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Pete Townshend : I was living in complete squalor, getting stoned every night and listening to Jimmy Reed records. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere … those were justthree words I wrote on a poiece of paper, you know? You used to do that when you were stoned out of your head.
Those three words I wrote to describe the way Charlie Parker plays – anyway, anyhow, anywhere.
Derek Johnson (reviewer, NME) : A wild raver with just about every conceivable gimmick – the leader shouts in an r'n'b style, with high-pitched surf-like chanting support, plus rumbling piano, cymbal crashes and violent tempo changes. Midway through it erupts into a veritable explosion of sound.
Roger Daltrey (vocalist, The Who) : We were a bit stuck for a second single. Then, one afternoon, we were rehearsing at The Marquee, and Pete came in with an idea which we developed into a song. He had the line Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, and a few other bits, but we basically structured it right there on the stage.
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I wrote the first verse of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - 'I can go anywhere, I can do anything, anyway I choose…' and Roger helped me with the rest of the verses.
Roger Daltrey : He would do this bit and I would say, 'What about that bit?' and we put this bit and that bit and the song came together like that … I think I wrote the bridge, toughened it up a bit, and some of the chorus.
Pete Townshend : I was inspired by listening to Charlie Parker, feeling that this was really a free spirit, you know? And whatever he'd done with drugs and booze and everything else, that his playing released him and freed his spirit,and I wanted us to be like that. And I wanted to write a song about that, a spiritual song, 'We can go anywhere, we can do anything, we are free…' And then Roger started to add lyrics like, 'I can get through locked doors…' (laughs).
Roger Daltrey : And we recorded it the next day. That's why there's no demo of it.
Shel Talmy (Producer) : Everybody said that feedback shouldn't be part of a record, and it's impossible to pick up anyway, but I used three different microphones at different points in the room to capture all the overtones of the feedback. It was a very different set-up than I Can't Explain. I had Pete really cranking it to the max. The combination of those three microphones was the only way to get that sound.
Roger Daltrey : By this time, the mod thing was really developing. Everything was so fast. Every week there'd be a new fashion, a new shirt style, a new jumper, a new jacket, new shoes would be in.
Keith Moon : It was very dishonest. The mod thing was Kit's idea. We were all sent down to a hairdresser, Robert James. Absolutely charming lad, We were then sent to Carnaby Street with more money than we'd ever seen in our lives before, like a hundred quid each. This was Swinging London, England, UK. Most of our audience were mods, pill-'eads like ourselves, you see. We weren't into clothes; we were into music. Kit thought we should identify more with our audience. Coats slashed five inches at the sides. Four wasn't enough. Six was too much. Five was just right. The trousers came three inches below the hip. It was our uniform.
Roger Daltrey : One night we put flags on our speakers and then Kit (Lambert, manager) came up with the idea of making the flags into jackets, which was a stroke of genius. It was probably highly illegal, to deface the flag, but look what it did. Before that, you never saw a Union Jack anywhere, except up a bloody flagpole. After we did that with it, Union Jacks were on everything. People forget that. It was The Who that started that. We didn't get the idea from a carrier bag. The carrier bag came from The Who.
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Those three words I wrote to describe the way Charlie Parker plays – anyway, anyhow, anywhere.
Derek Johnson (reviewer, NME) : A wild raver with just about every conceivable gimmick – the leader shouts in an r'n'b style, with high-pitched surf-like chanting support, plus rumbling piano, cymbal crashes and violent tempo changes. Midway through it erupts into a veritable explosion of sound.
Roger Daltrey (vocalist, The Who) : We were a bit stuck for a second single. Then, one afternoon, we were rehearsing at The Marquee, and Pete came in with an idea which we developed into a song. He had the line Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, and a few other bits, but we basically structured it right there on the stage.
Pete Townshend (guitarist, The Who) : I wrote the first verse of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - 'I can go anywhere, I can do anything, anyway I choose…' and Roger helped me with the rest of the verses.
Roger Daltrey : He would do this bit and I would say, 'What about that bit?' and we put this bit and that bit and the song came together like that … I think I wrote the bridge, toughened it up a bit, and some of the chorus.
Pete Townshend : I was inspired by listening to Charlie Parker, feeling that this was really a free spirit, you know? And whatever he'd done with drugs and booze and everything else, that his playing released him and freed his spirit,and I wanted us to be like that. And I wanted to write a song about that, a spiritual song, 'We can go anywhere, we can do anything, we are free…' And then Roger started to add lyrics like, 'I can get through locked doors…' (laughs).
Roger Daltrey : And we recorded it the next day. That's why there's no demo of it.
Shel Talmy (Producer) : Everybody said that feedback shouldn't be part of a record, and it's impossible to pick up anyway, but I used three different microphones at different points in the room to capture all the overtones of the feedback. It was a very different set-up than I Can't Explain. I had Pete really cranking it to the max. The combination of those three microphones was the only way to get that sound.
Roger Daltrey : By this time, the mod thing was really developing. Everything was so fast. Every week there'd be a new fashion, a new shirt style, a new jumper, a new jacket, new shoes would be in.
Keith Moon : It was very dishonest. The mod thing was Kit's idea. We were all sent down to a hairdresser, Robert James. Absolutely charming lad, We were then sent to Carnaby Street with more money than we'd ever seen in our lives before, like a hundred quid each. This was Swinging London, England, UK. Most of our audience were mods, pill-'eads like ourselves, you see. We weren't into clothes; we were into music. Kit thought we should identify more with our audience. Coats slashed five inches at the sides. Four wasn't enough. Six was too much. Five was just right. The trousers came three inches below the hip. It was our uniform.
Roger Daltrey : One night we put flags on our speakers and then Kit (Lambert, manager) came up with the idea of making the flags into jackets, which was a stroke of genius. It was probably highly illegal, to deface the flag, but look what it did. Before that, you never saw a Union Jack anywhere, except up a bloody flagpole. After we did that with it, Union Jacks were on everything. People forget that. It was The Who that started that. We didn't get the idea from a carrier bag. The carrier bag came from The Who.
(Source : not known)