The tour will open in Bethel, NY on June 8th with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, other highlights include, Tanglewood, MA on June 15th with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Highland Park, IL on June 23rd & 25th with Ravinia Festival Orchestra and will wrap up on July 8th in Cuyahoga Falls, OH with The Cleveland Orchestra.Ĭonsidered one of the seminal albums of the rock canon, last year The Who played all of TOMMY for the first time in 28 years at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of a benefit concert for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Daltrey and his band will be joined on stage by acclaimed local orchestras for each performance, showcasing the beloved classics from the 1969 rock opera, including “Pinball Wizard,” “See Me, Feel Me” and more.
#ROGER DALTREY ON THAT 70S SHOW FULL#
Los Angeles, CA (January 29th, 2018) It was announced today that legendary Who frontman Roger Daltrey will be performing the band’s most iconic masterpiece this summer, the groundbreaking TOMMY, on a special 10 city solo tour featuring full orchestral backing. It’s like “Tommy” comes of age.FEATURING ACCLAIMED ORCHESTRAS IN SUMMER SOLO TOURĭaltrey and members of The Who band will share stages with the Boston Pops, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and others. It’s not a perfect record by any means, but it’s got a wonderful energy about it. We were a thousand yards from the original Woodstock stage. Last year, you toured with an orchestra, singing “Tommy.” You opened the tour in Bethel Woods, and recorded it for a new live album, “The Who’s Tommy Orchestral.” What feelings did that bring on, being in Bethel again? It plateaued toward the end of the ’70s, and then you can hear the commerciality creeping in, rather than inventiveness. The sounds, the musicianship, the styles. What was interesting about the music that was being made in those years was how quickly and rapidly it progressed. Some people think the ’60s was the greatest era of rock music. We had to get paid, or we couldn’t get back home.
People were screaming at the promoters, people were screaming to get paid. By the time it all ended, the worst sides of our nature had come out. There was an awful lot of shouting and screaming going on.
I loan it out to museums.Ĭan we do some Woodstock word association? It’s in the Victoria & Albert Museum now. The Who played something like 112 nights in 1969. Uncle Ernie, Cousin Kevin - they’re metaphors for different sides of human nature. The audience is all the other characters. Have a little respect.” The central character is Tommy. There we were, four snotty kids from Shepherd’s Bush, saying to our audience, “This is a rock opera. When I began performing “Tommy,” I realized it needed to have a visual character, to carry the weight of this piece. I wore what I always wore when I did “Tommy,” which was a buckskin suede suit with white leather fringes that I had made for me, and I beaded the back. I’m standing in the middle of the stage with enormous Marshall 100 watt amps blasting my ears behind me. It was a particularly hard one for me, because of the state of the equipment. You’ve said it was the worst gig the Who ever played. After years of struggling commercially in the United States, the Who had found a way to establish who it was.
The crowd roared at Townshend’s act of non-nonviolence. Townshend, according to his memoir, “Who I Am,” “knocked Abbie aside” with his guitar. When the singer Roger Daltrey took a break from his bottle of Southern Comfort to drink some tea, he, too, began to hallucinate.įinally, after a wait that totaled 14 hours, the Who went on early Sunday morning and played its new album, the epochal rock opera “Tommy.” Moments after the set finished, the activist-prankster Abbie Hoffman, also high on LSD, crashed the stage, and said, into Townshend’s microphone, that the focus shouldn’t be on music, but on the MC5 manager John Sinclair, who was in prison on a minor marijuana charge. The guitarist and chief songwriter Pete Townshend drank a cup of coffee backstage, and realized it was spiked with acid. The drummer Keith Moon and the bassist John Entwistle dropped acid and partied in the back of a station wagon with a pair of young female fans. While promoters scrambled to find money and the wait stretched out, the band found trouble, as it often did. The Who refused to go on until it received a cashier’s check, but all the banks were closed.
#ROGER DALTREY ON THAT 70S SHOW FREE#
When the group arrived, word was out that bands weren’t getting paid the promoters had decreed it a free show and stopped trying to collect tickets because so many people had turned up. The lone highway that led to Woodstock was jammed with traffic, so the Who left the hotel early to play its Saturday night show.
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