 First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice. |
| In those days I don't' think they were even demos. |
| I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it. |
| I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together. |
| No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me. |
| All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming. |
| We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group. |
| We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times. |
| I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it. |
| You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker. |
| My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days. |
| I always used to develop a cold going into the studio. |
| We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime. |
| I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways. |
| But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man. |
| I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice. |
| Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out. |
| Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we did the recording between gigs literally. |
| I think Pete did have a hard time as a kid with his appearance. But don't all kids have a hard time? God, I had a hard time, too. I was little with bow legs and rickets. I used to get picked on like everybody used to get picked on. |
| Monterey, I remember, but I seem to remember the Fillmore West, that we played the week before Monterey. That was much more memorable for me. The first time in San Francisco. They were good gigs. |
