The observant among you will note The Hu sounds phonetically the same as his own legendary rock band. See the album artwork and an updated list of tour dates below.Ġ5/13 - New York, NY Madison Square GardenĠ5/18 - Noblesville, IN Ruoff Home Mortgage Music CenterĠ5/21 - Tinley Park, IL Hollywood Casino AmphitheatreĠ5/23 - St.When I enter the room of a plush Georgian hotel in northwest London, the Who singer sits in a corner in a chair-cum-throne with his eyes down, legs splayed, gazing at a laptop as he plays some Mongolian throat singers called The Hu. Get ready to hear Tommy tracks and more sound a bit sweeter with some strings. That last bit makes more sense with this new album announcement. The tour, called the “Moving On! Tour”, sees the band performing at 29 stops across the US and Canada with an orchestra in tow.
On top of that, The Who are also going on an extensive tour of North America this year.
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The album is full of “dark ballads, heavy rock stuff, experimental electronica, sampled stuff and cliched Who-ish tunes that began with a guitar that goes yanga-dang.” At the start of 2019, Townshend and Daltrey told Rolling Stone that a new studio album was in the works - their first since 2006’s Endless Wire. The news of this orchestral album is a cherry on top of an already fantastic year for fans of The Who. Give it a listen below ahead of the album’s June 14th release. It’s the beautiful use of strings replacing guitar solos, though, that steals the spotlight, giving a new sound to a classic rock classic without steering too far from the original. Horns flare up around him, punching up the song. Daltrey’s voice sounds incredibly sturdy and full, as it should after the surgery he’s gone through to preserve it. You can catch a glimpse of that in the rendition of “Pinball Wizard” they’ve shared from The Who’s Tommy Orchestral. Even though it is 50 years on, I approach it as though I’m singing it for the first time.” “ Tommy can mean whatever you want it to mean I use the characters in it as metaphors for parts of the human condition, so it’s a kind of a story of the human spirit. “Pete ’s music is particularly suited to being embellished by the sounds that an orchestra can add to the band,” explains Daltrey in a press release.
(Listen: Discography: A Who Audio Podcast) Of course, there backing Daltrey up are core touring band members: singer-guitarist Simon Townshend, guitarist Frank Simes, drummer Scott Devours, bassist Jon Button, and keyboardist Loren Gold. It was produced by Daltrey and Keith Levenson, who worked on the touring version of the Tommy Musical. The album was recorded in Budapest and Bethel in upstate New York - where the first Woodstock took place. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Tommy, Daltrey teamed up with composer and arranger David Campbell (Adele, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Metallica, etc) for The Who’s Tommy Orchestral, an orchestral reimagining of the iconic album. It was an experience that Daltrey described as “magical” - and now listeners everywhere will be able to hear why. Over the summer last year, Roger Daltrey and his band performed a few shows where they played The Who’s classic album Tommy with the help of symphony orchestras.
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