Townshend was a devotee of the teachings of The Beatles, and advocate of psychedelic drugs The lyrics name-check several people who had high profiles in contemporary pop culture: musicians The Who revived the song briefly inĢ000 and then extensively starting on the I don't think we even got to play it in the States." However, the Who performed "The Seeker" for about two weeks on theirġ970 American tour. The alligator turned into an elephant and finally stampeded itself to death on stages around England. But that's always where the trouble starts, in the swamp. It sounded great in the mosquito-ridden swamp I made it up in-Florida at three in the morning drunk out of my brain with Tom Wright and John Wolff. Then Kit had a tooth pulled, breaking his jaw, and we did it ourselves. We did it once at my home studio, then at IBC where we normally worked then with "It suffered from being the first thing we did after Tommy, and also from being recorded a few too many times.
"I suppose I like this least of all the stuff", wrote Townshend the following year. It just kind of covers a whole area where the guy's being fantastically tough and ruthlessly nasty and he's being incredibly selfish and he's hurting people, wrecking people's homes, abusing his heroes, he's accusing everyone of doing nothing for him and yet at the same time he's making a fairly valid statement, he's getting nowhere, he's doing nothing and the only thing he really can't be sure of is his death, and that at least dead, he's going to get what he wants.
Quite loosely, "The Seeker" was just a thing about what I call Divine Desperation, or just Desperation. Around the time of the song's release, Townshend explained its meaning in an interview with Rolling Stone:
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