A player so aggressive, capable of such barely contained fury, that he appears to compel the instrument to submit to him ... More than simply a musician, Townsend is a force of nature.

Love how after years and years, he still performs the essence of his music. Could you imagine anyone else playing Magic Bus, just them and the guitar? No one, but no one, else could do it.

@davjamrid

2 жыл бұрын

Amen

He's not wrong... That's exactly how a Telecaster's meant to sound.

@modestoney1577

6 жыл бұрын

no, it´s not, actually

@ChrizRockster

5 жыл бұрын

It should sound like you, in a Telecaster flavour! :o)

@teterouge1472

5 жыл бұрын

Because? .... You know.. Yes... Obviously...

@teterouge1472

5 жыл бұрын

@modestoney

@Rholding1963

5 жыл бұрын

A original 52 telecaster with a 6 saddle bridge? I don’t think so..

I think that Peter Townshend is one of the most creative men in music. I've followed his career from the start. Who plays like this? Who writes like this? Love the Fender '52 Telecaster. It is the epitome of electric guitar, to my thinking.

my favourite one man singer/electric guitar performance

give me truly a great rhythm guitar player over a great soloist any day. Remember recording this on vhs when it was originally broadcast. I wore the tape out i watched it so much. Great to see it again after so long.

Best rhythm lead player ever! Guitar god

@joshualessore7652

3 жыл бұрын

There are only a few guitarists that really nailed doing lead guitar inside of their rhythm playing at the same time i.e. Townshend, Prince, Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, Cory Wong. It's such an underated talent. Too many people consider "lead" as melodies and solos and "rhythm" as riffs and chords. The best guitarists mix the two together at the same time

@josephbuckley5961

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshualessore7652 what about malcolm young ?? Dude rythem was a understament for him

@bobleton2809

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshualessore7652 You missed to mention Robert Johnson, he just was the godfather of all they followed him. No soli, no shmokes, just a 🎸 and some of a wizard at its best.

@thatwasntmeitwasyou7752

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshualessore7652 dont forget Allen collins of skynyrd

@briankorbelik2873

Жыл бұрын

For many years I've considered the two most under appreciated guitarits as Pete and Robbie Kreiger (the Doors).

There are lots of very talented guitarists in the world, but if I could play like any one of them it would be Pete Townsend

@JayVonck

6 ай бұрын

Yesssss!

He kills me. "If you want to sing along you're welcome to" Vintage Townshend and the playing....fast, clean, creative, no words suffice for the powerful right arm that propels this music.

Pete. With ya since 1965!

the icon of rock n' roll. I remember seeing The Who at the San Jose Civic in 1968. Changed me. Hoo yeah.

The great thing about Pete is that he recognizes the artistic significance of the "tool" of his trade, and vice versa. This Fender is beautiful, especially in the right hands, BUT can also explode into shards and splinters, again, IF in the right hands. There will never be another Peter Townshend.

GREATEST. OF. ALL. TIME. GOD has a name and it's Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend!!!

A living, walking, singing, strumming, brilliant remnant of what was known as "The British Invasion."

This is about the coolest one man, one electric guitar video i've ever seen. Jack White comes very close at times. If his voice doesn't move you, that ripping telecaster wil! I have to watch this almost daily to remind me how cool rock-n-roll guitar can be. With all respect and love, you are a serious bad ass, Pete!

man that dude can play the guitar well ...and while singing at the same time!

pete is showing off here, basically toying with the guitar. ...love or hate, the guy can play.

@aajohnf

5 жыл бұрын

“Who” wouldn’t love him. Coolest man in Rock I say

Absolutely incredible a pure Legend what a musician!

Another awesome performance from one of the greatest guitarists ever

A master in his purest state of flow. I’m out ot breath just listening to it. Goes so hard.

....and its supposed to sound like this...! A true master,and he knows it.I get the fuckin chills every time. I often wonder how much greater be,if Moonie and Thunderfingers wouldve lived!!! Ah Salud!

I finally bought a Fender Telecaster very like this after years of playing a copy. Two years later I still get goosebumps when I glance at it on my wall. And as for when I play it through my 1970s all valve amp...MAGIC!!

Love that guitar sound!

Too much levels of EPICNESS!!!!

This is a Fender Telecaster and it's supposed to sound like this:

Pete is the best!

okey,thats the king of all gitar legends.

Intense and stripped down! Love it!

How could anyone not but love this.. Such rawness and beauty thrown into a whirlpool of pure genius..

Love that performance. So raw 👍

"It's a Fender Telecaster, and it's supposed to sound like this..." 'Nuff said!

I never tire of listening ...

Domination.

It doesn't get much better than this

Guy at work introduced me to this Version.....amazing!!

The look on his face at 3.01 is priceless!

love Pete, soundtrack for my early years and today...

BEAUTIFUL 🎸

Incredible!

Such An Underrated Guitarist…….He Can Play and You Can Tell He Really Enjoys Playing Guitar…..❤️

Makes me proud I worked at CBS Fender!

