{"id":29706,"date":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/roger-daltrey-plays-who-classics-covers-more-at-solo-tour-kickoff\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T18:04:11","slug":"roger-daltrey-plays-who-classics-covers-more-at-solo-tour-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/roger-daltrey-plays-who-classics-covers-more-at-solo-tour-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Daltrey plays Who classics, covers &amp; more at solo tour kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-11\/Getty_RogerDaltrey_061224.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Matthew Baker\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong> kicked off his solo acoustic tour\u00a0Monday\u00a0in Glenside, Pennsylvania, treating the audience to a mix of <strong>The Who<\/strong> classics, covers and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.setlist.fm\/setlist\/roger-daltrey\/2024\/keswick-theatre-glenside-pa-23a9981f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>setlist.fm<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, Daltrey opened the show with his Who bandmate <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>\u2019s solo song, \u201cLet My Love Open The Door.\u201d He then treated the crowd to several Who tunes, including \u201cWho Are You,\u201d \u201cThe Kids Are Alright,\u201d \u201cSqueeze Box,\u201d \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley\u201d and \u201cWon&#8217;t Get Fooled Again,\u201d although the latter was missing Daltrey\u2019s signature scream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFor 50 years at least I have been doing the\u00a0scream of \u2018Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again,\u2019 and I\u2019ve had enough of it,\u201d Roger told the audience, as seen in fan-shot footage posted to YouTube. \u201cIt\u2019s brutal, let me tell you. It is a brutal thing to do. I mean, I\u2019ve nearly wrecked my voice so many times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that he used to go home from Who shows every night with no voice due to that \u201cbloody scream,&#8221; adding,\u00a0\u201cSo I\u2019ve retired from the scream, but I\u2019m still gonna play the song.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to Who songs, Daltrey played solo tracks like \u201cWaiting For A Friend,\u201d \u201cAfter the Fire\u201d and \u201cWithout Your Love,\u201d as well as covers of <strong>Leo Sayer<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cGiving It All Away\u201d and <strong>Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cHave You Ever Seen The Rain.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daltrey\u2019s tour hits Wolf Trap, Virginia, on Wednesday. A complete list of dates can be found at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewho.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>thewho.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Baker\/Getty Images Roger Daltrey kicked off his solo acoustic tour\u00a0Monday\u00a0in Glenside, Pennsylvania, treating the audience to a mix of The Who classics, covers and more. According to setlist.fm, Daltrey opened the show with his Who bandmate Pete Townshend\u2019s solo song, \u201cLet My Love Open The Door.\u201d He then treated<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/roger-daltrey-plays-who-classics-covers-more-at-solo-tour-kickoff\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}