From Pete Townshend's tour diary on November 7th (highlighting by me):
"Great to be in the USA on election day. I would have been happy for either candidate to win. There are pros and cons. The only longing I have is for the President to work more closely with the UK than he appears to have done before. As unpopular as they ended up with the deep thinkers, George W Bush and Tony Blair were friends, and that – to me – exemplified what I feel is most important about the relationship between the UK and the USA. We are above all else friends. Friendship is not ‘special’ (as in the ‘special relationship’), it is normal, and accepting…"
You don't have to be a "deep thinker" to mourn the outcome of the friendship of George W. Bush and Tony Blair--all the people unnecessarily killed in the unnecessary "pre-emptive" war in Iraq (including both American and British soldiers plus Iraqi and other nations' casualties).
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Pete Townshend sells his song catalog, wants to commercialize more Who songs.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-who-sell-out-pete-townshend-gets-millions-for-back-catalog-20120217
I have a long enough memory to recall a 1989 interview in the departed magazine MUSICIAN where Charles M. Young, citing the Claymation-animated Dancing Raisins "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" commercial, outraged Pete Townshend by suggesting that selling songs for commercial use cheapened them (and listeners' memories thereof). In 2012, turning songs into TV jingles is commonplace--and sometimes essential for younger artists who might not get significant airplay otherwise.
Having read the article above, it does seem that Townshend sold himself short by not having absolute veto power on what Who (or solo) songs are used for film, TV, etc.
But perhaps part of the goal for Pete is to become rich enough where, as he enters his late sixties, he can resist calls by Roger Daltrey/Who manager Bill Curbishley to go back on the road after the proposed QUADROPHENIA tour.
I have a long enough memory to recall a 1989 interview in the departed magazine MUSICIAN where Charles M. Young, citing the Claymation-animated Dancing Raisins "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" commercial, outraged Pete Townshend by suggesting that selling songs for commercial use cheapened them (and listeners' memories thereof). In 2012, turning songs into TV jingles is commonplace--and sometimes essential for younger artists who might not get significant airplay otherwise.
Having read the article above, it does seem that Townshend sold himself short by not having absolute veto power on what Who (or solo) songs are used for film, TV, etc.
But perhaps part of the goal for Pete is to become rich enough where, as he enters his late sixties, he can resist calls by Roger Daltrey/Who manager Bill Curbishley to go back on the road after the proposed QUADROPHENIA tour.
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