Pete Townshend has come a long way from smashing his guitars on stage, but just like in the past, he and Roger Daltrey still have a bit of a love/hate relationship.
“We don’t communicate very well. He and I are very different and we have different needs as performers,” Townshend, 80, said in an interview with AARP published on August 15. “He got upset because he felt I had sometimes given the impression of having left the building. Roger complained about the fact that he is deaf. He’s a singer, and he has to be 100 percent fit in order to do his job.”
While Townshend has his own health issues as well, he’s determined to not let them stand in his way. He suffers from Tinnitus but said he “feels supreme.”
“My brain is as sharp as a razor. I’m very, very creative. I’m not good with money, but I’m good at doing business deals,” he explained. “I am healthy, and I think I probably have another five years in show business. I’m not quite sure doing what. I'm very [good at] producing shows, producing artists, working with artists.”
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However, the legendary guitarist and songwriter isn’t alone in his frustrations with the communication aspect of his and Daltrey’s 50 plus year friendship though. Daltrey, 81, previously mentioned he felt similarly.
“I want to give the songs the same amount of passion as I did the first time round. But it’s not easy when you’re dealing with a partner who can be ambivalent about it,” Daltrey told The Times on August 1. “So he says until he’s out there — and he loves the money. But look at those early Who concerts. Every night was a war. That’s how we got the music across. We’re not going to turn into f--king Abba overnight, are we?”
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And while some bands have a tendency to go on more than one “farewell tour,” Daltrey assured fans in July that this one is definitely The Who’s last.
“Definitely will be the last tour of the U.S., that’s for sure. We will not be back touring,” Daltrey told Pollstar on July 11. “That’s not to say if we got a call from a charitable evening that someone’s putting together. We can make it possible, we would always look at it, and we would just see what we can do at the time. But it’s definitely the end of touring. Touring is hard, hard, hard graft.”
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