What? Pete Townshend Glad Keith Moon & John Entwistle Are Gone 

November 26, 2019 – The guitarist says both members were “blankin’ difficult to play with.”

The Who are set to release a new album on December 6th and Townshend talked to Rolling Stone magazine. On Moon and Entwistle the guitarist said, “It’s not going to make Who fans very happy, but thank God they’re gone Because they were f&$#*ng difficult to play with. They never ever managed to create bands for themselves. I think my musical discipline, my musical efficiency as a rhythm player, held the band together.”

Townshend said that Entwistle’s, “bass sound was like a Messiaen organ (referring to French organist/composer Olivier Messiaen). Every note, every harmonic in the sky. When he passed away and I did the first few shows without him, with Pino [Palladino] on bass, he was playing without all that stuff. … I said, ‘Wow, I have a job.’ With Keith, my job was keeping time, because he didn’t do that. So when he passed away, it was like, ‘Oh, I don’t have to keep time anymore.’”

The guitarist said he used to fib when talking about how much he loved Who vocalist Roger Daltrey but, “Now, I like him too, I like all his eccentricities, his foibles, his self-obsession , and his singer thing. Everything about him.”

Daltrey says the new album is their best work since Quadrophenia in 1973.

Keith Moon, their original drummer, died in 1978 and Bassist John Entwistle in 2002. Townshend says, “We’re not a band anymore. There’s a lot of people who don’t like it when I say it, but we’re just not a fucking band. Even when we were, I used to sit there thinking, ‘This is a fucking waste of time. Take 26 because Keith Moon has had one glass of brandy too many.’” by John Beaudin

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John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 35 years and a music journalist since 1989. He graduated from Broadcasting school as a newsman so he would have the skills to write about the artists that inspired him since he bought his first Elton John album as a teen. In the ’80s Beaudin was the host of the syndicated radio show “The Cross Canada Report” which had two versions (Rock and A/C). Beaudin was also asked to be a judge at the Juno Awards (Canada’s answer to the Grammys) Twice. He has anchored every position in radio including morning and afternoon drive and was a Program and Music Director for The Breeze and California 103 in Calgary. He currently hosts the popular Lovesongs at QM-FM in Vancouver and on iHeartRadio.


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