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Aug 26th, 2009 at 11:41am
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Pete blogs that there'll be a new '- album in 2010...

24th August, 2009
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I am writing a new musical.

FLOSS is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages. FLOSS will be a son-et-lumiére musical piece, intended for outdoor performance, or arenas. Several of the more conventional songs from FLOSS will be featured on a forthcoming Who recording for release in 2010. FLOSS will be heard in concert for the first time in 2011, at a venue and date yet to be established. I am already having talks with producers in New York.

The collected music and sound for FLOSS convey the story of a married couple whose relationship gets into difficulty. Walter, a straight-cut pub rock musician, is able to retire when one of his songs becomes the TV anthem of a big car company. He becomes a house-husband while his wife Floss devotes herself to a riding stables and stud. When he tries to return to music after a fifteen year hiatus, he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged. A series of dramatic events in a hospital emergency ward bring them both to their senses.

While Roger Daltrey exercises his ageing vocal chords by embarking on a two month USE OR LOSE IT solo tour, my focus is on FLOSS, which touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll.


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Reply #1 - Aug 26th, 2009 at 1:24pm
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Reply #2 - Aug 26th, 2009 at 2:13pm
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" Pete blogs that there'll be a new 'oo album in 2010...

24th August, 2009
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I am writing a new musical.

FLOSS is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of TOMMY and QUADROPHENIA. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages. FLOSS will be a son-et-lumiére musical piece, intended for outdoor performance, or arenas. Several of the more conventional songs from FLOSS will be featured on a forthcoming Who recording for release in 2010. FLOSS will be heard in concert for the first time in 2011, at a venue and date yet to be established. I am already having talks with producers in New York.

The collected music and sound for FLOSS convey the story of a married couple whose relationship gets into difficulty. Walter, a straight-cut pub rock musician, is able to retire when one of his songs becomes the TV anthem of a big car company. He becomes a house-husband while his wife Floss devotes herself to a riding stables and stud. When he tries to return to music after a fifteen year hiatus, he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged. A series of dramatic events in a hospital emergency ward bring them both to their senses.

While Roger Daltrey exercises his ageing vocal chords by embarking on a two month USE OR LOSE IT solo tour, my focus is on FLOSS, which touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll. "


This makes Joey moist .


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Reply #3 - Aug 26th, 2009 at 2:15pm
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The idea sounds horrible but I'll give Pete the benefit of the doubt. Their last album had some great stuff. Hope this isn't another Psychoderelict.
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"  Their last album had some great stuff.  "

BEST WHO ALBUM SINCE QUADRO !!!!!

http://www.nme.com/news/pete-townshend/46911


Really , all Pete needs to do is relax ,  ' dumb down '  a bit and write a Lil' Ditty ( See : Let My Love Open the Door ) .


There IS such a thing as being TOO cerebral

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Reply #5 - Aug 26th, 2009 at 3:19pm
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Joey wrote on Aug 26th, 2009 at 2:28pm:
"  Their last album had some great stuff.  "

BEST WHO ALBUM SINCE QUADRO !!!!!

http://www.nme.com/news/pete-townshend/46911


Really , all Pete needs to do is relax ,  ' dumb down '  a bit and write a Lil' Ditty ( See : Let My Love Open the Door ) .


There IS such a thing as being TOO cerebral

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He also needs a new lead singer. Oh no! not you again
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Joey wrote on Aug 26th, 2009 at 3:36pm:
" He also needs a new lead singer. "

*** SIGH !!! ***

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Joey,a moose in heat would sound better than Roger Daltry.
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Reply #7 - Aug 26th, 2009 at 4:37pm
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Joey wrote on Aug 26th, 2009 at 3:36pm:
" He also needs a new lead singer. "

*** SIGH !!! ***

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Joey,a moose in heat would sound better than Roger Daltry.



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" Joey,a moose in heat would sound better than Roger Daltry "


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Reply #9 - Aug 27th, 2009 at 7:48am
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That's cold, SCL.  Keith don't play guitar so good anymore either, do he?
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" That's cold, SCL.  Keith don't play guitar so
good anymore either, do he ? "


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Reply #11 - Aug 27th, 2009 at 9:33am
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That's cold, SCL.  Keith don't play guitar so good anymore either, do he?


Yeah Zack. But I'm on a self imposed ban from taking any cheap shots at the Stones for the next 30 days. Nanker
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Zack wrote on Aug 27th, 2009 at 7:48am:
That's cold, SCL.  Keith don't play guitar so good anymore either, do he?


Yeah Zack. But I'm on a self imposed ban from taking any cheap shots at the Stones for the next 30 days. Nanker

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"  But I'm on a self imposed ban from taking any cheap shots at the Stones for the next 30 days.  "

W- What ?! ... !!! :


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Yank it up Pete, go get yerself a new name.
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" Yank it up Pete, go get yerself a new name. "

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Joey wrote on Aug 26th, 2009 at 3:36pm:
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Reply #17 - Aug 29th, 2009 at 8:12pm
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TOMMY can you hear me? If Pete thinks he can write another musical, than he should do it! Or is that a rock-opera?
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Townshend's written a slew of concept pieces.
'Floss' is just the latest.
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Pete needs to learn the concept of a lead singer who can actually sing.
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Alright, that's it.  

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Joey,a moose in heat would sound better than Roger Daltry.



Not quite.  But Roger can only sing decently about once a week or so nowadays.  A traditional tour should be vetoed.
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Daltrey's upcoming tour sked is heavier than that.
Guess he hasn't been listening to the tapes...
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