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TOWNSHEND NO FOOL FOR MICHAEL MOORE
World Entertainment News Network ^ | 10/31/06

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fahrenheit911; harveyweinstein; michaelmoore; neutralpedophiles; petetownshend; rogerdaltrey; thewho; wontgetfooledagain
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To: RockinRight

Nope.

Cleared of all counts.


81 posted on 10/31/2006 8:49:35 AM PST by Skooz (<---- Bible-thumping fundamentalist, known to the media as a "theocon")
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To: dfwgator

You mean "Going Mobile"?


82 posted on 10/31/2006 8:50:18 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: presidio9
My old boss hired Roger Daltrey's Personal Assistant when she wanted to change industries from music to finance. She was as clear eyed and bright as woman as you would ever meet and she had nothing but good things to say about both of them.

According to her, they were both terribly down to earth and genuine people without a pretentious bone in their bodies.

83 posted on 10/31/2006 8:50:41 AM PST by tcostell (MOLON LABE)
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To: RockinRight
"Unfortunately, the guy's also a pedophile."

Ohfercryinoutloud........he is not a pedophile, for God's sake. Anyone who even attempted to keep up with the news knows the whole story on that stupid, sordid little bit of press sensationalism. He was acquitted of any and all charges (and never broke a sweat during the process; innocence is its own best defense).

84 posted on 10/31/2006 8:51:07 AM PST by RightOnline
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To: wideawake; Revolting cat!; RockinRight; presidio9

Hemophiliac! ACK!

What will happen to me, I googled NAMBLA because I didn't believe it was what I was told!


85 posted on 10/31/2006 8:51:57 AM PST by Froufrou
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To: Terabitten
I never said he is guilty in terms of being found officially guilty. But I do think it's reasonable to question his claim. If he was doing "research", why was he doing it alone? If he was really interested in "research" in terms of how much damaging content was on the Internet, why not approach the authorities and volunteer to assist them in investigating what was out there?

Sorry, but I just find it a bit difficult to believe. Maybe he was only doing research, but I have my doubts...

86 posted on 10/31/2006 8:52:00 AM PST by Sicon
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To: SittinYonder
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.

My two teenage sons wanted to see The Who so I began investigating the tour and gulped at the prices. Then I discovered they were playing at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore. For the price of one Who concert, we got to see them as well as the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Flaming Lips, the Drive-by Truckers, the Killers, the Raconteurs and a few others.

I have to say, The Who kicked ass. The crowd was a mix of geezers like me and youngsters like my sons, and we all sang along when Pete belted out "It's only teenage wasteland!" Some dads bond with their kids over a game at Yankee Stadium--we had our moment passing the crowd surfers over our heads. My 17-year-old has already downloaded the new Who album from the Internets; I will stop in Best Buy later today to get it the old-fashioned way.
87 posted on 10/31/2006 8:52:07 AM PST by drjimmy
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To: wideawake

You're right.


88 posted on 10/31/2006 8:52:37 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: presidio9

IMO, Pete is the best songwriter of the rock and roll era.

Quadrophenia is a masterpiece.


89 posted on 10/31/2006 8:52:59 AM PST by TheStickman
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To: drjimmy

Amazing that now our music is cooler than our kid's music.


90 posted on 10/31/2006 8:53:23 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Their best album.


91 posted on 10/31/2006 8:54:08 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: presidio9

Met Townsend in LaJolla a few years ago when he was producing a stage show. nice guy.


92 posted on 10/31/2006 8:54:20 AM PST by SF Republican
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To: presidio9

The White City, that's a joke of a name
It's a black violent place if I remember the game
I couldn't wait to get out but I love to go home
To remember the White City fighting

The White City Fighting, remember, remember
The White City Fighting, remember, remember

Down to the refuge, near QPR
I drive to committees in my German car
Prone to violence, prone to shame
I glide in silence, my pride in vain
For no one remembers, not that I can see
That we were defenders, we were the free . . .


93 posted on 10/31/2006 8:55:24 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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To: JacksonCalhoun
If you've ever sampled any of Entwistle's solo work you're in for an unexpected (and bizarre) treat as well.

"Talk Dirty" has one of the most incredible bass lines ever.

I once had a roommate who was a bassist, and he insisted that was not a bass.

"It's a lead guitar," he said repeatedly. He could not bring himslef to believe anyone could play such a complicated bass riff so fast.

94 posted on 10/31/2006 8:56:40 AM PST by Skooz (<---- Bible-thumping fundamentalist, known to the media as a "theocon")
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To: wideawake

I can't think of a better album from start to finish.


95 posted on 10/31/2006 8:56:41 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Skooz
"Talk Dirty" has one of the most incredible bass lines ever.

That was from the album Joe Walsh played guitar on.

96 posted on 10/31/2006 8:57:19 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Revolting cat!
"But wait, isn't Townshend a convicted hemophiliac?"

IIRC, he's also a sexagenarian.
97 posted on 10/31/2006 8:57:35 AM PST by Roccus (Dealing with Democrats IS the War on Terror. [Stolen from FReeper Stallone])
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To: bigfootbob

Google Pete Townshend childporn


98 posted on 10/31/2006 8:57:39 AM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: dfwgator

I'm 29 so I'm younger than the Who generation but older than the current generation of crap music that's out.

I like rock from about the late 60s to the early 90s...although anybody that knows me knows that the 80s were my favorite decade by far.


99 posted on 10/31/2006 8:59:18 AM PST by RockinRight (Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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To: Sicon
Or hanging out in Bangkok watching pedophiles in action because" your working on a book."
100 posted on 10/31/2006 9:00:28 AM PST by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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