Sheraton Gibson

 I'm sitting in the Sheraton Gibson playing my Gibson

And boy do I want to go home

From Pete Townshend's first solo album.   Very different from The Who.

Drowned

When we revisit earlier aspects of our life as we get older they often resonate in different ways.  I read JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy when a teenager and then reread it more than thirty years later.  I enjoyed the books just as much but it was the quieter moments that made the biggest impact when older.

I first read Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes at about 14 and was fixated on the sinister atmosphere and events surrounding Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show.  Upon rereading it in my early 60s I realized it was about a son's relationship with his father.

This is Pete Townshend performing Drowned in 2011, a song he wrote for The Who album Quadrophrenia.  Listening to the words I wonder if he thinks any differently, as a 66-year old, about the song he wrote when twenty seven.