After 29 years as the drummer of The Who, Zak Starkey was fired twice by the band recently after a feud with Roger Daltrey. Everything started during a show where Roger Daltrey felt he was playing some wrong parts. In an interview with The Telegraph the musician revealed more details about why he was fired by the band which nowadays have the two original members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Zak Starkey gives details of his firing from The Who "What happened was I got it right and Roger got it wrong," Starkey said, explaining that Roger Daltrey "(came) in a bar early" and blamed him for the mistake. Although there was not backstage discussion after the who, he received a phone call from their manager a week later. "'It's my unfortunate duty to inform you… that you won't be needed from now on. Roger says you dropped some beats.'" According to him Pete Townshend "had to go along with it because Pete's had 60 years of arguing with Roger." Pete later called him and he ended up re-joining the band but he had to say that he was the one who made a mistake during that show. Two weeks later they told him: "Roger says he can't work with you no more," and said that he should release a public statement that he was leaving the band to do work on side projects. But he declined "because I wasn't leaving (of my own volition)." "They didn't specify (Why Roger didn't want to work with him again). I blame The Who (for all this) because they're unpredictable, aggressive and fucking insane, and that's why I love them." Surprisingly, he also said that Roger Daltrey recently called him saying he shouldn't get his drums out of The Who's warehouse because they might need him. He was replaced by Daltrey's solo band longtime drummer Scott Devours. Devours is one year younger than Starkey and is American. He was previously part of bands like Oleander and IMA Robot. He is a good friend of the band and works with Daltrey for more than a decade already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQebo7yYCs&t=11s&pp=ygUad2hvIGlzIHRoZSBuZXcgd2hvIGRydW1tZXI%3DThe post Zak Starkey gives details of his firing from The Who appeared first on Rock and Roll Garage.