There are not too many guitarists who consistently develop the vocabulary of the electric guitar. One of them is the Norwegian Stian Westerhus, who besides his collaboration with Jaga Jazzist, Motorpsycho and Nils Petter Molvaer has also released a number of albums under his own direction.
"'Tommy' changed everything and saved us," Pete Townshend remembers in the introductory essay to the 2011 re-release of "Quadrophenia". Basically, The Who had been a singles band in the sixties; the sudden intellectualization of pop music had posed a new, unexpected challenge to its thought leader. "People suddenly wanted to hear 'serious' music from pop groups.