May 14, 2021 • 19 mins
Nothing is off limits as Pete Townshend inducts The Rolling Stones with his signature style of humor, honesty, and admiration. Pete expresses how the Stones were like his crash course in rock & roll and were the epitome of British Rock. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor honor the members not in attendance and look ahead to many more years together.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Welcome to Induction Vault, a production of I Heart Radio
and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's my
privilege to welcome you once again the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Induction jock known for his power chords
(00:31):
and solos, Pete Townsend is regarded as one of rock
and rolls legendary shredders. He also had no problem whatsoever
shredding his contemporaries, The Rolling Stones at their own induction,
but ended up being part induction speech and part roast.
Pete Townsend stood on stage to induct the Stones with
his signature style of humor, honesty and admiration. Nothing is
(00:54):
off limits as Townsend brings each member of the band
under his microscope of wit, but with a deep sincerity.
He expresses how the Stone were like his crash course
and rock and roll, and how to him they were
the epitome of British rock. As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Ronnie Wood, and Mick Taylor come up to accept this honor,
(01:16):
each one reflects on the success of a group that
persevered beyond many of their contemporaries. They honor the members
not in attendance and look ahead to many more years
of concerts, guitar riffs and hot lips branded fans. Are
(01:42):
you rock and roller? Is? Obviously I've been around for
a lot longer than I thought, and I've learned so
much this evening, and I didn't expect to and I
(02:07):
hope that I can carry on the course. And because
there's a obviously a lot to learn, and for the
star of this evening, for for a little Richard, I
just want to tell him that I think I'm I'm
old enough now to come to your room. You know
(02:31):
when when when little Richard walked onto the stage, I
thought for a minute he was Keith Moon. I think
they're the same person. It's been great. It's been great
to see so many people that I know and and
would like to know. I've got a lot of paper here.
(02:56):
Keith Richards once told me that I think too much.
The truth is that I think generally I talked too much,
but I don't think. I think first, and faced with
injecting the rolling stones this evening, I realized that thinking
isn't going to help me very much, and I I
(03:20):
can't hope to Yeah, you know arm it said a
lot of things, and I just thought, I'm just gonna
have to go up there and say it all again,
but in a slightly different way. I can't analyze what
I feel about the Stones because I'm really an absolute
Stone fan of the Stones always happening. They're early shows
(03:42):
were just shocking, absolutely riveting and stunning and moving, and
they changed my life completely. The Beatles were fun, There's
no doubt about that. And no I'm talking about their
live shows, you know, I'm not not demeaning them in
any way. But the Stones were really what made me
(04:05):
wake up. Uh. Other Beatles shows there were lots of
screaming girls, and at the Stones were that. I think
the Stones were the first to have a screaming boy
and the sheer force of the Stones on stage and
that perfectly balanced audience a thousand girls and me, but
(04:29):
it kind of singled them out. They're the only group
I've ever really been unashamed about idolizing, apart from today
a new idolization of little rigid begins. And each of them,
each of them, each of them in their own way,
has given me something as an artist and as a person,
as a fan, and it would be crazy to suggest
(04:52):
that any of the things that they gave me were wholesome, practical,
or useful. Even even Bill Wyman hurt me, and not
really because I'm jealous of the female company he keeps. No,
(05:15):
he got such a big advance for this book he's
doing about the Stones life. The books obviously expected to
sell more copies than the last couple of Stones albums.
You've heard how much You've got, You've heard how much
they sold. It's a one that even bothered really. Charlie
(05:40):
wounded me in in in in the last year by
having a much more dramatic drug problem than mine. Keith
had a much more dramatic cure. I'm Brian Jones hurt
me by not bothering to take a cure because I
(06:01):
loved him a lot. He was very very important to me.
He was the first real star who befriended me in
a real way. I spent a lot of time with
him before I really got to know Mick and Keith,
who I love very much now. But he was he.
I hung out with him quite a lot, and I
missed him terribly, and I always felt that when he
(06:21):
finally did collapse, that the Stones were a very different group.
Mick gave me something too, a bad case of v D.
Sorry sorry, sorry, no, no, no no, it's strong mix mix.
C D had a bad case, it says here, And
(06:44):
I suppose that's really a complaint for you blokes at VBS.
Now and Ronnie Would, of course, is now a rolling Stone.
I can't help but think of him as the new boy. Uh.
