Visitors to The Who’s official website will find an audio interview with front man Roger Daltrey in which the founding member of the band reveals that the group plans to hit the road next year. Details of the jaunt are still in the planning stages with Daltrey saying, “we are planning on doing something. I can’t really talk about specifics yet, but it will be based around a past work. I would like to be on the road playing as many different kind of shows as we could: maybe doing ‘Quadrophenia’ one night, do greatest hits the next night … This is what I would like to do. And ‘Tommy’ … if I could still sing ‘Tommy’. That, to me, would be really good fun. And don’t keep going out with the same show every night — the audience would have to take a chance on what show they actually got.”
Let’s take a look at some other stories of note…
- Fans can interview My Morning Jacket through Steam Engine
- Glastonbury 2011 sold out in four minutes without a lineup
- Darren Shearer of the New Deal will be blogging for JamBase
- Al, Chuck and Rob of moe. have formed a new side project
- CNN’s John Roberts went backstage with Rush in Atlanta
- Cake has announced details of a new album due in January
Finally, Jeff Miers of the Buffalo News examines the impact of free shows on the rest of Upstate NY’s live music calendar this summer. Upstate has an unusual situation with so many free concert series featuring high-profile acts. Read Miers’ piece to find out why these series are cannibalizing each other’s audiences not to mention ticketed shows.
