pete townshend's rod stewart impersonation

[kyraaxoxoable]

@TheNeonRabbit You may want to reconsider Townshend as a guitarist. Many well known players consider him one of the greats. His rhythm playing was groundbreaking and his leads are incredibly creative. He's never played the same lead twice. Not to mention he's also a fantastic acoustic player. I saw the Who about 2 years ago and he hasn't lost his chops. Rolling Stone ranked him #50 all time. For me he's in the top ten.

Best Wishes.

From Rolling Stone:

[TheNeonRabbit]

@kyraaxoxoable I love the Who. Townsend has written some of the best rock tunes of all time and yes, his playing style works well for those tunes. He's one of the flashiest showmen in rock. I'm just saying guitar playing isn't his greatest talent. I've never heard him play anything I couldn't and there's MANY guitarists that could blow me out of the water. I guess we can just disagree. Sorry. Magazine rankings don't impress me. What leads?

[joedog281]

Well i have got an idea ,why don,t we all say that Gary Glitter is a great entertainer too,and maybe Peter Dennis and Gary will do a duo on the computer and see who can download kids the quickest,you sickos (like mallory 150)must not have kids,if you had them you would be of a different opinion.

[hydfawr]

Wheres the book Pete?

[adaymify]

good on ya...

[carltornell]

I tend to agree, although I was a great fan of Rod Stewart's in the early 70's. Youthful ignorance, perhaps. I was profoundly disappointed with Atlantic Crossing and absolutely hated it, and although A Night on the Town was decent, from there on it has been going straight south. I still love tunes like Maggie May and Farewell, but perhaps those are more to Martin Quittenton's credit.

[carltornell]

I tend to agree, although I was a great fan of Rod Stewart's in the early 70's. I was profoundly disappointed with Atlantic Crossing and absolutely hated it, and although A Night on the Town was decent, from there on it has been going straight south. I still love tunes like Maggie May and Farewell, but perhaps those are more to Martin Quittenton's credit.

[impalax327]

I've met Pete, he's a total twat.(oh and a pedo, forgot that). Loves the sound of his own voice, laughs at his own jokes, in general someone you wouldn't leave around "the kids" as he's always going on about. Creepy arseclown.

[plonker00765]

the young australian womam "racheal hunter" is actually a new zealander.

[normau]

Get On With It...I just love listening to Pete go on and on and on...

[celloprofundo]

Longest introduction to a song I never heard...here ; ) ..Still rather listen to pete ramble than michael bolton sing..

[RubHerSoul1]

@celloprofundo LOL! Right!

[celloprofundo]

@RubHerSoul1 ..Like Rod might say to Pete, "with a face like that ya nothing to laugh about" ; )

[RubHerSoul1]

@celloprofundo You mean a nose like that. heh heh.

[celloprofundo]

@RubHerSoul1 ..I can see mother nature now, "Let's see, we'll give him the gift of music , AND to balance things out, lest his head swell....that's it, we'll pre-empt with a swelling of the nose !" ; }

[armandin2048]

Most have been a fucking long concert or pretty short on music!

[invaderzimgirl14]

Love the video! Thanks for posting!!

[Sladedestiny]

Funny how Townsend admitted looking at child porn yet got off scot free. Glitter was jailed for it. Research? For what purpose? Yes has done some great music.Also a lot of crap.He neds Daltry to sing the songs.

[jtomasik]

@Sladedestiny The really bad thing about the internet is the anonymity of its users. If they could figure out a way of removing that, a TON of crap not worth public exposure in any shape or form would magically disappear from the new internet.

Your post being one of them.