And it's wonderful to note that, due to his tender ach,
he still has his own teeth. But I did notice
(07:06):
that tonight they've been set into what looks like someone
else's face. Will the Stones ever work again? On an
early British TV show, the producer took Andrew Luke Holden
who I say, Hi, Andrew, great to see I haven't
seen you for fort even million years. Andrew the wonderful
(07:29):
Andrew Louke Goldham aside and advised him to sack the singer.
I don't know whether you know this. I'm glad that
after all these years, the lads in the group have
finally seen fit to take his advice. I'm having fun none.
(07:52):
The Stones have made some great records, and everyone will
know that it isn't easy to make great records. A
few people here close to the Stones will know that
sometimes it isn't easy to make records at all. And
I'm not just saying that because Charlie isn't here, but
we have a great legacy from the Stones, and it
remains primarily with Atlantic records, despite the wonderful CBS deal
(08:16):
of a couple of years ago for the Stones. In fact,
Water asked me to take this opportunity to urge the
lads to hurry forward and take advantage of the new
vistas offered at VBS records for the Boys. Because I'm
(08:40):
it and me now, with little to gain financially, we'd
we'd agree with him. It won't be easy for the
Stones next time around, and if it wasn't for the
vast sums of money they can make, they might not
bother at all, really, or at least Mick probably wouldn't.
So it's lucky for fans then that Mick has such
(09:03):
expensive tastes, because the Stones feel to me as though
they still have a future, and this is at a
time I'm probably just speaking as a fan here, but
(09:25):
that's how I feel, and this is a future at
a time where most sensible artists of their age are
doing this kind of thing. It's so easy. We get
a room, air ticket, seriously, whatever they do, they can
only embellish an already sinister reputation for miracles and to
(09:49):
make Keith, Charlie Bill and Ronnie, to Mick Taylor and
of course to the late Brian Jones and the late
Ian Stuart. I don't know how many of you know here.
I offer thanks on all our behalf. Without you all there,
(10:09):
there wouldn't have been a London R and B seen
at all in the sixties. That's what I feel. Ah,
what there was if it wouldn't have come too much,
And that's where I grew up and then later grew
strangely down. But it's a way, it's it's in a way,
it's where a big part of me still is and
(10:31):
where Jimmy Reid and John Lee Hooker cannot be regarded
as rock and roll enough to induct here just yet,
no matter their musical blood runs in the veins of
this band. We honor tonight, and so to the Stones
and all the as yet uninducted Black R and B artists,
(10:53):
and I've put here they ripped off that they were
in LUNs By. I offer solidarity. That's how I feel.
I mean, it's been so great to see all these
different threads come together, and for me this evening as
(11:15):
it's been a as I said in education, so much
of what I am I got from you the Stones,
and I had no idea. Most of it was already secondhand. Seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously,
the Stones. No more gags. The Stones are the greatest
(11:37):
for me. There's some wonderful artists we've seen tonight, many
other inducted in the past, many will be in the future.
There are some giant artists here tonight, but the Stones
will always be the greatest for me. They epitomize British
rock for me. And even though they're all now my friends,
I'm still a fan. Guys, whatever you do, don't try
(11:58):
and grow out gracefully. It wouldn't suit you. After the break.
Here here from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and
Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones on the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame induction. Bault, I don't know Pete
(12:30):
sounds in thank you, Pete, he said at the end.
I think that now we're all his friends. I'm not
quite sure after that's which where we are all his friends? Anyway?
Next year, Pete it's a sobering thought that you're going
to be in this sort of hot shoe here, so
you know someone else is gonna wind you up like that.
(12:52):
So UM, I did have some things to say to
thank very much Armed and Yean Winner and the committee
for electing us to the wax Works of Rock. Um.
(13:14):
Now that Yann has finished his house in East Hampton
and Armors finished his house in Turkey, I hope they
can get down to building the Phantom Temple of Rock
in Cleveland. I particularly look forward to visiting the Alan
(13:39):
Klein Wing, where the where the best examples of repackaging
will be housed. You know, it's it's slightly ironic that
tonight we're all in it. You see us on our
best behavior, but we're being awarded for twenty five years
(14:01):
of bad behavior. There's also a bit of music on
the side, but um, I have to be slightly sapply,
I suppose, and that I'm my son. I'm very proud
to work with this group of musicians for twenty five years.
