Pete Townshend - Talks about Who's Next/Lifehouse Box Set & more - Radio Broadcast 16/09/2023
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- Pete Townshend talks about Who's Next/Lifehouse Box Set, Demo's, Kit Lambert, Tommy Lp, Teenage Wasteland(track), The Audience, Home Studio, Synthezisers, 70s Workshops, Glyn Johns, The Who, Olympic Studio Sessions, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
Also talks about Who's Next Lp Cover/ Ethan Russell, Scottish Gigs, Lifehouse Project and Won't Get Fooled Again(track).
Interviewed By: Billy Sloan
This is one of the best interviews I've heard with Townshend. Well done Billy Sloan for your impeccable homework.
I just love Towzer. There, I said it. His work means a lot to me. It is sad that he lost touch with his mentor, collaborator and champion-Kit Lambert. There was much more work to be done with Pete, but Kit was in a selfish state of mind, which took him in a variety of other directions. When I listen to Pete's music, I feel that he is speaking to me personally-which of course, he isn't. But that's part of his genius. His "confiding moments" in song are noteworthy, memorable, and in some cases devastating. "However Much I Booze" from the "Who By Numbers" album is a great example. It was an exercise in self-examination, describing this awareness that he is somehow born to be unhappy, trapped in a loop of his own making, with problems that he can't solve. It is simply "The Blues" in its highest form. I feel much the same about "Who's Next". It is raw and emotional, but never pedestrian. And it sounds as fresh today as it ever did.
Kit Lambert wasn't in a "selfish state", he was a full blown junkie.
“Robert Plant was somewhere between Roger (Daltrey) and Stevie Marriott.” Nailed it!
I just got the Lifehouse Box Set yesterday. It's phenomenal and a greast reminder of why Pete and The Who were and are the greatest rock band of all time IMHO. Oh, and an excellent interview Billy! Thank you.
Did you get the 10 CD Box set? It is $250.00 in America,expensive. I am debating whether to get it.
Yeah, I got the Super Deluxe 10 CD set. It's pricey, but well worth it! It's great quality with amazing insight to the whole Lifehouse concept and music. Go for it! @@jeffl1879
I'm debating on shelling out the money for it, too, but I totally and unashamedly agree with your stance on The Who being the greatest rock band ever. Brilliant music, brilliant musicians, and the most brilliant leader.
Best Rock band ever, The Who. Best Rock and Roll Band ever, The Stones.
@@ScottJamesLIve fair 👍
Who's next is still one of the best albums ever made. There are no weak songs. Hope I can track down the box set.
It’s fantastic. The graphic novel is great. I wish we had gotten the movie.
Brilliant interview!
Great interview. I am happy Pete knows just how much people love and appreciate him and his art.
Another terrible interview.
Pete sounds really great! Maybe one of his greatest interviews ever. Made me teary-eyed. Love Pete very much!
Pete Townshend credit card
Billy....So excellently done. You got Pete at his all time best. So thankful to you for making this happen. So well done! Thank you. Thank you Thank you!
Wrong.
The world is bigger than 1 tiny speck on the planet.
Grow up kid
Great interview with Billy Sloan he let Pete speak and didn't interrupt nice job plus he's a uber Who fan nice Scottish man Pete seemed really relaxed comfortable and at ease and honest as always 💜💜💜...
Straightforward, warm and very informative. Definitely fills in some gaps, thank you Billy and Pete.
Great interview Billy. Like you I grew up with Who’s Next, still my favourite album. Thank you Pete for enriching our knowledge of your great band.
the songs left off the Who's Next album are amazing!
The Who's Next Image. One interpretation of the cover is that it's a monolith (like 2001 Space Odyssey), there to bring mankind to the next level, but all the Who can do is piss on it and sing to us about teenage wasteland.
Whos Next is my main go to LP ever since it came out
This is a great interview, very happy to hear talks like this archived for posterity.
What a fantastic interview
Thank you for uploading this!
Pete is a genius and the Who is the greatest live band ever
Well, a "genius" wouldn't play the same three chords for 5 bloody decades.
You're lonely huh 😂 lol
Pete and Garcia always answer --love em both, the background stuff is so fascinating
Wonderful interview!!!!
Thank you so much for posting this interview. Really. Thank you so much. Thank you. 🙏
What an absolutely brilliant interview! Wonderful work Billy.Thoroughly enjoyable for any Who fan.👍👍
Hands down the finest interview of Townsend I've ever encountered.
Fantastic interview Billy. Chairman Townshend has been and will always remain world class.⚡️
Townshend is always a great interview. So articulate.
you could also say he has survived where others have not ...
Great interview. One question i would have added Is why The Who never played "Goin Mobile" and "The Song Is Over" live? Are they Going to tour playing the complete album like they did with "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia"?
Excellent interview of a genius. A masterpiece exemplified. Happy that this album gets its day in the sun. Incredible band. Thanks for your excellent work at Raised on Radio.
Glad you enjoyed it! 👍
Brilliant interview Billy!
Outstanding. His music, lyrics and legendary performances changed my life forever.
Brilliant interview by one of the greatest songwriters and guitarists in rock history. Lifehouse was a failed concept because the technology did not exist in the early 1970's same as what Pete encountered in 1973 for his concert ideas for Quadrophenia. The man is a musical genius and brilliant interview subject! Thank you so much!
"I wrote a film script, which was very naive, but told a story." No one Townshend talked to about "Lifehouse" understood what the hell he was on about. He talked for over an hour to Glyn Johns about "Lifehouse" & Johns said, "Pete, I haven't the bloodietst notion what you're talking about. I haven't understood a word." Townshend was obviously in a distressed mental state, feeling too much pressure to make a successful follow-up to "Tommy". He went a bit bloody barmy in the meanwhile. Glyn Johns salvaged the best of "Lifehouse" for "Who's Next". Cheers to Glyn Johns.
hear by the sea and sand
great interview
Great interview
Pete!!!! Please never grow old!!! You are undoubtedly the most vital individual in rock. The philosophy behind it and progression of it. Bravo, mate! Cheers!!!!
