Genius or hack?

Genius or hack?

Pedo

One of the most overrated persons in all of rock music.

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He'll be the first when the dad rock purge begins.

A genius hack
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Yeah, he got away with it too.

"No, officer, I was doing RESEARCH on pedophilia by finding where these pictures come from to knab the bad guys!"
"Ok Pete"
"What?"
"What?"
"I'm deaf in this year, Keith Moon blew my ear drum by putting explosives in my drum kit"
"Who?"
"Yeah, that's us"
"Who?"
"What?"

I think that's how it went

Unironically, is he guilty? I don’t want Tommy to be tainted

literally who?

$100 says he was trying to re-live his groupie-slaying glory days and was just underaged teens or something relatively harmless like that.

That said, The Who was easily the greatest british band of the 60's and their innovation rivals The Beatles, their rawness rivals the stones, while of the big three of the British Invasion they were the only ones with the raw musicianship to hang with the 2nd wave British bands of the 70's like Zeppelin, Floyd, and the prog groups as true equals.

Apparently when confronted by police his excuse was he was trying to research how to prevent children from getting kidnapped

It's a little known fact that following the teachings of Mehr Baba sometime in the mid 70's, Townsend was able to tinker with his VCS3 and transform it into some sort of crude time-traveling device. In the 1990s he hooked it up to his modem and proceeded to browse Sup Forums a lot, collecting as many images of child abuse as he could, knowing well that they had yet to be born and that if he worked hard enough, he might just be able to save them.

>busted on CP charges
>admit to doing it
>find out years later he didn't actually do it
Seriously, wtf was going on?

(Nice dubs)
Neither.
He's Pete Townsend!
He inspired millions of young people to pick up a guitar and rock out.

If anything, he's a GOD for that mere fact alone!

As a guitarrist, he's very alright, but nothing special. The thing about him is as a composer he's pretty much up there with people like McCartney, Lennon and Wilson but for entirely different reasons. While McCartney and Lennon had at their disposition bandmates that were a perfect fit for the band and Wilson had basically full control, Townshend was in a very tough spot with the rest of the band - none of the members of the rhythm section actually stuck to rhythm section basics; Moon loved his fills and the main melodic force of the band was Entwistle, especially live. Meanwhile, Daltrey was a very good singer technically speaking but he was just way too closed, he didn't really behave like a frontman.

Townshend was put in something of a complex spot. There's a reason why his guitar method is so based on harmony and working with that harmony (especially though rhythm). Because it had to be; most of The Who's riffs are based around chords - he also REALLY liked his sustained chords for fairly obvious reasons. They're also very based on rhythm as well, which, thanks to the rhythm section on The Who not behaving like a rhythm section, they had to be. In a way he's kind of comparable to Johnny Marr to an extent and it's clear that Marr idolizes him. His songwriting is mostly based around his band - and that's what makes him stand out the most.

Oh, and back in the day they were probably the best live band in history.

>Meanwhile, Daltrey was a very good singer technically speaking but he was just way too closed, he didn't really behave like a frontman.
That's probably because he didn't write any lyrics, he was just Pete's mouthpiece.

There's a pretty noticeable difference from how Daltrey interacted with the crowd until Tommy and after Tommy. It's when he finds his own voice, starts wearing the open-up shirts that show off his chest and pretty much sets the style for a shitload of future singers.

There's literally nothing wrong with paedophilia you fucking nu-male cucks. Get with the times.

He got away with it because most likely the judge was all like "Bloody hell, Tommy was my favourite album when I was 13. I couldn't lock up one of my childhood heroes!"

The police eventually claimed there was child pornography on the matrix but the actual site he and Robert del Naja from Massive Attack signed up for (somehow people always forget he was arrested too) didn't have any cp. Supposedly a shit ton of people were unknowingly signed up to this matrix through fraud although not those two. Townshend said they signed up to expose banks/credit card companies funneling money to the Russian mafia through cp, but they seemingly took four years? Rich people are all fucked up anyway so I dont know what to believe

>Massive Attack
More like massive nonces.

Also fuck that hack Christgau for complaining that they did prog instead of remaking The Who Sell Out over and over and over.