(14:22):
And as you know, tonight we have Mick Taylor with us,
and also we're very police to welcome him. Bill and
Charlie couldn't make it with a place to be with
Ronnie Keith myself. The other thing I'm very proud of
is the songs that Keith and I have written over
the last twenty five years. I like to play tribute
(14:50):
to two people who can't be here tonight. One instut H,
a great friend, a great blue pianist whose odd but
invaluable musical advice kept us on a steady bluesy course
for most of the time. And to Brian Jones, whose
individuality and musicianship often took us off the bluesy course
(15:17):
with them often marvelous results. Yo Um. Jean Coctos Jean
Coctos stay on Going said that Americans are funny people.
First you shot them, then they put you in a museum.
Well we're not quite ready to hang up the number yet,
(15:37):
so on behalf of the stones. I'd like to thank
you very much for this a week, yeah, m and
(16:00):
a few disconnected thoughts, right, I'd I just say thank
you to Leo Fender for making the goddamn things we've
got to play right, you know those guitars. Man, there's
I mean to me being a guitar player, that's very important.
I'd like to see thank you Leo. I'd like to
say thank you, Mick. I'd like to see and Mick
(16:21):
and Mick and Ron armored especially for putting up with
those sixteen years. And also, of course, although Pete's beat
me to the puncture, Ian Stewart, because I still feel
like I'm working for him. It's his band. I work
for him, you know. I'd like to thank you all,
(16:53):
and then again words, there's myself, who's part of my face.
Pete belongs to Mick Taylor here, who I'm going to
force to say a few words now. But I mean,
first of all, um, I should be so lucky. The
company is exceptional and I couldn't be with a better band.
(17:19):
Mick Taylor on behalf of myself and Brian. Thank you,
Thank you everybody. Um, it's a great honor for me
to participate in this event. And first of all, though
I'd like to especially say thank you for Charlie and Bill,
who I know would appreciate this very deeply. But I'm
(17:45):
avoidably detained and can't be here tonight. But anyway, we
we all really appreciate it very much more than words
can say. Thank you very much. Mh Y, thanks for
(18:14):
joining us on this week's episode of Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Induction Vault. For more on your favorite inductees,
to shop inductee merch or to plan your trip to
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, visit rock hall
dot com. Plus view the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Induction Special on demand on HBO Max. Our executive
producers are Noel Brown, Shelby Morrison, and Esa Gurkey. Supervising
(18:37):
producer is Taylor Shakogne. Research and archival assistants from Isabelle
Keeper and Shannon Herb. Thanks again for joining us on
this week's episode of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Induction Vault. Induction Ball is a production of I Heart
Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For
(18:59):
more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart
Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
Welcome to Induction Vault, a production of I Heart Radio
and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's my
privilege to welcome you once again the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Induction jock known for his power chords
(00:31):
and solos, Pete Townsend is regarded as one of rock
and rolls legendary shredders. He also had no problem whatsoever
shredding his contemporaries, The Rolling Stones at their own induction,
but ended up being part induction speech and part roast.
Pete Townsend stood on stage to induct the Stones with
his signature style of humor, honesty and admiration. Nothing is
(00:54):
off limits as Townsend brings each member of the band
under his microscope of wit, but with a deep sincerity.
He expresses how the Stone were like his crash course
and rock and roll, and how to him they were
the epitome of British rock. As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Ronnie Wood, and Mick Taylor come up to accept this honor,
(01:16):
each one reflects on the success of a group that
persevered beyond many of their contemporaries. They honor the members
not in attendance and look ahead to many more years
of concerts, guitar riffs and hot lips branded fans. Are
(01:42):
you rock and roller? Is? Obviously I've been around for
a lot longer than I thought, and I've learned so
much this evening, and I didn't expect to and I
(02:07):
hope that I can carry on the course. And because
there's a obviously a lot to learn, and for the
star of this evening, for for a little Richard, I
just want to tell him that I think I'm I'm
old enough now to come to your room. You know
(02:31):
when when when little Richard walked onto the stage, I
thought for a minute he was Keith Moon. I think
they're the same person. It's been great. It's been great
to see so many people that I know and and
would like to know. I've got a lot of paper here.
(02:56):
Keith Richards once told me that I think too much.
