PT quote #13

[Alan McKendree <amck@thenetdr.com>]

Hello all,

This is the last quote the book has on Pete...a baker's dozen.  Maybe if I
can't stand the silence after a while I'll post the quotes from Keith.
Oddly enough ;-) they have only one from John and none from Roger.

The funny thing about that, which I realized the other day, is that if I
went back to the time when I said that and knew that I hadn't died before I
became old, I think I would have been fucking angry. In a sense I've
betrayed myself in that respect. But perhaps if I had died before I got
old, I might have been forgotten. You tend to hope you'll become James Dean
or Jimi Hendrix, but a lot of dead people aren't remembered at all. So I
haven't been able to achieve that one great ambition I had when I was
nineteen. But I've tried to compensate by actually making myself happy.
 -- Pete Townshend, on "My Generation" (quoted in _Rock Talk_ by Joe & John
J Kohut, Faber & Faber: Boston, London, 1994, p. 174).

Alan
Be sure to read _McKendree: A Burning Novel of Murder and Revenge_
by Douglas Hirt, ISBN 0-8439-4184-7  (available at www.amazon.com)