Rock & roll will never die. I've taken a bus (motorcycle taxi and friends) to see you Pete

This is the guitar leant to me by Pete Townsend for a gig at Twickenham Polytechnic in 1978 . I was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the band called THE SKUNKS! I broke this guitar at the show and it cost me a lot of money to get it fixed back up through Petes guitar techs and luthiers! It sounded brilliant especially through a fender amp. I must be the only guitarist that can say I smashed up one ot Petes guitars!! Gerry Lambe xxxxx The Skunks UK 1977

@davjamrid

6 жыл бұрын

Gerrylambe Lambe Awesome story Gerry! Thanks for sharing.

@tenonakin9237

4 жыл бұрын

Did you notice a name change??? Check this out, Pete Townsend Mandela Effect; kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioqBj7BypaW_dc4.html

The sound of that tele 😍 Wow

The master at work!!

Tearing it up on the telecaster great Pete Townsend

Great guitarist ..

that was awesome

It certainly does sound like a great telecaster. Unmistakeable. Rock n roll

The best video on KZread

truly genius , the emotion he gets out of him is simply amazing

@wrsawy

7 жыл бұрын

nice,,,,,Pete is awesome.

One of the finest exponents of great rhythm guitar playing...Pete has a great natural feel, that's hard to duplicate.. If you like this - check out Drowned - acoustic version from the Secret Policemen's Ball 1979. He has a stunning rhythm right hand techique.

@davjamrid

6 жыл бұрын

keith young I've seen that Drowned performance. Absolutely remarkable!!! One of my favorite's of his and nobody else compares to Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend.

Pete rules !

One off the best

Love me some Pete Townshend....;-))

The man is pulling off some good stuff here.

Just one talented man filling an auditorium with a guitar and his voice. Today's rap singers have nothing on this. So much electronic filler to make up for a weaker sound.

LUV YA PETE!!!!!!!

this is the difference between any guitar player banging on a guitar at home singing whatever song he fancies, Tele or not, and Pete Townsend.

Brilliant.

11 years later, and Later with Jools Holland is still going strong. Promoting the best in both new and old.... excuse me, classic...... music.

that's about the perfect Tele sound!

Yeah, OK Pete... I've been working and loving my beautiful 'Tele' for a number of years now and she's NEVER sounded "like this"... clearly, the problem here is that, unlike you, I am not the freakin' Man! "...we all shine on!" -JWL

What can you say? PT -one of the greatest giving that Tele the business. Especially love watching him manhandle an acoustic guitar.

50 shades of A. Love it 👍

Yeah, pretty much the coolest video on youtube! ..tomorrow I am selling my bus and buying a Fender Telecaster.

@Gogettor

3 жыл бұрын

Not enough.

Love that telecaster sound in rock music. The blonde 52 tele is the icon of tele's just as the 59 les paul is to the les Paul's and the 54 strat is to stratocasters and......love my classic axes, classic bikes, classic cars, classic rock. The best indeed.

LEGEND!!!

Mindblowing version, I tried this piece so often, but this is absolutely top!!

Crazy good... :)

this the reason why i want a tele!

Good god.. Rock and roll!

the man knows his way around a guitar

The memorabilia was that beautiful gold Schecter he played at Toronto and Live Aid, I believe.

Super

Ja .ja. Mira como toco !!Bestial !!!

I love how he laid down the law as to how a tele is meant to sound lol.

This is why I built my own Tele from authentic Fender parts. Awesome tone.

Townshend and a Tele. Great stuff.

Pete here, Clapton in The Dominoes, etc. There just seems to be something right about the raw, untempered sound of a guitar plugged directly into the front of the amp.

I.m 70 plus, the Who was a go to, but i never really got how really great he is until i heard him play outside them. Then i saw the light.

Sick!!!!

awsome

Pete is such a great rhythm player

Pete is so 😎 cool !

Indeed it is

I've listened to this maybe a hundred times. . Pete would say I must have a lot of time on my hands. Not too shabby though.

Genius

Still one of the best Right Hands

He still got it

It's funny that he asks the crowd to sing along but no one is singing. They are just awestruck that their all witnessing brilliance in the making....

When people ask why I play a tele, this is the best reason I could give.

thank you for clearing that up...i got a vintage fender book im looking at now and you are spot on my friend. You know much about les pauls? lps and teles are my main axes plus my ESP.

Sweet. I remember watching this, just got into The Who the previous year or so. Love this version. There is a great English Boy too which was the same Jools show.

When Pete plays solo like this, and loses himself, the rhythm, the attack, following the music, it's the clearest evidence of his genius.

Goes to a gig, Brings a $40,000 guitar. Yeah that's right, like a boss.

@jCd1058

3 жыл бұрын

Provenance. It's called provenance.

...your basic tube amplifier and god given talent...

for you guitar players out there,,, study this video. Pete toys with the song, his guitar work is incredible.

A rock genius.............

That awkward moment when the crowd start to clap... and they have no idea on their timing!

@mickwall1286

4 жыл бұрын

They never do. Ah well.

@lapelcelery42

4 жыл бұрын

I'm sure I've seen a show where Pete actually stopped his performance to say "Could you please stop clapping, you're ruining the performance"

@1091Floyd21

3 жыл бұрын

@@mickwall1286 Except for here, at the start: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGp4yrtsqc2rmKw.html&ab_channel=EltonJohnGigs