The former Who guitarist, once famed for smashing up guitars on stage and hotel rooms off it, is showing his lawlessness in a less extreme fashion nowadays. ' He is perhaps the best-known figurehead of the Mod movement in the 1960s.Īnd it is clear that even in his 64th year, Pete Townshend has not lost his rebellious streak. ' The Mod(grand)father: Pete Townshend returns to his roots on Fifties scooter at age of 64 ' Post by 2000monkey on Aug 26 th, 2009 at 2:15pm At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. While Roger Daltrey exercises his ageing vocal chords by embarking on a two month USE OR LOSE IT solo tour, my focus is on FLOSS, which touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. ' Pete blogs that there'll be a new 'oo album in 2010.

Post by Gimme Shelter on Aug 26 th, 2009 at 1:24pm A series of dramatic events in a hospital emergency ward bring them both to their senses. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged. When he tries to return to music after a fifteen year hiatus, he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. He becomes a house-husband while his wife Floss devotes herself to a riding stables and stud. Walter, a straight-cut pub rock musician, is able to retire when one of his songs becomes the TV anthem of a big car company. The collected music and sound for FLOSS convey the story of a married couple whose relationship gets into difficulty. I am already having talks with producers in New York. FLOSS will be heard in concert for the first time in 2011, at a venue and date yet to be established. Several of the more conventional songs from FLOSS will be featured on a forthcoming Who recording for release in 2010.

FLOSS will be a son-et-lumiére musical piece, intended for outdoor performance, or arenas. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages. Pete blogs that there'll be a new '- album in 2010.įLOSS is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA.

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