CREEMEDIA
If you’re looking for an expose on the Who—or merely another look at the big rock/big bucks gutter—you won’t find it in Horse’s Neck. Or perhaps you will, but only from a skewed angle, and only in an emotional—not a literal— sense. Undoubtedly this collection of 13 short stories, held together by Townshend’s horse-as-beauty (or truth) metaphor, smacks of the autobiographical.
CREEMEDIA
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HORSE S NECK by Pete Townshend (Houghton Mifflin)
J. Kordosh
If you’re looking for an expose on the Who—or merely another look at the big rock/big bucks gutter—you won’t find it in Horse’s Neck. Or perhaps you will, but only from a skewed angle, and only in an emotional—not a literal— sense.
Undoubtedly this collection of 13 short stories, held together by Townshend’s horse-as-beauty (or truth) metaphor, smacks of the autobiographical. “Ropes” is a first-person narration by a nameless musician who refers to his entourage as “my rodent family.” In “Tonight’s The Night,” the story of a psychotic girl’s relationship with a musician named “Pete’.’ is told from the third-person. And in “Fish Shop,” the narrator is an unnamed childhood friend of a now-popular guitarist named, you guessed it, “Pete.” (“He was swinging his guitar like a battle axe,” we are told.)