Roger – still a phenomenal rock vocalist – prefers to keep it, er, cool, popping his shirt buttons and dancing like your granddad. Stunning A brilliant guitarist, Townshend still waves that right arm of his around and around, making like a teenager and shaking his behind. Townshend (68) and Daltrey (69) are never far from each other's side, yet both men have different ideas about how to keep an audience entertained. With more than a little help from their friends, of course. Whatever you call it, it's a testament to Townshend and Daltrey's skills as both showmen and musicians that they just about manage to paper over the cracks to deliver a storming rendition of one of their most recognised works. Call it an entertaining exercise in prog rock. Call it a bad day at the seaside a musical tale of Jimmy and his 'friends' struggling to find The Real Me. At least, that's how they play it in 2013. 81 minutes on record, 100 in a live setting. Lest we forget, tonight is all about The Who's 1973 rock opera, Quadrophenia. The sea swells (so that's what those enormous, circular screens are for), Townshend throws on his shades, and we're off. Both men are in place, surrounded, as always, by a gang of well-oiled supporting players. Or might that have been Pete Townshend that decided on such a witty pre-concert message? It doesn't matter. " Chris Wasser – 10 June 2013 02:30 PM "Roger is allergic to smoke and would greatly appreciate if you could stick to brownies." Good man, Daltrey. And sometimes that’s not necessarily a good omen to working together if you understand what I mean?” …The unfortunate part about it is we became best buddies. And it took about a few months, but anyway we got him home. I said I can’t take it any more… Get him home. I said if you don’t he’s gonna be dead within nine months guaranteed. I rang Bill Curbishley up, the Who’s manager, I said Bill, get him home. I said if you don’t get yourself together, you ain’t going to be here. And I just said Keith, I’m out of here mate. For some reason, Keith attracted all the wrong elements of the LA set, and the drug situation was getting beyond a joke, and that was the first time we had an almighty punch-up ever. “When I left Keith, he was in his beach house, living next door to Steve McQueen in Trancas, just up the coast from Malibu, and it was just getting out of order. Roger: “They didn’t call him The Ox for nothing." Butler left Moon’s employ in late 1977, when an opportunity arose for him to work with filmmaker Jeff Stein, who was working on Who biopic The Kids Are Alright at the time. So why didn’t “The Who” ever stage an intervention for him? Roger says everyone was charmed by Keith, though,even when he stripped naked while in line for airport security.īassist John Entwistle, who passed away in 2002, was such a hard-drinker they nicknamed him “The Ox.” Roger said he had a strange relationship with Entwistle, and hated to see him deteriorate. Roger thinks Keith might actually have been autistic, which could account for all the busted-up hotel rooms. They had to push him around a wheelchair the next day. Roger recalled a time when Moon took monkey tranquilizers and passed out the minute the band hit the stage, sleeping for 24 hours. Legendary drummer Keith Moon died in 1978. At the time, Roger thought he might have killed him.īut when it was all said and done, Roger feels that fame was just harder on Townshend than it was on him.Ī NAKED KEITH MOON AND JOHN ENTWISTLE “THE OX”Īs for the members of The Who that are no longer with us: Fortunately for Roger, the guitar just brushed his shoulder unfortunately for Pete, Roger retaliated with what he described as ‘”the perfect upper-cut,” which sent Pete to the floor, out cold. He told Howard of the time Pete once tried to whack him with his guitar on stage. Roger Daltrey‘s first ever visit to Howard’s SiriusXM studio provided the King with his opportunity to go deep on that.įor Howard, the relationship boiled down to this: It must be difficult for Pete to write fantastic songs, but not be able to sing them, while Roger can sing a fantastic song, but can’t write one. Howard has long been fascinated by the relationships between members of bands, especially the tension between “The Who’s” lead singer Roger Daltrey and their guitarist/songwriter Pete Townsend. But they are called “The Beatles of radio,” instead of “The Who of radio” for good reason. Listeners to the Stern Show might look at Howard, Robin, and Fred’s close relationship and think it’s easy to work together for years and years.
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