{"id":805926,"date":"2020-04-01T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=976575"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:25:25","slug":"pete-townshend-is-starting-a-new-who-record-during-coronavirus-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/pete-townshend-is-starting-a-new-who-record-during-coronavirus-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Townshend Is Starting a New Who Record During Coronavirus Isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PeteTow.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The coronavirus may have forced the Who to push all their tour dates until 2021, but that doesn\u2019t mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pete-townshend\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pete-townshend\" data-tag=\"pete-townshend\">Pete Townshend<\/a> has been inactive. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m000gn97?fbclid=IwAR13bAx8RG2x4_LIggem7qnfk64T9A-keIGZGbvujjCThfMgb3aPpDxKnKU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">new interview with the BBC\u2019s Matt Everett<\/a>, he revealed he\u2019s using the downtime to begin work on new Who music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in Wilshire, I\u2019ve got a country place here,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to say I feel really lucky because what I do mainly is spend a lot of time on my own in the studio. I feel like I\u2019ve been given an answer to a prayer I don\u2019t think I would have had the guts to do, which is to say, \u2018Please cancel everything and give me some time in the studio!\u2019 It feels like a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His focus now is on a remix of \u201cBeads on One String\u2019 from the Who\u2019s 2019 record <em>Who<\/em> for possible release as a single. \u201cThe other thing I\u2019ve done is looked at the possibility of starting work early \u2014 I was going to do this next year \u2014 but starting work early on writing new songs for another Who album, as the last one did so well. So I\u2019m knocking ideas around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cCNfyDnfwWg?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another project in the works is a musical adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/pete-townshend-interview-age-of-anxiety-book-who-plans-911479\/\">his 2019 novel <em>The Age of Anxiety<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s time-consuming, but it\u2019s really pleasurable,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m working with orchestrations, drum boxes, old vintage synthesizers and of course the usual guitars and piano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Who<\/em> was the Who\u2019s first album of new material since\u2019s 2006\u2019s <em>Endless Wire<\/em> and only their second record since 1982\u2019s <em>It\u2019s Hard.<\/em> Townshend hasn\u2019t released a solo record since 1993\u2019s <em>Psychoderelict.<\/em> Much of his energy in the past few decades has been devoted to touring. \u201cI\u2019ve never really enjoyed [that] much,\u201d he told the BBC. \u201cBut it\u2019s a necessary part of the business. The joy of what I do has been in the composing, the writing, the playing around with studio gear. It\u2019s like being told, \u2018Go and play with your train set.\u2019 Oh, that\u2019s terrible!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m lucky to be in the countryside,\u201d he continued. \u201cI\u2019m lucky to have space to walk in, we have dogs. I\u2019m not gardening. I\u2019m doing a bit of DIY, but it\u2019s all studio-related. I\u2019ve got an old American camper and at the moment I\u2019m putting a finger drumming studio in the back of that. That what I\u2019m doing today and it\u2019s fun. It feels like it might lead to inspiration and creativity. We shall see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pete-townshend-starting-new-who-record-during-coronavirus-shut-in-976575\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus may have forced the Who to push all their tour dates until 2021, but that doesn\u2019t mean Pete Townshend has been inactive. In a new interview with the BBC\u2019s Matt Everett, he revealed he\u2019s using the downtime to begin work on new Who music. \u201cI\u2019m in Wilshire, I\u2019ve got a country place here,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 15:02:51","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}