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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Man With Hat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2022 at 01:31
doesn't everyone? 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2022 at 01:17
Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

I think all people deserve to be treated with dignity and I wouldn't wish death on anyone.


But somehow Townsend should stop his self-loathing during interviews - as if it was some way of showing humility. Stern Smile
It's weird, because he comes off both somewhat arrogant, but also very auto-criticizing. Confused


Originally posted by SteveG SteveG wrote:

No more than David Crosby. With two of the Who's original members deceased, it's a blessing that he's still around.


I guess that's what he means most: he abused substances (inck booze) so much that he should've died much earlier, like a lot of "martyrs" the rock culture enhances too much. 
But both Richards and Daevid (well the latter was clean for a couple of decades) show that you can live old and still engage in hazy pastures.

He (Pete) himself wrote "Hope I die before I get old" (and had Roger sing it) and I guess it's disturbing to live with that: they survived but the other two didn't. OuchNuke

I take it he also feels remorse (or regrets) towards Loon and The Ox for not having done more to help them.




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Edited by Sean Trane - February 20 2022 at 00:59
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote The Anders Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 13:30
Pete Townshend is a friggin' musician. It's his work of art that counts.
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I don't know

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lazland Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 11:15
No, he doesn’t. He has been a hugely influential artist, one of my favourites.

Mind you, having read more than a few interviews with him over the years, what he says in these interviews should always be taken with a huge pinch of salt.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Just for clarity and without wishing to condone his actions in 2003, Pete was arrested for using his credit card to access a website offering child pornography, although no images were downloaded. He was cautioned by the police and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years after saying he was trying to prove big banks were complicit in the child-porn industry. He remains active in charity work that deals with the consequences of the sexual abuse of children. Irrespective of any past misdemeanors and errors of judgement, he will always be one of the greatest British songwriters of all time whose work belongs in the same conversation as Lennon/McCartney, Ray Davies, Elvis Costello, Jagger/Richards, Paddy McAloon, Lloyd Cole, Strummer/Jones, Elton John, David Bowie, Queen, Jeff Lynne, Syd Barrett, Noel Gallagher et al. Hope Mr Townshend gets old before he dies.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Easy Money Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 09:51
I think all people deserve to be treated with dignity and I wouldn't wish death on anyone.
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Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

Just for clarity and without wishing to condone his actions in 2003, Pete was arrested for using his credit card to access a website offering child pornography, although no images were downloaded. He was cautioned by the police and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years after saying he was trying to prove big banks were complicit in the child-porn industry. He remains active in charity work that deals with the consequences of the sexual abuse of children. Irrespective of any past misdemeanors and errors of judgement, he will always be one of the greatest British songwriters of all time whose work belongs in the same conversation as Lennon/McCartney, Ray Davies, Elvis Costello, Jagger/Richards, Paddy McAloon, Lloyd Cole, Strummer/Jones, Elton John, David Bowie, Queen, Jeff Lynne, Syd Barrett, Noel Gallagher et al. Hope Mr Townshend gets old before he dies.

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I don't think anyone deserves to die, but I respect his revelations based on his past actions. He is a brilliant song writer, easily one of the greatest.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote ExittheLemming Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 08:38
Just for clarity and without wishing to condone his actions in 2003, Pete was arrested for using his credit card to access a website offering child pornography, although no images were downloaded. He was cautioned by the police and placed on the Sex Offenders Register for five years after saying he was trying to prove big banks were complicit in the child-porn industry. He remains active in charity work that deals with the consequences of the sexual abuse of children. Irrespective of any past misdemeanors and errors of judgement, he will always be one of the greatest British songwriters of all time whose work belongs in the same conversation as Lennon/McCartney, Ray Davies, Elvis Costello, Jagger/Richards, Paddy McAloon, Lloyd Cole, Strummer/Jones, Elton John, David Bowie, Queen, Jeff Lynne, Syd Barrett, Noel Gallagher et al. Hope Mr Townshend gets old before he dies.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Mormegil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 07:23
He seems a lightweight compared to Keith Richards ;-)

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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Yep, because of his child porn arrest and him continuing to tour as The Who without Keith and John.

Seems a bit harsh for the second one.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 06:33
Yep, because of his child porn arrest and him continuing to tour as The Who without Keith and John.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SteveG Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 06:13
No more than David Crosby. With two of the Who's original members deceased, it's a blessing that he's still around.

Edited by SteveG - February 16 2022 at 06:13
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Manuel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2022 at 06:13
Al I can say is “To each, his own.” If that’s how he fells then, What can be said or done?
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