peter townsend

Isn’t there something profoundly depressing about The Who appearing on the Super Bowl halftime show? I can’t even completely put my finger on it…I mean, in the end we all sell out…I’ve been trying to sell out for years, but nobody wants me…sigh…it’s kind of like listening to a medley of CSI opening themes…

The first time I saw The Who, they were opening for Herman’s Hermits at a roller skating rink in suburban Memphis. When Peter Townsend kicked in the amps and tried to set his guitar on fire at the end of the set, I thought, “Henry the Eighth indeed! I may yet get laid this decade…”
On Sun, August Seventeen of 1969, Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey performed their way into an established spot in rock music. They performed in front of an audience of about four hundred thousand

41 yrs after, with a native hearing of approximately hundred million and innumerable added people catching them from throughout the world, The Who demonstrated that they still got it.

This rock band of Britain, consisting of Peter Townsend and Roger Daltrey, who were considered to be the most earsplitting of the bands, performed at the stadium on the half-time of Super Bowl, rocking the seventy four thousand and fifty nine people present for twelve mins. The people present there were very excited.

Roger Daltrey is sixty-five and Peter Townsend is sixty-four now. Daltrey, the vocalist of the band, was amply appareled on Sun nighttime and appeared to be finding it difficult to reach a couple of the high-pitched musical notes.

Peter Townsend plays the guitar for the group. Peter Townsend used to be famous for his way of playing the guitar as well as the tendency to ruin his guitar.

Two old band members have left the band so Zak Starkey was taking the place of one of them.

All the same, while Peter Townsend chiseled the celebrated 1st couple of harmonizes of Pinball Wizard to start the performance, the audience was thrilled. They performed five songs on the show.

However, some people criticized the selection of this band to perform there. They said that The Who could not connect with the young generation. This claim was further proved by the feedback from the young generation on social -networking sites.