that I had the possibility of meeting him, he was past his best. “I’m glad I didn’t meet Elvis, cause I would have been disappointed. “It’s too late to meet Johnny Cash he’s the only one I would have liked,” he said. So, who could potentially render Daltrey speechless? But if I met someone I’ve been a fan of a very long time, even today, I go back to that little kid again.” Not so much around all the guys I’ve known from the beginning - Paul McCartney and Ringo and all those people - we’re all mates, and it’s different. In fact, he said, he is occasionally one himself. There is no hint of judgment in Daltrey’s voice when he talks about the antics of star-struck fans. And blow me if they’re not in the bloody room before you get there.” “They know what time our plane lands, what hotel we’re staying at, under what name. “We’ve had to pull them out from under the beds before,” he said, laughing aloud. Still, there are some fans - who, almost with admiration, Daltrey calls “extraordinary, really industrial” - that take things a step further. I’ve seen a lot of stars have their bodyguards, and they push the fans away. Rural as it is, however, is not so isolated that die-hard fans cannot track him down. He rode out the past two years of the COVID pandemic pretty easily, he said, taking long walks through the rolling, green pastures of his sprawling farm in East Sussex, England. It’s a big experience.”įor now, Daltrey remains in prime form. “But then, you hear a real orchestra and a real violin, viola and cello and a couple basses going - it touches the human body, it touches our senses in a different way. “You live with the sound of synthesizers making string noises and orchestral noises, which you can do, very simply, on a few keyboards,” he said. While it might be difficult to imagine anything more powerful than Daltrey’s vocals, coupled with the soul-shaking brilliance of Townshend’s windmill-style guitar parts, that is precisely what happens with the addition of an orchestra, Daltrey said. “Even I was astonished at the power of it.” “It leads to a sound that literally takes your head off,” he said. But the orchestra is not toning down The Who’s sound, Daltrey explained, so much as ratcheting it up. Touring with an orchestra might be a far cry from what some would expect from a group that once held the Guinness World Record for being the loudest band in the world. What Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend bring to their 'The Who Hits Back' tour
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