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Pete Townshend wrote yesterday in his diary on his homepage some details about the new, yet untitled "The Who" album, the first since "It´s Hard" from 1982.

Check this out: http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=278&zone=pr

20 May 2006

My Work Is Done - Almost.......

In order to have an album released in September of this year I need to deliver my completed production by the end of June.

My part as a musician on the Who album is now complete. I have recorded twenty three tracks and selected and finished my part in seventeen, of which eleven are ready to release. The remaining six tracks only require vocals from Roger (or a vocal test to see whether he should replace my existing voacls) this week, and by Friday everything will be ready for me to mix in the first gap in the UK tour between Leeds and Brighton on the weekend of 17th/18th June and our return to play the Leeds O2 festival on 25th June. Originally I left this gap so I could give my son some support in his first big exams, and I will do that as well. But it is fortuitous I have this time.

The tracks line up like this: the complete Mini-Opera based on The Boy Who Heard Music consists of ten tracks (of which six are previewed on Wire & Glass the Maxi-Single to be released in June/July). The seven other tracks represent an even mixture of straight acoustic and conventional rock band tracks. As I've said before, this has been recorded as simply as possible, starting in my home studio on analogue tape, 8 tracks only, and moving on to my pro studios only for the final computer round up. It's an exciting sound to my ears. Not old-fashioned at all.

I will deliver finished masters to Polydor on June 28th.

Still not sure what to call it.

 

Hope it's as good as "Real Good Looking Boy" was. If he's writing that kind of material, I am quite excited.

Looks like it's really gonna happen...after 14 years!!!

er - make that 24 years - 1982 was the last Who studio album! I was still at University when it came out!

er yeah right he he he

Meh, it was alright...when I first heard it, I thought it was just an okay song, with a reworking of "Can't Help Falling In Love" thrown in anachronistically...but it grew on me with more listens.  Did Zak Starkey drum on that?  If so, he can totally get in that  Moon vein.

Yes, Zak drummed on that and also the song written for Entwistle, Old Red Wine. I liked Old Red Wine more than RGLB. Old Red Wine reminds me of parts of the Who By Numbers album and "The Sea Refuses No River" off Pete's Chinese Eyes and there's a great rave up at the end.

Anything out of Pete's mouth should be taken with a grain of salt.   Until it's on store shelves, his word is about as reliable as Geraldo's digging for a vault.

Don't get me wrong, I love Townshend's work, but he is a kidder bullshyter quite a bit and says things just to get people off his back with any random canned answer he can throw together in his head just to get the question answered.

of all the broad spectrum of music I love and have heard the who just have never done it for me , yeah there is the well known tracks that anybody would know and like but I think it all boils down to the persona of pete 'research purposes' townsend. the man just leaves me cold

Often people with alot of smarts and education like Pete wind up being the dumbest of all but I've always been a big Who fan and always will be.