The Who Concert Guide

WHO legend Roger Daltrey brought his Tommy tour to the Villa Marina yesterday and what a night it was.

The band consisted of Pete Townshend’s younger brother Simon and Frank Simes a renowned session musician and producer on guitars, John Button on bass, Scott Deavours on drums and Loren Gold on keyboards.

Roger appeared on stage still clutching is customary cup of tea in his hand.

The show kicked off with two 60s Who classics – I Can See For Miles and Pictures of Lily before Roger diversified into a couple of folkie numbers Gimme A Stone by Little Feat and an Old Taj Mahal number Freedom Ride.

And so to the Tommy set: Roger mentioned that when the Who first played the rock opera. the band

consisted of a bass player, John, who thought he was a lead guitarist, a guitarist, Pete who should have been the drummer and a drummer,Keith, who wanted to be everything.

As the band began to play the overture you could feel that this was going to be a special night.

Amazing Journey brought about Roger;s trademark mike swinging act albeit a lot tamer than in the old days.

His vocals were as good as I have ever heard from him, not bad for a guy of 67.

Rousing versions of Young Man blues and Baba O’Reilly had the place bouncing before Without Your Love, taken from the film McVicar in which Roger played the title role, slowed things down. The band left Roger to finish the night alone with his ukulele to sing Red, Blue and Grey.

Roger had been on stage for over two and a half hours for what was a fantastic performance of Who classics.

A true legend. Roll on the Quadrophenia tour.