Re: Roger's voice

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>I know Roger is the better "traditional" singer per the standard evaluation 
>of what makes a singer a "good" singer (voice control, singing from the 
>diaphragm, etc., etc.) but since 1973's "Quadrophenia" LP, I have preferred 
>Towser to Daltrey.

Roger has a bigger range in style, too.


>Daltrey seems to have lost all his powerful mastery, control, and
>dominance over the material that TheWho-> performs in the
>post "TheWho-> By Numbers" years, live and studio.

It was a change in style, and Pete made it.  John had some serious problems 
in adapting, too, and so Pete left him in favor of other bassists.  
Inconsistent as the material was in those years, I think it produced some of 
The Who's best work.  WHO ARE YOU is one of my favorite albums, and "One 
Life's Enough" is one of the most gorgeous things I've ever heard.  You 
can't say that Roger couldn't handle this material.


>I just don't think he knows what he is doing with Townshend's songs
>anymore. Daltrey doesn't relate to Pete's material at all anymore, IMO.

I can imagine Roger singing some of Pete's more recent songs, but Pete has 
wanted to sing them himself.  Several fans have commented that The Who 
should have done PSYCHODERELICT.


>Pete is "Rock's" greatest intellectual and Roger is a sheet metal worker.

I dunno.  There's more than one way you can look at this.  For example:  
Townshend was a commercial art student and Daltrey was a sheet metal worker. 
  Townshend is a noted songwriter/composer and Daltrey is a noted singer.  
Townshend is rock's greatest intellectual and Daltrey is the genius who 
picked up three gawky, misfit kids and turned them into the world's greatest 
rock band.


>Pete is a visionary, a creator, a musical genius and Daltrey is a 
>fabricator, a journeyman "masonry thinker." He knows not where to go 
>without a blueprint. Daltrey is a follower, not a leader.

No, Roger draws the blueprint.  He is the architect that can see 
possibilities, that can feel the magic in music, and shape reality into 
legend.


>Daltrey got left in the wake of "Tommy" and is still struggling against the 
>current.

TOMMY is where Roger learned he had that gift.


keets