[Closed] The Who

The Who are back playing the same old games
Each night on stage, smash up our zimmerframes

I was swithering about this gig, have to admit I thought it'd be a bit rubbish, Daltrey's voice can be a bit up and down these days... But I wasn't born when they were in their prime so that was inconvenient 😆

Saw them in about 1971 with Keith Moon at Trentham Gardens. They were great then. When the organ riff to Won't Get Fooled Again kicked in there was a collective "Uh. where's that coming from?" moment.

Pete Townshend = paedophile

All you need to know about The Who................

Pete Townshend = guitar god

All you need to know about The Who.....

Pete Townshend = paedophile

All you need to know about The Who................

That may or may not be true, either way it would have nothing to do with the music.

Is Garry Glitter touring this Christmas?

Pete Townshend = paedophile

I must have missed that trial.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9572773/Pete-Townshend-I-paid-for-child-porn-to-prove-British-banks-were-channelling-sex-ring-cash.html

Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist, has claimed he paid for child pornography to prove that British banks were complicit in channelling the profits from paedophile rings.
Talking about his arrest for child pornography, Townshend described his decision to pay $7 to download images of abused youngsters was 'insane' but said he had been trying to investigate the industry.

That's cleared that up.

Didn't he say he was fiddled with as a kid and he was writing a book about it or some such? Would explain wicked uncle Ernie anyway.

I always feel a bit conflicted about going to see bands that I'd missed in their prime. I had no interest in going to see the Rolling Stones but a friend bought me a ticket, 2006 I think. I grumbled and groaned.....they were f***ing brilliant.

I didn't want to see Dio when he played a local club. It'll be sad, ,revisionist, ironic, embarrassing. Then he went and died. Really regret not going.

Is Garry Glitter touring this Christmas?

Only Santa's Grottos*!

*Sorry 😈

The Who was the very first band I saw live.
Stockton-on-Tees ABC in 1968, probably. I'm not sure if my balls had dropped by then 🙂

Didn't he say he was fiddled with as a kid and he was writing a book about it or some such? Would explain wicked uncle Ernie anyway.

The relevant scene in the film Tommy is pretty disturbing, not least because it seems to be played for laughs. They used to be quite OK with showing it on TV though.

I don't think it was played for laughs but it was very pantomime. That's probably the only way they could have a scene which blatantly implies child sexual molestation and it be palatable. Essentially make it cartoon like.

Im with Nessa on this one

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"I used to drive the sets for The Who on their world tours. Great days. Till I found out some things about Pete Townshend that I didn't like. And all I'll say is - and I said it to his face - where is the book? I never saw him again"

Pete Townshend = A man with a good lawyer

I switch the radio off when they are on.

[i]I switch the radio off when they are on.[/i]

In case the radio waves reach out and touch your secret parts? 😆

I turn them off cos they're crap.

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I turn them off cos they're crap.

The who are far from crap, the townsend stuff was dodgy though.

I switch the radio off when they are on.

"To be, or not to be, that is the question" vs "you better you better you bet"

Some people have the reaction they [i]think they should have[/i]. Let them, if it makes them feel like they are helping to solve something. Quite amusing when you think about it.
"And now .. The Who with My Generation.."

"Ooh oh, quick! Off! That guitar sound is played by a man who might fancy children cos I heard he bought some pictures online! He said it was for research, but still that sound makes me feel all dirty!"

I don`t think that Keith Moon was capable of playing anything not for laughs

I wonder...if irrefutable evidence emerged that Shakespeare was a paedophile, would we stop teaching him in schools?

As far as I can remember Shakespeare never got caught paying for images of child abuse.

neil the wheel

I wonder...if irrefutable evidence emerged that Shakespeare was a paedophile, would we stop teaching him in schools?

In his day much of what we consider to be paedophile behaviour was probably perfectly legal. He was also really good at deleting his browser history.

