Bruce Springsteen Pete Townshend, Bruce Springsteen called Pete Townshend "the best beat guitarist ever," recounted a tale about going to his first Who show as a pimply-confronted young person and joined Townshend and shock visitor Roger Daltrey in front of an audience for a shaking set.
The stone symbols went to the MusiCares MAP Fund advantage Thursday night in New York City, where Townshend and long-term Who director Bill Curbishley were regarded for their magnanimous endeavors.
Springsteen, Daltrey and Townshend united for "My Generation" at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square. They shut the occasion with "Won't Get Fooled Again," and were joined by Billy Idol and Willie Nile, who both hit the stage for solo sets prior in the night.
"It's gonna be great. It's gonna be terrible, yet great awful," Townshend said before the finale.
Springsteen gave Townshend the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication to the MusiCares MAP Fund, which gives individuals from the music group access to habit recuperation treatment paying little mind to their budgetary circumstance.
The Boss said The Who was the first shake show he found in the late '60s when the English band initially visited America.
"All I knew was for reasons unknown this music and the annihilating of these consummately fine instruments filled me with mind boggling bliss," Springsteen said.
Springsteen said he was so motivated he imitated The Who's set as a 16-year-old in the band The Castiles when he performed in for a school move.
"I went out and I purchased a smoke bomb and I purchased a strobe light and I conveyed them to the gig. ... Toward the end of the night, I lit the smoke bomb in the Catholic school cellar, I turned on the strobe light and I hopped on top of my Danelectro speaker holding a vase of blooms I'd stolen from one of the upstairs classrooms," he said.
"As the nuns looked on with awfulness, I came to up and crushed them onto the move floor."
Springsteen earned an awakening acclaim from the group, yet he additionally quit fooling around in his close to eight-moment discourse.
"Pete, I'm here to say, 'Congrats, merited.' And much obliged, not only for 'Who's Next' or 'Who Are You,' yet for who I am," he said.
Townshend, who turned 70 this month, informed the group regarding smoking weed as a craftsmanship understudy, stumbling on LSD and swinging to liquor in the wake of utilizing medications.
"I was doing like three containers of cognac a day ... what's more, I think I don't search too terrible for somebody that drank cognac for a long time," he said to chuckles from the crowd.
"Be that as it may, the mystery for me to have the capacity to do this visit with The Who, this 50th commemoration visit, and still sort of put on a sensible show ... has been (a result of) the 30 years I've been clean," he added to noisy here's to you.
The night was a blend of absurd minutes from the stone stars to high volume exhibitions. Joan Jett shook out in her mark dark group and Nile was vigorous on the guitar. Daltrey was energized in front of an audience and lured the group with his mark windmill impact with the receiver. Symbol coordinated his vitality: He moved, waved his tongue and stuck 50% of his amplifier down his jeans while he applauded as the band started playing "Who Are You," which earned Idol an overwhelming applause.
Elton John, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Roger Waters and Joe Walsh showed up in features and offered kind words to Townshend and Curbishley. Furthermore, Daltrey, 71, amazed the group when he bounced in front of an audience after Curbishley acknowledged the From the Heart Award.
"It's not simple to locate a fair administrator around here," Daltrey said to giggles, "particularly in our period. A percentage of the craftsmen will tell you."Curbishley said he was thankful that The Who has performed at advantage occasions like "12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief" and "The Concert for New York City" in light of the Sept. 11 assaults.
"I'm a firm, firm devotee to fresh opportunities, and third risks besides. ...I had a somewhat of a rough begin in my initial life, and afterward I had another opportunity. Music gave me that additional opportunity," he said.
Thursday's occasion denoted the 11th yearly MusiCares MAP Fund advantage show. The association brought $26,000 up in 1992, however raised more than $37 million last year.
A 1962 guitar that Townshend purchased from Daltrey was unloaded for $41,000; both entertainers signed it.
The stone symbols went to the MusiCares MAP Fund advantage Thursday night in New York City, where Townshend and long-term Who director Bill Curbishley were regarded for their magnanimous endeavors.
Springsteen, Daltrey and Townshend united for "My Generation" at the Best Buy Theater in Times Square. They shut the occasion with "Won't Get Fooled Again," and were joined by Billy Idol and Willie Nile, who both hit the stage for solo sets prior in the night.
"It's gonna be great. It's gonna be terrible, yet great awful," Townshend said before the finale.
Springsteen gave Townshend the Stevie Ray Vaughan Award for his dedication to the MusiCares MAP Fund, which gives individuals from the music group access to habit recuperation treatment paying little mind to their budgetary circumstance.
The Boss said The Who was the first shake show he found in the late '60s when the English band initially visited America.
"All I knew was for reasons unknown this music and the annihilating of these consummately fine instruments filled me with mind boggling bliss," Springsteen said.
Springsteen said he was so motivated he imitated The Who's set as a 16-year-old in the band The Castiles when he performed in for a school move.
"I went out and I purchased a smoke bomb and I purchased a strobe light and I conveyed them to the gig. ... Toward the end of the night, I lit the smoke bomb in the Catholic school cellar, I turned on the strobe light and I hopped on top of my Danelectro speaker holding a vase of blooms I'd stolen from one of the upstairs classrooms," he said.
"As the nuns looked on with awfulness, I came to up and crushed them onto the move floor."
Springsteen earned an awakening acclaim from the group, yet he additionally quit fooling around in his close to eight-moment discourse.
"Pete, I'm here to say, 'Congrats, merited.' And much obliged, not only for 'Who's Next' or 'Who Are You,' yet for who I am," he said.
Townshend, who turned 70 this month, informed the group regarding smoking weed as a craftsmanship understudy, stumbling on LSD and swinging to liquor in the wake of utilizing medications.
"I was doing like three containers of cognac a day ... what's more, I think I don't search too terrible for somebody that drank cognac for a long time," he said to chuckles from the crowd.
"Be that as it may, the mystery for me to have the capacity to do this visit with The Who, this 50th commemoration visit, and still sort of put on a sensible show ... has been (a result of) the 30 years I've been clean," he added to noisy here's to you.
The night was a blend of absurd minutes from the stone stars to high volume exhibitions. Joan Jett shook out in her mark dark group and Nile was vigorous on the guitar. Daltrey was energized in front of an audience and lured the group with his mark windmill impact with the receiver. Symbol coordinated his vitality: He moved, waved his tongue and stuck 50% of his amplifier down his jeans while he applauded as the band started playing "Who Are You," which earned Idol an overwhelming applause.
Elton John, Mick Jagger, Ronnie Wood, Roger Waters and Joe Walsh showed up in features and offered kind words to Townshend and Curbishley. Furthermore, Daltrey, 71, amazed the group when he bounced in front of an audience after Curbishley acknowledged the From the Heart Award.
"It's not simple to locate a fair administrator around here," Daltrey said to giggles, "particularly in our period. A percentage of the craftsmen will tell you."Curbishley said he was thankful that The Who has performed at advantage occasions like "12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief" and "The Concert for New York City" in light of the Sept. 11 assaults.
"I'm a firm, firm devotee to fresh opportunities, and third risks besides. ...I had a somewhat of a rough begin in my initial life, and afterward I had another opportunity. Music gave me that additional opportunity," he said.
Thursday's occasion denoted the 11th yearly MusiCares MAP Fund advantage show. The association brought $26,000 up in 1992, however raised more than $37 million last year.
A 1962 guitar that Townshend purchased from Daltrey was unloaded for $41,000; both entertainers signed it.
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