[Sladedestiny]

@jtomasik Let's see.Was Townsend questioned over kiddy porn?Yes.Did he get away with it?Yes.You are sadly deluded by media pressure that says this or that is great rather than using what little brain you have and actually thinking before you post.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny he admitted LOOKING at child porn. They caught Gary Glitter in the company of underage girls in Viet Nam. Why do you think he went to Thailand and Viet Nam anyway? Probably because both are notorious for the underage sex trade. What you never hear is that all the images found on Pete's comp were downloaded over a short period of time ( a few days) That is not how a peadophile works. He if he was into that sort of thing he'd have months,even years of downloaded history like Gary did

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 How would YOU know how a pedophile works? Looking makes no difference.The fact is he paid via credit card to view pictures of young girls.That in itself is suspect. A few days again makes no difference.It's the fact he sought to look in the first place.I don't condone Glitter in anyway. But Townsend DID get away with it.Bill Wyman is another one.He admitted screwing Mandy Smith when she was 13.Again nothing was done.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny what are you a physchatrist? Got away with what? If the police had enough evidence to charge him they would have. There were no charges laid, even after they searched his hard drive. As for Bill Wyman.....rock stars have had a long history of dating young / underage girls. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Ted Nugent, Rod Stewart, .....I'd wager that even Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Don Powell, and Jim Lea enjoyed the services of a teenager or two in their day.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 He got away with admitting he looked at child porn.Pure and simple.You miss the point completely. Your saying if some famous person screws your underaged daughter it's ok because they are famous? And I never said Townsend downloaded child porn.Nor did the police.He was caught by using his credit card to view child porn. It's still a crime.If you want to argue his case at least make a sensible reply.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny no I never said it was ok, don't put words into my mouth. I merely pointed out that this is not a unique situation. Like I stated earlier just because he looked at "under-aged" girls doesn't make him a peodaphile. By that reasoning anyone who's watched a Traci Lords movie would be a peodaphile. Bad judgement on Pete's part, yes. Peodaphile no. Peodaphiles are obsseive, if he truly was he would have had 1,000's of pics, vids, etc. He didn't. One does not become a peadophile at 60.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 A pedophile is not dictated by age.As previously pointed out by you no less rockstars have a history of bedding young girls etc. Does that make them all pedophiles? Maybe not.But pedophiles come in all ages and degrees.Your friends dad is just ONE aspect. You use contradictions to try and express your arguement.Understanding your friend is commendable. However I don't buy into this my friend crap. It's always the same old cliche'.I got a friend so I know more than this or that.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny I don't care what you buy or believe. I don't know you from Adam and never will. I've seen what my friend's been thru and I know he's no peodaphile. But you're ready to jump to conclusions as to what I've stated and what Pete's stated. Two people you don't know. So I really don't care what you think. You can pontificate all you want on an annoymous site. Pass your judgements and feel as if you've done some good in this world. God knows what YOU do in your spare time.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Don't throw your toys out the pram.It's chidish and immature.You make the assumption Townsend is innocent.Yet you agree it does not take 60 yrs for him to research something.Yet thats the excuse the guy used. And your lame insinuation as to what I do in my spare time? I try and educate morons like you who have a one dimentional view that makes every excuse for the preditor but dismisses the victim. Your an idiot and I made u realise that.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny No on your spare time you post accusations on Youtube. If you felt so strongly about Pete why are you here? You came to stir up shit plain and simple. The cold hard facts are: The police seized all his comps searched for 4 - 5 months and found nothing. They didn't find anything in his home or in his possesion. He was never charged. Yet you come on here and announce him as a peodaphile. Who are you to decide that? If there's a moron with a one dimensional view it's you.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 I never put words into ur mouth idiot.I asked u questions which you avoided answering and resorted to insults.U still have not answered anything I asked you. My views are far from one dimensional.However I don't believe in fairy tails.You believe that townsend viewed child porn for research.I say bollocks.Anyone who has to look at porn images of kids has a problem.Downloading has nothing to do with it. You base your arguement on your friends dad.One person.U believe all that glitters.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny found this on the net: Almost all pedophiles have a collection of pronography, which they protect at all costs. Many of them also collect "souvenirs" from their victims. They rarely discard either their porn or collections for any reason......from the New Yor Post....which gives creedence to my point you narrow minded twit!......since the police found nothing in Pete's posession.

