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Speaker 1: Well you am.

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Speaker 2: I performing The Who's Tommy with special guests Sarah MacLeod

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Speaker 2: and Hailey Mary at the Asta Theater Friday, August the eighteenth.

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Speaker 2: You can get tickets from livenation dot com, dot you

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Speaker 2: and he's joining us now. Good morning, Tim Rodgers, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Good morning. I'll let us speak to you.

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Speaker 2: I'll just speak to you. You know, this is such

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Speaker 2: an iconic album, such a moment. There is there a

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Speaker 2: particular track that you really look forward to performing during

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Speaker 2: the show the most.

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Speaker 1: Well, apart from the obvious, it's a bit of a challenge.

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Speaker 1: As much as it is an iconic album, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot that audiences, even who were probably quite familiar to

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Speaker 1: the band wouldn't recognize. And I was just talking with

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Speaker 1: friends yesterday about it that much in the way of opera,

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Speaker 1: there are periods where you're thinking your attention disappears for

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Speaker 1: a while, wondering if the narrative really that strong here,

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Speaker 1: and then there'll be an aria, there'll be a blistering

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Speaker 1: tune and then so it's rather than doing a great

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Speaker 1: his Hits of the Oravloo, we thought we'd take on

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Speaker 1: a ridiculous concept and try and present this roper which

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Speaker 1: you know, fifty years after putting it out, Pete Townsend

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Speaker 1: still has. You can see his frustration in trying to

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Speaker 1: explain it to people, and we want to sue his

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Speaker 1: beautiful head by explaining it with power and with pith.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he does get get frustrated.

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Speaker 2: We would like someone else to just take it up,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you wouldn't mind just explaining it to them.

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Speaker 1: One of the reasons we said yes to it because

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Speaker 1: the original idea came up. It wasn't at my behest,

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Speaker 1: but I was asked by the Sydney Theater Company. Andrew

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Speaker 1: and Kate, who were directing a Sydney theater company at

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Speaker 1: the time, asked to work on a musical and so

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Speaker 1: I had this Jean Cocteau novella called les Entrance and

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Speaker 1: wrote this presentation forout Sydney gave him a presentation. They said, well, yes,

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Speaker 1: we're both fans of Jehan Cocktau Tim, but what do

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Speaker 1: you think about who's Tommy and oh Crike? You know,

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Speaker 1: here we go. But they said, look, what we want

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Speaker 1: to get back to is taking away quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of the circus element of it and forget about the

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Speaker 1: film and get back to the way that the band

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Speaker 1: tried to present it in sixty nine seventy, So do

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Speaker 1: it as a basic rock band, but to present this

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Speaker 1: this attempt at opera, and so we're trying to bring

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Speaker 1: it back to that if we can.

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Speaker 2: As the song says, Tommy is a deaf, mute and

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Speaker 2: blind boy who becomes a pinball champion.

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Speaker 1: And religious leader.

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Speaker 2: Back in the day we only got a pin boys.

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Speaker 2: I love pinball so much fun, love a good tilt

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Speaker 2: tilt tim.

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Speaker 1: Well, I remember it. It was at a caravan park

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Speaker 1: in It might have been Bustleton. My brother and I

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Speaker 1: didn't realize that there were flippers, and I really used

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Speaker 1: to get our harder and twenty cents and just watch

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Speaker 1: the ball. And then I think it was when I

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Speaker 1: was resoundingly beaten up by some local tuff and they

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Speaker 1: explained the feeling of the concept of the s by

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Speaker 1: bashing my nose against.

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Speaker 3: Them on what a way to learn no flippers? It

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Speaker 3: goes another gout of ball. Yeah, but that's so what

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Speaker 3: was the thrill? What wants the ball go down the

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Speaker 3: side and you go, oh, at least we've got to

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Speaker 3: see some lights.

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Speaker 2: Have we gone in a different direction?

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Speaker 1: We were we were living in that across. I think

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Speaker 1: at the time we were easily entertained. So any any

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Speaker 1: kind of flashing lights when there wasn't any any cricket

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Speaker 1: on or reached from man weren't playing footy, Yeah, any

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Speaker 1: kind of flashing light.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like Vegas for you at team have

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Speaker 3: you had to perfect your town's end windmill guitar style

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Speaker 3: and it can be dangerous for your fingers, can it?

