Pete Townshend has once again addressed the possibility of The Who touring again.
He tells The Daily Beast, “I don’t know what’s gonna happen with The Who. I’m hoping Roger [Daltrey] and I can find some common ground and find some way to work again, possibly without an orchestra, because I think we’ve done that. But also, there’s this sense that we’re in the last tour period of our career...
“Are we just hoping to do what Bob Dylan does and just keep going? I’m encouraged by seeing what Roger’s doing in his solo [acoustic] tour. It seems to me that if we put a small band together and just decided to throw [crap] at the wall, it might be great.”
But, they've yet to discuss anything as he adds, "It might be difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in. But it’s there for the taking, I think...
“I’m not gonna try to bully Roger to do anything. I don’t want to have the job that I used to have around the time of Quadrophenia, which is bullying everybody in The Who to do exactly what I want to do.
“Anyway, I’m hopeful. I’m certainly not saying that we won’t do anything, but Roger and I do have a bit of a river to cross. And once we cross that river, we’ll see what happens.”
The Who last performed in March at the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit in London, and their last tour was last year in the UK.