Pete Townshend - LIVE 06/22/2001 [320k MP3]

This CD is from the Pete Townshend "signature" live series.



In June 2001 Pete performed a fundraising show at the intimate La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego. The Playhouse has a particular place in Pete's heart, as it was where Tommy was first staged prior to moving on to Broadway. The shows raised around $300,000. Pete performed solo and the small theatre atmosphere led to a "Storytellers" type of show.



Disc 1



1. Pinball Wizard

2. Let My Love Open The Door

3. Heart To Hang Onto

4. Cut My Hair

5. Slit Skirts

6. Drowned

7. Greyhound Girl

8. Tattoo

9. The Sea Refuses No River



Disc 2



1. Saint James Infirmary

2. Eminence Front

3. Won't Get Fooled Again

4. Behind Blue Eyes

5. Won't Get Fooled Again (electric)







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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (pronounced "TOWN zend") (born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the rock era, in addition to being "possibly the greatest live band ever."[1]



Townshend is the primary songwriter for the Who, writing well over one hundred songs for the band's eleven studio albums, including the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia and the well-regarded rock radio staple Who's Next, plus dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as Odds and Sods. He has also written over one hundred songs for his solo albums and rarities compilations. Although known mainly for being a guitarist, he is also an accomplished singer and keyboard player, and has played many other instruments on his solo albums, and on some Who albums (such as banjo, accordion, synthesizer, piano, bass guitar, drums). He is rated as the 50th greatest Guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone.



He has also written newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts.



Early life:



Born into a musical family (his father Cliff Townshend was a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires and his mother Betty a singer), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age. He had early exposure to American rock and roll (his mother recounts that he repeatedly saw the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock) and obtained his first guitar from his grandmother at age 12, which he described as a "Cheap Spanish thing". Townshend's biggest guitar influences include Link Wray, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley and Hank Marvin of The Shadows.



In 1961 Townshend enrolled at Ealing Art College, and a year later he and his school friend from Acton County Grammar School John Entwistle founded their first band, The Confederates, a Dixieland duet featuring Townshend on banjo and Entwistle on horn. From this beginning they moved on to The Detours, a skiffle/rock and roll band fronted by then sheet-metal welder Roger Daltrey. In early 1964, due to another band having the same name, The Detours renamed themselves The Who. Drummer Doug Sandom was replaced by Keith Moon not long afterwards. The band (now comprising Daltrey on vocals and harmonica, Townshend on guitar, Entwistle on bass, and Moon on drums) were soon taken on by a mod publicist (named Peter Meaden) who convinced them to change their name to The High Numbers to give the band more of a mod feel. After bringing out one failed single ("Zoot Suit"), they dropped Meaden and were signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert. They dropped The High Numbers name and reverted to The Who.