We were all battling the elements and ourselves. “Looking out unto the predawn gloom of Woodstock, making out the vague shape of half a million mud-caked people as the lights swept over them, I felt in my sleep-deprived, hallucinating state that this was my nightmare come true,” Daltrey concludes. But it was chaos.”Īll’s well that ends well, though, and the band eventually took to the stage in defiance all of the arguments and hallucinations: They played Tommy in full, as well as a few other popular early hits, cementing their place in music history in the process.
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A nice cup of hallucinogenic tea.” Troubled by constant power cuts, stage jumpers, and what might have been early symptoms of pneumonia on top of the psychoactive assault, Daltrey began to wish they hadn’t even agreed to the gig: “It was billed as an Aquarian exposition - three days of peace and music. Stream Stern Show Clip - Howard Talks To Roger Daltrey About Saving His Voice by Howard Stern on desktop and mobile. Roger said McCartney is a great singer but he just doesnt like what hes doing these days. Howard said that he liked it all but Roger was goofing on how it didnt even sound like rock and roll anymore. Roger thought the music sounded kind of like a swing band. Fortunately, I’d brought in my own bottle of Southern Comfort so I was fine right up until the moment I decided to have a cup of tea,” he wrote. Howard brought up Paul McCarney and how he went to see his concert not too long ago. An audience of half a million didn’t exactly help.Įven worse for Daltrey - who, while a dabbler in alcohol, abstained from drugs throughout his time in the band - there was no food backstage, and everything was laced with LSD. And waiting some more.” It was even harder on Who drummer Keith Moon - Daltrey said he always suffered from “terrible” nerves before performances, which, per Daltrey, always worsened the drinking habit that wound up killing him. “We were due on in the evening but by four the next morning we were still hanging around backstage in a muddy field waiting. “You hope things will be running like clockwork but at festivals in those days, particularly inaugural festivals, they never were and they certainly weren’t at Woodstock,” Daltrey continues. And we waited and waited and waited.”Īt around 7 p.m., the Who was finally beckoned to drive to the backstage area, only to sit on their asses for ten more hours. Everyone all just hanging around and waiting their turn to go to the site. “The destination we arrived at was a little different … the musicians had the rooms and the roadies and technicians slept in the corridors. The whole place was chaos,” Daltrey writes. Pete spent several hours in the traffic jams. “Three days of peace and love? Do me a favor. Mostly, it just involved a perpetual state of waiting, which didn’t do much for Daltrey’s anxiety issues. Kibblewhite, Woodstock may have been an undeniably seminal 20th-century event, but it wasn’t much fun for the bands that participated. Roger Daltrey ‘s first ever visit to Howard’s SiriusXM studio provided the King with his opportunity to go deep on that. But if you’re still suffering from a case of FOMO because you never got to drop a tab of acid and see Jimi Hendrix, Santana, and Creedence Clearwater Revival perform on a mud-soaked stage for hours on end, perhaps the Who’s Roger Daltrey might change your mind - because despite performing a headlining set at the festival with one of the most popular bands in the world, he still had a pretty shitty time.Īccording to Daltrey’s new memoir, Thanks a Lot Mr. Howard has long been fascinated by the relationships between members of bands, especially the tension between The Who’s lead singer Roger Daltrey and their guitarist/songwriter Pete Townsend. greats such as Leslie West, Roger Daltrey, Ray Davies, and Ozzy Osbourne. XM host and noted music journalist Dave Marsh, and The Whos Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. In fact, Moon was so hyperactive that in a 2013 interview on the Howard Stern Show, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey opined that he thought Moon was slightly autistic but was actually never diagnosed, as back in those days, it wasn’t a subject that was ever spoken or even widely known about. The legend of Woodstock continues to bewitch music aficionados nearly a half-century after that fateful August 1969 weekend, even if its “peace and love” reputation has come under some scrutiny in the years that followed. Fred Norris who can be heard daily on broadcasts of the Howard Stern Show has. Lover of grammar, Howard Stern, Conan & good teeth. Photo: Warner Bros/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
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