Pete Townshend tips his hat to Obama - "...same as the old boss,” and suggested, “Maybe not.”

Reuters ^ | November 9th, 2008 | Reporting by Dean Goodman

[weegee]

Pete Townshend is so impressed with President-elect Barack Obama that he has had to rethink the sentiment of his archly anti-political song “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

Who guitarist performed a solo acoustic version of the 37-year-old anthem in front of a few hundred fans at the Troubadour in West Hollywood on Friday.

Before playing it, Townshend said Obama’s decisive election victory on Tuesday was “the most wonderful result,” a comment that earned the loudest cheers of the evening.

And afterwards, he mused over the song’s cynical parting shot, “meet the old boss, it’s the same as the old boss,” and suggested, “Maybe not.”

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The word "freedom" means a lot more than the "freedom" to bugger anybody you choose and kill the resulting "mass of cells" and "free" health care, Pete.

You'll realize that a bit late.

[LiberConservative]

Shut up, Pete. Go back to your “research”.

[skikvt]

Why don’t you just f-f-f-f-fade away.
And I hope you die before you get old!

[Mr. Blonde]

All of the fawning from foreign nations and people kind of weirds me out. I feel much more comfortable being disliked by people.

[dragonblustar]

Wow, Obama even gets the pedophile vote.

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Aquinasfan]

He was right the first time.

Yup. It's a pretty good rule of thumb.

[BonRad]

I'm listening to GGLiddy podcast from recent days and the second I click to reply here, the marvelous organ/guitar intro to “Eminance Front” is being played. Yow.
I've held PT the greatest genius of R&R, “Won't Get Fooled Again” THE greatest R&R song ever, and yet constantly have been amazed at how utterly idiotic he is on politics. Only goes to show how good God (we are made in His image) is to imbue certain some with such great intellect (as for example with the Greek philosophers, the masonic / naturalist founding fathers, great naturalist artists)...and yet allow such great error of the free will.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

I find it rather odd how Waters & Townshend were among those artists who wrote some profound cynical insights concerning politics -at least in the abstract- yet are so quick to endorse an obvious fraud such as Obama. I recall non other than Roger Waters himself stating on a radio program just over 20 years ago -during the aftermath of his much publicized split with Pink Floyd- that he would never want to be President because it take a certain cold type of person to want the job in the first place. Looks like some celebrities get even more hypocritical with time because Obama is about among the coldest folks to have ever become President.

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Talk about getting deluded.

[weegee]

Roger Waters and David Gilmour are both proud Socialists. Even after seeing the oppression in Eastern Europe.

Stalinists suck. Communism kills.

[Frantzie]

Odd because Nick Mason owns one of the nicest Ferrari collections in the world plus WW2 era planes.

Gilmour also was a Ferrari owner and at least is a nicer chap than Waters. I like the late Rick Wright and Syd better. Poor Rick was treated like crap by bolshi Roger.

I wonder if they have offshore trusts and companies like Bono and U2 to avoid paying taxes like the little people.

[Egregious Philbin]

I think Dave Davies said if the Kinks had not got banned for a few years from the USA by the Democreep entertainer’s union for a Ray punch up - the Who would have never made it in America.

I find that hard to believe, though maybe the Kins would've been better received here. I love both bands almost equally, but the Kinks were definitely the more "British" of the two - "Waterloo Sunset" and all that. Also, they did smaller songs not meant for arenas, unlike the Who's stuff.

[Frantzie]

I bet the late Rick Wright could tell us all about cold people and Roger. Roge was a tyrant in Pink Floyd.
Syd probably went crazy to get away from him.

I watched a few interviews with Roge on YouTube and he is and was always a pompous arse - the clever school boy from Cambridge. His father sadly died at Anzio propecting the world from tyrants like O.

My trust is in Leo C. Donoforio and Philip Berg and hopefully in names like Alito, Scalia, Roberts, Thomas and ...Kennedy.

[autumnraine]

So him viewing a 2 year old boy getting raped in Russia was not getting them to act to cover their lazy butts? And this was viewed for “research purposes”?

Sorry, I will make posts just I did because anyone who does research for pedophelia by watching child porn is a pervert in my opinion.

[Frantzie]

Well the Kinks stunned the world and the Beatles in 1964 with You Really Got Me.

The banning actually made Ray go more towards the introspective English songs. The banning actually probably helped him write some of the most wonderful pop songs ever like Waterloo. He and his brother were always known for being close with their money so they probably are not socialists.

I think without Daltrey and Entwhistle - I would not have liked the Who. Townsend always struck me as a creepy bastard.

[drjimmy]

I think without Daltrey and Entwhistle - I would not have liked the Who. Townsend always struck me as a creepy bastard.

And then there's Keith, a/k/a Moon the Loon.

[Zeppelin]

you sure that wasnt John Sinclair?

[weegee]

Roger Waters, like Charles Bukowski, wishes we’d never fought against the Axis powers in WWII.

[Frantzie]

Great drummer. I liked the Who but Townsend was always a creepy little bastard.

[Burma Jones]

This is sad. WGFA was, for its time, a counter-counter-cultural statement, much like Pete’s knocking Abbie Hoffman off the Woodstock stage. Also, I remember Pete steadfastly refused to let Michael Moore use it in Fahrenheit 911, despite lots of begging and whining.