Re: pete with men

["Neil E. Weissman" <neilweissman@xxxxxxxxx>]

The gay experimentation issue is nothing new.  Back in 1983 or 1984 he did
an interview with a similar discussion.  He said that he know what it was
like to be a woman or something and described a dark experimentally sexual
side when talking about Rough Boys (I think it was that song).

How weak of Rolling Stone to run this interview instead of trying to
update it with given John Entwistle's death.
--- "L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >I don't think anyone here should be bothered by Pete's comments about
> gay 
> >experimentation.  Wasn't this par for the course back then among rock 
> >stars?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> >They would get high all the time and party with other rock stars, who
> by 
> >nature were into experimentation regarding music and art, and would
> sort of 
> >get lost in the moment.
> 
> Passed out blind drunk, do you mean?
> 
> 
> >I would say that what Pete did (or admitted to
> >doing) was far more the norm than the exception in those days in that
> >context.  I mean Pete was hangin out with elton john, mick jagger, and 
> >david bowie for god's sake!
> 
> Kit Lambert.
> 
> 
> >At some point a drunken or incredibly high pete townshend was bound to
> do 
> >something with a guy.  No one should be shocked or bothered.
> 
> Actually, I get the impression that Pete was shocked and bothered.
> 
> There have been some comments on other lists about this interview and a
> bit 
> of discussion on the Pete Townshend list, and everybody seems to be
> getting 
> about the same things out of it.  It seems Pete expected to be doing
> just 
> another promotional interview and the guy bushwhacked him with this 
> assertion and Pete reacted.  It starts off sounding somewhat peevish,
> like 
> Pete's tired of answering the same questions over and over, and then he
> gets 
> pissed about the sexuality thing.  Regardless of the jokes, I don't
> think 
> Pete has ever believed he's had a serious homosexual encounter, and
> Heath 
> made it sound that way.  Notice Fields actually says not.
> 
> However, Pete got his revenge.  How could they know John would pass
> within 
> days of this stunt?  When RS really wanted an interview, they were shut
> out.
> 
> 
> keets
> 
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