Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane with my theme song...

Just wanna be misunderstood
Wanna be feared in my neighborhood
Just wanna be a moody man
Say things that nobody can understand
I wanna be obscure and oblique
Inscrutable and vague
So hard to pin down
I wanna leave open mouths when I speak
Want people to cry when I put them down

Well, I'm nearly there, in that I'm pretty obscure and oblique... or mebbe that's just my imagination.  "Hey, Baby..."

While we're on about "Rough Mix"... I think this is arguably Townshend's greatest album, and yeah, that includes his work with The Who and his various solo efforts (I have nearly all of the of the foregoing, btw).  Here's another cut off the album:

She said there's dust and cobwebs on your north star
There no more fussing the campfires in your hair
I see the wheels they're rusted in your backyard
I know we're not going anywhere
We used to roam so freely... it's been so long
I take my dreams to bed now, where they belong

The lyrics are poignant... and are far more pertinent these days than I wanna admit... but the it's the guitar playin' on this cut that really lights me up... some of the finest dobro work you'll hear anywhere.  "Rough Mix" is one of the gems in my music collection and part o' today's Happy Hour soundtrack.