He didn't die before he got old - Happy 80th Birthday Pete Townshend.

[justgladtobehere]

Happy birthday to the greatest. I hope he enjoys his day by slagging every musician he has ever heard.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I saw The Who on their original farewell tour in 1982. Teenage me thought they just seemed impossibly old at the time.

Pete was 37 at the time. Teenage me was an asshole.

Happy birthday to Pete. His work meant a hell of a lot to me in my younger years.

 

[da man]

It’s Townshend.

 

[Songbird]

1, Townshend Vermont is about 50 miles from me as the crow flies.

2, I was 11 in '82 when we got cable and I became a child of MTV. This was played a lot.

3, I never became a Who guy, or Townshend guy when he went solo, but this one went bone deep and has always been one of those songs I'll listen to just about every time when it comes on the radio. And then Severance went and used it.



4, And this is just one more example of why Louie is the best American TV show of all time.

 

[justgladtobehere]

It's Townshend.

Damnit! I even was thinking about that.

 

[Bubbler]

For his birthday, they fired Zak Starkey again.

 

[tapintoamerica]

This one is a masterpiece.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I saw The Who on their original farewell tour in 1982. Teenage me thought they just seemed impossibly old at the time.

Pete was 37 at the time. Teenage me was an asshole.

Happy birthday to Pete. His work meant a hell of a lot to me in my younger years.

I was going into my junior year of high school when The Rolling Stones started back up. They also seemed impossibly old to me at the time. I am now much older than they were then (except for Wyman, I will celebrate by marrying a teenager). Speaking of teenagers, teenage me was an asshole. Middle-aged me is still an asshole!!!

 

[Huggy]

I saw The Who on their original farewell tour in 1982. Teenage me thought they just seemed impossibly old at the time.

Pete was 37 at the time. Teenage me was an asshole.

Happy birthday to Pete. His work meant a hell of a lot to me in my younger years.

I was in high school at that time and a friend of mine turned me on to The Who as his older brother was a massive fan. Saw them many times in their post farewell tour mode, it was always really cool until the last show, pre-Covid, in front of a half full arena in Toronto (always one of their strongest markets, our tickets were upgraded from the upper bowl) when they flubbed the ending to Baba O'Riley among others. They won't get a dime from me for their "this time we really mean it" last tour.

I saw Townshend solo on his Pyschoderelict tour and it was one of the five best shows I have ever seen. I don't listen to The Who much any more (Empty Glass is always in regular rotation, though) but they were a massive part of my teenage and early 20 years.

 

[I Should Coco]

I saw Townshend solo on his Pyschoderelict tour and it was one of the five best shows I have ever seen. I don't listen to The Who much any more (Empty Glass is always in regular rotation, though) but they were a massive part of my teenage and early 20 years.

Unlike many, I was a big fan of the Psychoderelict album — the version that included the actors speaking between the songs. It showed Pete had a self-mocking sense of humor and in retrospect, got quite a bit correct about the coming of virtual reality.

 

[Huggy]

Unlike many, I was a big fan of the Psychoderelict album — the version that included the actors speaking between the songs. It showed Pete had a self-mocking sense of humor and in retrospect, got quite a bit correct about the coming of virtual reality.

I wasn't a huge fan of the album but the live presentation was really good.

We've all heard "Won't Get Fooled Again" a million times but I just love how he reworks it here:

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I wish Townshend would have kept his solo career going. It sounds like he's been creating music pretty consistently, but not really doing anything with it.

 

[swingline]

I've heard "Eminence Front" more in the last few weeks than I can ever remember. It's usually as rare as "Children of the Sun," where you gotta request it to get it played, usually by the overnight guys.

"Eminence Front" was part of a great three-song set on the radio when I was driving up Iowa 19 years ago.

Man, 19 years. The time has done got by.

 

[Slacker]

"Eminence Front" was part of a great three-song set on the radio when I was driving up Iowa 19 years ago.

And the other two songs?

 

[swingline]

It was 19 years ago. I don't remember.

 

[Slacker]

It was 19 years ago. I don't remember.

I know that tune myself.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Huh? "Eminence Front" is everywhere. Probably their biggest moneymaker in terms of commercial use and royalties. The Who in their classic form went out with a bang on this one. Great Who-like lead-in and a great riff.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Sometime in the mid-1980s, my older brother came barreling down the stairs and yelling to turn to channel nine out of Secaucus.

The Who’s Kids Are Alright was on!

He scrambled to find a blank(ish) VCR tape and started recording. We got about four-fifths of it.

I had no idea who The Who were before that day, but never forget them afterward. Became obsessed with them for a few years. Watched that and a copy of Tommy who knows how many times, bought as many as their cassette tapes as I could afford.

Would tell anyone who would listen that The Who were better than any of the hair metal/ new kids **** everyone else my age was listening to.

Then around eighth grade, i sort of stopped.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Sometime in the mid-1980s, my older brother came barreling down the stairs and yelling to turn to channel nine out of Secaucus.

The Who's Kids Are Alright was on!

He scrambled to find a blank(ish) VCR tape and started recording. We got about four-fifths of it.

I had no idea who The Who were before that day, but never forget them afterward. Became obsessed with them for a few years. Watched that and a copy of Tommy who knows how many times, bought as many as their cassette tapes as I could afford.

Would tell anyone who would listen that The Who were better than any of the hair metal/ new kids **** everyone else my age was listening to.

Then around eighth grade, i sort of stopped.

Yeah, The Who was my favorite band in my early teen years. Still love them, but very rarely listen to them.

I think part of that is that over the course of 60 years they have maybe four essential albums, at least to me. Those albums are monsters, but it’s still only four.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Yeah, The Who was my favorite band in my early teen years. Still love them, but very rarely listen to them.

I think part of that is that over the course of 60 years they have maybe four essential albums, at least to me. Those albums are monsters, but it's still only four.

That’s almost exactly how I feel as well.

Also, maybe because I listened to them so much, I rarely ever hear a “new” song that catches me ear.

And quite honestly, they have several songs that are automatic change the channel ones for me.