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<![CDATA[ Latest from Guitar Player in The-who ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/tag/the-who Mon, 11 May 2026 15:28:19 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “She’d obviously done him to death.” Pete Townshend on the woman who preoccupied him and Jimmy Page at the Who’s “I Can’t Explain” session ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/pete-townshend-on-jimmy-page-at-the-who-s-i-cant-explain-session 59M9moLtiDsLCvmD6najZm Mon, 11 May 2026 15:28:19 +0000 Mon, 11 May 2026 15:30:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ “You might be wrong.” Roger Daltrey said the record business Is “a joke.” Now Pete Townshend is talking about making another Who album ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/you-might-be-wrong-roger-daltrey-said-the-record-business-is-a-joke-now-pete-townshend-is-talking-about-making-another-who-album j6ABcqEc8Ch7P2d4PmfGq6 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:42:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Our parents f***ed up —and it would be tragic to allow this to happen again.” Pete Townshend says kids today are living a modern version of his rock opera ‘Tommy’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-tommys-message-in-modern-society XxsULPdzecyE9WzXmuhjsT Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:25:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I hate the fact that I’m ever even slightly compared to them.” Pete Townshend on rivals, regrets —and what he really thought of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/does-pete-townshend-really-hate-led-zeppelin HdgRsBSriYwyYPU5rpg7Jf Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:07:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’d trade 150 Def Leppards for one R.E.M. It's as simple as that.” Pete Townshend on the music he despises, even though he influenced it with one vital Who album ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/the-who-s-pete-townshend-on-the-genre-of-music-he-despises WCGBKAFE3yvpEjtDtEXcA4 Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:41:49 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’m just standing there strumming a chord. And the audience looks at me and goes, ‘How does he produce that noise?’” Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-and-the-who-s-real-lead-guitar-player zcDA7phJg9kUb44RviyM89 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:21:30 +0000 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:51:11 +0000 <![CDATA[ “There might be some hits.” Pete Townshend may borrow an idea from the Beatles as he looks for help polishing rough gems from the Who’s archive ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-interested-in-using-ai-to-finish-songs cAMFgiycWkfNEu4vLJpDPh Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:58:47 +0000 Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:59:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I left art behind. There was magic happening.” Pete Townshend thought the Who would last two weeks. This was the moment that changed his mind ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-the-formation-of-the-who-and-what-made-him-commit-to-the-band fPXCwtFYxg6UnrC9o8rj7S Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:43:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I got my guitar and smashed it to smithereens. I said, ‘Now will you get out of my effing life!?’” Pete Townshend on the first guitar he ever broke — at age 13 — and John Entwistle's hilarious response ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/why-pete-townshend-smashed-his-first-good-guitar WwFMT62pmY5e6ToBYY5qVV Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:00:48 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He was hitting me with a guitar at the time.” Roger Daltrey on the day he knocked out Pete Townshend — and how the Who battled on after the sudden death of bass guitarist John Entwistle ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/roger-daltrey-the-time-i-knocked-out-pete-townshend zTFu4JHA28P7Jm7D8RLuKc Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I said, ‘My god, Pete, it sounds like 50 Marshall stacks!’” Pete Townshend’s guitar secrets revealed by the Who’s substitute guitarist ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshends-guitar-secrets-for-my-generation-and-i-can-see-for-miles-revealed E4yUXtcepMxzaDBp8pS39M Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:46:16 +0000 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 03:51:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When you actually hear the backing tracks of the Beatles without their voices, they’re flippin’ lousy.” The time Pete Townshend trashed the Beatles on television ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/why-pete-townshend-called-the-beatles-lousy 6kFqLrwJ8dybgR2hB2zffb Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:15:34 +0000 Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:23:04 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He smashes the guitar to smithereens and walks right over to me. He’s right in my face and says, ‘What the eff are you doing?’” Pete Townshend’s substitute guitarist reveals the highs and lows of his time in the Who ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-substitute-guitarist-steve-bolton-on-the-who-1989-tour JfJkoxqVv6Ef7pSYXZHKRj Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:25:23 +0000 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:28:22 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’d been clean for over 30 years!” Pete Townshend on the Who’s farewell tour, and the health issues he had to kick to get back on the road ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-this-is-how-rock-stars-die tqiWeoT29L9wAsFPMqX54o Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:53:49 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We don’t communicate very well. He and I are very different and we have different needs as performers.” Pete Townshend on his and Roger Daltrey's problems as the Who set out on their final tour ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-the-who-s-final-tour kFcRV2Ea4Xi3ShDPmUo2MX Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:30:33 +0000 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:32:56 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We were in London and the Who were playing at the Marquee. Down we went to confront them!” Randy Bachman on Pete Townshend’s hilarious response when the Guess Who told the Who to change their name ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/randy-bachman-pete-townshend-on-the-who-guess-who-confusion Y8FzpXVypuqChyhXirkWXU Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:04:30 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I raided every music store in the country looking for old Gibson SGs.” Pete Townshend on his desperate search for the guitar behind the Who’s status as rock legends ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/electric-guitars/pete-townshend-on-the-gibson-sg-special X5dxwodKofFbYfjDbmJfYn Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:34:46 +0000 Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:48:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It was just as good, if not better, than Pete Townshend.” Eddie Van Halen could play this Who album note for note says Michael Anthony ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/albums-singles/the-gest-who-album-according-to-eddie-van-halen-and-joe-satriani GhgspXBGHtutm4S2bYiaoX Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:25:24 +0000 Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:29:20 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When Bob sensed I might refuse to appear, he took the gloves off." For Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page and Bob Dylan, Live Aid was a case of bad vibes for a good cause ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/when-bob-sensed-i-might-refuse-to-appear-he-took-the-gloves-off-for-pete-townshend-jimmy-page-and-bob-dylan-live-aid-was-a-case-of-bad-vibes-for-a-good-cause Dbf85r3HsyrqynsfXgrKDn Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:53:56 +0000 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:57:13 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I feel a bit exposed talking about it now. That song brought me to tears.” Pete Townshend on the Oasis song that made him weep ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshends-favorite-oasis-song XDr3K8q3va2yF55ZrQoBNR Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:26:46 +0000 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:30:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The right method is to bleed. Your hand and pick have to connect with the effing string” The Who's Pete Townshend on the correct way to do a windmill guitar strum — and what Keith Richards says about inventing the move with the Rolling Stones ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/the-right-method-is-to-bleed-you-know-the-whos-pete-townshend-on-the-correct-way-to-do-a-windmill-guitar-strum-and-what-keith-richards-says-about-inventing-the-move-with-the-rolling-stones RDP2fgoL7yd3Fue5AhLp69 Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:31:23 +0000 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:47:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The next person that walks across this stage is gonna get effing killed!” Pete Townshend declared war at Woodstock when Abbie Hoffman interrupted the Who in the middle of their biggest gig ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/the-next-person-that-walks-across-this-stage-is-gonna-get-effing-killed-pete-townshend-declared-war-at-woodstock-when-abbie-hoffman-interrupted-the-who-right-in-the-middle-of-their-biggest-gig SwQmw3z5th4GJBu7Fq84yB Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:20:14 +0000 Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:29:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He decided he didn't want to be the lead guitar player anymore.” Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey’s career-changing move that made the Who guitarist an axe-wielding icon ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/how-roger-daltrey-pushed-pete-townshend-into-the-spotlight ojXL8Mjbaj3tG9XqwjAtPk Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:59:13 +0000 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 15:12:36 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I'm a dangerous f***er.” Pete Townshend says he gets a charge out of working. His latest comments offer a cryptic clue about the Who's future ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-the-whos-future f7FbXKTZHKEYgU5B7Gfmrh Sat, 31 May 2025 13:06:49 +0000 Sat, 31 May 2025 13:07:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’ve always regretted it. I thought, I shouldn’t have done that. That was like killing the wife.” Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey don’t see eye to eye on his guitar-smashing past ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-i-dont-have-a-relationship-with-the-guitar PBHnrEc4FPBm4J8asoM4YS Mon, 19 May 2025 12:51:02 +0000 Mon, 19 May 2025 13:22:19 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It was the reason I did everything.It’s the reason I played the guitar.” Pete Townshend on the awful gift that made the Who one of the world's greatest rock bands ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-the-one-thing-that-made-him-play-guitar i97ZXuyFQLvdqZmvWHXyLo Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:20:53 +0000 Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:22:54 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Roger Daltrey said, 'That song just felt so easy and natural to sing.’ I said, 'Well, it should. It's 'Substitute!'" Alice Cooper on his 1973 hit that inadvertently ripped off the Who ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/alice-cooper-behind-no-more-mr-nice-guy CAQyBv82sxTEqRZ7RAuh65 Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:05:29 +0000 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:42:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I don’t hate it, but it doesn’t fill my soul in the way that you see some performers.” Pete Townshend says he doesn’t like being onstage, and would rather work alone ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-performing-live-and-collaboration LjFK2a9mx7P4vym824FTBF Sat, 26 Apr 2025 12:46:51 +0000 <![CDATA[ "We tried everything we could to dirty it up." Why the Beatles couldn't have made "Helter Skelter" without the Who ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/paul-mccartney-on-the-who-and-helter-skelter rY3v9tyntNe2KxzntroZNB Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:21:10 +0000 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:11:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ “A lot of Who fans would be really pleased.” Pete Townshend ponders using AI to re-create his ‘70s heyday for fans who prefer the Who's classic songs ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-using-ai-for-new-music-and-jimi-hendrix muEQQLjj8CrAkJAYjAxk3f Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:32:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Jimmy Page’s playing on the first Led Zeppelin album —we just hadn’t heard someone let loose like that.” Phil Manzanera talks Page, Beck, Townshend and the 10 albums that changed his life ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/phil-manzanera-the-10-albums-that-changed-my-life mHjZ77KwVb79q99UVXNgLo Sat, 01 Mar 2025 14:56:15 +0000 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:10:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Jimi Hendrix was a great player, but he wasn't really creative.“ Pete Townshend talks originality, playing loud and which guitarist was first to use feedback ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/pete-townshend-on-using-feedback-1990 x6GY8dzTL72DbxWjRvmQJh Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:16:56 +0000 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 17:22:33 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I played anything I wanted to play… it reminded me that music first has to be fun." See Pete Townshend and David Gilmour team up to perform tracks by the Who, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and more in 1985 ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/townshend-gilmour-deep-end o6DfKFjuuM5anosEHxkuGZ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:31 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It got flooded along with the whole bus during Hurricane Sandy – it was soaked and warped”: Blitzen Trapper's Eric Earley reveals how his beloved vintage Gibson Hummingbird was improbably brought back to life ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/eric-earley-gibson-hummingbird-hurricane-sandy QgS7SoKu5vzCCpYGjCadfF Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:47:16 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Me and Pete Townshend had a rivalry to see who could get the loudest. We kept pushing Jim Marshall to make amps with more watts and volume controls that went up to 12!” Ronnie Wood on the early days of Marshall, and his loudness war with the Who ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/ronnie-wood-marshall-loundness-war-the-who XkB5RsqzJm4A9n74MZm3ri Fri, 24 May 2024 15:13:51 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2024 15:13:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The music I might hear, I can’t get on the guitar. It’s a thing of laying around daydreaming... If you pick up your guitar and just try to play, it spoils the whole thing”: Jimi Hendrix on translating his ideas to the guitar, and the joys of club gigs ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/jimi-hendrix-1970-interview FnMRdZSsrgahzKsiFY6WPL Mon, 