Got a Whole Lotta Love (earrrrrrrrr)
April 13th, 2005There is a new skin up on 3hive. The photo of a train station wall is from Charles Kamm, I believe. Charles makes the photos and the rock and roll. However, I’m almost more proud of the Navotron than anything else. 95% of the Navotron is generated by Movable Type. Sweet.
I’ve been telling Heather all night to WITNESS THE GLORY OF THE NAVOTRON. She’s very into watching Revelations, it being hyped about fifty ways to, well, Jesus, until our skulls creaked and we did bow down to NBC from the sheer weight of the choral music and the motion graphics. So I missed it with the glory. The Navotron can’t hold a candle to motion graphics.
And finally, there is the mention of Pete Townsend on dooce. This brings a very large smile to my face, as I hold Pete Townsend as one of the greatest songwriters in the history of the Rock and the Roll.
Question: Did Roger Daltrey’s naked chest beget Robert Plant’s or vice versa? o
April 13th, 2005 at 11:10 pm
A man after my own heart. I contend that The Who is The Greatest Rock Band That Has Ever Lived, and I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
I’m surprised how many people think Roger Daltrey is the core of the band. Anyone who has actually bothered to read credits, interviews, liner notes, etc - not that I have - knows that Townsend is flame that stokes that fire.
I finally got a chance to see them at the gorge in Washington a few years about, before Entwistle died. They blew me away, not only because of the music, but because Townsend ROCKED SO HARD. Seriously, I’ve seen a lot of concerts, and that guy put them all to shame. It was like it was his first show.
OK, that’s enough hero worship for one night. Time to go put on Quadrophenia
April 14th, 2005 at 7:12 am
I didn’t really listen to The Who until college, when I met the man who would become my husband. Thank God for him; he introduced me to actual music, and got me away from the shit on the radio.
When our nearly five-year-old daughter was a baby, she had some rough nights in the beginning. The Husband, in sheer exasperation late one night, put on The Best Of. He figured if he was going to be up with her, he might as well get *some* enjoyment out of it. Seconds after the first song started, she stopped fussing. By the third song, she was asleep. The Who was our salvation! Praise Townsend and The Gods of Rock!
April 14th, 2005 at 7:16 am
I have a very active fantasy about returning to 1965 and seducing Pete. What else can I say. Pete is the centre of the rock and the rest of us are mere satellites orbitting within his gravity well.
April 14th, 2005 at 12:43 pm
Yah gotta love Pete Townsend, he not only wrote some great songs but he also showed us how to correctly “windmill” a guitar. The windmill is where you hold your right arm out straight and swing it around in a circle to hit the strings. According to Pete you have to do it so your hand is coming up from below the guitar. His reason? It sounds better? No. It’s more aesthetically pleasing? No. He does it that way ’cause there’s a chance you’ll tear a fingernail off by hooking it on the the strings. Now *that’s* Rawk and Roll!
April 14th, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Oh God I saw Pete Townsend on an infomercial to buy some CD collection–the greatest hits of rock and roll. If that wasn’t heartbreaking enough he looked like he’d had BOTOX! Alas, how the might have fallen.
April 14th, 2005 at 2:43 pm
I’d say Plant was completely influenced by Daltrey. Plant did perfect the “sex god” frontman persona, however. And who could argue that Townsend was/is the greatest r&r songwriter? And who could argue that ‘Live at Leeds’ is the greatest live album of all time?
I saw The Who in ‘89 and although they were pretty much finished then, they put on a helluva show. Opened with a rendition of Thomas. Closed with Baba O’Reilly. Sweet memories.
April 14th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
hey bachelor: i agree, and it was SO obvious after Townshend went and did solo work.
mikeg: mmm…I may debate that one, but mostly because Plant in his heyday was all about the voice, although it was a damn shame his didn’t hold up so well…anyone ever hear “No Quarter?” the plant/page album?
Daltrey’s voice held up better, and he was probably the better actor, but all around, I would say the Who and Led Zep? All things equal. Then again, what do I know, I host an opera program, fer chrissakes.
Tangent jump: geek alert, since I know Jon ok’s geekness on his blog. Yes, the following link is Flash, but just the fact that someone at Hitachi decided that this needed to be explained is too cool:
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/images/pr%20images/Get_Perpendicular.swf
April 14th, 2005 at 5:33 pm
You don’t here people talk about Pete Townshend enough. Before my husband met me in high school, he had big plans for finding, wooing, and marrying Pete’s daughter. And in a 17-year-old kind of way, he was pretty serious. The thing that lured me into his life was the fact that I could play Baba O’Reilly on my violin.
April 15th, 2005 at 1:29 pm
I couldn’t get Novatron to do anything.
April 15th, 2005 at 1:38 pm
The Novatron is something entirely different. It won’t make toast, that’s for sure.
The Navotron will do all kinds of things for you.
April 15th, 2005 at 3:54 pm
You hear even fewer people talking enough about the almighty baseline of drumming stamina that is Keith Moon. In the early eighties I had a little shit^H^H^H^Hradio shack tape recorder with a tape of Hooligans. I listened to “My Generation” every morning throughout junior high school and vowed to one day master his maestoso recklessness on the drums.
Just when I thought I had it down, a friend sat me down and put on “Young Man Blues” from L@L. Never has “back to the drawing board” meant as much.
April 15th, 2005 at 6:50 pm
Navotron then –
see, now this is where the comedy happened. When you click on your navotron link, that little java window pops up with the navotron gif.
silly old me, i tried to make THAT one work.
now — i see that you were talking not about your little pop-up — but instead, the feature on 3hive — which is pretty cool.
i may not be stupid, but i sure am dumb.
April 16th, 2005 at 7:39 am
I’m digging 3hive and hte power of the Navotron BUT I really wish people would stop calling their mastheads “banner”. Norton won’t display anything called a banner and while this may just be too darn bad for us Norton users the fact is that there are many of us and to rename your banner something pithy like “Maurice” is chore conquered in but a moment.
April 17th, 2005 at 9:42 am
Pete Townshend has massive real estate in this girl’s heart. I love his solo work almost more than I love The Who, and that’s saying something, because I love The Who to absolute pieces. I’m not sure which naked chest beget which, but I’d prefer to look at Daltrey’s, mostly because if I’m seeing it, I know Pete will be there, if the camera would only move a little to the right…
April 18th, 2005 at 10:58 pm
Plant.. PLANT… Plant’s naked chest.
But I may be biased, having a Robert Plant tattoo.
no, it’s not a picture of him. I’m not THAT crazy. Or.. Is I ?