Re: WGFA counter-revolutionary?

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>Although Townshend was certainly no counterculture "champion," I don't 
think Won't Get Fooled Again is anti-revolution.  It just points out 
that once the revolution has happened, it will eventually be subverted.  
That's not to say the revolution was unnecessary, or that no good has 
come from it, or that there isn't any good in the new system despite its 
being taken advantage of.  Or perhaps
I'm missing something; I haven't deciphered exactly what he's singing in 
several spots (and party on the left is now partying on the right?? 
It's "parting on the left is now parting on the right," and it's about 
where you part your hair--a totally cosmetic change.


>Anyway, I don't think the song takes a stance about the merits/demerits 
of revolution.  I think it's just an observation.  And a very profound 
one.  

Definitely cynical and appropriate to our times.  It does seem aimed at 
the sixties counterculture revolution, but of course, like most of Pete 
work, it can be applied to human politics at any time.  I do think Pete 
participated in the idealism of the sixties--his feelings about the 
transformational and revitalizing power of music was evident in plans 
for LIFEHOUSE--but then he saw the corruption that entered the music 
industry in the seventies.  QUAD is about disillusionment.

keets






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