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Speaker 1: Well? He asked me. We toured with for Who a

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Speaker 1: bit and we compared notes, and he's a lovely fellow, Pete,

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Speaker 1: and that was another reason why we wanted to sign

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Speaker 1: on because it was such a big, big sands of

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Speaker 1: the man and Robs and the oxen and keithing. But

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Speaker 1: he's the original reason for doing it. He said he

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Speaker 1: was influenced by Keith Richards and doing it. But he

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Speaker 1: talked about how the physicality of doing it that way,

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Speaker 1: he not only produces a guitar sound, but it's a

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Speaker 1: way of distracting attention one away from his face. And

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Speaker 1: then when you or my first started, I started doing

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Speaker 1: that because it would be a way of protecting you

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Speaker 1: getting hit by cans and bottles, because we get thrown

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Speaker 1: stuff at a lot, and Pete joked about it later

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Speaker 1: on about has been deflecting projectiles. But it does have

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Speaker 1: a practical element and it really does. And I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get too much into instrumentation byfonery on aism

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Speaker 1: with you, but it is a way of producing a

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Speaker 1: particular sound that is important, I think to that sound

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Speaker 1: that Pete produced.

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Speaker 2: Well, the show not only covers the Tommy soundtrack, but

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Speaker 2: there's also going to be a set of Who classics,

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Speaker 2: So I think, well, possibly possibly time dependent, because it's

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Speaker 2: something that is.

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Speaker 1: Depending on We want to keep it a bit loose. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is and so keeping it pretty loose, but we

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Speaker 1: do want to present that double record in its entirety,

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Speaker 1: which is something actually never did. And then let the

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Speaker 1: cat out of the bag. And look, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: having Hailey and Sarah who are not only incredibly dextrous

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Speaker 1: and powerful thingers, but their friends. We want to break

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Speaker 1: up the snag party. We want to get people in

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Speaker 1: that we knew had because our work ethic is a

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Speaker 1: little lax, and Sarah and Hailey are both very damn

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Speaker 1: about you know, you put in the work and then

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Speaker 1: you have the fun. And we thought that we kind

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Speaker 1: of needed that, so yesterday, well, yeah, what could possibly

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Speaker 1: go wrong?

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Speaker 2: It's been a very successful venture. Any plans to take

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Speaker 2: on any other iconic soundtracks out of music, perhaps Sally mill.

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Speaker 1: Lookiousness. We're using it as an opportunity to write our

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Speaker 1: next record. And I think any bands who do this

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Speaker 1: kind of thing at the same time they're working on

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Speaker 1: their own music. It's just an interesting kind of project.

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Speaker 1: But we'll always be writers at heart, So we'll take

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Speaker 1: this opportunity to write down new record while we're doing it.

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Speaker 1: And I realize where you're going, and I want to

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Speaker 1: go with the music.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Before I this next lawn, I've got to put that

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Speaker 1: in there for us starving.

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Speaker 3: As long as you don't come out Roger Daltrey any

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Speaker 3: seventy's still coming out with the no shirt, the bare

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Speaker 3: chested thing, you'll be all good.

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Speaker 1: Because well, I'll playing the hard ones and we're just

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Speaker 1: on the tour of Europe, all bare chested each night,

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Speaker 1: and I guess I'm only fifty three. Good. Yeah, you're ready.

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Speaker 1: King Rags from Abound fifty seventy in fifty eight and

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Speaker 1: they're like Greyhounds. Yeah, you go it can be done

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Speaker 1: well and he's still the King.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, really looking forward to this, Tim. There

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Speaker 2: is no other band that I could imagine having the

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Speaker 2: right sort of theatricolness about them to do it. I think, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be fantastic. It's Friday, the eighteenth of August.

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Speaker 2: I love that it's a Friday, not a school like

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Speaker 2: for me. Tickets from Live Nation dot com dot au.

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Speaker 2: Tim Rodgers, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the time. I really appreciate it. Okay now,

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Speaker 1: so yeah,