[TLBSHOW]

Roger Daltrey, Townshend's bandmate from The Who, said he believed the guitarist was innocent.

"My gut instinct is that he is not a pedophile, and I know him better than most," he was quoted by The Sun tabloid as saying before Townshend's arrest. "Pete has perhaps been a little naive the way he has gone about it, but I believe his intentions are good."

"I'm very shocked and I hope it's not as bad as it sounds," Elton John said backstage at the American Music Awards presentation in Los Angeles Monday night. "I'm a friend of Pete's. I love Pete, and my thoughts are with him."

The model Jerry Hall, a Townshend friend, said Sunday he was an "avid supporter" of child welfare groups and had spoken at length about the dangers of child pornography on the Internet.

[Yeti]

"I'm very shocked and I hope it's not as bad as it sounds," Elton John said backstage at the American Music Awards presentation in Los Angeles Monday night. "I'm a friend of Pete's. I love Pete, and my thoughts are with him."

Well, I think maybe some support Mr. Townsend can do without.

"I'm a friend of Pete's. I did versions of some of his songs. I performed at a benefit with teenage boy-strippers in boy scout uniforms to celebrate the day England lowered the age of consent for boys to 16. I support Pete."

[Oschisms]

Well my gut feeling is that both the Who and the Beatles broke up because Roger/Paul never responded to Pete/Sean's advances.

And my personal experience, as a teenager, tells me that most pedophilia is homosexual. No women ever tried to abuse me.

Pete is innocent until proven guilty...but I've reported child porn without giving them my credit card number.

Seems like Pete could too.