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Classic Albums (Who's Next)

John: All we could see were fellas, right? We, we always told ourselves that all the females were at the back, where we couldn't seem 'em.
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John: I didn't quite actually get it, I mean, perhaps it didn't work because we brought in a bunch of people from the street that had to go home for their tea.
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Pete: And of course, Who fans would know this, because this was the whole centrepiece of the Who show, with the lasers and… and Roger looking like some kind of furry animal.
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Roger: I didn't mind the synthesizers and drums in the back, but I didn't like it takin' over as lead instrument when we had this, what I considered to be one of the best guitarists in the world in the band. Used to frustrate me a bit.
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[listening to "My Wife"]
John: …double tracked on that last verse?
Glyn Johns: Yeah… and then Keith's drum bit… now.
[drums]
John: [laughs] Sounds like he was double trackin' there.
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Pete: A lot of what Keith did was incredibly funny, you know, there wasn't a drum fill he did that didn't go "dum bum dum bum, duh-luh-luh-luh dum bum". I mean, it was all, that was all of them, but just different variations of that played very very fast. You know, it was sometimes "dum bum dum bum, duh-luh-luh-luh dum bum" and then he'd fall on the floor!
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The Kids Are Alright

Tom Smothers: So what's your name?
Pete: Pete. Pete… Pete Townshend.
Tom Smothers: Pete? And where're you from, Pete?
Pete: London.
Tom Smothers: From London?
Pete: Yeah.
Tom Smothers: London, where?
Pete: London, England.
Tom Smothers: Hey, where'd you learn to play, you know, that's a wild style of, uh, playing… where'd you learn to playing the guitar like that?
Pete: That was bowling, that's bowling…
Tom Smothers: Yeah, I could tell…
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Tom Smothers: And uh, you must be… uh, Roger?
Roger: I must be.
Tom Smothers: And… uh, are you?
Roger: Yeah.
Tom Smothers: You're Roger? And where're you from?
Roger: Uh, Oz.
Tom Smothers: Roger… Here's Roger from Oz.
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Keith: My friends call me Keith, you can call me John.
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Russell Harty: Now you've been together now as a group for how many years, ten years?
Keith: Yeah, I'm leaving… was it that long? Christ Almight…
Pete: It's known as "the decade of The Who". Was it the decade?
Russell Harty: The decline (ie. decayed) of The Who?
Pete: The decade of The Who! Who decade!
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Pete: I used to rush into Marshall's music shop and steal guitars off the wall. I'd say, "just takin' a guitar, pay ya Tuesday!" and rush out.
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Pete: If you steer clear of quality, you're alright, you know.
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Pete: And when you actually hear the backing track to the Beatles without their voices, they're flippin' lousy.
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Pete: So I said, “you can't write a ten-minute song! I mean, rock songs are two minutes fifty! By tradition! It's one of the traditions!” You know, they” only allowed you one modulation… four chords… or, five” you know, five chords you might be up before the committee. Ten minutes? It's ridiculous!
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Keith: Well, I, I've, I've just been sittin' in for the past fifteen years. You know, they never actually told me that I was part of the band. I knew it by instinct.
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Pete: Eh! Ey! Gah! Oh no… no! Oh no, Keith… ohh… ohh…
Keith: That's what he was doing! Developin' his muscles!
Pete: Keeeeith… leave me alone.
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Ringo Starr: What do you think about Pete?
Keith: I love the man. Pete's one of my dearest friends. But I couldn't say that, Ringo, if, if Pete said, “what do you think about Ringo?”, see well, you know, we have our moments, and when we get together, there are certain times that you just… something, happens, that I really don't know what it is. But there's that magic there…
Ringo Starr: It's probably, we're drunk.
Keith: …it could be that.
Ringo Starr: Well, not drunk teenyboppers!
Keith: I, no, absolutely not, you Donny and Marie fans!
Ringo Starr: I mean, Keith and Ring, had a lot of medicine…
Keith: Absolutely!
Ringo Starr: …you know, just a lot of medicine, 'cause…
Keith: We're gettin' on…
Ringo Starr: We're gettin' old now, we need our medicine…
Keith: You know, see, just see the age of this suit!
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Pete: Bill said, eh, “well, what advice would you give him? Would you tell him to stop playing entirely? And, leave the group?…”
Keith: “Go throw his career out the window?”
Pete: “…throw his career out the window? Become a pauper? Starve? Would you tell him that?” “Well, no, actually, no, but, I would advise him to learn to lip read”.
[Keith laughs]
Pete: It's, it's true, it's what he said!
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John: We became rich a lot later than I expected, heh heh heh. Now I'm too old to enjoy my money.
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Cameraman: Uh, excuse me. Uh, you know, we just shot a lot of film at the interview, and uh, talking about all that, and I was wondering, uh, now if you could really tell the truth, and stuff like…
Keith: Uh, no… but, I mean, the truth is, you wanna hear it? I can't do that… you couldn't afford me!
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Interviewer: But you're a very different person now to the desperate young man of the early sixties, aren't you?
Pete: Yeah, I'm a desperate old fart, now. Not boring, though!
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Russell Harty: You're all married, aren't you?
Pete: Eh?
Keith: Eh?
Various: Eh? No no no no…
Keith: I wouldn't marry this lot!
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Keith: You leave his sleeves alone! Personal, them, eh? Can't touch things of yours, can we? Eh! Now he's in command, isn't he? He can make everybody else look a right twit, as long as you don't have a go at him! How long you been happily married then, eh?
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John: Can't think of anything to say.
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Roger: It just… it doesn't stand up… so… shut up!
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The Legacy

