Townsend is writing his autobiography
Posted on 11/15/2004 3:04:04 PM PST by yankeedame
Last Updated: Friday, 12 November, 2004, 17:40 GMT
The Who teaming up for new album
Townsend is writing his autobiography
The two surviving members of The Who are planning to record a new album under the working title Who2.
Pete Townshend said on his website that he and Roger Daltrey were recording in December for a possible spring release.
"If the recording works out we will tour with the usual band in the first half of 2005," wrote Townshend.
Townshend is also working on his autobiography, started in the wake of his police caution for accessing child pornography websites.
"My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context," he said.
"I have had a long and lumbering life -- this book will take time."
Townshend and Daltrey have been working on new material since 2002 and released several songs on the Geffen compilation Then and Now.
Original Who member John Entwistle died in Las Vegas on the eve of The Who's US tour in 2002.
It could work.
"Who" cares?
Daltrey not making enough money working the History Channel gig?
I think its usually best for rock stars to die young. MO.
The Who: dead drummer and bassist, singer and guitarist survive.
Beatles: dead singer and gutarist, bassist and drummer survive.
Seems like a natural combination to me.
Am I the only one campaigning for "The Who-tles?"
Their high water mark was "Who's Next"......one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Everything since has been crap.
Maybe so, but Townsend's side project with Ronnie Lane, "Rough Mix", is a must-have in any collection.
So they never convicted him on the child porn possession?
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Their high water mark was "Who's Next"......one of the best rock albums ever recorded. Everything since has been crap.
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I agree with first part, "Who's Next" is the best. Nothing since has come close but it is not all "Crap".
I saw The Who in the early nineties. Townsend played acoustic the whole night while some goof named "Bolts Bolton" played electric. I wuz robbed.
White City!
No doubt it's a matter of opinion.......but tell me one thing they've come out with since "Who's Next" that has been worth the vinyl it was printed on?
Wow, that particular combination of egos in one room could be enough to cause a nuclear blast.
McCartney and Townshend are actually good friends, but past projects they've done together (specifically, Paul's "Rockestra" project circa 1979-1980, and his 1986 album "Press to Play") weren't all that great. Check out the "Concert for Kampuchea" where Pete showed up wasted and was mocking Paul opening on stage.
'Course, Pete is supposedly long clean of the coke and cognac, so maybe it could work...
Actually, I;m not so sure Paul could handle all of the Entwhistle bass lines. It would be worth the price of admission just to see the look on Ringo's face as he calculated how much he was making every time he hit the snare, looking around the stage and thinking "What a sorry lot of inflated f***s!"
Probably none of them. It would be entirely prosaic, as it should be.
Did you mean "prosaic" or "Prozac"? How DOES Paul deal with trying to be "The Cute One" when he's pushing 70? I suppose, all in all, it's better than being "The Dead One".
Paul did fine pioneering bass work. Not flashy, but good workingman lines. I made the mistake of listening to all my Beatle albums at one sitting about 1966. Can't listen to that at all anymore.
At least you didn't listen to them all backwards...did you?
No, but I tried 33-1/3, 78, 45, and 16. My turntable had a 16 for those extreme longplay records. After 8 hours it didn't matter what speed it went. I think it was their natural harmony that did it. The bass was fine.
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