I had always heard that line was a reference to Abby Hoffman situation during the Who's set at Woodstock....(Hoffman was a leftist political agitator who basically commandeered the mic during the Who's set to turn it into a political speech)....I think Townshend saw that all the politico types were the same...given an inch the peace-preaching leftist would become tyrannical in their own way....
I had always heard that line was a reference to Abby Hoffman situation during the Who's set at Woodstock....(Hoffman was a leftist political agitator who basically commandeered the mic during the Who's set to turn it into a political speech)....I think Townshend saw that all the politico types were the same...given an inch the peace-preaching leftist would become tyrannical in their own way....