Pete Townshend has mentioned he hopes the Who returns for farewell dates earlier than they “crawl off and die.” Whether they’d be touring behind a follow-up to 2019’s Who is one other matter.

Bandmate Roger Daltrey would not appear inquisitive about a return to the studio – and Townshend is not within the temper to argue. “I’m not gonna try to bully Roger to do anything,” Townshend tells the Daily Beast. “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.”

Who was a Top 5 worldwide hit, going gold within the U.Okay. At that time, the Who hadn’t launched a new album since 2006’s Endless Wire, which hit the Top 10 in America and the U.Okay. If they continue to be aside, the Who’s ultimate performances would date again to a quick string of orchestral U.Okay. reveals in 2023. Last yr noticed the discharge of The Who With Orchestra Live at Wembley, recorded throughout a 2019 live performance in London.

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Townshend says he is envisioning one other tour but with a smaller, extra tightly knit lineup. “I’m hoping Roger 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,” Townshend mentioned. “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?”

Daltrey appears to be open to touring in a smaller-scale vogue, after performing a sequence of his personal intimate U.S. reveals in June. “I’m encouraged by seeing what Roger’s doing in his solo tour,” Townshend admits. “It seems to me that if we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great.”

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The drawback: “Roger and I don’t converse. We don’t talk. So, it might be difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in – but it’s there for the taking, I think.”

Of course, again when Townshend was admittedly “bullying” the others, the Who was within the midst of a fairly good run: Quadrophenia arrived within the early ’70s because the group continued a run of six straight albums that went platinum or multi-platinum within the U.S.

“It worked, yeah – but it was no fun,” Townshend added. “And at the end of that, Roger knocked me out. I asked for it, but he knocked me out. 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.”

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