The challenge now for Campbell is establishing his own identity outside the context of the Heartbreakers. Interview: The Kinks' Dave Davies on following 'Lola' on their own terms in the '70s Tom Petty guitarist Mike Campbell opened the showįrom the early days of Mudcrutch through Tom Petty’s final show on the Heartbreakers' 40th Anniversary Tour, Mike Campbell was the greatest right-hand man a guy with Petty’s talents could’ve hoped to find.Ī brilliant lead guitarist, Campbell gave each song exactly what it needed and co-wrote such classics as “Refugee,” “Here Comes My Girl” and “You Got Lucky.' And we’re all better for it, as Sunday’s performance at Ak-Chin Pavilion in Phoenix made perfectly clear.

They’re still here with that same albatross around their necks. Only that didn’t happen for Daltrey and Townshend. That leaves Pete Townshend, now 77, and microphone-twirling frontman Roger Daltrey, now 78, to carry on the legacy of a band whose early claims to fame included a stuttering youth-culture anthem whose most defiant moment was the oft-quoted lyric 'I hope I die before I get old.' And lead bassist John Entwistle, he of the thundering Rotosounds, died in 2002. They lost Keith Moon, the most electrifying drummer on the planet, to an early death by misadventure in 1978. In their day, they were the greatest, most exciting live performers rock ‘n’ roll had ever known, an unhinged force of nature leaving shards of smashed guitars and battered drum kits in their wake. I’ve seen how 'wonderful' - really? - it was.View Gallery: The Who tour 2022: Photos from the Phoenix concert 'I’ve been in those communist countries while they were communist. We’ve seen the communist system fail in the Soviet Union.' “And we’ve been through socialist governments. 'We came out of a war, we came out of a leveled society, completely flattened bomb sites and everything,” Daltrey said. There’s no doubt about that.'ĭaltrey talks more about his experience, contrasting how things were, and pointing out how people back then learned lessons they have appeared to have unlearned now: Especially when you’ve lived through the periods of a life that we’ve had the privilege to. I mean, anyone who’s lived a life and you see what they’re doing, you just know that it’s a route to nowhere. 'It’s terrifying, the miserable world they’re going to create for themselves. It’s becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation.' Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth, and start to read books again. It’s almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. 'It’s just getting harder to disseminate the truth. The world-famous singer, who has had a career spanning nearly six decades, 'joins in together with the band' by publicly decrying what he feels are major flaws in modern society, as other artistic icons such as Glenn Danzig have done.ĭaltrey started in on how, in his opinion, the truth has been a casualty of the internet: The Who's Roger Daltrey slams “the woke generation” /FCscfgoV8y- The Post Millennial May 8, 2021 Roger Daltrey, the unforgettable frontman of the legendary rock band 'The Who', had a lot to say on Saturday, and in no uncertain terms, about the current state of the world.

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