Posted on 07/20/2018 7:30:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob
In the seconds immediately after The Who concluded "Pinball Wizard", from Tommy, Hoffman, who had ingested LSD after working the past few hours at the medical tent, abruptly walked onto the stage and began addressing the crowd from Pete Townshend's microphone. He shouted, "I think this is a pile of sh**! ... While John Sinclair rots in prison ..." Alerted to the disturbance, Townshend (who apparently had been too distracted to notice Hoffman ambling onto the platform), snarled at Hoffman, "F*** off! F*** off my f***ing stage!" He then struck Hoffman with his guitar (which you can hear in the sound clip), sending the interloper tumbling. As the crowd let out an approving roar, Townshend returned to his microphone to add a sarcastic "I can dig it!"
Following the conclusion of the next song, the short "Do You Think It's Alright?" (on which the guitar is horribly out of tune, presumably due to it being used to beat Hoffman), Townshend issued a stern warning to those in attendance: "The next f***ing person that walks across this stage is gonna get f***ing killed, alright? You can laugh, [but] I mean it!"
Townshend later said he actually agreed with Hoffman on Sinclair's imprisonment, though he insisted he would have knocked Hoffman off stage regardless of his message. The incident can be heard in its entirety on unedited Woodstock tapes and bootleg CDs of The Who's performance. Additionally, an edited fifteen-second sound bite of the incident can be heard on The Who compilation set Thirty Years of Maximum R&B (Disc 2). The Woodstock documentary also depicts this event.
Maybe he was just possessed.
AC/DC admits that in an interview.
It’s weird. Drummers do tend to be the quiet ones don’t they?
“Had Enough” and “Sister Disco” are representative of a period in time. The tracks remain potent.
I saw a documentary of the “Who’s Next” album. In it, Townsend mentioned “teenage wasteland” was referring to the stupidity of youth being wasted.
....saw a documentary of the “Who’s Next” album. In it, Townsend mentioned “teenage wasteland” was referring to the stupidity of youth being wasted...
If that description isn’t Abby Hoffman on stage wrecked on LSD, I don’t know what it is.
Must’ve been the cowbell....
Good stuff. I just now did some sleuthing. Same dude wrote both songs. But he later told Pete that The Who got the name wrong on Sell Out. “Armenian City in the Sky” was supposed to be “I Am An Ear Sitting In The Sky”. Apparenty it was based on some painting. Ahhh...... the Sixties.
Sell Out is my favorite Who album, the jingles in between the songs were great.
Thanks DoodleBob.
"Why don't they have Tindr for pizza?" (still doubting Pizza is a term the elite pedophiles use for children?)
UNTIL this FR post, I didn't know who he was.
Or why he was so important to rock stars of the era.
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