“Now we have a little bit of a river to cross”
Pete Townshend has been discussing the probability of The Who making one other album – and he appears the extra enthusiastic between him and Roger Daltrey.
With Townshend now 79 and Daltrey having turned 80 this yr, the pair are coming to the tip of their illustrious careers. The pair are the one surviving members of The Who’s basic lineup, and the one two at the moment within the band.
Talking to The Daily Beast, Townshend mentioned: “I don’t know what’s gonna occur with The Who. I’m hoping Roger [Daltrey] and I can discover some frequent floor and discover some strategy to work once more, probably with out an orchestra, as a result of I feel we’ve finished that. But in addition, there’s this sense that we’re within the final tour interval of our profession. Are we simply hoping to do what Bob Dylan does and simply hold going?”
He defined that he’s “inspired” by Daltrey’s solo tour, and likes the concept of them placing a small band collectively. However, he says, “Roger and I don’t converse. We don’t speak. So, it may be troublesome to land on one thing that we each share an curiosity in. However it’s there for the taking, I feel.”
The Every day Beast requested Townshend if he’d wish to get Daltrey into the studio to make an album and put it up for sale with a tour, however he mentioned he wasn’t going to “bully” his bandmate into it.
“I don’t wish to have the job that I used to have across the time of ‘Quadrophenia’, which is bullying all people in The Who to do precisely what I wish to do,” he mentioned. “It was no enjoyable. And on the finish of that, Roger knocked me out. I requested for it, however he knocked me out.”
He added: “Anyway, I’m hopeful. I’m actually not saying that we gained’t do something, however Roger and I do have a little bit of a river to cross. And as soon as we cross that river, we’ll see what occurs.”
This isn’t the primary time in current weeks that Townshend has mentioned the potential of new The Who music or reside dates. In June, he instructed NME that he was “fairly positive” there can be extra Who exhibits, and that “The story of the tip of The Who’s gonna be when both Roger or I drop useless or can’t perform anymore on the stage”.
However a brand new album? “If there was a necessity or a spot for a Who album, may I write the songs for it inside six weeks? In fact I fucking may, it’s a chunk of cake,” he mentioned. “The issue is I don’t suppose Roger desires to do it once more. For me it could be a pleasure as a result of I really like writing songs, I really like writing to a quick, I really like having a fee, I really like having a deadline and I really like the suggestions.”
In March, in the meantime, Daltrey mentioned he’s “on [his] means out” and that he “must be sensible” about future plans.
And, when NME requested Daltrey about the potential of a brand new album final yr, he laughed: “What’s the purpose? What’s the purpose of data? We launched an album 4 years in the past [2019’s ‘WHO’], and it did nothing. It’s an ideal album too, however there isn’t the curiosity on the market for brand new music nowadays. Folks wish to hear the previous music. I don’t know why, however that’s the very fact.”