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Roger Daltrey

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    For Your Pre-New Year's Listening Pleasure: The Who Bring Tommy to Memorial Auditorium

    ​Four months ago I stumbled across a rough keepsake of The Who's first-ever Dallas performance in July 1967 at Memorial Auditorium downtown; it's a rumble of feedback and chatter, though buried somewhere beneath it all is The Greatest Rock and Roll Band of All Time roaring toward immortality. And ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    The Conversation: Lead Singer Stage Behavior, How Much is Too Much?

    Mick Jagger, the ultimate frontman​Make no mistake; there is a big difference between a run-of-the-mill lead singer and a bona fide frontman. Huge, really. Not just anybody has the magnetism required to convince 20,000 people at the American Airlines Center to raise their hands above their heads a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2011

    Here's a Cure for the Summertime Blues: The Who at Memorial Auditorium on July 23, 1967

    Via.​Earthquake. "Today may end up being the coolest day thru the middle of the upcoming week." Sun storms. "U.S. drought may persist for another year." Pastor Perry.But, amidst all that awful news, there's this reprieve posted just Thursday: "The Who - Live at Memorial Auditorium, Dallas, 23 July ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Ten Signs Your Favorite Band Is Past Its Prime

    ​Earlier this week, Weezer announced plans to partner with Carnival Cruise Lines to arrange the first ever "Weezer Cruise." The four-night voyage from Miami to Cozumel will also feature sets by the likes of Ozma, Dinosaur Jr., Wavves and loads of others.Never mind how awesome we think all this sou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Blink-182 & My Chemical Romance, Girl Talk & The Cool Kids, and Many Other Announcements

    Blink 182 are back, and they're looking for corporate sponsorhips​This week's most notable show announcements come our way via huge corporate sponsorships -- one from Honda Civic, and the other from 7-Eleven. The former, which features the newly reunited pop-punk forefathers Blink-182 and their mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    So Sad About Them: Roger Daltrey's Coming to Perform Tommy. Without Pete Townshend.

    ​I received a press release yesterday about which I have enormously mixed emotions. Because on the one hand, The Who is my Favorite Rock and Roll Band of All Time, precariously perched just one rung above The Clash. I've experienced The Who in myriad iterations -- at Reunion in the summer of '80, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    Valley View Has a New Owner. So, Now What?

    ​Perhaps you saw: Valley View Center has a new owner now, Miami-based LNR Property Corporation -- well, actually, its subsidiary LNR Partners, the very same company trying to sell off the former First National on Elm Street downtown, amongst other local real estate. Dallas County deed records show ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2010

    Q&A: Greg Lake Talks ELP Reunion, Playing Hits and Promoter Assumptions

    Greg Lake's resume reads like a who's who of classic rock. If only Lake were known as the first singer/bassist for King Crimson, his iconic status would still be secure. But Lake chose to leave King Crimson and form a trio with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer. ELP went on to sell over 30 million album ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    If You Didn't See The Who at the Cotton Bowl in '82, the Band Wants to Make It Up to You

    I love The Who. But I doubt I will buy the band's just-on-sale Super Bowl tee.​I see Richie's not terribly excited that The Who -- meaning, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey -- have been tapped to play the Super Bowl halftime. Then again, his musical taste is highly suspect (trying to be ... diplom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Echoes and Reverberations: The Twisted Fate of a Lifetime Crate Digger

    Many of them were tucked away in suburban strip malls, their storefronts always the black sheep of the retail family. They were usually owned by a single lifelong music fan, someone who relished the opportunity to dog-paddle in the eye of the pop culture hurricane. Sometimes they smelled like incens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Today In Music News: The Killers Are Sick and Tired, The Who Is Beached and Travis Barker Is Still In High School.

    Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009... The Killers are getting sick and tired... of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would've left The Who for The Beach Boys. Can you blame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2008

    Who Are You? Roger Daltrey, Just Hanging Out at Sound Town in 1975.

    Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009... The Killers are getting sick and tired... of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would've left The Who for The Beach Boys. Can you blame ... More >>

  • Music

    October 2, 2008

    Catch some local music legends in Greendale

    Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009... The Killers are getting sick and tired... of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would've left The Who for The Beach Boys. Can you blame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Yawn: Foo Fighters at ACL Fest

    Your daily dose of national music news for Friday, April 3, 2009... The Killers are getting sick and tired... of each other. Apparently spending years on the road with each other will do that to a band. Roger Daltry believes that Keith Moon would've left The Who for The Beach Boys. Can you blame ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Enter Stage Right

    With the curtain falling on its old playhouse,Dallas Theater Center gets its act together with a new leader

  • Music

    December 13, 2007

    Music for the Eyes

    A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2007

    One of the Best Rock Photos You've Never Seen, Taken By a Local 39 Years Ago

    A bevy of new music DVDs, just in time for the holidays

  • Music

    November 16, 2006

    The Who

    Endless Wire (Universal Republic)

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2006

    King Six-String

    B.B. brings the blues to Bass Hall

  • Music

    October 6, 2005

    All's Fair

    Neither carnies, corn dogs nor karaoke can keep a good band down at the State Fair

  • Music

    April 1, 2004

    The Who

    Then and Now! (Geffen)

  • Culture

    September 25, 2003

    The Reel Who

    Twenty-five years later, a filmmaker comes to grips with his Kids

  • Music

    November 28, 2002

    TLC

    3D (Arista)

  • Music

    January 3, 2002

    Hear This

    Back to business as usual: I dig music

  • Music

    October 4, 2001

    Various Artists

    Brand New Boots and Panties (Gold Circle Records) / Listen to What the Man Said (Oglio Records)

  • Music

    August 16, 2001

    The Rebel's Waltz

    For 10 years, Joe Strummer made little noise. Finally, the Clash front man returns with a record he can call his own.

  • Music

    December 14, 2000

    Pete Townshend

    Live The Empire 1998 & Live Sadler's Wells 2000 (Eel Pie)

  • Music

    October 28, 1999

    Robbie Williams

    Live The Empire 1998 & Live Sadler's Wells 2000 (Eel Pie)

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    Out There

    Pete Townshend

  • Music

    September 2, 1999

    While he's away

    Chris Savage looks to the future by playing in the past

  • Music

    August 5, 1999

    Heart to hold

    Ann and Nancy Wilson aren't a nostalgia act...yet

  • Music

    July 30, 1998

    Why are you?

    Roger Daltrey is still out on the road singing Who songs, and why the hell not?

  • Music

    August 1, 1996

    Hope you die before we get old

    Reunited Who and Sex Pistols cheat death one more time

  • Music

    February 1, 1996

    Bootlicking

    Some of the best records are the ones never released

  • Music

    December 1, 1994

    Reviews

    Some of the best records are the ones never released

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