[jroehl]

Will this have a detrimental effect on their next world tour? [snicker]

[Paladin2]

Who?

[Larry Lucido]

I’m no musician, but aren’t drums supposed to go boom boom boom?

[NeverTyranny]

Sounds like a senior moment.

[Gay State Conservative]

The Who was,in their earliest years,the best of the British Invasion. But then they got fat,complacent and began to believe their own press releases.

[John Milner]

Will this have a detrimental effect on their next final tour? [snicker]

Fixed it for you.

[sit-rep]

if I read that right, drummer since ‘96 and just last night was an issue big enough to fire him over? And never knew he was Ringo’s son!!

[Izzy Dunne]

They have nothing but admiration for him

You don't fire a guy after 29 years if you "have nothing but admiration for him"...

[Beowulf9]

Ringo and Maureen’s son.

[Bullish]

Don’t drums always go Boom Boom Boom?

[traderrob6]

Interesting, “Starkey”, Richard Starkey was Ringo Starr”s real name.

[Drew68]

Ringo’s son, Keith Moon’s Godson, Kenny Jones’ student, and The Who’s longest serving drummer.

Really thought, Pete and Roger just need to wrap it up. It’s become silly at this point. And I say this with mad respect for the band’s legacy.

[FMBass]

That’s rich! An old singer complaining about a drummer, when he used to be in a band with Keith Moon, of all people. “Moon, the loon” as he is/was known by many.

I always thought Moon was a great drummer, but I had to try real hard to insinuate that Daltrey was a singer. The last time I heard Daltrey, what little of a voice he had, was noticeably gone. Really gone. He has some ego criticizing another musician.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The Who haven’t existed for me as a current band since the day Keith Moon died. Led Zeppelin had the grace to call it a day when John Bonham passed - Roger, Pete and John should have done the same.

[plain talk]

Obviously more to this story ... There must have been some incident that really ticked them off.

[Big Red Badger]

Sumtin tiked Em Off -—mate!

[JimRed]

Move described as ‘a collective decision’ follows reports that Roger Daltrey was unhappy with ‘drums going boom, boom, boom’ at recent gig.

Yeah, everybody knows that rocker drums should be going "ratta-tatta-tatta-ratta-tatta-tatt!

[HandyDandy]

I can remember the time when Pete Townshend would call out to the live audience if there were someone among them who would come up and sit in on drums (after Kieth Moon got taken out on a stretcher). Now they’re picky!? That ain’t rock ‘n roll!

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Move described as ‘a collective decision’ follows reports that Roger Daltrey was unhappy with ‘drums going boom, boom, boom’ at recent gig.

He's kind of old to get his own Yoko, but he's a rock star and it's his band, so he could probably get his girlfriend to bang the drums.

[Skooz]

Zach’s been playing with them for 25 or so years, so I’m sure there was more to it than that.

Seems to me that Zach was the perfect replacement for Moon in that they are somewhat similar in style (Moon was Zach’s drum teacher).

[Allegra]

Love Roger Daltrey and I saw The Who a few times in my youth, but it sounds like Roger has reached the “You kids get off my lawn!” stage.