S8E10: Pete Townshend & Rachel Fuller

Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

Rhino UK

Interviews, Rock, Pop, Music

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rockonteurs we welcome Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller to the podcast to discuss their new musical and literary collaboration, The Seeker. Authored and composed by Rachel with additional music and lyrics by Pete, it brings to life the Hesse novel Siddhartha in a brand new and beautiful way. You can see it live in London at a one-off show on November 6th at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. Tickets at www.theseekermusic.com

Plus, Pete shares some incredible and never before heard stories about his life, his music and his journey.

You can also watch some of our latest episodes on our Rockonteurs YouTube channel.

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0:00.0	Hello Gary. Hello Guy, you're in L.A. I am in L.A. And I'm so excited to tell you this. I've done
0:06.6	the most L.A. thing ever. I've become addicted to self-driving cabs. What? What are they?
0:13.7	They're literally a taxi with no one in it. Oh my God. Yeah. Aren't you terrified?
0:19.8	No, I love it.
0:23.7	I mean, people over here are terrible drivers.
0:25.7	I've much rather have a robot anything.
0:26.8	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:27.5	So what happens?
0:28.3	Where do you sit?
0:29.3	Wherever you want.
0:31.5	And there's a steering wheel going on in front of you. Yeah, yeah.
0:31.6	There's a whole thing going on.
0:32.8	Can't you just grab it and fuck about with it. I think it would give you short shrift if you did.
0:39.4	It would.
0:40.3	I had a funny thing with one yesterday though, because it has it obviously, it's obsessed with finding the safest place to let you out.
0:45.9	And I was taking it actually to a car hire place.
0:48.8	And it got to the car hire place and then drove in and then drove around the back.
0:52.9	And then we're like up this little alley where at the back like no no stop stop I didn't have cables and bin bags in the back and
1:00.7	you were thrown into a corner so has it got anything to do with musk is it his device no it hasn't
1:07.9	no it's a jaguar is the. I think that's hysterical.
1:11.8	You going around, like sitting in a passenger seat with a ghost driving.
1:16.4	Yeah, it's amazing.
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