Will I make this a weekly thing?

Will anyone care?

I don't know but here's a question I have for you geniuses out there...

I love The Who's Face Dances and was listening to it on break today and I don't know what "Cache Cache" is about.

It's not actually about bears or pro-environment is it?

"Cache Cache" is about 3 minutes 56 seconds long.
Beyond that,your guess is as good as mine.

Do what I do and don't worry what a song is about. I just care about the overall sound of the song. The lyrics and singing are a part of that.

Having said that, I recall an interview with Pete many years ago in which he said that during a stoned episode, he actually ended up in a bear pit in a zoo.

I was sort of hoping this was some kind of inaccessible metaphor.

That answer made me laugh and confirms I am not alone.

"There ain't no bears in there"!

Here we go:

http://beta.thewho.net/discography/song ... Cache.html

Pete Townshend: "A weird kind of song which I wrote to celebrate a wonderful two days I spent living as a tramp in Switzerland. I decided I was going to give up the music business forever, and I got my wallet and passport, and a bottle of brandy, and went off in a town called Berne. Berne is famous for its big brown bears in these cages up in the hills. I spent about sixteen hours walking around, sleeping under trees and all that, and I was thinking 'I don't know if I want to be a tramp now,' but I was drunk enough to decide it would be worthwhile just going and visiting the bears. I don't know whether or not I really wanted to get torn to pieces or not, but I think I was in that frame of mind when I really just did not give a damn. I went up to this bear pit and I went down this bit where all the apple cores are and climbed up the rocks on the other side. I was always thinking 'If I could get in, I wonder why they couldn't get out?' I went into this big sort of cage at the back and walked inside. It really stank but luckily the bears aren't there in the middle of winter. Really, it's just a song about sometimes you can go and say 'Right! I'm going to do something really amazing and stupid and devastating,' and then you end up looking like a complete idiot."

The above events happened over March 29 through 30, 1980. According to Richard Barnes, Pete was discovered passed out in the bear pit and was flown immediately to Vienna (and, one hopes, showered) to perform there with The Who in Vienna that night. Pete's demo version appears on his solo album Scoop. "Cache-cache" is French for "hide and seek."

That explains it---some.Wonder if Pete was drunk/stoned when writing it.
Reading the lyrics,they make a vague point about facing your fears.Hearing the record,it makes the case that the band should've disbanded when Keith Moon died.

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I don't recall, but I believe that there's a demo of this song on "Scoop 3". If so, I'm not sure if the above statement from Pete is the same as is in that album.

Pete also discusses the incident on page 330 of his autobiography, stating that the incident was also spurred by cocaine withdrawal following a show in Switzerland (the Who played Zurich on March 28th).

This explains the "There ain't no bears in there" part.

Thanks for looking this up.

I always liked this song and it wouldn't have been out of place on the obtuse All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes Album which is my favorite of Townshend's solo records.

That was a great record which I continuously played for many weeks back in 1982.