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...splashiest and most fanatical part of the Who's act is their other pair, Roger Daltrey, singer, dressed in a clinging white T-shirt and silken white pants and Peter Townshend, lead guitar. The mind-rape these two pull off on stage has to be experienced to be believed...
...Peter Townshend in performance is a tall sleek figure with jabbing thighs. He whips to his left--slips forward--darts further forward--slams his bent foot down on the stage floor to a chord on the guitar played upward with his hand at the end of a complete circle of his whole arm. He retains complete control of his music though and never seems to miss guitar cues...
...just the right moment in the music Daltrey and Townshend both leap into the air arms and legs wide stretched...
...signal for it to begin is the song "My Generation". There was a mad rush to the front of the room, everyone standing. After the interminable excitement of waiting for it, the flash of recognition as Daltrey begins the proceedings by tearing at the microphone wire till it snaps. Townshend starts pounding the floor with his guitar--plays a little on it--then crashes it into the nearest amplifier again and again hitting the sides and the delicate loudspeaker fiber...
Fragile and finely-balanced machines usually get unthinking respect from us poor humans, but who has not dreamed sometimes of impulsively jamming a crowbar into the glassy cool facade of a computer? Watching Peter Townshend furiously poke his guitar with a gleaming steel microphone stand was strangely uplifting. Perhaps this is the mystical turn-on that violence is said to give. One can reasonably hope that such exhibitions as the Who's will only serve as emotional releases and not create a taste for violence for its own sake...