![]() ![]() He will always take chances and doesn’t mind playing a hundred bum notes for four great ones that make you go, ‘Wow!’ Rock doesn’t need to be perfect, it needs bum notes and beads of sweat.” He can play like Clapton if he wants and he can play like Hendrix but when Pete plays Pete, where does that come from? It’s that rhythmic thing he does. “For Pete to say he wanted to play on my new record was such an honour because he’s my ultimate guitarist,” Daltrey told The Sun. The tune was first recorded by soul singer Garnet Mimms in 1964 and is a song The Who covered when they were starting out. ![]() One of the album’s standout is the opener and title track with its groove and soulful backing vocals. ![]() The album was produced by Dave Eringa, who also served in that capacity on the Wilko Johnson collaboration album. Other guest musicians include Mick Talbot (keyboards) and Sean Genockey (lead guitar). Townshend plays acoustic and some electric guitar on seven of the tracks. There are also two original songs, Certified Rose and Always Heading Home, a co-write with English novelist Nigel Hilton. Oslin), Get On Out Of The Rain ( Parliament), Into My Arms ( Nick Cave) and You Haven’t Done Nothing ( Stevie Wonder). Among the nine covers are the title track ( Jerry Ragovoy and Bob Elgin), How Far ( Stephen Stills), Where Is A Man To Go ( Jerry Gillespie & K.T. The result is a compelling 11-track collection. That gave me the confidence to carry on.” “I listened to them and thought, ‘None of this will do anything’…But my manager sent the material to Pete, who rang me and said, ‘What’s up with you? This is fabulous, you’ve got to finish it…Then out of the blue, he said he’d like to play guitar on it. “I had a long recovery and you never quite get over it…My feet hurt and my thumbs have gone.”ĭaltrey credits his longtime bandmate and brother-in-arms Pete Townshend for finishing the record, on which he had started work after the March 2014 release of Going Back Home, his great collaboration album with Wilko Johnson. “I had eight of the 11 tracks,” he explained to The Sun. “I was a month in the hospital, touch and go for a few days,” Daltrey told British tabloid The Sun during a recent interview. In September 2015, Daltrey was diagnosed with viral meningitis during The Who Hits 50! North American tour, forcing the band to reschedule the remaining dates until 2016. The voice of the 74-old-year-old frontman of The Who has never sounded better, which is amazing. Today, Roger Daltrey released As Long As I Have You, his ninth solo album after 1992’s Rocks In The Head. ![]()
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