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pete townshend save it for later studio version download The Who's Pete Townshend: Child porn arrest saved my life. The Who's Pete Townshend has said his child abuse pics arrest saved his life — as it led him to discover he had bowel cancer. Guitarist Townshend, 74, admitted using his credit card to access a sick website in 2003, although he downloaded no images. He was given a police caution and put on the Sex Offenders Register for five years — claiming he was only trying to prove banks were complicit with vile online pedophile networks. He told the Mail On Sunday: "Just for the record, my arrest was probably one of the best things that ever happened to me. It probably saved my life." Townshend explained that he had been putting off having a bowel cancer check until cops raided his home. He added: “While I was waiting for the police to go through my computers I decided to have that long-postponed colonoscopy. The doctor showed me the polyp. He said ‘this would have killed you in six months’. So it sort of saved my life.” Pete Townshend from The Who arrives at JFK Airport on Aug. 29, 2019 in New York City. Townshend says his child pornography arrest led to his colon cancer diagnosis, which saved his life. (Getty) Townshend, who survived abuse as a child, said the stigma of his brush with the law still haunts him. He added: “It’s something I think about a lot. I’m very much involved in supporting charities that deal with the consequences of the sexual abuse of children, including those that are photographed. So no, I don’t think it has passed.” Townshend and Who frontman Roger Daltrey, 75, are the only surviving founders of the 60s superstar group. Drummer Keith Moon died of a drug overdose in 1978 aged 32 and bassist John Entwistle had a fatal heart attack in 2002 aged 57. Inside Pete Townshend’s Studio Barge. Built inside a 100-year-old Dutch barge, Grand Cru Studio is an unusual recording studio, to say the least. First built in the 1970s as Oceanic Studios, commissioned by The Who’s Pete Townshend as part of his Eel Pie Studios, the 110-foot vessel is now a fully commercial facility, complete with an SSL AWS 948 hybrid console. London, UK (February 22, 2016)—Built inside a 100-year-old Dutch barge, Grand Cru Studio is an unusual recording studio, to say the least. First built in the 1970s as Oceanic Studios, commissioned by The Who’s Pete Townshend as part of his Eel Pie Studios, the 110-foot vessel is now a fully commercial facility, complete with an SSL AWS 948 hybrid console. Over the last five years, it has been brought back to its former glory and equipped to deal with a flurry of Townshend projects, including the Classic Quadrophenia project. At the helm is Myles Clarke, an engineer and producer who has worked closely with Townshend over many years. “I am running this as a traditional commercial studio,” he says. “…A production space for hire. When you arrive, the desk is zeroed; everything is clean and tidy. I want it to be like the studios I assisted in and learned in—a fresh blank canvas for producers and engineers to come and do their thing in. I’ve been to lots of so-called commercial studios that are actually very much a Producer’s own studio—things are broken or labelled badly, and so on… I’ve spent the last few months making sure that this place is perfect.” The studio includes a large control room, plus live area and smaller machine room/booth. The rooms remain true to the original Keith Slaughter designs (Abbey Road, Ridge Farm, Air), even though some of it had to be reinstated: “When I came to the studio, lots of the bolt-on wooden panels had been removed and it sounded awful” Clarke explains. “Pete remembered the panels. We actually found them all in a warehouse, covered in dust, so we cleaned them off and screwed them into exactly the same spots. We knew which went where because the screw holes lined up. Suddenly it diffused the room, stopped some of the standing waves… It was just like magic.” The studio has been gradually re-equipped over the last five years, but “The SSL is the thing that brings it all together,” says Clarke. “The SuperAnalogue Mix Bus sounds great, just amazing, and the compressor is clean and transparent. The way it’s set out, the way that it sounds— you just know you can push a bit more, cut a bit more, and you can do that dramatically. Pete’s always talked about shaping the sounds on an SSL and I agree; you can really ‘build’ a sound with an SSL.” Even though the AWS 948 is a 48 channel console with full 5.1 monitoring, it has a footprint of less than 1.5 meters wide. This suits Grand Cru well, giving a high input count without taking up too much space. “If I had a 48-channel console with a 48-channel footprint, people would struggle to get past it,” notes Clarke. “The AWS has a very suitable footprint for this kind of studio.” Subscribe. For more stories like this, and to keep up to date with all our market leading news, features and analysis, sign up to our newsletter here. The Legendary Pete Townshend of The Who Gives a Tour of ‘Grand Cru’, His Recording Studio on a Barge. In January 2019, the legendary Pete Townshend of The Who began recording a vlog in order keep everyone in the loop about what’s happening with the band, what’s being recorded and where it’s being recorded. In one such entry, a surprisingly gregarious Townshend offered a personal tour of Grand Cru Studios, a fantastic recording studio located on a barge docked near Tower Bridge in London. 31 January 2019. Track preparation for the new Who album on Grand Cru, Pete Townshend’s recording studio in St Katherine’s Dock, London. Recording sessions for new Who album at British Grove Studios. Pete Townshend booked into British Grove Studios in Chiswick, West London last week for recording sessions on the upcoming Who album. Pete brought in US record producer Dave Sardy, who previously worked with Oasis, and his engineer Jim Monti, to help record additional instruments on songs that he recorded last summer in his personal studios. Pete's engineer Myles Clarke also helped out with the computer sessions that were worked on. The studio work began last Saturday, 2nd February, and wrapped up yesterday. They made great progress on the album, and were able to complete seven songs in seven days. The work focused primarily on recording drums, percussion, and bass tracks with Zak Starkey and Pino Palladino. Pete also layed down parts with his Gibson J200 acoustic guitar, bass harmonica on a song called Detour, and a tamarind seed pod shaker, an exotic percussion instrument from Antigua. Roger Daltrey did not attend any of the sessions, as he was away on holiday and also preparing for the Rock Legends Cruise from Florida which runs February 14 – 18. Hopefully he will be available to record his vocal tracks soon after he returns to England. Pete Townshend has been very active on social media lately, and documented the recording week with a series of blogs, Youtube videos, and Instagram posts. It has been great fun to follow all the activity! Pete also posted blogs about recording a Spanish-style song with guitarist Gordon Giltrap, and meeting with artist Peter Blake, who will be doing artwork for the Who album cover. Peter Blake is famous for his album covers of The Beatles Sgt. Pepper and The Who Face Dances. The Who's new album will be released on Polydor in the UK and Interscope in the US. No word yet on when it will come out, but they are hoping to finish by this summer. This is all very exciting news! Hopefully The Who will perform some of the new tunes on their upcoming tour! Photo credit: John Davisson. Pete discussed the album with Andy Greene in a recent podcast for Rolling Stone Music Now. Here are a few excerpts from that conversation. The songs are quite a potpourri of stuff. It’s got a couple of songs that are quite Who-ish, I hope. Clichéd Whoie kind of thing that start with guitars that go yaggerdang! They are very good demos. I’ve got 5 recording studios in my life, and I use them all the time so that they are very high quality. All Roger has to do is sing. We’ll have to tweak a few things. Zak is going to help me with percussion. It doesn’t mean he’ll play the drums on them, but if he wants to play the drums he certainly can. He’s basically gonna help me with the beats. My brother Simon will help with shaping and arranging. And then we may hand everything over when Roger’s done his vocals and I’ve done my vocals, if that's what I'm going to do on any of the songs, to a remix engineer. And I’ve got no idea when it’s going to come out. Roger's away now until the beginning of March, so there's no time really for him to do vocals early this year. I have produced the demos so far.