The Who

A ridiculous display of unwarrented violence

The Who rock band lived up to its reputation for violence on stage with an expensive Clayplay guitar and smashing at the Odeon Cinema last night.

The concert was stopped in chaos when guitarist Pete Townshend, several sound engineers, destroyed pre-recorded backing tapes and smashed up 300 worth of equipment during the groups presentation of its latest rock opera.

It was a ridiculous display of unwarrented violence written about by referees of pop1 Choir Townshend flung mental, but brilliant guitarist, is quite notorious for sudden fits of temper on stage which were almost always accepted as part of the Who act by its many followers.

But the time stage hands rushed to disengage electric amplifiers and Townshends electric guitar after he smashed it into a microphone and then smashed it to pieces on the stage floor.

Townshend stood after drummer, Keith Moon had trouble with headphones. He let the shouted by as

the sound engineers battled to fix them.

Pete Townshend water caved, rolling at the engineers behind control panes on the side of the stage. He ripped out backing tapes and heavy over equipment into the side curtains.

The three other members of the band1 lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon1 just stared.

The safety net was lowered to the stage but the fight stayed out.

He sat quietly at the piano1 total silence at rest while Roger Daltrey quite rightly made emotionally mad at Lordships across the audience.

After 10 minutes, with somebody on trouble from the dressing, the curtains opened and Daltrey smashed his bass into a try out the audience.

With a volley of four-letter words at the company calling sound engineers, many others glow plating backing boards and tried to explain everything by singing My Generation, a song about the generation gap and how no one understands younger generation.

Then Townshend hurled his guitar against the standing microphone and smashed it into a floor of a growled wall against the stage floor.

He then turned on a row of plug amplifiers at the back of the stage and hurled the top one to the ground. Keith Moon ended enough his range of drums, spitting when angry, the stage as Daltrey broke a last kick at his battery.

phone. They all left a thunderous audience.

It was, by a light, an extremely out of spirit stunt with commonly the aging cheer on the thousands of youngster who invariably follow the idols in all they do.

Ocerwse, The Who wen musically Immaculate, as always.

Concerts tonight and tomorrow will go ahead as planned.