Drummer Zak Starkey says he would return to the Who despite being fired twice

The song is never really finished with regard to Zak Starkey’s relationship with WHO.

Earlier this year, the English rock group announced that Starkey, their long -standing drummer, had been dismissed, only to reclaim him quickly a few days later. The group has since further reduced links with Starkey – but the musician is far from bitter. While unpacking his tumultuous relationship with the group, Starkey clearly indicated that he still considered his former group comrades as “family”.

“I don’t blame anyone,” said Starkey recently The telegraphThen added: “I blame the WHO because they are unpredictable, aggressive and f —– g mad.”

The musician and son of the legend of the Beatles Ringo Starr, then offered his version of the conflict between him and the other musicians.

The drama dates back to Mars, when the group played two concerts of the Trust Cancer Home at the Royal Albert Hall. During their performance of the 1971 piece “The Song Is Over”, a song that they do not often play live, the main singer Roger Daltrey publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the performance of the drummer.

Place the concert, Daltrey would have said to the crowd: “To sing this song, I need to hear the key, and I can’t. All I have is Boom, Boom, Boom. I can’t sing to that. I’m sorry, guys.”

Now Starkey claims that the problem stems from a lack of rehearsal and dalty shortening the song on the fly.

“What happened is that I understood correctly, and Roger was wrong,” said Starkey. He explained that, however, he received a call from the group manager a week later. “He says:” It is my unfortunate duty to inform you that you will not be necessary from now on. Roger says you dropped some beats. “”

Starkey added, “then [guitarist] Pete [Townshend] had to accompany him, because Pete’s was 60 years of discussion with Roger. “”

Starkey said that when he returned to the group after the initial dismissal, he was first forced to admit that – as Dalty said – he had dropped two beats during the song. Despite this, peace has not lasted very long.

“Two weeks later, it was like” Roger says that he can no longer work with you, and we would like you to make another statement saying that you are going to make your other projects “and I did not do it, because I was not going [of my own volition]”Said Starkey.

Despite the steep outing, Starkey has teased that the subject of the return has already been part of him and his former group comrades.

“I spoke to Roger last week and he said: ‘Do not remove your drum [the Who’s] Way at the moment in case we need you, ”said Starkey.

Following the first dismissal of Starkey, however, Townshend denied that the Tambouri is “invited to resign”, saying that there were “communication problems, personal and private on all sides”.

But a month later, Townshend told fans that the group cut links with the drummer and “the time has come for a change”.

He said: “Zak has a lot of new projects in hand and I wish him the best”, and revealed that Scott Devours, who served as a drummer for solo projects of the member of the Roger Daltrey group, will take over for the rest of the Who’s Farewell tour.

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But Starkey said that the split was less friendly than that presented. “I was dismissed two weeks after reinstatement and asked to make a statement saying that I had left the WHO to continue my other musical [endeavors] It would be a lie, “he wrote on Instagram.” I love Who and never stopped. So I did not make the statement. “”

Starkey admitted that he had other projects in progress, but added: “None of this has ever interfered with WHO and was never a problem for them.”

Who will start on their song on the North American farewell tour in August.