For British drummer Zak Starkey, recent months with the rock band The Who has been a whirlwind.
Starkey, whom the band shot in April and restored days later after “some communication problems,” the “Baba O'Riley” group announced on Sunday, it had fired it again. The veteran drummer, son of Ringo Starr, shared his side of the division on Instagram and played the separate announcement of the band about his departure.
The WHO, in a joint publication of Instagram with guitarist and composer Pete Townshend, said Sunday: “After many years of great work in Zak's battery, the time has come to vary.”
“Zak has many new projects in his hand and I wish him the best,” said the post, before adding that drummer Scott Devours would occupy his seat for the remaining farewell shows of the band.
Starkey, 59, added his own text about the band's statement for publication. In his subtitle, he said that “he was asked” to share his own announcement that he would leave who pursue other projects. “This would be a lie,” he wrote. “I love WHO and I would never have resigned.”
He added: “So I did not make the statement … renouncing who would also have disappointed the innumerable incredible people who defended me … through the weeks of chaos.”
Starkey, who has played with Oasis and Icicle's works, among other acts, began acting with WHO in the mid -1990s and said he rarely faced a conflict that juggled with his duties with the band and other efforts. He also pointed out that the group, for the most part, has been “sporadic or minimalist on tours.”
“None of this has interfered with WHO and it was never a problem for them,” he continued in his subtitle, which offered a timeline of his various musical commitments. “The lie is or would have been that I renounced the WHO, I did not do it. I love whom everyone already in it.”
A WHO representative did not immediately respond to the request for comments of the Times.
In a second Instagram publication on Sunday, the band said that it is “heading to retirement” and its now ex -express is younger and must “dedicate all its energy to make new efforts a success is a success.
When the WHO announced the restoration of Starkey, Townshend said in a blog post of the band's website that the drummer needed “to adjust his latest battery style evolved to accommodate our non -orchestral line and he has easily agreed” and shared more details about the sound problems that apparently led to Starkey's initial farewell.
“Maybe we didn't put enough time in sound verifications, giving us stage problems. Sound in the center of the stage is always the most difficult to work,” Townshend wrote. “[The Who co-founder] Roger [Daltrey] He did nothing more than play with his internal monitors. Zak made some mistakes and apologized. Although with a rubber duck drummer.
He added: “We are a family, this exploded very fast and obtained too much oxygen. It ended. We now advanced with optimism and fire in our belly.”
The WHO embarks on his song is on the farewell tour of North America in August. The group will make two stops at the Hollywood Bowl on September 17 and 19.