Lewis Caroll
Charlie Chaplin
Edgar Alan Poe
Elvis Presley
Bill Wyman
Steve Tyler
Jerry Lee Lewis

all tainted..

Don't forget the Prince of Pop.

"I used to drive the sets for The Who on their world tours. Great days. Till I found out some things about Pete Townshend that I didn't like. And all I'll say is - and I said it to his face - where is the book? I never saw him again"

No offence but listening to the music of a convicted sex offender who has been on the register is not a pass time I will be taking up soon

Quite amusing when you think about it.

Re shakespeare if your views of an artist dont change when you find out they are a sex offender then I am concerned tbh Lost prophets anyone?

Rock Stars do seem to have an immunity not afforded to others. Jimmy Page/lori Maddox, Iggy Pop/Sable Starr...swallowing Townsend's story about research....

if your views of an artist dont change when you find out they are as sex offender then I am concerned tbh [b]Lost prophets[/b] anyone?

My views weren't changed when I heard Ian Watkins was a paedo - just cemented.

[i]Not all of us can laugh off child sexual abuse like you appear to be able to do whilst continuing to admire the perpetrator[/i]

Surely you're not so thick you think that's what I'm doing? Jeez. Exactly the kind of knee-jerk over reaction I'm referring to in the rest of my post.

Ah the chris Morris defence played poorly

Whatever

FWIW i think its fine , and the right response, to not listen to the music of sex offender. I dont think its a knew jerk reaction and if you cannot work out why people would chose to do this you need to invest in a moral compass.

Are they available on a Cyber Monday deal somewhere?

[i]A million times this[/i]

and you realise the quote which you're hugging is from a comedy show?

My views of the Who didn't change a bit when I heard about Pete Townsend....Music is still great. I'm not going to stop listening to them because the guitarist may or may not be a deviant. (although I probably wouldn't be inviting him round to my house any time soon)

No offence but listening to the music of a convicted sex offender who has been on the register is not a pass time I will be taking up soon

The only thing that offends me about your post is the condescending, selfrightous tone that you employ

and you realise the quote which you're hugging is from a comedy show?

A comedy show making a serious point...imagine...you clearly dont know who Chris Morris is then.

Used to do the radio 1 breakfast show didn't he? Fat bloke?

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"In the past we've met Mumford and Sons and PC Plum from Balamory," he said.

I think it may have been Robert Louis Stevensen who said:

"Those who take the serious only seriously and the humorous only humorously have really understood neither."

FWIW if you have an emotional reaction to the music that is separated from the person who made the then you can still like it. Good music and tunes will outlast the makers so it may be a moot point when they are dead. Wagner was a fascist sympathiser and very few people even think about it when the Ride of the Valkyries is used in an advert.

Well, Shakespeare's best known romance was supposed to have been about a 12-year old girl.
The art is separate from the artist, the former can be appreciated without condoning the crimes of the other. And Moon committed no crime - you are judging him for something he was found innocent of.

I think Wagner is the epitome of that, divides audiences absolutely and I would imagine always will. Divides feelings in our house too; I swither over whether the music outweighs the nastiness, and on balance I think it does. My wife disagrees.

Same for other music practitioners - she has struck off performers once they've been found guilty of disagreeable practices - I'm less convinced that the music is now somehow tainted..

I like the Who as much as the next man, but let's just get this clear -the mod thing is all made up. All the mods I knew considered them to be 'Greasers' (Rockers). The only white band that mods were 'allowed' to listen/dance to were the Small Faces and even then, only their early stuff before they went psychedelic. The Who were just a Rock and Roll band, albeit a very good one.

Ah music, fashion & culture. That's more like it.

[i]She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride"[/i]

Says Capulet when Paris decides to marry off his daughter (who's 14, not 12)

and the poem that the story is based on has her at 16.

Brides were about 19 in the 16th century, they generally didn't marry kids.

The Who are shite.