But the economics of touring and doing something different, it’s very difficult. So when I sat down and thought, well, I really still wanna sing. They want you in that box or they don’t want you at all. ![]() And it seems that audiences have become almost the same thing. It seems to be everything about this industry now wants to pigeonhole you. Roger Daltrey: Yeah, I mean, it’s the same, what can I say. Why is that, do you think? Are they just so used to seeing you with The Who that they can’t take it with anybody else? Marc Allan: Now, you said that you think people have a hard time accepting it. I mean, sometimes I fell flat on my face, but it’s the trying that’s important. And I was always trying to do different things. But yeah, I’m proud of both of those records. Roger Daltrey: It was a real writing breakthrough for me. Roger Daltrey: Yeah, I was really pleased with my last album, “Rocks in the Head.” There were a couple of things that stand out in my mind as solo recordings of yours, and that would be some of the stuff on the McVicar soundtrack, and “Under a Raging Moon” in particular. Pete suffers from it as well to a certain extent. I think they find it very difficult to accept that. It would have been nice to have more success than I actually had, but I think people find it very difficult to accept band members that have been in a band like the Who for that length of time, in a different capacity. Whether they were commercially successful or what, I mean, that to me is not really why I do it. Roger Daltrey: Well, I’ve got what I wanted to do out of it, is I made the music I wanted to make. Do you feel like you’ve gotten your due? I mean, I think if you’ve had some real fine records as a solo artist. So I’m gonna out start out by asking about that. And it was interesting to me that not one person asked about your solo records. I was in on the conference call a couple of months back when you did the Carnegie Hall show. Well, since we have a short time, I’ll get right to it. Whether he worries he’s going to disappoint fans.Whether he goes to see his contemporaries in concert.Whether he thinks he will ever just sit back and relax.How the music biz is so “bloody corporate”.The story of how he started spinning the microphone.Whether they considered playing Woodstock ‘94.Whether he ever considered hitting the road with a three-member rock band.When he knew he was going to take the show on the road.The challenges with the Carnegie Hall concert.What Townshend said to him after the Carnegie show.How his upcoming concert differs from the Carnegie Hall show.Playing with the Spin Doctors on the Dave Letterman show.What was something he was proud of from the Carnegie Hall gig.How he feels everyone in the band but Pete did not get the recognition they deserved.Why it was a constant struggle to make more records.Why Townshend is the way he is about The Who.If he knew Townshend was competing with him.If he feels competitive with Pete Townshend. ![]()
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