{"id":973979,"date":"2019-12-10T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=924729"},"modified":"2019-12-10T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T22:41:09","slug":"the-first-time-pete-townshend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/the-first-time-pete-townshend\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Pete Townshend"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pete Townshend<\/a> released his first novel, The Age of Anxiety<\/em>,<\/a> earlier this year. And when he sat down with Rolling Stone<\/em> in a New York City hotel room to talk it over,<\/a> he also looked back to share several other firsts from his long life, from his first time seeing Jimi Hendrix to his first time hearing the Beatles and his first time writing a song he was truly proud of.<\/p>\n

He also revealed the first time he thought about quitting the Who<\/a>. \u201cPretty much day one,\u201d he said. \u201cI always wanted it to be as brief as possible and it hasn\u2019t been. And this is not a judgement on them. It\u2019s a judgement on me\u2026Immediately I started to realize it wasn\u2019t a job that I like. I didn\u2019t like the the traveling. I didn\u2019t like being on stage. I didn\u2019t like the fact that it all seemed like all the other guys in the band just wanted to get girls. It didn\u2019t seem like art to me and I\u2019d been to art school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conversely, he also recalled the first moment he did enjoy being a part of the band. \u201cThat was probably quite a way down the road,\u201d he said. \u201cIt may have been around the time we first started to work in the United States playing places like the Fillmore and the Electric Factory and the Boston Tea Party where we were allowed to stretch out and explore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, he discussed the first time he realized the Who were past their prime. \u201cIt was when the punk movement came along,\u201d he said. \u201cI loved the punk movement because that\u2019s what I wanted the Who to be\u2026I remember after seeing Generation X and Siouxsie and the Banshees just thinking, \u2018Wow, this is what we used to do. They aren\u2019t doing it quite as well as we did, but they\u2019re doing it really, really well.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The Who wrapped up an extensive North American tour in October, but they return to the road in March for a run of UK arena dates before returning to America in late April. They just released Who<\/em>, which is their first album of new material since 2006\u2019s Endless Wire.<\/em> \u201cWe\u2019ll probably try to include a few new songs [next year] from the album, but maybe not,\u201d Townshend says. \u201cI don\u2019t know. We don\u2019t have much time to build that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pete Townshend released his first novel, The Age of Anxiety, earlier this year. And when he sat down with Rolling Stone in a New York City hotel room to talk it over, he also looked back to share several other firsts from his long life, from his first time seeing Jimi Hendrix to his first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:07:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}