Clive: Hey now, things are looking up at Jason's.
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Clive: Well, hooray for Hollywood! Hi Maggie, I'm Clive.
Maggie: Hi, I was just trying to get up my nerve to go meet everybody.
Clive: Well, come on then, I'll hold your hand.
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Clive: Dah-dah! And now folks, for my next guest…
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Clive: You see? They're okay, really. Almost human.
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Maggie: Are you… all in the hotel business?
Clive: God no! I mean, can you really imagine Carl in the hotel business?
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Clive: She came here a poor little east German refugee.
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Barbara: So you see? We have all achieved our greatest ambition.
Carl: All except Clive. He wanted to be an English gentleman!
Carl and Barbara: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Maggie: Where did you end up?
Clive: I'm in the music business.
Jack: In Europe, he is the music business.
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Clive: Maggie, could you uh, give me some ham, please.
Butler: Any chicken, sire?
Clive: No thank you.
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Clive: Don't look like that. It's just another way of life. I mean, we don't ride around on broomsticks or anything… we've got the helicopters, umm, Rolls Royces, qu-quite nice, really. Excuse me.
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Clive: Oh, Jack's so pompous. Get it and enjoy it. Here's where it's at. The old boy's gonna die, and we're here to bury him. Dah-dah!
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Live In Boston

Pete: You wouldn't know hot if it came and stuffed itself up your fucking ass. With custard, you wouldn't know it.
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Pete: Yeah, we're all fuckin' sex symbols up here. I don't know what band you think you're following, but somehows I think you've got the wrong one. But you're always there.
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Pete: I only swear at people I love… so fuck off, all of you!
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Pete: Oh, for fuck's sake, be quiet, I'm tryin' to concetrate, you know? He's got his ear plugs in there, he can't even fuckin' hear my reply.
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Pete: People try to preserve their hearing… it's… too… LATE!
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Pete: Before… before… why do you have to speak? Why can't you just keep your fucking mouth shut?
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Pete: If you say “get on with it”, I'll fucking walk off, you know…
Roger: Why don't you get on with it and fucking shut up, for one minute!
Pete: All I want is a flamethrower. CHHHHHH!
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Roger: My initial reaction to John dying was “oh fuck…” uh, heh heh, “I'm left with the miserable one”, heh, heh heh.
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Pete: Some of them even had to suspend judgement beyond our first show at Hollywood Bowl, 'cause they went and cried all the way through it! You know, they would look at Pino and kind of go “OHHHHHH JOHN” summat like that, and so, but a few shows down the line we got their support.
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Pete: Our fanbase has always been predominantly male, but the 20% women that are fans are all completely and utterly mad.
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Pete: “No, you're right, Rog, you're right, you, when you're right, you're right, and you've always been right, and I've always been wrong, you know, you're, you're right, I've always been wrong. Everything that I've ever said is always been wrong, and you've always been right.”
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Pete: “You know, Pete's a fucking genius and I'm just gonna let him get away with whatever he wants to do, if he says 'dress up as, as fairies and dance about and pretend you're in a virtual reality', then that's okay with me.”
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