Singer Roger Daltrey is said to have been dissatisfied with Starkey’s drum work and therefore put him out of the band, which was not the case. “I think Roger had just lost it,” guitarist Townshend looks back. “I have to be careful with what I say about him, because he gets angry when I say something about him. Soon he will still dismiss me,” Townshend jokes. “Not that he fired a bag, it was a decision that Roger and I tried to make together. But it got a bit out of hand.”
Bag Starkey Get rid of The Who drummer
Townshend said he did not know why Starkey joined the band at all. The 59-year-old Brit is the son of The Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and has been playing with The Who since 1996. The original drummer of the band, Keith Moon, died in 1978. “I did not invite him, Roger invited him,” says Townshend about Starkey. “I don’t know exactly why he chose bag, but Zak is also a kind of Keith Moon,” he says about the eccentric drummer who often broke his drum set during performances.
“He really has something special, but really something difficult,” Townshend concludes about Starkey. “Yet I will miss bag very much, but I don’t know what exactly the story is. I just don’t know.”