©2005 About, Inc., A part of the New York Times Company.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny I never agreed that it takes 60 years to research something....what I said was If he truly was a peadophile he didn't just become one. He would have been for the last 5 decades. That only gives creedence to my point. If he's peadophile he would have had pics, vids, movies, over the last 40-50years. Where's all that material? Surely over 4-5 months the police would have dug something up? Stop putting words in my mouth and take your head out of your ass.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Finally he had the urge to look at child porn. The police found no images.But he admitted viewing it.But that alone could not be used as evidence.However it does NOT make him innocent.He escaped it because he was caught before he could go further.You put stuff in neat little parcels.Life isn't like that.As for doing good not in the least.I have nasty violent outbursts but of course I'm innocent 'cos the police never found evidence.Even if I have busted a nose or two!!!!!!

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny the only thing you've busted is a lute string, now ponce off to save the world or a damsel in distress.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny hahahahaha I'm wrong.....you spend your time posting all over the net, same narrow minded opinions no matter where you post. As long as you're "doing good" like Mother Theresa, or Bob Geldof. Where do you find the time between building computers, teaching, and playing madigrals on your lute? Thanks for the laugh mate, better than an episode of the Simpsons.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Why are you so interested in my working life? You after a job? I have several interests bud. So I am in a position where I get people to work for me.Thats called having employees. You probably go to work each day and race home to see what replies you have on here.Thats the excitement of ur life. Me? I use my time to the full.The bollocks on here being a boring old playground where u often meet a one dimensional moron like yourself .You still watch Simpsons? Must be like watching urself.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny you get dumber with each post. I see you've recycled some of your insults from previous arguments as well. Oh yeah I can't wait to get home and see what stupid shit you put on here. Puts a smile on my face. Seems to me you've wasted no time to reply on your end. Guess between running a sucessful business, a burgeoning lute career and all around destroyer of evil......you've managed to find the time to reply to me. I am honoured.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny ...."bud"?.....ok "pal", everything ok "guy" hope you have great weekend "sport".

....what a tosser you are

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Why not fuck off into the Canadian woods and shag a bear? Maybe take your wank buddy with you as well.Or go and play one of the war games you took such care to put your controller capability on your profile.46? More like 6. Wanker that you are. Fucking hell you even believe the tabloids. A paper that relies on 2nd hand news from the uk.No wonder ur facts are so up your arse.

[ethan2932]

@Sladedestiny LOL...haven't checked your garbage for awhile...those "war games" are my son's....seeing as he's 12 i don't allow him to have his own acct. That way I can keep an eye on him....as you were Robin Hood

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny you do realise whether he downloaded or not, the sites he visited would still be in his hard drive. You cannot get rid of that. So the police would have been able to see what sites he had been on. Again if they had enough evidence he would have been charged. He wasn't even after the police thoroughly searched his hard drive.

[zeets93]

@zeets93 and you ask for what purpose did Pete look at "child porn".He has stated that he himself was a victim of molestation as a child. Now I know you're going to reply with "oh now all of a sudden he's a victim".....or something to that nature. I don't know if he was or not. But it would certainly be a plausable explanation why a 60 man with no past history of peodaphilia would be interested in viewing these sites.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Not plausable.Why would it take him 60 years to investigate it.Especially someone from a band that were very into the excess life of rockers?Truth is he used every excuse under the sun and lucky for him it was believed.How do you or I know where it would have led if he had not been caught? Human nature is curious.However most decent ones don't cross the line.Kids and sex are taboo.Who's Traci Lords? True so called entertainment is thrown at you.But it's chouce if you watch it.Like him.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny if he's the peodaphile you claim he is, then why was there no other evidence. No magazines, photos, videos. As you said Why would it take him 60 years to investigate this? If he has been a peodaphile the last 5 deacdes, then where is it all? Surely with the money Pete has he'd be able purchase that type of material thru the years....where is it? Why was none found?