The truth is that I think generally I talked too much,
but I don't think. I think first, and faced with
injecting the rolling stones this evening, I realized that thinking
isn't going to help me very much, and I I
(03:20):
can't hope to Yeah, you know arm it said a
lot of things, and I just thought, I'm just gonna
have to go up there and say it all again,
but in a slightly different way. I can't analyze what
I feel about the Stones because I'm really an absolute
Stone fan of the Stones always happening. They're early shows
(03:42):
were just shocking, absolutely riveting and stunning and moving, and
they changed my life completely. The Beatles were fun, There's
no doubt about that. And no I'm talking about their
live shows, you know, I'm not not demeaning them in
any way. But the Stones were really what made me
(04:05):
wake up. Uh. Other Beatles shows there were lots of
screaming girls, and at the Stones were that. I think
the Stones were the first to have a screaming boy
and the sheer force of the Stones on stage and
that perfectly balanced audience a thousand girls and me, but
(04:29):
it kind of singled them out. They're the only group
I've ever really been unashamed about idolizing, apart from today
a new idolization of little rigid begins. And each of them,
each of them, each of them in their own way,
has given me something as an artist and as a person,
as a fan, and it would be crazy to suggest
(04:52):
that any of the things that they gave me were wholesome, practical,
or useful. Even even Bill Wyman hurt me, and not
really because I'm jealous of the female company he keeps. No,
(05:15):
he got such a big advance for this book he's
doing about the Stones life. The books obviously expected to
sell more copies than the last couple of Stones albums.
You've heard how much You've got, You've heard how much
they sold. It's a one that even bothered really. Charlie
(05:40):
wounded me in in in in the last year by
having a much more dramatic drug problem than mine. Keith
had a much more dramatic cure. I'm Brian Jones hurt
me by not bothering to take a cure because I
(06:01):
loved him a lot. He was very very important to me.
He was the first real star who befriended me in
a real way. I spent a lot of time with
him before I really got to know Mick and Keith,
who I love very much now. But he was he.
I hung out with him quite a lot, and I
missed him terribly, and I always felt that when he
(06:21):
finally did collapse, that the Stones were a very different group.
Mick gave me something too, a bad case of v D.
Sorry sorry, sorry, no, no, no no, it's strong mix mix.
C D had a bad case, it says here, And
(06:44):
I suppose that's really a complaint for you blokes at VBS.
Now and Ronnie Would, of course, is now a rolling Stone.
I can't help but think of him as the new boy. Uh.
And it's wonderful to note that, due to his tender ach,
he still has his own teeth. But I did notice
(07:06):
that tonight they've been set into what looks like someone
else's face. Will the Stones ever work again? On an
early British TV show, the producer took Andrew Luke Holden
who I say, Hi, Andrew, great to see I haven't
seen you for fort even million years. Andrew the wonderful
(07:29):
Andrew Louke Goldham aside and advised him to sack the singer.
I don't know whether you know this. I'm glad that
after all these years, the lads in the group have
finally seen fit to take his advice. I'm having fun none.
(07:52):
The Stones have made some great records, and everyone will
know that it isn't easy to make great records. A
few people here close to the Stones will know that
sometimes it isn't easy to make records at all. And
I'm not just saying that because Charlie isn't here, but
we have a great legacy from the Stones, and it
remains primarily with Atlantic records, despite the wonderful CBS deal
(08:16):
of a couple of years ago for the Stones. In fact,
Water asked me to take this opportunity to urge the
lads to hurry forward and take advantage of the new
vistas offered at VBS records for the Boys. Because I'm
(08:40):
it and me now, with little to gain financially, we'd
we'd agree with him. It won't be easy for the
Stones next time around, and if it wasn't for the
vast sums of money they can make, they might not
bother at all, really, or at least Mick probably wouldn't.
So it's lucky for fans then that Mick has such
(09:03):
expensive tastes, because the Stones feel to me as though
they still have a future, and this is at a
time I'm probably just speaking as a fan here, but
(09:25):
that's how I feel, and this is a future at
a time where most sensible artists of their age are
doing this kind of thing. It's so easy. We get
a room, air ticket, seriously, whatever they do, they can
only embellish an already sinister reputation for miracles and to
(09:49):
make Keith, Charlie Bill and Ronnie, to Mick Taylor and
of course to the late Brian Jones and the late
Ian Stuart. I don't know how many of you know here.
I offer thanks on all our behalf. Without you all there,
(10:09):
there wouldn't have been a London R and B seen
at all in the sixties. That's what I feel. Ah,
what there was if it wouldn't have come too much,
And that's where I grew up and then later grew
strangely down. But it's a way, it's it's in a way,
it's where a big part of me still is and
(10:31):
where Jimmy Reid and John Lee Hooker cannot be regarded
as rock and roll enough to induct here just yet,
no matter their musical blood runs in the veins of
this band. We honor tonight, and so to the Stones
and all the as yet uninducted Black R and B artists,
(10:53):
and I've put here they ripped off that they were
in LUNs By. I offer solidarity. That's how I feel.
