Posted on 10/31/2006 8:16:08 AM PST by presidio9
PETE TOWNSHEND refused to let documentary maker MICHAEL MOORE use THE WHO's WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN in his FAHRENHEIT 9/11 film because he didn't want the anthem to become an anti-PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH song. The rocker claims the tune has been misinterpreted many times and he didn't want to add to the confusion by letting Moore use the song against Bush. He tells Rolling Stone magazine, "When ROGER (DALTREY) sang it, suddenly it became almost an anthem of the counterculturalists. "You say to somebody, 'I'm not doing it,' and they hear you say, 'I'm doing it.' Like, 'I'm not going to tell you President Bush is a bad man.' And people go, 'Oh, OK, so President Bush is a bad man.' Let me tell you again, 'He f**king is not a f**king bad man, you f**king idiot!' "The debates I had back and forward through HARVEY WEINSTEIN (producer) with MICHAEL MOORE were beyond belief. He wanted to use my song Won't Get Fooled Again. "I said to Harvey, 'The guy wants to misuse the misuse of the song.' It's not political or partisan or parochial." The rock anthem is now the theme to TV hit CSI: MIAMI.
Pete Townshend's second greatest moment next to almost decapitating Abbie Hoffman at Woodstock.
Pete's a businessman.
And he's like Eric Cartman - he hates hippies.
The Who is playing the night before Thanksgiving in Atlanta. I desperately wanted to go - huge Who fan - and checked ticket prices. $200.
Pete is a businessman.
Pete Townshend is a musical hero of mine. My band covers "Eminence Front" because the guys wouldn't let me cover Baba O'Riley. LOL...
Unfortunately, the guy's also a pedophile.
I may need to go buy the new Who CD.
"Let me tell you again, 'He f**king is not a f**king bad man, you f**king idiot!'
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I'm sure Dubya 'preciates the sentiment, if not the delivery, Pete.
I had the pleasure of meeting Peter about 15 years ago. He is a class act and a gentleman.
I almost sense a South Park episode with the kids wondering why Michael Moore wants to use the theme song from CSI-Miami in his movie (not realizing the song's history), and in the end, Pete Townsend shows up and brains Moore with his guitar.
can you explain?
So he's not just a "hippy gypsy" anymore?
He was never charged - the investigators apparently bought his side of the story.
Well I'll be...
"Unfortunately, the guy's also a pedophile."
I think he was cleared of all charges. I think he stated he was doing research and went about it in the wrong way.
Pete Townsend hates hippies? That explains why he can't stand Moore.
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