[zeets93]

@zeets93 you also asked me how I would know how a peodaphile behaves. I don't, however a very close friend of mine does. His father turned out to be interested in "kiddie porn" I don't know if he ever hurt anyone, but I do know he was caught with thousands of pics and magazines ( before the internet). When my friend and his family attended therapy the first thing they learned was most peodaphiles are obsessive in nature.

[zeets93]

@zeets93 my friend also viewed child porn....why? because he was terrified that he might be like his father. He's not, he was absolutely disgusted by what he viewed. Do I agree with what my friend did? No, but I can certainly understand why he did it.

[Sladedestiny]

@zeets93 Don't preach to me about computers.I'm a computer engineer and its still very easy to wipe evidence from your hard drive.So yes you CAN get rid of that. So again I ask you is it ok to view nude pics of girls some as young as 7? Again how would you know how a pedophiles mind works? All are different and yet you put them in a neat little box.If they were all the same they would be much easier to find.

[zeets93]

@Sladedestiny of course you're a computer engineer.......and explain to me exactly how YOU know how a peodahile works......since you're ready to condemn a person you know nothing about. Or have any knowledge about the intimate deatils of what may or may not have taken place. And I ask you......when did I ever say it was ok to view pics of girls or boys as young as 7? I don't believe I did, but of course you'll infer what you want.

[bondurango]

"I just can't do that jumpin' around." ROFLMAO!

[MrPernell27]

Rod Stewart never made it public that he paid ronnnie lane's medical bills. Maybe because he didn't want to embarrase him, or because he thought it was just something you do to help a friend. It seems that a grown man needing financial help from his friend would be embarrasing. Pete Townshed should have shown more class than to divulge that information to people. Seems he could have taken

Ronnie Lane's feeling into consideration.

[lookylooky2006]

Pete is truly one of the best

thanks for the video

[tbyjb]

I agree. Rod doesnt get the credit he deserves. If u pick up his latest "sesions " cd set, it is amazing. rod is best when hes raw.

[aadoyle7]

@tbyjb hes the best when he fucks off, i hate that man just as much as bono and phil collins, they are all evil. fight the good fight i say

[RubHerSoul1]

I used to listen to Rough Mix daily back in the day. I gotta revisit that record soon. It's been awhile.

[thefdt]

Hasn't he got some child porn to look at?

[pipeandslippersman]

did rod REALLY pay ronnie's medical bills? my estimation of him has just shot up!!!

[jinx21fan]

Yes he did, he also paid for Long John Baldry's expenses in the end of his life. Rod Stewart deserves far more credit than he's ever got.

[Zendishwasher1]

@jinx21fan i had not heard that, i hope elton john helped as well. they both owe their careers to the late great long john.

[hawkhandsaw]

Jon Carin's been touring with Pink Floyd and now David Gilmour for years. Yet another connect-the-dots moment! Pete is so funny and a great musician and writer.

[johnisallin]

Pete seemed to be in an awesome mood that nite. Lucky crowd!

Rough Mix is such an underrated album. I love it.

R.I.P. Ronnie

[Mallory150]

Any pindick who thinks Pete is in anyway involved in the foolish fluff the tabloids print has not listened to The Who. Pete's a straight up person I was a a party with him,John , Barney and a couple of groupy women back in early 1980's in Pontiac Mi..By the way- he's one of the greatest guitarists ever!! Anyone know that K Richards loves cats and eats health food?- a far cry from the heroin gunslinger image.....my case in point. Townshend's a tough old fart- go work on keepin' your head on Pete!

[Mallory150]

Type error - I meant : (good) work on keepin' your head on Pete!

[hampden12]

bit ae a toss pot you then obviously..shut it .. no one interested in tosspot garbage

you and your a a party

shutitwank

oh and what the fuck is a pindick....

on behalf of petes country..keep yirsel tae yirsel.....EH?

