Re: Listening Session and Psychoderelict connections

[Alan McKendree <amck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 01:50:18 -0400
> From: "Andy C" <thekindpad@hotmail.com>
>
> I became amazed at the similarities to the situation. For example the
> references to child pornography in the plot, the media frenzy, the lyrics to
> Dont' Try To Make Me Real inlclude the lines:
> "make me of shit in a two-tenner deal/make me of pornography in a pedophile
> wheel"
> English Boy:
> "I read about myself in the newspapers/I'm a pig, I'm a thug, I've got
> nowhere to go but down"
Funny you'd mention this, Andy, only last night I was listening to a 
live version of "I Don't Even Know Myself" from 2002:
"Don't pretend that you know me, cause I don't even know myself."

This was written in the late '60s/early '70s, when Pete was 20 years 
away from recalling his own abandonment by his parents and subsequent 
sexual abuse.  Very poignant to think how (unconsciously) true that 
line was at the time.

I wonder how much unconscious foreshadowing of Pete's present 
difficulties are wrapped in the "pedophile" line you quote.  Did he 
have a hint of where he was going even then?  Maybe or maybe not, but 
still an another amazing Townshendian parallel between art and life.

Cheers,
--
Alan
"That's unbelievable, if that's true."
   --Howard Stern, 5/25/00