Underscoring just how much Daltrey loves putting on a blindfold and leaping off the cliff, he enlisted the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, which is managed and presented by the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, to help him tell the story of “Tommy.
The set was recorded during his 2018 tour stops in Budapest and Bethel in upstate New York the scene of the first Woodstock festival 50 years ago, where the Who performed Tommy in its entirety. The charismatic frontman once revealed in an interview that he had hated the festival from its beginning until the end.
The audience at Bethel Woods on June 8 was reminded that there will never be another “Tommy” and there will never be another band as brave or brash as The Who. In June 2019, Daltrey released a live album, The Whos Tommy Orchestral. He started making money like he never had before under new management. His eponymous 1973 solo album sold better than any of the earlier Who singles albums. Touch me, begs Roger Daltrey, his voice actually cracking, a soft drum beating somewhere in the dark, the band holding its nerve. Surprisingly enough, it was when Daltrey began to work outside of The Who that the pounds finally started to pile up. And they were crafty enough to make it all work. The Who, live at Woodstock, onstage at 4am: See me. Woodstock was Janis coitus interruptus Joplin and Jimi genius Hendrix, and the gorgeous sweating chest of Roger Daltrey.
At the time of this interview in 1994, Daltry was 50 years old and was promoting his upcoming concert Daltrey sings Townshend in Indianapolis. The Who in 1969 were bold enough to put the words “rock” and “opera” in the same sentence. In this episode, we have The Who’s frontman, Roger Daltrey. He’s arguably the greatest rock singer that has fronted. The legacy of the Woodstock festival site, the contemporary cutting edge of Bethel Woods, the endurance of “Tommy” and Daltrey’s commanding stage authority all collided on June 8.Īnd for me, it shattered the concept of time that might have otherwise framed an evening of songs that included “Pinball Wizard,” “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “See Me, Feel Me/ Listening To You.” Born in 1944, he revealed how decades of rigorous rock-star wear-and-tear can be harnessed to propel a 2018 performance, rather than conceal it in drowsy nostalgia. And that is so true of the way that Roger Daltrey, born on March 1, 1944, has propelled the Who from his position out front of the band.
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