PT Interview in Guitar World

The August 96 issue of Guitar World (not Guitar, which also has a Townshend
article) has a post mini-tour interview with the Master.  A few choice
quotes:

On working with Rog:
GW: Did the idea for the Hyde Park gig grow out of a desire on your part to
mount a state production of Quad?

PT: Yes. But it also grew out of a need to find some elegant way to reopen my
relationship with Roger Daltrey. The two are of equal importance; I couldn't
possibly to Quad in the park without Roger. So when I agreed to do the show,
I was telling myself, "Hey, you're going to have to ring up Roger <on your
knees!> (italics) And accept any conditions he imposes on you." Which was
something I gladly did. Now I can say to a journalist "It was fucking
difficult. He just didn't want to do it."
[Ed. note: Daltrey has often complained to the press of Townshend's
unwillingness to play live with the Who.]

PT: And is <was> difficult to get him to do it. He has lots of complicated
issues regarding the Who at the moment.  But for us, this is the beginning,
hopefully, of a creative, collaborative partnership, which is something very
different from anything we've ever had before."

On Jimi Hendrix:
GW: You were working with feedback and destroying guitars on stage several
years before Hendrix. Did you feel ripped of when you first saw him?
PT: At first I did, yeah. But is was interesting. There was a lot of justice
in it, wasn't there? I did feel slightly ripped off. Only briefly, though.

On "Lifehouse":
PT: . . . what I'm actually doing with Lifehouse at the moment is much what
I'm doing with Quad. I'm just trying to develop them as dramtic musical works
for live performance. . . .

On live performances:
PT: Our "access" [to works on CD-ROM and other mulitmedia] is very
selectively controlled and manipulated. You can't really do that with live
performance. . . . But when you're in front of a group of people and some
guy's yelling out, "Play fookin' 'Magic Bus' and some beautiful girl down
front is showing you her body. . . it just breaks up the whole process. And
you think, "Oh, my God, this isn't what I intended. Everything's out of
control!" But that's good. And so I'm drawn back to live performance all the
time."

Great interview and pics.  Pick it up.

MN