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::a timeline of Pete Townshend and the Internet:: Notes and sources



Notes and sources
Compiled by Ken Hawkins. ) 2003
Much of the information presented in the timeline is
self-documenting, that is, the source and date are
given in the entry.  Petes essay A Different Bomb,
posted in January 2002 but with sections apparently
written earlier, is cited throughout the timeline. 
The Google archives of the alt.music.who newsgroup and
the archives of the IGTC.Com Who mailing list at
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/ are also
invaluable real-time sources.

1991:  Pete gave the exact date of his wrist break in
a diary posting Sept 29, 2000.  He has spoken about
the time spent at his grandmothers, and his
subsequent research into this period during his
recuperation in 1991, a number of times: interview
with Terri Gross, Fresh Air, on NPR, ca. 1996;
interview on Guitar.Com titled The Fine Art of
Smashing Stuff, by HP Newquist at:
http://guitar.com/g2kfeatures/viewfeature.asp?featureID=18;
Interview with Pete Townshend at Manchester Arena,
England, 12 December 1996 By Stephen Gallagher
(British Youth & Popular Culture Editor, Ubu, posted
at:  http://www.thewho.net/articles/townshen/pt_96.htm
and at:
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/2003/Jan/msg00876.html;
Psychoderelict press kit, online at:
http://www.wdkeller.com/psychopk.htm 
The quote is from A Different Bomb, hereafter ADB.

1993: This interview, apparently posted in 2000 but
conducted in June 1993, is from Guitar.Com:
http://www.guitar.com/g2kfeatures/viewfeature.asp?featureID=48


1997: November: the Gary Glitter case is detailed in
From PC World to jailbird: Gary Glitter interactive
timeline, by Simon Jeffery, Manchester Guardian,
January 11, 2000, posted at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,245058,00.html;
and at the news archive at VH1.Com.

1998: the information on Ethan Silvermans film is
from a Google search on him, showing links to the
films screening at the Taos Film Festival and the
Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Other information and
quote from ADB.

1999: Petes comments on the Russian mafia and the
Internet come from an interview he did with the BBC
Radio 3. It was transcribed along with several other
BBC interviews and posted at the time on:
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/1999/Dec/msg00206.html


The information throughout the timeline on Operation
Avalanche is drawn from various news accounts and
press releases from the Dept. of Justice and U.S.
Postal Inspection Service.

Dates of the various openings, closings, and postings
on Petes web site are drawn from the site itself, the
IGTC archives, and the newsgroup alt.music.who
archives at Google.

Petes quote on his motivation for playing the charity
concerts in October and November is from his diary
entry of August 26, 2000, preserved at:
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/2003/Feb/msg00015.html

2000: Petes statements regarding the closing of the
chat room on the first version of his web site, and
the phrase quoted here, are preserved in the Google
archives of alt.music.who.

The quote from the BarnesandNoble.Com chat is taken
from a transcript in the IGTC archives at:
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/2000/May/msg00433.html

2001: the quote from the La Jolla show of June 22 is
taken from the Eel Pie CD of this show.

2002:  Pete identified August and October as the
months when he sent reports to the IWF in a news
notice at PT.Com on Jan. 29, 2003.

Petes diary entries from 2002 were saved directly
from his web site at the time they were posted.

The statement in the December entry that the list of
subscribers consisted of repeat visitors is drawn from
interviews with prosecutors and postal authorities
associated with the Landslide case (Dallas Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, Jan. 15, 2003) and The Times of London,
Dec. 18, 2002.

2003: Much of the material describing the events of
January are taken directly from the news sources
cited, especially the online editions of The Sun, BBC
News, the Manchester Guardian, and the Sunday Herald
of Glasgow.  Much of this material was quoted or
copied to IGTC, where it can be viewed still at:
http://www.igtc.com/archives/thewho/




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