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.
Who Are You, their last, was perhaps their best. Keith sitting in a chair, riding crop in hand. the chair stenciled "Not to be taken away"
When either Daltrey or Townsend kicks the bucket, the other will continue to re-unite, amoeba-like, with himself.
Actually, although it hasn't gotten much press, it is looking like his story was true and he really was trying to get info to nail the bad guys.
My own favorites:
"Won't Get Fool on the Hill Again";
"Substitute Pepper"
"Magic Bus Mystery Tour"
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Ever see a turntable with 8 R.P.M.?
Well I saw Ringo play with Entwhistle in the Ringo Starr "All Starr Band" thing YEARS ago.
Paul WAS "the dead one" before John Lennon (but after Stuart Sutcliffe).
Nowadays, Paul uses a bright wardrobe to appear to be "The Cute One".
Pete looks good!
the who-tles! L0L I love it!
Quadrophenia, man, Quadrophenia. Maybe you don't like it as much as Who's Next, but it's far far from crap and easily in the top 5 double albums of all time. (Others include the White Album and London Calling)
Very, very, very far.
8? Maybe. Would a DJ professional turntable do that?
I think it was for Library Of Congress spoken word recordings. I HAVE seen a used player for sale (had 8-16-33-and 45, not sure about 78).
I only have ONE 16 R.P.M. record in my collection (it is classical music although I hear that jazz records in 16rpm are very valuable). I currently have no way to play it (but I can play 78s on my stereo).
I had the same thought ... I could easily imagine Daltrey and Townsend singing Beatles songs, and McCartney singing Who songs.
"Quadrophenia" didn't hold a candle to their previous work. I followed The Who's career........real time..........for decades. Junk. Nothing since "Who's Next" has been worth listening to. They have three classic albums as a band.........more than most, by far: Tommy, The Who: Live at Leeds, Who's Next.
Nothing else can hold a candle to those three......further evidence that (like the Stones), their best years are LONG behind them.
Who's Next is their all-time best, with "Bargain" "Behind Blue Eyes" "Won't Get Fooled Again", etc. all turning into timeless classics that haven't lost a bit of their pure-rocking POWER. "Won't Get Fooled Again" still sounds like a mastodon beating a Caveman to death with his trunk, and that's a good thing (despite current overuse...Damn you CSI!).
I think that Quadrophenia is a great album and a top 5 concept album of all time, but Top 5 Double albums?
I don't know about that.
I would place the White Album and London Calling above it, just as you wrote, but my other three would probably be Pink Floyd's The Wall, Prince's Sign O' The Times, and the Rolling Stones Exile on Main St. (the latter is maybe the greatest album in rock history).
Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Husker Du's Zen Arcade, the Smashing Pumpkind Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are also among my fave double albums of original material. Use Your Illusions 1 & 2 would be near the top too, if they weren't sold seperately although they were released on the same day in 1991.
Nice selection. I'd throw in Genesis's "Seconds Out" as the best double live album. And I'm rather fond of "Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" too as a great double album.
I never was a big Genesis fan, except for Invisible Touch (and that was only because I heard and liked the song "In Too Deep" in the movie Mona Lisa with Bob Hoskins, and later found out that that song was on this album).
Is Seconds Out anything like the IT/Phil Collins-era sound, or is it that spacey '70's Peter Gabriel stuff I don't really dig? I'm not going to knock it either way, because there's nothing more subjective than musical taste (and because I think you have it).
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