Buy NowIn this era of cookie-cutter music and quasi-rock stars who could hang out with your parents, all the young poseurs could learn more than a thing or two from guitarist-songwriter Pete Townshend. During his near 45-year tenure with the Who, not to mention his prolific solo career, he has showed that both brutishness (instrument destruction, explosions, excessive volume) and braininess (ground-breaking rock operas, spiritual enlightenment) can creatively co-exist. A good place to get schooled on the legendary British band is a new two-hour documentary, Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who, just out on DVD. It features unseen footage and explores the group's rise to fame and their breakthrough albums. It also reveals how the band coped with the deaths of Keith Moon and John Entwistle, and delves into their interpersonal squabbles and their resolutions.

Playboy.com reached out to Townshend to discuss the documentary, the evolution of the Who and his most memorable fights.

Playboy.com: Of all that is chronicled in Amazing Journey, what do you think was the Who's creative high point?

Pete Townshend: The creative high point for the Who as a band was probably Tommy. We worked together as a team and all threw in ideas.

Playboy.com: We don't get to hear too much from the late John Entwistle in Amazing Journey. What do you miss most about him?

Townshend: His silences. I'm being sincere. He was an adorably quiet and gentle fellow.

Playboy.com: There are no recent group interviews shown in the new film. From what we understand, the Who have not done collective interviews since the Keith Moon era. Why did you and Roger choose not to be interviewed together for the film?

Townshend: A collective interview with Keith Moon was a Keith Moon interview with three stooges. For quite some time I refused to be interviewed at all. I gave in quite recently. When Roger and I do interviews together we get in each other's way. We have different stories to tell. Or the same story, but we tell it in a different way.