In a recent New York Times article Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry on Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and the Who’s Future, the interviewer asks about extending their (current) farewell tour:
Reading between the lines, it seems like more dates might be added to the farewell your if you and Roger are in good health.
TOWNSHEND: No me — I’ll be fine […]
It’s in Roger’s hands. If we don’t extend, would we be in breach of contract? Would we be in swindle-land if we can back and played all those important venues we’ve left off the list, like Duluth?
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According to concertarchives.com, The Who played at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center on August 26, 1967, so perhaps a poor left a bad aftertaste for Duluth. [concertarchives.com’s robot.txt does not allow indexing for search for subsequent shows.] Perhaps the Duluth audience didn’t appreciate their music or antics. Or perhaps Duluth just came to mind as prototypical smaller-town, backwards (in his eyes) America. Impossible to know.
Whatever the reasons, Duluth is now officially dissed on a national and international stage.
Image Credit
- “Pete Townshend (2012)” by Ross Belot is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
