The Seeker

by Carnaby 4

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Pete Townshend claims to have written this song during a night of hard partying during a U.S. tour, in a "mosquito-ridden swamp [in Florida] at three in the morning, drunk out of my brain .... Quite loosely," he once said, "'The Seeker' [is about] what I call Divine Desperation." In lyrics predicting John Lennon's "God" (released later that year), Daltrey name-checks the Beatles, "Bobby Dylan" and Timothy Leary, but none of them have the answers he needs. Unusually, the band self-produced the track, as producer Kit Lambert was laid up with a broken jaw. But the sound mix roared, and it became the first single the Who released after the triumph of Tommy. "The Seeker" was an underperformer on the pop charts, but it remained a potent statement. Townshend played it acoustic at Meher Baba gatherings, and the Who's live performances of the song were overpowering – "an elephant," said Townshend, that "finally stampeded itself to death on stages around England."

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released May 26, 2018
Written by Pete Townshend

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Carnaby 4 are: John Dumont (bass, vocals), Jason Fessel (guitars), Randy Leasure (drums, percussion), Paul Stinson (vocals, guitars)

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