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Pete Townsend on 6music's inaugural
Posted by Mr Fade on 31 October 2011 - 9:36pm.
'Peel Lecture'. Great stuff but not long enough even with questions. I'd advise anyone here to check it out.
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Just listened to it on iPlayer.
A little rambling in his delivery I thought but interesting enough. Agreed with him on 'sharing' and enjoyed the story of the woman who took umbrage with him over this. However, I got a little annoyed with him over his take on iTunes. Surely, its the record shops that iTunes has 'replaced' not the record companies? Is it ok to expect them to do all he asked when we didn't (i don't think) expect the old shops to do any of it (it was a long list!)? As I said, interesting but hardly earth shattering.
Did anyone ask
Where the book was?
LOOK, RESEARCH IS A LONG PROCESS, OK?
I seem to remember a thread where it was established
the book was privately published some years back and was available through his website
Was it like EasyJet's cheapest tickets?
Only two available and only for eighteen seconds? Proud buyers: Mr P. Townshend and the firm of Haddaway And Shite, Attorneys-At-Law?
It's here
http://www.petetownshendisinnocent.com/differentbomb.html
Struggling to imagine...
...why a person would need to look at kiddie porn in order to write that, but I'm sure* he had a good reason.
*I'm not.
Nothing really to add to that Bob
Although they were one of the bands I've loved, and although explanations have been given, somehow for me anyway the legacy has been tarnished!
Reported in this morning's edition of The Times.
Opening line:
"Even without his trademark Fender Stratocaster, it was never likely to be a quiet affair."
'Tradmark Fender Stratocaster?' On Townshend? I don't think so.
Apparently so
He's used Strats exclusively since 1989, according to http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/guitar/fenderecstrat.html
Weirdly, the Strat that he's used exclusively is the Eric Clapton signature model.
'...since 1989'
Hardly contributing to anything approaching 'iconic', is it? Search for him on Google images and he's playing just about anything but a Strat. SGs, Les Pauls and Rickenbackers are what I'd call Townshend-iconic.
Iconic Townshend guitars...
The 1-9 numbered Les Pauls sum up the 1970s Townshend for me.
Details of what the numbers meant (and lots more besides) at http://www.whocollection.com/pete's_.htm
He's played most things
Never a telecaster as far as I know. Les Pauls and SGs in his pomp.
I can't remember ever seeing
I can't remember ever seeing him with a Fender Tele, but I remember him playing a Schecter Tele for a while, most memorably (for me, at least) at the Rockpalast gig that was broadcast live on the BBC in the early Eighties.
You're right
I remember a shot of it in the great guitar book "The Guitar Handbook" by Ralph Denyer.
Curious...
...I have a (printed) copy of today's Times and the opening line refers to a trademark 'Gibson Les Paul'.
Clearly, some muso sub-editor has spotted this anomaly in between print editions. It probably made his day.
Ah!
The Strat comment is in my (London) print edition. Where's yours, out of interest?
Belfast... BUT....
...please don't assume that's some kind of 'international edition'. It's part of the standard UK run(s), so I'm standing by my suggestion that somewhere between the several print runs/editions in a day, someone spotted that, er, "actually Pete hasn't played a Les Paul since the '80s"...
Rambling...
Rambling is putting it mildly! I'm half an hour in and dying.
EDIT 35 and I was out of there. Sorry Pete.
Heard a couple of clips on 6 music this morning,
He made some good points in what I heard.
Anyone else think he sounds a bit like Barry from Watford off Steve Wright, though?