Pete Townshend is once again sharing some information about the future of The Who.
In an interview with Variety, the rocker continued to tease a possible Who tour next year, sharing, “I know that if Roger (Daltrey) and I do tour again, as I’m sure we will, it will probably be one of the last periods that we tour.”
Pete made similar comments about a Who tour back in October, telling The Standard, “We’re both getting a bit creaky, but we will definitely do something next year.”
As for new music from the band, that seems less likely.
“I would love to do another album with Roger,” Pete tells Variety. “I really enjoyed doing the last one, but he doesn’t really want to do that — I feel like with the Who, I’m still trying to push this elephant up the hill, with Roger being resistant to doing new creative work. He always says to me, ‘Pete, you’ve done enough. We did enough in the early days. That’s what people want here. Let’s just do that.’”
As for non-Who-related projects, Pete says he’s “thought about doing solo work,” adding, “I’m still a conceptualist; I still want a story to hang the music on.”
“For me it’s about pencil sketches, poems, song lyrics, playing with the latest electronic toy, doing books. It’s about all kinds of things,” he explains. “I may have 10 years left to work, but I work very, very slowly, so one thing I’m trying to do is speed things up a bit.”
Finally, he notes, “So I may dump a couple of the projects that I’ve been working on for a long time and I may decide just to do a one-man show.”
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