The elevators at the Luxor are referred to as "inclinators." When the lodge opened, the inclinators had been touted as groundbreaking higher-tech elevators that traveled diagonally up the casino’s sides. In 1968 Townshend helped assemble a band termed Thunderclap Newman consisting of three musicians he knew. Townshend termed the get the job done an "extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativeness.