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Topic: For Who fans....an history ones, too (NSC) Return to archive
09-24-03 06:38 PM
Boomy I was reading the paper just a second ago and saw that on October 5th Roger Daltrey will be the host of a show on the History Channel. He'll be going on some adventures and doing "wild and whacky stuff".

Copied from the Kansas City Star site:



Posted on Mon, Sep. 22, 2003

Can explain: Roger Daltrey demonstrates 'Extreme History' on TV
BY LUAINE LEE
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service

If you're looking for a TV host to experience some of the extreme moments in American history, whom do you think of first?

A British rock 'n' roller, of course. While he doesn't seem the likely choice, Roger Daltrey is the fall guy for "Extreme History with Roger Daltrey" premiering Oct. 5 on the History Channel.

He not only talks about history, he lives it. And it's not the night-in-the-Lincoln-bedroom, tea-with-Dolly-Madison, opera-with-Ben-Franklin type of history, but the down-and-dirty kind.

Daltrey snags rattlesnakes for stew, powers up a cliff face with one hand (the way John Wesley Powell did), wrangles doggies from a saddle-sore mount and survives the inadequacies of an 1812 battleship.

"I thought it was a great chance to have a Boy's Own adventure," says Daltrey. "I've flown across America so many times, I can't tell you, probably more than most Americans. Yet, I've seen very little of it and this seemed like a great opportunity to really get out there and see what a great country it is."

And what is his opinion of the Americans who populate the great lap of the nation? "Fabulous," he says.

"There's still that pioneering spirit left in them. Quite a lot of America now has gone soft. And I think we all suffer from it around the world, especially the West. The structures of society in the '60s, it was very rigid and you knew where things were but everything is kind of blurred now.

"It's like a blanc mange and when you get rigid structures like we had and you've got something to kick against, you've got something to change, something to push a little bit further away or further toward you. The reason it's like a blanc mange it's like we're getting stuck in the glue. They've done it deliberately to control us."

From the time he quit school at 14, Daltrey has been a rebel. "I try and tell the truth as I see it. And if I'm wrong, I'll be the first person to say, 'Hey, I've been really wrong and put my foot in my mouth.'"

The lead singer for the now-legendary band The Who was famous by the time he was 20. Nine years later he made the movie version of the first rock opera, "Tommy," and established himself as an icon.

But Daltrey didn't want to be a "movie star" with all the ermine trimmings, he says. He wanted to be a good actor and a memorable rock singer, so he eased himself out of Hollywood and all its flash-and-dash.

He managed that by doing "atrocious things," he laughs - a deep, prolonged chuckle. "I made crappy films. You pull yourself up, you look at yourself and say, 'What the hell's going on here?' Of course it takes men AGES to mature. We were babies when we had our first hit record. I was 29 when I made 'Tommy' and that was a huge film in today's terms. That would be a mega-box office grosser."

His moral fiber comes from nursing a dream, he thinks. "From seeing Elvis and just like John Lennon said, 'That looked like a great job to me.' It was. It was the same dream that probably tens of millions of people had at the same time. I totally believed, and no one was going to stop me from achieving it. It came like tunnel vision."

Daltrey went on to do many other things. He starred in "Lisztomania" and "McVicar," played in "The Beggar's Opera," "Lois & Clark," "Sliders" and "The Highlander," even played Scrooge at Madison Square Garden.

Unlike other rockers, Daltrey sowed his wild oats early. Married for 32 years to his second wife, Heather, he says he didn't want to get involved when he met her.

"We met first at the theater. I was doing a show and she was going out with someone else. We were a bunch of hippies, we were always going out with each other, those were the days.

"But the first night I spent with my wife was a pivotal moment. It frightened the s--- out of me. It did because I was getting divorced and it was like instant physical attraction. I thought, `God, I like this girl!' and I didn't want to go there. I didn't want to have any attachments. I wanted to be free.

"I'm still friends with my first wife so it's not anything detrimental to my first wife, it was just I was too young to get married and I had to choose the marriage or the band. I chose the band. It was the right decision."

Daltrey, 59, says his toughest time was dealing with Who bassist John Entwistle's death last year and accusations against bandmate Pete Townshend of accessing child pornography. Townshend admitted to looking at images, saying it was for a book he was writing.

"I know the truth about him. I know what kind of man he is and I don't know anyone in my life - and I'll tell you this straight in the eyes - I've never met anyone in my life who has done more to help abused people than Pete Townshend," says Daltrey. "And he was found not guilty of anything, not found with any image of anything. He was totally honest about what he did. He did it for the reasons he said he did it because he worked in those areas."

Next up is a new album Daltrey and Townshend plan to cut this month. As long as he and Townshend can produce music to their standard there will always be a Who, he says.

"I was 11 years old and I went out and built my first guitar. And by the age of 14 I was singing in bars at night. I wasn't interested in school at all. It was an adequate guitar - it was probably a lousy guitar, but it was adequate to me then. Seemed to sound all right to everybody else, and I had the gift of a reasonable voice. I was just doing what I wanted to do, following my dream. I was going to do it come hell or high water - and there was a lot of high water."

© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

09-24-03 06:54 PM
steel driving hammer I think Charlie would be good at doing something like that too.

Just let Charlie finish out the 2007-2010 World Tour then, and only then.