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PT stage act



Can anyone indicate the year (or even the specific concert?!?!) when Pete
Townshend first demonstrated his
highjumpingscissorkickingbreathtakingsplitsandleaping stage act? Eg. the
film of the Monterey Pop Concert (1967) doesn`t show Pete doing any of this,
yet by Woodstock he`s doing the whole range of crouched leaps (eg. t the
beginning of Summertime Blues) and other athletic stage moves of 70`s fame.
So when did all this start, and was this stage act a consciously devised
replacement for the (by then) abandoned guitar smashing? Interesting how
PT`s windmill strums and guitar smashing have been carefully documented and
historically placed, but much less attention given to his fabulous high
energy stage act......Gary M.