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The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:37 am
by ijwthstd
HEARD TODAY FROM INSIDE SOURCE WITHIN WHOSE HORSES NOSE THAT TOGER DAKTREY LEAD SINGER AND PRINCIPAL SONGWRITER OF THE GROUP UNHAPPY WITH ZAK THE DRUMMER’S PERFORMANCE AT THE ALBERT HALL A FEW WEEKS AGO IS BRINGING FORMAL CHARGES OF OVERPLAYING AND IS LITERALLY GOING TO ZAK THE DRUMMER AND BRING ON A RESERVE FROM ‘THE BURWASH CARWASH SKIFFLE ‘N’ TICKLE GLEE CLUB HARMONY WITHOUT EMPATHY ALLSTARS’ THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY WHOSE LONG TIME MANAGER WILLYA YOUWONTYOUKNOW
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Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 10:47 am
by FreddyFender
Tough luck to lose the gig a couple months after Oasis announce a reunion lineup.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:19 am
by Ozzy Stradlin
Jesus, is English your first language?
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:22 am
by SterileEyes1
I’m impressed by how public and bitter this is.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:09 pm
by HueyRamone
Toger Daktrey is not the principal songwriter of the Who.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 12:15 pm
by EzyRider
First what's his name from GNR and now this, the horror!!
I saw them a while back, like 10 years or something on some revisit of Quadrophenia and they were excellent, the setup was like each musician had a backup person behind them, it was very cool, lots of video, it made me realize how many people stole stuff from them.
TIGER DICKTREE still has pipes, nobody can argue against that, right??
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:34 pm
by GoodJudge
Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:19 am
Jesus, is English your first language?
He's quoting Zak's TwatX post.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 4:49 pm
by Lobo
Daltrey doesn't want to tour anymore anyway. Townshend said he'd like to do one last tour but said he's having a hard time convincing Daltrey to do it.
I don't see it being that big of a loss for Starkey. He's been canned from a band that doesn't really plan on playing anymore.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:27 pm
by Fat_Elvis
Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:19 am
Jesus, is English your first language?
Aramaic, I think.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:17 am
by Wild Obsession
The Who sucks (and blows), never understand why they are considered a top tier/iconic rock band.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:34 am
by Love_Industry
Fat_Elvis wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:27 pm
Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:19 am
Jesus, is English your first language?
Aramaic, I think.
How do you say "I see what you did there" in Mexican?
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:11 am
by tooth
Wild Obsession wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:17 am
The Who sucks (and blows), never understand why they are considered a top tier/iconic rock band.
Ever consider that they invented the "Marshall Stack"? How about "Tommy", the first rock opera?
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 12:32 pm
by aznsquirt
GoodJudge wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:34 pm
Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Wed Apr 16, 2025 11:19 am
Jesus, is English your first language?
He's quoting Zak's TwatX post.
Based on that, I'm guessing they fired him because he had a stroke.
Also it felt like I was trying to read Aramaic, so there's that.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 1:26 pm
by Wiseacre
tooth wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 6:11 am
Wild Obsession wrote: ↑Thu Apr 17, 2025 4:17 am
The Who sucks (and blows), never understand why they are considered a top tier/iconic rock band.
Ever consider that they invented the "Marshall Stack"? How about "Tommy", the first rock opera?
How about the greatest rock bassist, one of the greatest drummers, greatest singers and a guitarist that wrote a shit-ton of all-time great and classic songs (also an outstanding lyricist). Not to mention Pete's stage presence (and Roger's) influencing countless other bands. Sucking and blowing are not anything the Who ever did.
If message boards had a special Olympics for posting, Wild Obsession would take the Gold medal for this one.
Re: The Who fires longtime drummer Zak Starkey
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 2:15 pm
by Bono Nettencourt