhead. |
| September 11th, 2005 11:30 AM |
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| the good |
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Pete Townsend was completely cleared of being involved with child pornography. If your going to make a comment like that, make sure it's correct. dickhead.
Was he completely cleared? |
| September 11th, 2005 11:56 AM |
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| Gimme Shelter |
I don't know about a new album, but the last couple of tours that Roger and Pete have done have rocked. |
| September 11th, 2005 09:10 PM |
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| gotdablouse |
If memory serves, Daltrey declared in 1982 that they were stopping because he didn't want Pete to kill himself with drugs to try to come up with new material ! By the way that 1982 album sucked so bad, Athena, anyone ? |
| September 11th, 2005 09:31 PM |
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| Gazza |
quote:
the good wrote:
Was he completely cleared?
yeah. The police accepted his story but they still had to caution him because technically he inadvertently broke the law as you cant legally access those sites even for research purposes and he did so because he was tracked because his credit card details were on the site's database. In Britain, even if you do this for, say a TV documentary exposing child porn, you are actually breaking the law. Theres no grey area.
The fact that he merely got a caution due to a technicality is tantamount to him being accepted as having acted innocently. He would definitely have been jailed otherwise. |
