{"id":29557,"date":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-shares-his-admiration-for-guitar-great-pete-townshend\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:03:33","slug":"brian-may-shares-his-admiration-for-guitar-great-pete-townshend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-shares-his-admiration-for-guitar-great-pete-townshend\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May shares his admiration for guitar great Pete Townshend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-21\/Getty_BrianMay_052124.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Miikka Skaffari\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Brian May<\/strong> wants everyone to know how he feels about the guitar talents of\u00a0<strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A fan recently posted an old quote from May in which he called Townshend a hero and a \u201cgod of guitars,\u201d and May reshared it on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7L27tCMsdl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, reiterating his feelings toward The Who star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI&#8217;m glad I said this &#8211; I probably don&#8217;t say it enough,\u201d\u00a0May writes. \u201cI can&#8217;t imagine Rock Guitar without Pete Townshend. Looking back, it seems to me he basically invented it ! I was lucky enough to be there watching. My playing owes so much to him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">May goes on to explain, \u201cTownshend brought to the scene a blistering clang of super-amplified but not over-saturated chords &#8211; razor-edged monoliths crashing angrily through our brains, biting rhythmic hammer blows which would change the likes of me forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He then suggested fans listen to Who songs like \u201cMy Generation,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m A Boy, \u201cSubstitute\u201d and more \u201cto feel what I\u2019m talking about,\u201d adding, \u201cGood Morning folks !! You have your assignment for the day !\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miikka Skaffari\/Getty Images Brian May wants everyone to know how he feels about the guitar talents of\u00a0The Who\u2019s Pete Townshend.\u00a0 A fan recently posted an old quote from May in which he called Townshend a hero and a \u201cgod of guitars,\u201d and May reshared it on Instagram, reiterating his feelings<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-shares-his-admiration-for-guitar-great-pete-townshend\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}