Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend - Pete Townshend's Deep End Live! (1986) {Atco 7 90553-2}
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© 1986 ATCO Records / Eel Pie | 7 90553-2
Rock / Classic Rock / Rock & Roll / Blues Rock

Pete Townshend and the Deep End Band played live for two benefit outings – November 1 and 2, 1985 at the Brixton Academy – to help support Townshend's own "Double O' Charities. The performances are excerpted here and were used in a made-for-home-video, also called Pete Townshend's Deep End Live!. Initially, a promotional 12" EP of the show was released to AOR radio stations in August of 1986. However, significant interest in the project would ultimately yield a 10-song LP which was issued to retail a few months later.

Pete Townshend's first solo album was a homespun, charming forum for low-key, personal songs that weren't deemed suitable for the Who, as well as spiritual paeans (direct and indirect) to his spiritual guru Meher Baba.

Pete Townshend - Live: La Jolla Playhouse, June 22-23 (2001) [4CD] {Eel Pie}
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Genre: rock | RAR 5% Rec. | Label: Eel Pie | CAT # EPR014~15 | 2001

The first of two fundraising concerts that Townshend played at San Diego's La Jolla Playhouse, and an enchantingly intimate look at the veteran Who man as he chats, jokes, and, of course, plays through a solid set of acoustified classics. The venue itself has some fond attachments to Townshend – it was here that he premiered the Tommy musical before launching it on Broadway and, hardly surprisingly, the deaf, dumb and blind kid opens the show via a rousing "Pinball Wizard." From there, Townshend swoops into an affecting "Let My Love Open the Door," setting the pace for the remainder of the show.

Pete Townshend - Live: The Empire 1998 (2000) {2CD Set, Eel Pie EPR 009-1/2}
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© 1998, 2000 Eel Pie Recording Productions Ltd. | EPR 009-1/2
Rock / Contemporary Rock / Hard Rock / Art Rock

Only available through mailorder at eelpie.co.uk. Recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on November 9 1998, this double CD release marks Pete Townshend's return to the UK stage as a solo artist after an absence of thirteen years. Backed by musicians such as Rabbit, Chucho Merchan and Pete Hope Evans, as well as featuring freestyle rapper Hame on a number of Pete's best known tunes.

Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix (1977) {ATCO Records 790097-2 rel 1983}
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© 1977, 1983 Eel Pie / Atlantic / ATCO Records | 7 90097-2
Rock / Classic Rock / Folk Rock / Rock & Roll

Rough Mix, Pete Townshend's 1977 collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane's former band, Slim Chance, with touches of country, folk, and New Orleans rock & roll, along with Townshend's own trademark style. Lane's tunes, especially the beautiful "Annie," possess an understated charm, while Townshend, with songs such as "Misunderstood," the Meher Baba-inspired "Keep Me Turning," and the strange love song "My Baby Gives It Away," delivers some of the best material of his solo career. Rough Mix stands as a minor masterpiece and an overlooked gem in both artists' vast bodies of work. Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, and Charlie Watts guest.

Pete Townshend is the best thing that ever happened to Rock, and “Empty Glass” is his solo masterpiece, an insightful, invigorating confessional from a man on the edge. Townshend addresses punks, aging, drinking, music critics, work ethic, and his lifelong quest to find some meaning in life...