Pete's Confession

In a recent instalment of "In The Attic" the guest lineup included Regina Spektor who performed at the "T In The Park Festival" in Scotland where the Airstream ITA trailer had made a landing. Pete, Rachel, Mikey and Regina talked about the dynamics of music festivals and in particular the sensibilities of audiences in the 60's as opposed to modern day audiences. With an almost confessional like conviction Pete blurts out that all those classic festivals The Who performed at in the 60's/early 70's like Monterey, Woodstock and The Isle Of Wight, two of which I feature in videos below, were personally for him obligatory. The image above is the exact moment Pete (far right) says, "I hated them." His justification is that he feels back in the "hippie days" the people who ran the festivals were "hypocrites," along with the audiences which promulgated the hippie philosophy... hypocritically. My opinion is that Pete believes the British Mod movement, which basically paralleled the American hippie movement back in the late 60's, was the standard. Thus, hippies were a bad and failed imitation of the Mods.

My fascination with Pete saying that he "hated" those festivals is the fact that they are historically "classic" concerts where The Who defined their status as one of the all time super rock groups. Talk about a dichotomy.