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Roger daltrey 60s6/14/2023 ![]() But to seemingly put his faith in rap is something that not many rock fans would have seen coming – even from a grump old man, and especially not from a rock legend. In the same interview he complained about travel, air pollution, his vocal nightmares and that the band still play the same set as forty years ago. Whatever the reason, this comment seems to have resonated amongst the rest of Daltrey’s grumping. Simmons blamed file sharing, but Daltrey’s words seem to suggest that bands have come to the end of the road with rock. He isn’t the first rocker to mourn the death of the genre back in 2014 Gene Simmons claimed that rock had been “murdered”. The singer remembers the endless waiting and how the worst sides of our nature had come out. Perhaps finding himself hard of hearing makes enjoying new music more difficult for Daltrey, as The Times suggested, but his comments strike more at the meaning of music today. The Who’s Roger Daltrey Is Not Nostalgic for Woodstock. Also in spite of being “deaf as posts”, according to Daltrey’s typical pessimism, and possessed of bodies that “start to creak after the age of 65”. Despite the deaths of both Keith Moon and John Entwistle, and advancing age, Daltrey and Pete Townshend have continued to tour over the years. His comments came off the back of The Who’s appearance at the Desert Trip festival. ![]() “You watch these people and you can’t remember a bloody thing.” “The sadness for me is that rock has reached a dead end… the only people saying things that matter are the rappers and most pop is meaningless and forgettable,” he told The Times Magazine. ![]() Despite his once upon a time cry of “Long Live Rock”, in a recent interview Daltrey appeared to have stepped down as a champion of the genre. But most recently, it’s rock music that has got Daltrey down.
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