All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
I have to tell you, and I don’t mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
You’re better off being a brick layer if you’re going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I’d had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally.
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers’ hands, you’ve never seen so many cuts in your life.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
Of course, chicks keep popping up. When you’re in a hotel, a pretty young lady makes life bearable.
It was fun to sing somebody else’s song.
I don’t want to stop and I don’t think Pete (Pete Townshend) does. We’re at the pinnacle of our decline.
Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs.
But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn’t changed, maybe that’s why it’s so painful these days.
[on The Who’s performance at Woodstock] It was the worst gig we ever played.
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn’t be able to recall it.
I don’t have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock ‘n’ roll could change anything – I don’t believe that. I’ve changed. Who would have ever thought that I’d end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? But that’s what I want to be.
In those days I don’t think they were even demos.
I love Sell Out, I think it’s great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It’s got humor, great songs, irony.
I don’t know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
I don’t think there’s any way it could have failed. We don’t know failure in this band. We didn’t know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
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