Rock ’n’ roll is really good at dealing with the difficulties of aging.

 Jeffrey St. Clair >>

+ In an interview with the NYT, Pete Townshend said he doesn’t get much of a kick from performing live anymore and that The Who (or what remains of the band) would probably do one more global tour, then “crawl off and die.”

“AC/DC made 50 albums, but all their albums were the same,” Townshend said. “It wasn’t the way The Who worked. We were an ideas band. (…) I’ve got about 500 titles I might release online, mostly unfinished stuff. We’re not making Coca-Cola, where every can has to taste the same. And it’s turned out, surprise, surprise, that rock ’n’ roll is really good at dealing with the difficulties of aging. Watching Keith Richards onstage, trying to do what he used to do — it’s disturbing, heart-rending, but also delightful…The Who isn’t Daltrey and Townshend onstage at 80, pretending to be young. It’s the four of us in 1964, when we were 18 or 19. If you want to see The Who myth, wait for the avatar show. It would be good!”