There have been many guitar-demolishers in the history of rock, but perhaps none more accomplished than the Who’s Pete Townshend. Click above to check out an exclusive clip of Townshend demonstrating his technique from Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who, a film tracking the band’s forty-plus-year career via all-new interviews with Townshend, Roger Daltrey and more, plus rare concert footage. The movie comes out on DVD November 6th along with Amazing Journey: Six Quick Ones, an additional feature-length project that compiles commentary on the Who’s significance from Eddie Vedder, the Edge, Sting and Noel Gallagher, among other musicians.
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Who? THE WHO! | 10/27/2007, 3:04 pm EST
oh yes…I love the guitar smashers so much!!!
Who? THE WHO! | 10/27/2007, 3:05 pm EST
Pete Townshend is an amazing artist. And I love when he smashes his guitars!
Deano | 10/29/2007, 5:04 am EST
Anything the Who do is good for u.Clapton might be god,but Townsend is JC.
greg | 10/30/2007, 9:43 pm EST
Clapton is no god he wrote a song about his baby that he let walk out of a window..Jimmy Page is God!!Jimmy created landscapes of sound and music the most creative guitar sculpter the world has ever seen or heard.The was he layers his guitars is like a painter using colors to capture his magic on canvas.
basser | 10/30/2007, 10:53 pm EST
The DVD rocks! Be sure and get the Best Buy version, which includes a bonus third disc – The Who Live in Chicago 1979. Although “Who Are You,” “My Generation” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” are missing from the video, for some strange reason, what’s there is great. Picture looks mostly good, and the sound (and Entwistle’s bass sound) is spectacular. Kenney Jones rocks in the video, for real!
Deano | 10/31/2007, 5:00 am EST
I agree Greg but where do you draw the line.So many great guitarists emenated from the 60’s.I’ve seen both Clapton & Page live in the early 70’s & many others.All good.It is a shame the younger generation dont have the choice I (or maybe we)had.Along with P.Green,M.Taylor’Hendrix etc.etc.There are some very good guitarists around now,but not the smorgasboard the 60’s had along with all the great bluesmen.Cheers
Deano | 10/31/2007, 5:01 am EST
I agree Greg but where do you draw the line.So many great guitarists emenated from the 60’s.I’ve seen both Clapton & Page live in the early 70’s & many others.All good.It is a shame the younger generation dont have the choice I (or maybe we)had.Along with P.Green,M.Taylor’Hendrix etc.etc.There are some very good guitarists around now,but not the smorgasboard the 60’s had along with all the great bluesmen.Cheers
Romeo | 10/31/2007, 7:09 pm EST
Whoa here Greg, Clapton DID not let his kid WALK as you say out the window, he was down the street first off all, and the window was a swingout variety and no one on the apt had seen it open until too late. Its the mans son for gods sake have some class here.
cb | 11/3/2007, 6:27 pm EST
jimmy page the most creative sound-landscape guitar sculpter the world has ever heard? to that i say…. hendrix. really, why do fans of one guitarist feel compelled to slag all others? hendrix, page, townshend, clapton are all great guitarists. pick your favorite. enjoy your favorite. sing praises to the world about your favorite. but if you think slagging others lefts your favorite, you’re wrong, you’re juvenile…. and the fact that you don’t SHUT UP proves it.
ette | 11/7/2007, 7:03 pm EST
They all tore it up…but admittedly, I am bit more of a Zep and Hendrix listener for the jagged raging textured landscapes they painted with their guitars.
dave | 12/21/2007, 11:37 am EST
They definately all have had their moments…none of the above mentioned should be left out of the pantheon of all time r&r great guitarists… Not slagging him but in a live context I’ve seen few guitarists as sloppy as Page… but the same can be said of Townshend as well…Huge fan of all mentioned here… let’s not forget Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Gary Moore…
andy | 2/29/2008, 8:20 am EST
page is a good guitarist, but he`s away with the faries(landscapes of sound) Townshends guitar though is a social angst,that anger is right in your face and comes from the heart,to your soul. none better


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