Fact #169010

Pete Townshend (guitarist, the Who) : A lot of demos have been so good, in fact, that it's scared us out of making recordings. Magic Bus, we didn't want to do it. I listened to the demo and I thought the demo was good but that we're never gonna catch it on record. It's gonna bring us all down. Let's forget it, let's do something else. And Kit was going, 'No, we're going to do it, you're going to learn every line, every little detail. Every precious thing in the demonstration record, you're gonna catch and you're gonna copy it if necessary.'

In the end, we gave up and we thought, 'Oh, we'll do it,' and we went down and we did it completely differently, but it all came together and we went up and thanked him for making us do it.

John Entwistle (bassist, the Who) : I played that on a Vox violin bass. Absolutely revolting thing that looked like a mint humbug. Vox gave us two guitars each. On stage, Magic Bus was always a complete bore for me. I'd be playing the same note, A, for six minutes. It wasn't so bad when we recorded it because that was only three minutes.

Pete Townshend : It was a gas to record and had a mystical quality to the sound. The words, however, are garbage, loaded with heavy drug references.
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