[Frantzie]

Pete Townsend lucked out not getting send to jail for child pornography. Anyone non-celeb in the UK or USA would be in jail for a long time. I liked their music but he was always a whiny wanker. Ray Davies is a better song writer too.

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.

Townsend should slink away in disgrace. Another creep - Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, who treated other band members like a tyrant, loves O too. Another fool.

[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.

[weegee]

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

Stalinists suck. Communism kills.

[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.