an interview with peter townsend

Creem — How did the concert go last night?

Townsend — It wasn’t a failure in positive terms, like one of those things where everyone got that same vibe that we got that it hadn’t gone the right way. I mean it felt to me like a salvage operation. I think it must have felt like that to the audience.

Creem - One remark that Dylan once made was that sometimes he had to fight an audience because they tried to cast him into an image that he didn’t feel was his. Do you ever get the feeling that an audience is casting you with their expectations?

Townsend - No, because our image is too closely surfaced, already. We did our image. 1 mean the thing is I think that kind of thing is particular to Dylan and people like Dylan because he really is an image in his cap, but his images comes and changes with each song, each album, whereas our album is like as big as the band, is the band, really. Like when we very first started we were really conscious of being an image.

Creem - Can you describe this?