I’ve Waited 25 Years
June 24th, 2006 at 11:43 am by Cranky… to be able to see this video again. It feels soooo good.
Witness Pete Townsend blasting into his artistic and angry pinnacle. Truly a sight to behold.
It’s interesting to note that The Who had passed their Won’t Get Fooled Again prime by nine years or so at this point. Who fans were beginning to think that the band might be getting too old as these rockers were approaching 40 years old.
I thought if MTV ever sold their videos similar to the subscription music download services, I would personally make them rich.
So do any of you uber-geeks know how to save these videos to MP3 or DVD? I’ll be your best friend forever.
June 24th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
OMG! I saw them three times. I still have the ticket stubs!
June 24th, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Hey, anyone know where I can locate Townsend’s “Face Dances” video? I remember when MTV first came on, that video was on about every hour. The song was mediocre, the video surreal…
June 24th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
It’s also on You Tube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfqN0wupduI
Mr. Silence, I’m deeply envious. I was heartbroken when I saw them in 1989 from the nosebleeds.
June 24th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
“i wonder if i could kiss you”?
“gonna get inside you”?
am i the only one who thinks the lyics are totally homoerotic? Wasn’t this released about the same time as Pete came out of the closet?
I remember hearing that he released this as a solo record because it wasn’t the type of song Daltrey would have been comfortable singing.
June 25th, 2006 at 10:38 am
They have a few compelations kicking around out there but nothing of consequence. I collect the early 80′s MTV music and have just about every song I could want from the era. Still, I wish, like you said, SOMEONE SOMEWHERE would do a download service for the vids or put out a quality DVD compelation of the vids from back before MTV sucked.
June 25th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Yeah, annika, Pete admitted as much, about the song. But he didn’t “come out” until a few years later.
June 26th, 2006 at 12:13 am
Damn! I remember this video from 1982, when Mtv would play the piss out of it. Gawd, if only Mtv were only just half-as-good as they were back in those days. Give me the days of Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson (R.I.P.), and Nina Blackwood. Absolute gold to me in my teens; I watched it all on that channel. The videos, the Saturday Noght Concert, The Half-Hour Comedy Hour, 120 Minutes, Headbanger’s Ball, and even that shitty game show, “Remote Control” (Kenny Huber, Colin Quinn, Adam Sandler). Hell! I remember having the old turn-dial cable box back in ’81 and seeing the promos for Mtv that ran incessantly for almost 6 moths before they launched the channel with all the “I want my Mtv” slogans! Anyone else rememebr that?! Did Mtv in its infancy have the same effect on you?!
June 26th, 2006 at 7:55 am
It did Y.S., I was like the crack addicted monkey turning down food and water to watch another video.
Sadly, even at my young and tender age, I was all bitter at the corporate a$$-raping that was MTV.
Remember seven minutes of commercials followed by one video tied into a movie (the song itself played for five seconds in the actual film, btw), five more minutes of commericials (did Skittles own MTV?), a Michael Jackson video and music news, commericals and then maybe a cool rock video?
You could spend a whole four hours waiting to see a single Rock video.
Thems some good times. Y.S. Good times!
June 26th, 2006 at 1:35 pm
I sent the Townsend videos to some friends…
We had one friend who got MTV 6 months before the rest of us(different cable company)…we used to go over to his house and watch Martha Quinn’s entire shift religiously and fight over which one of us could marry her.
Oh…and this friend was the only one who had that 60 inch front-projected big screen TV. We’d all fight for positions in the living room with the least color distortion…
When Alan Hunter would come on with those pastel-colored shirts and white linen jackets, we’d switch over and play intellivision until our thumbs hurt…but eventually it was the videos that kept us coming back…