08 Apr 2024 15:30:30 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:24 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Young kids that buy their first really good guitar end up in a love relationship with it – I've never had that”: Why Pete Townshend won't apologize for his '60s-era guitar-smashing antics ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/pete-townshend-not-apologizing-for-guitar-smashing 7ynHK9vpw2oNFCVuVnh3B8 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:48:19 +0000 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:53:37 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I got into the Who when I was playing my Mom’s Martin. I thought it looked cool to do the windmill, but when my Mom saw how badly I scratched her guitar she said, ‘No more pick for you’”: Carolyn Wonderland on Tele Thinlines and Houston guitar heroes ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/carolyn-wonderland-peace-meal 5R5rtnNhgnXGMPX3CrRtCm Tue, 20 Feb 2024 21:04:45 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ "The Whole Song Turned Into Kind of a Guitar Dialogue Back and Forth": Watch Robbie Robertson and Eric Clapton's Infamous ‘Guitar Duel’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/robbie-robertson-eric-clapton-last-waltz-guitar-duel acEbATSPdD6fkXKDPWDVMZ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:14:37 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:24 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’ll Never Be Able to Play the Kind of Leads I Want”: Pete Townshend Discusses Guitar Solos, Gibson SGs and More in This Fascinating Interview From the ‘GP’ Vault ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/pete-townshend-may-1972-guitar-player-interview-extract 9CMtXUwX4k3GVcEcJJ8uBF Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:35:57 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:09:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ 50 Years Ago, Rock and Roll Experienced One of Its Greatest Years: Here’s Why ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/1973-albums nnhgLe7PfkoTKcQx2JjeYG Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:59:44 +0000 <![CDATA[ Listen to the Who’s Psychedelic Pop Masterpiece, “Dogs” ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/listen-to-the-whos-psychedelic-pop-masterpiece-dogs V4WRBSWBEznvYHLg6B5cQE Tue, 06 Dec 2022 17:53:45 +0000 Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:12:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When I Hear This Track, I Hear Rockfield”: Listen to Andy Fairweather Low’s Vibey New Release, "Somebody Wants My Soul" ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/when-i-hear-this-track-i-hear-rockfield-listen-to-andy-fairweather-lows-vibey-new-release-somebody-wants-my-soul ubKbrSpBempTyyc5nMJbun Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:33:33 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The Whole Musical World Went on a Trip”: Listen to Keith Richards Recollect His Memories From the Summer of Love and ‘Their Satanic Majesties Request’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/the-whole-musical-world-went-on-a-trip-listen-to-keith-richards-recollect-his-memories-from-the-summer-of-love-and-their-satanic-majesties-request 5ShpU4YUy6j9dw8wErHr55 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:39:43 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ Here’s Why Leslie West is a Guitar Legend Like No Other ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/heres-why-leslie-west-is-a-guitar-legend-like-no-other ahzniTZW3nuF7yLPsCt3Vh Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:34:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ Jam-Jazz Cat Scott Metzger Steps Out With New Album ‘Too Close To Reason’ Armed With a Vintage Martin ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/jam-jazz-cat-scott-metzger-steps-out-with-new-album-too-close-to-reason-armed-with-a-vintage-martin 8fUaTJtD57BatQd7Lxc6Rb Fri, 22 Apr 2022 13:48:34 +0000 <![CDATA[ Rickenbacker Boss John Hall Endorses “Definitive” New Book at London Launch ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/rickenbacker-boss-john-hall-endorses-definitive-new-book-at-london-launch gT8MZXPm9gXdnDMEo5RAQj Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:28:13 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:24 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Who Announce 2022 North American Tour ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-who-announce-2022-north-american-tour f7CwTDAc7q5yJ4GToxCExY Mon, 07 Feb 2022 16:40:28 +0000 <![CDATA[ “God's Pulling the Strings and Playing the Whole Thing”: Ace Frehley Talks Life Before, During and After Kiss ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/gods-pulling-the-strings-and-playing-the-whole-thing-ace-frehley-talks-life-before-during-and-after-kiss 8MauWow3qUswYDYA7a3hhj Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:46:53 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Albums and Artists that Made 1971 Guitar’s Greatest Year ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/lessons/celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-albums-and-artists-that-made-1971-guitars-greatest-year Eu894haVmXSdNqqVrHigSW Wed, 22 Dec 2021 14:27:40 +0000 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 15:40:19 +0000