Sixty years after forming the Who, rocker Roger Daltrey is backon tour.
And he says fans can expect a stark departure from his previous shows.
The British rock band also raised the live performance bar with Moons savage bashing and Townshends guitar windmills.
Breakups, reunions, infighting, substance abuse and reckless behavior also crop up frequently on the groups resume.
Keith Moon died at 32 of a sedative overdose in 1988.
Entwistle died at 57 of aheart attackin 2002. Who knows not even Daltrey.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
This tours intimate approach is a radical departure from the last two big Who tours.
Ive got some different instrumentation.
Ive got a squeeze-box,piano, no synthesizers.
Of course, Townshends lyrics are so good, they work in any formula.
Youre not just singing Petes songs.
I do loads of songs.
I have a long solo recording career.
I do those and songs I recorded with other people.
I did an album,Going Back Home(2014) with Wilko Johnson.
Its very breezy, down-home, different from anything Pete would have written.
The whole idea is, its a miserable world out there at the moment.
Lets have a good night out.
If anything can dig us out of the hole the worlds in, music will do it.
I get a chance to get closer to the audience.
What are fans most curious to know about you?
The color of my underpants.
I really dont know.
Actually, theyre all mad.
I think its a psychosis.
I do appreciate their support, but I do find it peculiar.
In 2011, you staged the WhosTommyon a solo tour.
Was it challenging to tackle that on your own?
Thats what I liked about it.
I like things that challenge me.
I dont like to just go through the motions of what we always did.
Even in its day, we never ever played Welcome.
I ended up with an opinion thatTommyis probably the best opera ever written.