[Mallory150]

Pete's a straight up guy hamp........that's all I meant. Chill out bro! Tosspot garbage? I guess your a fan of the tabloid nonsense that was written about him.........that's your right. Now try to find something more productive to do like learning to process what you read.....I admit there were 1 or 2 typo's but it was quite simple to understand.On behalf of Pete's country?What? I'm defending him bro-the tab's are a foolish lot.Go find a life for yourself. I am done with this foolishness.

[stonescourt3]

jealous?

[thefdt]

@Mallory150 the most damaging thing that tabloids printed about him was that he accessed child porn. which he confirmed. now he may have been doing research or whatever he said, but i don't think you can have any excuse to watch child porn. whether you were at some party in the 80s or not.

[sweetmay73]

@Mallory150 ..why bring keef into this?

[Lisarata]

Gosh, Buchananstreet, when YOU learn to play guitar, get your fame and fortune by working your fingers to the bone, and you're up there at the Kennedy Center, you tell old President Bush where he can stick the honor. You fool.

[1ericamat]

This coming from a peverted prick like yourself who is curious about downloading Pete/Who videos. What do you know? Police indicted Spector and Jacko but gave Pete a pass. Know your history or be it.

[Dayouchoob]

ERICAMAT ! ever in twickenham ill tell this to your face. CLEARED ! VILLIFIED You are a tabloid scirmish reader that knows Nothing regarding History otherwise you will realise just reading the titles ( tabloid story janet and john reading ) and only the sensationalism then he wil never know his reading subject.

[Dayouchoob]

1 Ericamat your one of the witch hunt lynch mob to the McCarthy years . Were you aware that Pete had contacted the IWF regarding how easult accessible that rubbish was on the web and when the story broke they denied he had been in touch and after the story confessed he had.You see that does not sell the rubbish read.

[Dayouchoob]

ERICAMAT Surprised I posted really no one else has after you write that a month ago as they are not as stupid as me wasting the energy writing to someone so thick. I look forward to your simple reply and try not too spend to long on it.

[buchananstreet]

he might be a genius but he accepted an honour for the kennedy center ... out of the hands of a certain w bush, the man who waged illegal war on iraq which murdered ONE MILLION PEOPLE brutally and with no mandate. BEETHOVEN REFUSED TO EVER PERFORM IN FRONT OF ARISTOCRATS! heres a LESSON for you, mista pete!

[1ericamat]

I think your confused. It was Streisand who was the hypocrite.

[1ericamat]

Petes the king of alll axe men. Period.

[bloxwichman]

he is a knob who just happens to play the guitar well

[zeets93]

you're the knob.......Pete's a musical genious who wrote some of the greatest songs ever!

Rod Stewart is nothing without the Faces, hasn't released a decent album since 1975, and has resorted to covering "standards" in order to the blue hairs happy.

If you notice Pete praise Rod and the Faces, and rightly so. The Faces were one of the greatest bands ever, hopefully the reunion rumours come true.

[vbpg]

here here zeets93!  brilliant comment.

[timtyrellisgay]

@zeets93 well put. The Faces are all-time greats, love Ronnie Lane. I discovered them through Roddie, and agree that he did very little without the gang around him.

[aadoyle7]

@zeets93 no no no. the faces were not one of the greatest but the small faces were, steve marriott shits all over rod stewart! when he left it took two members to take his place, rod stewart needs shot, the dirty rip off stole all steves limlight and is still around today, last time i seen him on an album cover he was half dressed with his crotch in full view the dirty fat man can only do covers and try to sing like stevie

[zeets93]

@aadoyle7 well I think the Faces were one of the best ever. The Small Faces were great as well, and you're right about Steve Marriott. Although I'd have to say I'm not all that impressed with Humble Pie after Thunderbox.

[MrSdmills28]

@zeets93 Yeah, great songs. After listening to about 10 seconds of them you have heard the whole thing, he just repeats the same ten seconds for about 5 minutes.

[theslipknotfan111]

@MrSdmills28 Well i think somebodys jealous that they aren't as big as mr townshend huh?

[modo03]

you've gotta be kidding right?Pete is a genius.

[historicalrecall]

Great! Thanks, always love Pete's stage banter :)