Being the WHO drummer is not easy. Kenney Jones knows something about it, called to replace the irreplaceable Keith Moon in the late 1970s. After the period in which Simon Phillips was sitting in the instrument, the role was covered in a very good way by Zak Starkey, great drummer, as well as the son of a certain Ringo Starr.
He has been playing with the WHOs since 1996, but apparently things lately are not very good. During the two charity concerts that the band held in March at the Royal Albert Hall in London to raise funds for the Teenage Cancer Trust, the singer Roger Daltrey complained of the mix on the stage and perhaps also of the fact of the factoverplaying of Starkey, or the fact that he exaggerates in playing. «To sing this piece I need to hear the shade, but I can't. I only hear the battery that Bum, Bum, Bum does. I can't sing in that shade. I'm sorry guys, “he said on the show of March 30th.
Now the news comes, through the Mirror Which cites as a source a representative of the Who, who the band fired Starkey, a decision called “collective” and arrived after the London shows. The Who “have nothing but admiration for him and wish him the best for the future”. According to another source consulted by Mirror The break would have been “to say the least acrimonious”. Starkey wouldn't have Rpesa well.
Three days ago the drummer wrote in a half tone of tensions on Instagram in a post that accompanies a photo of hers with Daltrey (for clarity we have eliminated words and faceties how to call the singer Toger Daktrey or the whose Horses Nose group): «I heard today from internal sources to the WHOs that the singer Roger Dallitrey and the main author of the group are dissatisfied with the performance of the Zak drummer at Albert Hall a few weeks ago and formally accuse him of overplaying (or to play too much, to exaggerate, editor's note). And therefore they are about to liquidate on the drummer (Use the expression “Zak the Drummer” instead of “Sack the Drummer”, editor's note) »
In the post Zarkey he says he will be replaced by a reserve taken by the Burwash Carwash Skiffle 'n' Tackle Glee Club Harmony Without Empathy Allstars. Starkey has recently had health problems due to a blood clot in one leg.
