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On their second night at The Rainbow, Finsbury Park, London, Pete Townshend of The Who drinks four bottles of brandy onstage and plays badly, initiating a backstage row with the other band members.Full article:
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I got used to behaving very badly. Once I was so completely out of my brain that I actually humiliated the band in public. We were playing at the Rainbow in London - this was early '81 - and I kept stopping songs and making speeches to the audience. I kept playing long, drawn-out guitar solos of distorted, bad notes. I'd alter the act, making up songs as I went along. And I knew it was London, and I knew that everybody's friends and family were there, and I deliberately picked that day to fuck up the show. I just ceased to care. I threw my dignity away.
John Entwistle (bassist, The Who) : We argued at The Rainbow. We always have, but there just happened to be reporters around that night who heard it. We just brushed it off as a normal day.
I can remember whole tours when I didn’t actually go in the dressing room once, cos I knew that if I went back in I’d hear the same old fuckin’ arguments. So I used to stay out in the corridor and talk to people.
Roger Daltrey (vocals, The Who) : It ended it all for me. I was hurt. I thought we were the best rock band in the world till then. I thought we could change the world. What Pete did proved we couldn't.
Pete Townshend : Far from kicking my head in, Roger was worried I was killing myself. Roger's always said over the last year or so when I was going through a lot of shit, "Listen, stop the band if it'll keep you alive. You're the important one to me." I think what I was doing at the Rainbow was testing that.
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John Entwistle (bassist, The Who) : We argued at The Rainbow. We always have, but there just happened to be reporters around that night who heard it. We just brushed it off as a normal day.
I can remember whole tours when I didn’t actually go in the dressing room once, cos I knew that if I went back in I’d hear the same old fuckin’ arguments. So I used to stay out in the corridor and talk to people.
Roger Daltrey (vocals, The Who) : It ended it all for me. I was hurt. I thought we were the best rock band in the world till then. I thought we could change the world. What Pete did proved we couldn't.
Pete Townshend : Far from kicking my head in, Roger was worried I was killing myself. Roger's always said over the last year or so when I was going through a lot of shit, "Listen, stop the band if it'll keep you alive. You're the important one to me." I think what I was doing at the Rainbow was testing that.
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