The thing i love about the Who is every instrument (and I'm including Rogers voice) have equal weight in the recording. It'd not bass and drums in the background with vocal and guitar plastered on top.
Was always fascinated with Lifehouse--love that its coming out in a graphic novel. Haven't got the box set yet.
That was just great
Brilliant. Conducted by a fan & all the better for it
I remember talking with a keyboard player way back in my college years and playing Won't Get Fooled Again... "Do you hear it? Do you hear it? The synthesizer is doing the drummer's job here!" Why I've always loved Moon, and Peart. They were musicians, not metronomes.
Pete!!!! The photo gets damaged by the badges in shipping. Replacement photo of the band should be offered to fans. Lots of people have had the damage.
Pete is my Godhead
I hope The Who keep on rockin for a long time yet
lol love ya pete haste ye back
😎 👍👍🤞🏻😀
I'm one of those who got the box partly for the graphic novel. Glad to finally have some long form version of the story, especially visually represented. Hopefully, it leads to a film. The album itself is the most spectacular failure in rock history. Lifehouse would have been an unbelievable album, and to think if it had panned out, they have played the majority of it in concert for a year or so until Quadrophenia. But it seemed to work out, and we finally have almost all of it. Wish The Who had recorded Mary or Greyhound Girl. I wish When I Was a Boy had been included, or 905, which I read in the book that Entwistle had at the time and offered it up for Lifehouse. Bet it would have sounded much different than Entwistle's synth symphony on Who Are You 7 years later.
Pete's on a whole nother level compared to most rock stars.
The price on this box set makes me wonder if Pete thinks all Who fans are all millionaires now.
I always thought the Who's Next cover was a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Pete never has said in public live interview he was high on acid at woodstock. Show me a youtube interview where he says he was?
Pete needed the story to generate these songs, but we listeners may not need it to appreciate them.
Where’s the book????
Probably in the most expensive version.
@- dt5sr Came out before you were born.2012
Don't worry there's a lot of us waiting to read it, though unfortunately it seemed like it was just an alibi at the time.
The Who is, IMO, tied with Floyd as the second greatest live band ever.
Grateful fuckin Dead
Genius is often misunderstood. Yes per Daltrey Pete can be patronizing but it’s like a great athlete trying to coach people of lesser innate ability. Not lesser musical ability but unable or unwilling to understand what he was on about. The common trope is the “best” Life House songs were cherry picked for Who’s Next which is false. Pure and Easy, Time is Passing and several others are every bit the equal of those that made the cut. The box set had to resort to a graphic novel to explain the concept. No wonder Pete got so frustrated. Arguably the best batch of rock songs ever written and a visionary story which now looks prophetic.
I wonder if he’s on the Lolita express flight logs
Yes but you failed to challenge Pete on his wrong statements.
If you listen to Pete, he gets a lot of it WRONG and he acts like he's in charge of public opinion.
Which of course is WRONG.
YOU MAKE the great mistake of never pointing out to Pete that he's being ridiculous telling us he's in charge of public opinion.
I'm sick of these types of interviews.
Pete's pushing 80, what happened to "hope I die before I get old"? lol
@@keithbeck2300 Not really a joke, just calling out the bullsh*t. Remember how many of the Boomers said "never trust anyone over 30" when they were young? Now look at them......
Well, it was an expression of youth wasn't it.
Would you rather live 80 years or die before that age. You fookin fool. You're time and family members time shall come. 😂
Pete Townshend is a pompous prick. But i love his music.
Step back from these lies and take a look back at a band that claims to be tough and hard rocking and just listen to the lyrics say "Whoo!" and you'll realise "Whoo" isn't tough or mean.
Pete himself contradicts what he says.
He claims to beat led zeppelin but the world moved on from ye ol led zeppelin days.
Led zeppelin did 1 show in 40 years.
They're irrelevant in today's world 🌎
You failed to pull silly pete up on that point in the conversation.
If you're singing, "when I'm mobile ", right, you're not exactly tough and mean.
The who was singing about the light and depressed and fairy side of rock music 🎶
But pete acts and talks like he's some kind of hard man.
The audience doesn't believe pete's words in conversations.
The pitch of his voice, his eccentric choice of words, his wacko public appearances all point to happiness and depression and THAT'S the who.
Depression which leads to early deaths MARKS the who as bipolar music.
I know that pete can't write 10 mean and angry songs in a row to qualify for a modern rock band.
The Who IS happy and depressed, eccentric family snap shots.
Only their big foot and selfish egos enter what we call 'Rock'.
Most of it is light fluffy stuff mixed with a lot of depressing stuff.
His attempts at writing prog rock were, at best, naive.
What a verbose pile of word-shit.
Really Pete--an intelligent guy like you believes in so-called man-made climate change???
Which intelligent scientists don't believe? Who the fuck even cares what non-scienists think. Their opinions aren't worth warm spit.
i never noticed the urination on the concrete for months till someone pointed it out to me, geez...🥸
Lol, I thought I was the only one, I didn't notice for years !
@ jay Just use the emoji next time instead of following this ridiculous trend of word-checking it!..
@@jeffkaufman9875 Not sure I've ever followed a "ridiculous trend" in my entire life. What on earth are you talking about?
@jay 🤦♂️!! I used the emoji in lieu of describing in words my reaction to your reply; hope that clears things up for you!..
@@jeffkaufman9875 No, obviously you haven't cleared anything up. If you took your head out of your arse and spoke some sense, maybe I could understand you.