I mean, it's been so great to see all these
different threads come together, and for me this evening as
(11:15):
it's been a as I said in education, so much
of what I am I got from you the Stones,
and I had no idea. Most of it was already secondhand. Seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously, seriously,
the Stones. No more gags. The Stones are the greatest
(11:37):
for me. There's some wonderful artists we've seen tonight, many
other inducted in the past, many will be in the future.
There are some giant artists here tonight, but the Stones
will always be the greatest for me. They epitomize British
rock for me. And even though they're all now my friends,
I'm still a fan. Guys, whatever you do, don't try
(11:58):
and grow out gracefully. It wouldn't suit you. After the break.
Here here from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and
Mick Taylor of the Rolling Stones on the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame induction. Bault, I don't know Pete
(12:30):
sounds in thank you, Pete, he said at the end.
I think that now we're all his friends. I'm not
quite sure after that's which where we are all his friends? Anyway?
Next year, Pete it's a sobering thought that you're going
to be in this sort of hot shoe here, so
you know someone else is gonna wind you up like that.
(12:52):
So UM, I did have some things to say to
thank very much Armed and Yean Winner and the committee
for electing us to the wax Works of Rock. Um.
(13:14):
Now that Yann has finished his house in East Hampton
and Armors finished his house in Turkey, I hope they
can get down to building the Phantom Temple of Rock
in Cleveland. I particularly look forward to visiting the Alan
(13:39):
Klein Wing, where the where the best examples of repackaging
will be housed. You know, it's it's slightly ironic that
tonight we're all in it. You see us on our
best behavior, but we're being awarded for twenty five years
(14:01):
of bad behavior. There's also a bit of music on
the side, but um, I have to be slightly sapply,
I suppose, and that I'm my son. I'm very proud
to work with this group of musicians for twenty five years.
(14:22):
And as you know, tonight we have Mick Taylor with us,
and also we're very police to welcome him. Bill and
Charlie couldn't make it with a place to be with
Ronnie Keith myself. The other thing I'm very proud of
is the songs that Keith and I have written over
the last twenty five years. I like to play tribute
(14:50):
to two people who can't be here tonight. One instut H,
a great friend, a great blue pianist whose odd but
invaluable musical advice kept us on a steady bluesy course
for most of the time. And to Brian Jones, whose
individuality and musicianship often took us off the bluesy course
(15:17):
with them often marvelous results. Yo Um. Jean Coctos Jean
Coctos stay on Going said that Americans are funny people.
First you shot them, then they put you in a museum.
Well we're not quite ready to hang up the number yet,
(15:37):
so on behalf of the stones. I'd like to thank
you very much for this a week, yeah, m and
(16:00):
a few disconnected thoughts, right, I'd I just say thank
you to Leo Fender for making the goddamn things we've
got to play right, you know those guitars. Man, there's
I mean to me being a guitar player, that's very important.
I'd like to see thank you Leo. I'd like to
say thank you, Mick. I'd like to see and Mick
(16:21):
and Mick and Ron armored especially for putting up with
those sixteen years. And also, of course, although Pete's beat
me to the puncture, Ian Stewart, because I still feel
like I'm working for him. It's his band. I work
for him, you know. I'd like to thank you all,
(16:53):
and then again words, there's myself, who's part of my face.
Pete belongs to Mick Taylor here, who I'm going to
force to say a few words now. But I mean,
first of all, um, I should be so lucky. The
company is exceptional and I couldn't be with a better band.
(17:19):
Mick Taylor on behalf of myself and Brian. Thank you,
Thank you everybody. Um, it's a great honor for me
to participate in this event. And first of all, though
I'd like to especially say thank you for Charlie and Bill,
who I know would appreciate this very deeply. But I'm
(17:45):
avoidably detained and can't be here tonight. But anyway, we
we all really appreciate it very much more than words
can say. Thank you very much. Mh Y, thanks for
(18:14):
joining us on this week's episode of Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Induction Vault. For more on your favorite inductees,
to shop inductee merch or to plan your trip to
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, visit rock hall
dot com. Plus view the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame Induction Special on demand on HBO Max. Our executive
producers are Noel Brown, Shelby Morrison, and Esa Gurkey. Supervising
(18:37):
producer is Taylor Shakogne. Research and archival assistants from Isabelle
Keeper and Shannon Herb. Thanks again for joining us on
this week's episode of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Induction Vault. Induction Ball is a production of I Heart
Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For
(18:59):
more podcasts from I heart Radio, visit the i heart
Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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