![]() ![]() I thought, ‘This is a masterpiece and it will be treated as such. ![]() He went on to observe the positive results of his disappointment, saying: “I don’t know, I suppose I was fooling myself. I can’t remember the exact context… it went, ‘Grandad, we love you…’ I remember thinking, ‘Jesus, this stuff just shouldn’t be in the charts!’” that I think knocked the Beatles off the top of the charts. Townshend accepted it was a “possibility” that the charts weren’t ready for a track like “I Can See for Miles and Miles.” He reflected: “e were knocked off the top by some comedian whose song was called ‘Shaddap You Face’ … There was another song that was Number 1 coming up to Christmas in the U.K. Roger Daltrey -left and Keith Moon-right 1967.jpg. And that I had exhausted my sense of humor, my sense of irony with songs like ‘Pictures of Lily,’ ‘I’m a Boy,’ and ‘Happy Jack.’” Media in category 'Roger Daltrey' The following 30 files are in this category, out of 30 total. It was that I was worried that I couldn’t do any better. It wasn’t just disappointed that we didn’t get a hit. He continued: “Maybe I just got carried away with how clever I thought I was. “And when he heard ‘I Can See for Miles,’ he wrote Kit a letter thinking that Kit had written the song… he didn’t think any of us goons could have done anything like that, praising him for the adventurous harmonies.” That is the sign of a good guitar.“Kit Lambert, who was our manager and my songwriting and composing mentor back then… His godfather was William Walton, the English classical composer,” Townshend told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. It just made me want to play a lot more than I used to. “And there is something about the quality of the sound that makes me discover more and more the chords and progressions and things I was previously unaware of. “What I loved about this guitar when I was first given it is that it makes me want to play - it is got an incredible bell-like quality that makes me sound like a much better player than I actually am.” Purchased from Westwood Music, LA, in spring 2002. Versoul Buxom 6 jumbo flat top acoustic guitar. Harry Daltrey served in the Second World War, as part of the British army and returned a few years after Roger was born. July 2002, with Versoul Buxom 6 acoustic guitar. Roger Daltrey was born on March 1, 1944, in Acton, West London, to Harry and Irene Daltrey. Perhaps Harry Daltrey thought that this could also help keep his son on the straight and narrow for a time. My dad had to get the equivalent of a mortgage to buy my first factory-made guitar.Įpiphone, “professional” guitar, purchased by his father in 1959.īy 1959, Roger was serious enough about his music to convince his father to buy him a professional’s guitar, an Epiphone. My Fender was copied from a guitar shop window. I went from acoustic material into electric. I was still playing every night at the boys’ club in the Goldhawk Road. Roger Daltrey: Vocals, Harmonica John Entwistle: Vocals, Bass Keith Moon: Vocals, Drums Pete Townshend. It was a big step up and allowed me to go on playing. Someone at my dad’s work had a guitar and we copied it. It literally couldn’t stand the strain on the strings. How did your band progress? We got our skiffle group together but my first guitar folded up within three to four months. It made the noise of a guitar and I could play, relatively in tune, the first three chords that anyone needed for most skiffle songs. It wasn’t very good, like playing a cheesewire, but it taught me. We couldn’t afford to buy one so I bought some wood and some guitar strings and made one. I used that on stage up until about 1962 and then my dad bought me an Epiphone.”įrom December 2007 interview in the Sun: You played guitar in your first band? The skiffle thing was taking off. The last one I made was actually a good guitar because my uncle, who was a carpenter, made the neck for me. “I made several that were quite good except that the necks used to fold up.First one made out of plywood, based on an acoustic. ![]()
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