Pete left that bar and passed out in a random doorway in Soho (a part of London). Townshend was conflicted because he feared The Who had sold out, and seeing The Sex Pistols, who were icons of rebellion, exacerbated him even more. In that bar he encountered Paul Cook and Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols, who thought very highly of Pete for paving the way for punk rock music. After this excruciating meeting he received a large check for royalties, left, went to a bar and got completely drunk. It began with a very long meeting dealing with royalties for his songs: 'Eleven hours in the Tin Pan, God, there's got to be another way.' The 'Tin Pan' he is referring to is Denmark Street, the 'Tin Pan Alley' of London where many music publishers and songwriters were based. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets.This song is based on a day in the life of Pete Townshend. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. 'There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother our last name was Smith. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it.' 'What it feels to descend from the mountain top. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain,' reveals Farrell. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.

Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto 'Mountain Song', which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Real talk, real life, good love, goodnight 'Cause everything inside me screams, no, no, no, no, no, yeahīut tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising The more I try the less it's working, yeah, yeah I forgot what to do to fit the mold, yeah Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing Don't lose who you are, in the blur of the stars

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