Posted on 11/15/2021 3:28:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Who frontman Roger Daltrey described the Rolling Stones as a "mediocre pub band" in a recent interview.
His comments follow those of Paul McCartney, who reignited the Beatles-vs.-Stones argument when he called Mick Jagger's group a "covers band" — leading to a lighthearted response from Jagger during a concert.
In conversation with the Coda Collection, Daltrey offered his own views, saying: "Mick Jagger, you've got to take your hat off to him. He's the number one rock 'n' roll performer." He continued with a laugh: "But as a band, if you were outside a pub and you heard that music coming out of a pub some night, you'd think, 'Well, that's a mediocre pub band!'"
Elsewhere in the interview, Daltrey revealed his envy toward Robert Plant, whose experience fronting Led Zeppelin was very different from Daltrey's own experience fronting the Who. “I managed to get the short straw of all the singers in all the bands," he reflected. "No solos! Who songs are all lyrics. Robert Plant — Percy, as we call him — he's a very good friend of mine, and we do joke about it. He said you could go off and read a book when [Jimmy] Page started up on a guitar solo or [John] Bonham stated on a drum solo. And I suddenly thought, 'I wonder what it would have been like being in a band like that!'"
Daltrey also said he was a "hater of the internet," explaining: "I never thought any good would come of it, and I still don't think anything good's come of it. I think if we're not careful it's probably the end of our civilization."
LOL, I think Martin Scorcese owes his career to that album.
Mick Taylor said the SAME thing…
And he was IN the Stones for 5 years.
There’s a good reason Tommy was never followed.
The Rolling Stones kind of are a mediocre pub band...
There was nothing really groundbreaking about their stuff. It was mostly fun stuff.
Doesn’t make it bad music per se, as their legions of fans would agree.
Who’s Next was originally supposed to be a Rock Opera called “Lifehouse”.
Oh yeah, the Kinks are utterly underrated. I see you are cognoscenti also.
Even back in the day, I wasn’t a big fan of either group. There are probably more Stones songs I like than Who songs, but Led Zeppelin was my band during that era. Liked quite a bit of the Beatles, but I considered them a pop band rather than a rock band for the most part.
Now you want to watch a band that was fantastic live?
Go to You Tube and search “Chicago Tanglewood 1970”.
Some do, but not for long. Their songs are just below one's consciousness and it only takes a few notes or lyrics to bring it all back.
Standing in the middle of nowhere,
wondering how to begin.
Lost between tomorrow and yesterday,
between now and then...
Cool.
The running joke was that it wasn't live and it wasn't at Leeds. I think it was in Pete Townsend's book that he described how they had to put recorded tracks into it because although they sounded great when they played it at Leeds, they had issues with the recording equipment.
Watch Rings video later.
They do that intentionally and also on their studio recordings. That's why they're called a garage band and why the big appeal. They're not Chicago or Styx or ELO.
Listen to Honky Tonk Woman and other stones from that period. You can hear Charlie coming in micro-seconds later on the downbeat and Jagger singing faster than the beat. Keith and Wyman are the only ones who are on beat.
I know this because I'm not only a Stones fan, but I've played drums all my life. I just played my E-drums last night to Stones, and sometimes it's difficult to get Charlie's beat down, as simple as his fills were. He's not a Keith Moon nor a John Bonham nor any of the current accomplished drummers, but he had his simple style behind the downbeat that made the Jagger/Richards classics more interesting.
Indeed, Entwistle might've had the greatest rock star death ever.
Lived extravagantly rich up to the very last minute. Died flat broke.
Charlie really was a jazz drummer more than a rock drummer.
C’mon man, Brown Sugar rocked.
And what I like about Townshend’s playing is he never does the same solo twice, underrated as a improvisation player, can sound a bit sloppy at times, but it works.
Zing!
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