Roger Daltrey on Graham Norton

[MyOtherProfile]

Anyone watching? Is he telling the truth? All the band were addicts but him? All the trashing of hotel rooms was Moon and Townsend and not him. Really? Was he really the straight guy or is he just presenting an image for his new album? I always thought they were all pretty rock and roll.

[NellythePink]

Not sure. I do know his new song is balls, though

[MyOtherProfile]

Was just thinking the same.

[Bejazzled]

I turned it off halfway through, poor show tonight

[ShatnersBassoon]

I think he was the sensible one, actually.
He should give up the gigging now, for everyone's sake.

[BernardsarenotalwaysSaints]

I've just turned it off. He sounded like Tom Jones on an off & I don't particularly like Tom Jones.

[Samcro]

i just caught the end of him singing, golly I was shocked,\he should stick to fishing and I loved The Who

[CanIBuffalo]

That was awful. His voice wasn't up to it. He needs to sing something to siut his voice as it currently is or give it a rest.
What a shame the fab Naomi wasn't given more space.
On the brightside, MF was less of a wanker than usual.

[MyOtherProfile]

Terrible, wasn't it? Next week should be better.

[DGRossetti]

"The 'oo" weren't the most settled band, and Daltrey and Townshend had different ideas about direction and style which led to real fisticuffs (which Townshend invariably lost).

In one of the earlier (1980s) biography there's an interview with Daltry who was fired after one such spat in the late 60s, and he says that as he walked out he realised the only other job he could do was be a sheet metal worker - which wasn't that appealing.

So he swallowed humble pie, walked back in, and flushed all their drugs down the toilet as he wanted to be serious about it ...

... is sort of how it went.

He certainly kept his voice a lot longer than some of his contemporaries, so I'd say any stories of clean living could be true

Sadly a lot of rock and pop singers never get a chance to look after their voices, with devastating consequences.

We saw Ian Anderson a few years back, and he hardly sang at all - there was a younger chap taking the strain.

That said, despite it being nowhere near it's peak, Robert Plants voice hasn't fared as badly as it might have ... well as of last November when we saw him (hometown gig )

[MyOtherProfile]

Yes I remember hearing about fights between Daltry and Townsend which is why his story didn't seem quite true. Interesting post Rosetti, thanks.

[DGRossetti]

Yes I remember hearing about fights between Daltry and Townsend

www.loudersound.com/features/how-the-lifehouse-album-was-almost-the-death-of-the-who

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

myotherprofile
My DH was a ‘roadie’ for them in the VERY early days when they doing campus gigs, early to mid sixties (we’ve got an original WHO gig poster that DH designed for one of their university gigs on our downstairs loo wall!) DH is 66 btw so a bit younger than them! Roger is absolutely telling the truth, albeit a teensy bit exaggerated. He did do a small amount of drugs/alcohol but in no way did it come any where near the copious amounts of the other three. In fact, because of his objections, they actually threw him out of The Who (DH can’t quite remember exactly when but maybe 67/68?) precisely because of his complaints about their behaviour. They only took him back as an ‘employee’ for a period of time!

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

Btw when I say ‘roadie’ I mean he was a student at the uni they were playing at, then he followed them around a bit doing (unpaid) hefting for them. They didn’t mind using his posters though, . Literally only just wondered if they might be worth something

[Follyfoot]

That wasn't Roger Daltrey, it was Tony Christie

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

follyfoot omg that was I said last night!
Anyway in addition to what I just said, triggered a lovely reminiscing conversation with DH. I got it a bit wrong, he didn’t start out with them at uni, that was Pink Floyd. He actually started with The Who when he was about 16 when they played Dreamland in Margate. He was paid, my mistake(!) to ‘push’ people away from the stage when they got too close (and heft gear!) and then followed them for a bit doing same. He’s just been saying how the ‘scrapping’ was constant. The stage was littered with drumsticks and broken drumsticks from Keith Moon breaking an throwing them. Mostly at Roger Daltrey. In turn, Roger would swing his mic (see this in a lot of early footage) and aim it for Moon’s head. Ahhh, happy days......

[MyOtherProfile]

Wow thanks for telling us! Really interesting.

[Judashascomeintosomemoney]

Oh one more thing OP, those Telecasters that Townshend trashed in the early days? He’d ‘borrowed’ them from poor (well, poorer than him) students!