The Who sack Zak Starkey

[PaulWarning]

https://www.goldradio.com/news/music/the-who-zak-starkey-fired-why/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJss61leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHqRA1Wpq53mnBU0-fGaGFyJKZF-jRtlyTqoG-jL-UUVBfjqeSczuZek3675a_aem_8t9vj7cvM8wjssT9OhvDVA

according to this story Roger Daltry instigated it because all he could hear was boob boom boom, seeing as they use in ears surely it's the sound man they should be getting rid of

[SteveXFR]

The Who are still going??

[Beedster]

41 minutes ago, PaulWarning said:

https://www.goldradio.com/news/music/the-who-zak-starkey-fired-why/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJss61leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHqRA1Wpq53mnBU0-fGaGFyJKZF-jRtlyTqoG-jL-UUVBfjqeSczuZek3675a_aem_8t9vj7cvM8wjssT9OhvDVA

according to this story Roger Daltry instigated it because all he could hear was boob boom boom, seeing as they use in ears surely it's the sound man they should be getting rid of

 

2 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

The Who are still going??

 

I imagine the truth is that he started trying to have a say in things, been the downfall of many a non-original member, no matter how talented or long-standing

[Cato]

He doesn't seem too devastated 

 

He put this up on his social wotsits a few days before the official announcement 

 

Edited Thursday at 12:30 by Cato

[Beedster]

4 minutes ago, Cato said:

He doesn't seem too devasted 

 

He put this up on his social wotsits a few days before the official announcement 

 

 

Brilliant 

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, Cato said:

He doesn't seem too devasted 

 

He put this up on his social wotsits a few days before the official announcement 

 

 

Seems reasonable given Moon was known for his underplaying 👍

[Japhet]

11 minutes ago, Beedster said:

 

Seems reasonable given Moon was known for his underplaying 👍

 

Can't imagine them with a flamboyant, enthusiastic drummer. Wouldn't suit them at all.

[Beedster]

f*** me you couldn't make this sort of shit up.....

 

 

He's been with them 29 f***ing years, for context that's twice as long as Moon was. And yes, as above, if the sound's shit you don't fire the drummist (unless the drummist deliberately went Boom Boom Boom because he wants to be fired so that he can pick up the Oasis gigs this summer of course......)

[Sean]

Tribute Band Replaces Drummer

[Beedster]

Just now, Sean said:

Tribute Band Replaces Drummer

 

Indeed

 

..and do you think when he described Daktry as their main songwriter he was being a little devious....?

[StickyDBRmf]

Daltry needs to go back to acting

[Beedster]

Just now, StickyDBRmf said:

Daltry needs to go back to acting

 

Yep, I think when a rock singer stops a song live on stage to moan about the drummer being too load it's long past the time to hang up the mic and find a decent sitcom that'll have to (sounds like he'd make a decent Victor Meldrew?).

 

And re Daltrey not being the main writer, when you listen to Townshend's demos for the early 70's stuff - specifically Quadrophenia and Who's Next - you can't escape the sense that in many of those great songs Townshend's vocals are at least the equal of Daltrey's also....  

[Misdee]

All of these bands should have packed it in decades ago. Surely they could pass an Act of Parliament or something. How long can the agony be allowed to continue? It's like watching a geriatric Arthur Askey break his hip trying to disco dance for the amusement of his fellow care home residents.

 

Would be nice if they replaced Zak with Dr David Starkey, right-wing constitutional historian. I don't think he can play the drums ( that would probably  Daltrey fine) but he could give the audience some very insightful observations about the cultural context of songs like My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again while Roger and Pete have their Tena pants changed during the interval.

[Lozz196]

Too much boom boom drums, we’ll sack the monitor/IEM engineer. Too much overplaying, Rog, it’s The Who, you used to have Moon The Loon on the sticks!

[SteveXFR]

1 hour ago, Misdee said:

All of these bands should have packed it in decades ago. Surely they could pass an Act of Parliament or something. How long can the agony be allowed to continue? It's like watching a geriatric Arthur Askey break his hip trying to disco dance for the amusement of his fellow care home residents.

 

Would be nice if they replaced Zak with Dr David Starkey, right-wing constitutional historian. I don't think he can play the drums ( that would probably  Daltrey fine) but he could give the audience some very insightful observations about the cultural context of songs like My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again while Roger and Pete have their Tena pants changed during the interval.

 

I think they keep going out of fear of dying if they stop. They need something to keep them going  and people keep buying tickets. 

My parents saw The Who back in the early 2000's and said they were past it then.

[miles'tone]

Poor Rog. He should've quit before he got old.

[Piers_Williamson]

6 minutes ago, miles'tone said:

Poor Rog. He should've quit before he got old.

Isn't there a song in there somewhere?

[Misdee]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I think they keep going out of fear of dying if they stop. They need something to keep them going  and people keep buying tickets. 

My parents saw The Who back in the early 2000's and said they were past it then.

I think most stars fear obscurity more than they fear death. However deprecating they are of fame and all it brings, they couldn't cope with not being somebody special anymore.

[prowla]

I saw them in '75 and thought they were past it.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

My drum knowledge is not exactly tip top, but it looks like his kit (at the RAH) was an electric one. Cymbals look like the black ones that you usually see with an electric kit.

 

 

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I think they keep going out of fear of dying if they stop. They need something to keep them going  and people keep buying tickets. 

My parents saw The Who back in the early 2000's and said they were past it then.

 

I saw them in 2006, they were great.

[Burns-bass]

5 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

I saw them in 2006, they were great.

I was going to say this.

 

I have never liked the Who and (from what I have read) Daltry sounds like a tool.

 

But I got a free ticket to see them in Cardiff in 2006 (with Pino, I think as Entwistle had died) and they were really, really good. 

[Sean]

4 minutes ago, Burns-bass said:

I was going to say this.

 

I have never liked the Who and (from what I have read) Daltry sounds like a tool.

 

But I got a free ticket to see them in Cardiff in 2006 (with Pino, I think as Entwistle had died) and they were really, really good. 

I was there too.

[Steve Browning]

I am meeting up with Pete's tech in the next few days. I'll report anything exciting. 

[Beedster]

24 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

I am meeting up with Pete's tech in the next few days. I'll report anything exciting. 

 

You move in illustrious circles Steve 👍