‘”One day around 1988, my phone rings and the voice down the line says ‘Boltz, it’s Pete Townshend!’” Steve Bolton about his career-changing phone call. Among them is the signature, briskly strummed acoustic guitar riff to “Pinball Wizard.” Bolton had been playing it on electric guitar when Townshend was away. “There's nothing, because I'm not playing, and he’s not playing,” Bolton says. “He then smashes the Takamine to smithereens, kicks over the front of the shed and walks right over to me. “I thought, because you were here and you've got your guitar, you would be doing that bit.