"Any word if they'll tour again?"
If they have bills to be paid, we'll see them around for as long as I can forsee. My 13 yr old son recently found a "shweet" song on-line called "Pinball Wizard"...
Just to swing this around to a political thread, please be reminded that Pete tried to brain Abbie Hoffman ("Yippies are Revolting") with his guitar at Woodstock..More to do with WHO controls the stage, than politics probably, but still..
By the way, who/what was Meher Baba (Pete's guru) and did he espouse bad stuff? (My guess is he did not)
"Pinball Wizard" is one of my five year-old son's favorite songs. It's a riot to hear him sing it.
I read in some liner notes (maybe for their box set) that Pete did regret the incident with Hoffman, and it was a "get the f**k off my stage kind of thing"
Pete's (and Roger's) views probably align more with Hoffman's than mine, but at least they didn't join any Rock Against Bush tours last year.
Meher Baba was from India & Pete used him as some sort of "spiritual leader" and said of him; "Baba is the Avatar of the age-the messiah". However blasphemous, Pete thought highly of him and Baba did get Pete to renounce dope and to look at the "love" generation with a skeptical eye.
Pete had many portraits of Baba in his house. Baba O'Riley was actually named after Meher Baba and some obscure composer named Terry Riley.
Whether all of Baba's influence was good, I don't know. His dislike for drugs has probably kept Pete alive all these years!