Pete Townshend says he and Roger Daltrey don’t speak and it would take a “river to cross” to be able to work together
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey have had a strained relationship for decades, but according to Townshend, they are currently not on speaking terms at all.
Though hopes have been raised – and just as quickly dashed – regarding a reunion of The Who, Townshend has now said it would take a “river to cross” for him and Daltrey to reunite, but he’s hoping they could maybe work something out one day.
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“I don’t know what’s gonna happen with The Who,” Townshend tells The Daily Beast. “I’m hoping Roger [Daltrey] and I can find some common ground and find some way to work again, possibly without an orchestra, because I think we’ve done that. But also, there’s this sense that we’re in the last tour period of our career. Are we just hoping to do what Bob Dylan does and just keep going?
“I’m encouraged by seeing what Roger’s doing in his solo tour. It seems to me that if we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great. But Roger and I don’t converse. We don’t talk. So, it might be difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in. But it’s there for the taking, I think.”
Pete Townshend. Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty
Later on, Townshend suggests he would need to let Daltrey come to him when it comes to working together.
“I’m not gonna try to bully Roger to do anything,” he explains. “I don’t want to have the job that I used to have around the time of Quadrophenia, which is bullying everybody in The Who to do exactly what I want to do.
“It worked, yeah. But it was no fun. And at the end of that, Roger knocked me out. I asked for it, but he knocked me out. Anyway, I’m hopeful. I’m certainly not saying that we won’t do anything, but Roger and I do have a bit of a river to cross. And once we cross that river, we’ll see what happens.”
Daltrey previously claimed that it would be Townshend who has the final say on whether The Who ever becomes active again, but he added that “at the moment I’m happy saying that part of my life is over”
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