You can trade Pete Doherty AND Amy Winehouse for Keith Moon anyday.

Today is truly a sad day in the history of contemporary music. A true musical champion and innovator, Joe Zawinul has passed. His music and legacy will forever live on. God bless you Joe, and thank you for all the gifts you shared with us.

Jim-

Please stay on topic. And besides, Joe Zawinul never opened the VMA or punched out Kid Rock.

Keep it real bro!

Thanks for making my point, dzaster. In this era of fake rap feuds, and no talent rehab “celebrities”, Joe Zawinul led a brilliant musical career-something RS used to cover in much greater degree. If that’s off-topic, deal with it.

FYI Jim, sarcasm is one of the services dzaster offers for free. And kudos to Roger Daltrey for hitting the nail on the head with Dhoerty and Winehouse.

Thanks Joe.
I agree w/Roger. To quote Pete, what a waster. Hope he and Amy can get it together in time.

at his age, he probably doesn’t know anything either.

Zing!

People try to put us d-down! Just because we g-g-get around.

Pete and Roger are cooler than you!

Roger Daltrey and the Rolling Stones should shut there elderly fucking mouths and worry about changing their next depends. Pete may be a fuckup, but at least he doesn’t tell others how to live their lives. And look who the hell is talking about not doing drugs, Daltry and the Stones, please.

Daltrey doesn’t sound cranky at all. He sounds wise.

I guess the hipster RS employees must think they are “all that.”

unfortunately, daltry has the experience and wisdom that will be dismissed by twenty somethings who won’t realize that they know nothing until their mid thirties. sadder still, there will be too many that won’t survive that long. wake up, kids. early death is not as fashionable as it is cracked up to be.

What a geezer! I hope I die before I get old…….

Well put, crazyandold! That’s all Roger is doing. He’s concerned about the younger “Generation” and he’s offering free advice from a man who’s definitely “been there done that” and then some. To those who dismiss his advice, I’m sorry, but you sound like the spoiled little know-it-all brats some teenagers seem to be before they grow older and realize, “hey, mom and dad were right! By the way, you want fries with that?”

How on earth is it cranky to wish that talented new artists don’t fall to the same temptations and horrible ways of dying to which their predecessors subjected themselves? Rolling Stone, give me a break. You go on and on and on and on and on and on and on about how sad it is that Jimi/Janis/Jim/Keith/John/Kurt /Layne/Shannon/Tupac/Biggie et all died such “premature” deaths and then you call someone (most likely your elder, and a person who has probably seen/done/experienced more than you could possibly experience in the rock world, i.e playing stadiums and partying harder than most whilst you stroked it to posters of Barbarella) cranky for giving his input…Honestly, you shoot your credibility in the foot when you say shit like this.

Roger Daltry needs to retire. What a joke touring as the Who when your original bassist and drummer are no longer alive. All that the drug addled Daltrey cares about is money. Amy Winehouse is a certifiable FOX.

Daltrey is right on the money about one thing: When you’re young you think you know everything, and never accept it when someone tells you you’re wrong. Then when you get older, in retrospect you think, “What a dumbass I used to be.” Like the saying says “Youth is wasted on the young.”

Does all this sound vaguely hypocritical? While I agree that the traditional rock star flame out is pretty pathetic at this point, Daltrey is in the worst position to comment on it. It alsomt comes off like a walking cliche’. By the way, in the case of Moon, there were rehab facilities in the 1970’s, and all the members of the Who would have been in their 30’s at that point. There was help out there, if you wanted & needed it.

I think Daltrey is right on this one..Listen and ye might learn something from your elders..

i think there is point here somewhere for me. and after reading all your replies it has finally come. people are Begging the obscure great talents and dark souls to live a little longer to tell their story because it’s an important one. in a time when we are fed with canned voiced ashlees, britneys, and lindsays, someone with a true voice and something behind it are rare and give us intregrity. i’m hoping they stick around because we need them so bad to tell an important story and keep the beauty of performing artists alive. i for one am so embarassed that many people in the world now associate music and entertainers with white trash mousketeers who tromp around stage like buffalos and flash their crotch at the paparrazzi. please, petes and amys! don’t be dumb. try to find some balance and save our voice!

Roger almost never took drugs, that’s why he still looks and sounds amazing. He is a treasure to rock vocal purists everywhere. The two talented people he mentions are overrated.

-Super Amanda

It blows my mind that Daltrey’s insighful commments are being met with insults. First of all, the man has taken care of himself all these years and can still carry a tune. Secondly, “Endless Wire” is brilliant. Have any of you actually listened to it? Have any of you seen this man perform on stage during the last 5 years?
The Who touring line-up features Zak Starkey, Pino Palladino and Rabbit Bundrick, all long-time disciples of the band, all consummate musicians who can nail the classics AND put their own stamp on them. Daltrey has a full life we can only envy: he sings, he acts on TV and theatre, and he is an elder rock statesman we all need to listen to!

I think Roger is right. The cliche IS getting old. Still one has to wonder what if anything can be done. Record executives and A&R reps don’t put bottles into musicians’ mouths or needles into their arms. It is almost sad to think that the reason sex and drugs became synonymous with rock&roll wasn’t so much because of a book title but because so many of us want to live that life of debauchery and be a success while doing so. I’m not saying that artistic license condones what these people do but everytime a celebrated musician falls prey to the temptations of fame suddenly the whole music industry is painted as some kind of “big brother” who is supposed to be responsible for the decisions of every adult involved in it. The truth is that drugs, sex and drama will always be part of the music buisness not because the music industry wants it to be so but because you the consumer essentially votes for it when you buy an album with a troubled but talented woman singing about ditching rehab and cheating on her abusive lover. Perhaps for the listener Amy’s music is a way of practicing moderation of their desires but for her it is excess. Maybe we should all stop pointing the finger and ask ourselves why we take such pleasure in identifying with somebody’s decent into the epicurean reality that most fantasize about. I suppose that after all of the “tsk tsk” and “I saw it coming” is said there will another Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain coming down the line because if nothing else it gives even the hopelessly self-destructive a reason to believe they can be successful beyond their mildest motivations. The ability to be somebody and be a screw up is part of the american dream and beyond the tunel vision of US culture it is quite possibly one hell of an expression of freedom.

Drug treatment facilities weren’t all that rare in the 1970’s.

Roger is correct – I lived it and wrote a book about it. I was one of the attendees at their concert in Cincinnati OH where fans were killed. It changed my life.

Hey 33…..learn to spell, and speak properly before condemming Daltrey. By the way, Daltrey was never “drug addled” like some moron stated. He actually knocked moon out with one punch after dumping moon’s little baggie of pills down the toliet. and Moon protested. Does that sound Drug addled to you? your an idiot.

Hey 33…..learn to spell, and speak properly before condemming Daltrey. By the way, Daltrey was never “drug addled” like some moron stated. He actually knocked moon out with one punch after dumping moon’s little baggie of pills down the toliet. and Moon protested. Does that sound Drug addled to you? your an idiot.

this upsets me
forever he was a rocker and now,
a goodie two shoes