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Wanna Take A Bath? · 08-06-2005 04:15 PM

i watched townshend do his crazy windmill thing and i tried it and my arm is all bruised up now so is there any way that it is made easier?

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Sadie · 08-06-2005 10:51 PM

I think you just have to keep doing it. He ripped himself apart doing that windmill thing. If you watch him at Monterey, I think it's Monterey, he's got blood on his face cuz he ripped a nail off doing that windmill! Now that's rock and roll!

Pete in his own words:
It is terribly painful. But I'm used to the fact that there will be pain. I know that I will take my nail off at the beginning of every tour. Still. The string gets under the fingernails and rips it off. It's part of the job. I am playing sometimes and I go do a windmill , "Wang, wang, wang, blood" and then I think, This is it. I've arrived. It is the place where I should be, like a boxer in the middle of a fight.

And when he injured himself in '89 from the windmill:

Yeah. That time I speared myself. I was using a guitar that was created for Eric Clapton. It had one of those whammy bars for vibrato, basically a sharp piece of metal. It went in one side of my hand and out the other. I lifted my arm and the guitar was hanging there by piece of metal through my hand.

PLAYBOY: Did you finish the show?

TOWNSHEND: I slipped it off and belted a lot, but yeah. And there was a brilliant surgeon nearby and I was lucky enough not to have hit anything vital. Then it happened again on the bike. Everything has happened to the same hand. I have some heavy right-hand karma. I've 126 stitches in my hand.

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pink11235 · 08-08-2005 05:59 PM

I read that interviewin one of my dad's older issues! Haha! :D :;):

Metabog · 08-13-2005 10:18 AM

What is the windmill style?

Sadie · 08-13-2005 07:48 PM

It's when he whips his arm around in a giant circle a few times (like the blade of a windmill) and then hits the strings playing a power chord. It's very cool. Here's a couple of pics with Pete in action:

http://www.reelradio.com/pt/images/pete2a.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/M...http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/Maccalvr
http://www.zepfanman.com/images/petewight19701.jpg

Metabog · 08-13-2005 09:42 PM

OMG that rocks so much, never thought of doing that.

*goes to guitar
*comes back with whammy bar in arm

Did he do this at LIVE8? I missed them, i only watched floyd, bob and greenday.

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Sadie · 08-13-2005 09:56 PM

Yes. He ALWAYS does it. That's the one thing you can count on. No more guitar smashing, but the windmill always stays.

~~pointmeatthesky~~ · 08-13-2005 11:12 PM

Metabog Wrote:OMG that rocks so much, never thought of doing that.

*goes to guitar
*comes back with whammy bar in arm

Did he do this at LIVE8? I missed them, i only watched floyd, bob and greenday.

I don't think he did, i was watching for it, but it never really happended. I think he kind of did a half assed version, but thats it.

Philintheflesh · 08-14-2005 12:49 AM

Pete has said that he often breaks a string on the very first chord of the very first song of a performance "windmilling" - not as inconvenient (or painful) as sticking a vibrato arm right through your hand though!! rocker

pinkfloydfan1 · 08-14-2005 05:55 AM

so thats how its done and btw yes it was done on live 8 in the middle of who are you

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