Thunderbird Club

[Engle]

Oh, I knooow.

Don’t mention the war. I did once, but I think I got away with it.

 

[Engle]

This doesn’t make me like Pete Townsend any better:
The Who by Fire

 

[GonePlaid]

Don’t mention the war. I did once, but I think I got away with it.

The scene where Basil beat his car with the tree branch, I nearly peed myself.

 

[Engle]

FWIW, my new gig mobile which I pick up tomorrow. 2019 Ford Transit Connect.View attachment 3610651

Nice!

 

[Engle]

The scene where Basil beat his car with the tree branch, I nearly peed myself.

Yeah me too! It’s his frustration that we all relate to. Most of us don’t snap, but if we did...

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

That would disappear under a pickup truck in about five minutes here. (I know, I drove a Miata for several years, and dodged trucks in it even more than I did on a motorcycle.)

Lol! the wife’s white Miata once got plowed about half a block in mid winter New England years ago..

 

[GIBrat51]

That Las Vegas looks like an improvement.

I thought so, myself. But, they have an actual winter there , and an annoying tendency to roll the sidewalks up pretty early at night; so...

 

[JIO]

And his guitar was strung with suspension bridge cables to top it off, if I'm not mistaken. I don't remember exactly how heavy his strings were, but as I recall, they were incompatible with what he was able to do using them.

Dick Dale was like that.

 

[JIO]

I don't speak a lick of French. My wife does. When we visited France, the French all seemed to think I know exactly what they are saying and were very friendly and talkative. It's nice to be loved. I love them back. But, they could have been telling me that I'm an idiot with questionable ancestry for all I know. My wife thought it was hilarious. I would be happy to live somewhere in France, for the food, for the people, and for a lot of reasons. Well, maybe not LeHavre or parts of Marseilles, but I don't want to live in Elisabeth, New Jersey, either.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I see people using umbrellas for the sun (during dry season) around here

They get used for both here in Austin. More for the sun, but that's because we have a lot more sunny days.

 

[GBassNorth]

This doesn’t make me like Pete Townsend any better:
The Who by Fire

I was just reading this related article...
THE WHO's PETE TOWNSHEND On KEITH MOON And JOHN ENTWISTLE: 'Thank God They're Gone'

Never was a big Townsend fan, even less so now. You'd think he'd show a hint of respect for the dead and a degree of humbleness for himself, but nope, guess that's a lofty expectation for Pete.

 

[GonePlaid]

I was just reading this related article...
THE WHO's PETE TOWNSHEND On KEITH MOON And JOHN ENTWISTLE: 'Thank God They're Gone'

Never was a big Townsend fan, even less so now. You'd think he'd show a hint of respect for the dead and a degree of humbleness for himself, but nope, guess that's a lofty expectation for Pete.

Particularly unpopular opinion here, I would think. But opinions are like.....er, never mind.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I was just reading this related article...
THE WHO's PETE TOWNSHEND On KEITH MOON And JOHN ENTWISTLE: 'Thank God They're Gone'

Never was a big Townsend fan, even less so now. You'd think he'd show a hint of respect for the dead and a degree of humbleness for himself, but nope, guess that's a lofty expectation for Pete.

Decades of being idolized, of swimming in money, of addiction and abuse, of not getting the help you need, of getting to do pretty much whatever you want, can mess you up if you aren't really grounded. I'm not defending him. I just don't find it that surprising. Sad? Extremely.

 

[MCF]

I was just reading this related article...
THE WHO's PETE TOWNSHEND On KEITH MOON And JOHN ENTWISTLE: 'Thank God They're Gone'

Never was a big Townsend fan, even less so now. You'd think he'd show a hint of respect for the dead and a degree of humbleness for himself, but nope, guess that's a lofty expectation for Pete.

Yep.

 

[RedVee]

I was just reading this related article...
THE WHO's PETE TOWNSHEND On KEITH MOON And JOHN ENTWISTLE: 'Thank God They're Gone'

Never was a big Townsend fan, even less so now. You'd think he'd show a hint of respect for the dead and a degree of humbleness for himself, but nope, guess that's a lofty expectation for Pete.

Wow. He needs to build up that ego a bit more...

 

[JIO]

FWIW, my new gig mobile which I pick up tomorrow. 2019 Ford Transit Connect.View attachment 3610651

Nice! I like my Element - but wish it had rear-side sliders instead of suicide doors.

 

[Count Bassie]

The Pete trip, maybe it's that his life has been mostly about one thing, being that kind of artist. Frustration can, over time, become a chronic sore in you. He doesn't see the Who the way we do, those 4 iconic characters- esp John and Keith- as masters who had a knack for making an impossible formula succeed. He saw them as geezers of some semi-hapless nature.
His coarse dismissal comes out-of-hand and as a surprise, but he probably is being honest, feeling they've maybe missed the point somehow, all those years. He's a little spoiled compared to the rest of us, believing that what he's done has been somehow monumental- when really he's just been fortunate enough to entertain his muse while the rest of us shoveled coal and looked after each other...
It was shortsighted and absent-minded to have made those remarks so boldly, but in a way it's interesting of him to have been so transparent.

 

[Engle]

The Pete trip, maybe it's that his life has been mostly about one thing, being that kind of artist. Frustration can, over time, become a chronic sore in you. He doesn't see the Who the way we do, those 4 iconic characters- esp John and Keith- as masters who had a knack for making an impossible formula succeed. He saw them as geezers of some semi-hapless nature.
His coarse dismissal comes out-of-hand and as a surprise, but he probably is being honest, feeling they've maybe missed the point somehow, all those years. He's a little spoiled compared to the rest of us, believing that what he's done has been somehow monumental- when really he's just been fortunate enough to entertain his muse while the rest of us shoveled coal and looked after each other...
It was shortsighted and absent-minded to have made those remarks so boldly, but in a way it's interesting of him to have been so transparent.

I guess if you think in terms being the guitarist that played with John Entwhistle...You would be constantly bombarded with huge broad spectrum sound from a monster player with a keen musical mind.
Now the bass player just does what he’s told.

 

[Count Bassie]

I guess if you think in terms being the guitarist that played with John Entwhistle...You would be constantly bombarded with huge broad spectrum sound from a monster player with a keen musical mind.
Now the bass player just does what he’s told.

I don't know that I'd be that dismissive about the new guy. The Who had their own story, John was John. I don't necessarily do what I'm told at all, though I work quite a bit. I'm no John...

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I guess if you think in terms being the guitarist that played with John Entwhistle...You would be constantly bombarded with huge broad spectrum sound from a monster player with a keen musical mind.
Now the bass player just does what he’s told.

The Who was greater than the sum of its parts. They inspired or pushed or pulled musical (and show) greatness out of each other. It’s possible we wouldn’t know who any of those four are had they not gotten together, or at least not so well. Lots of musicians don’t recognize (or can’t face) that and strike out solo, dooming their and/or the band’s career.