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There\u2019s a certain sense of swagger to Roger Daltrey <\/a>that most rock stars need to be born with to succeed. <\/p>\n He didn\u2019t have the greatest voice when the band first started, but over the years of honing his craft, he was coming out with the kind of screams that could have put any average hard rock singer to shame whenever he worked on tunes like \u2018Love Reign O\u2019er Me\u2019. He built himself up to be the greatest virtuoso in his line of work, but there were more than a few musicians who seemed to be touched by some musical god before they even touched their instruments.<\/p>\n When The Who first began, though, the focus wasn\u2019t on being the most accomplished musician in the world. It was volume and fury that they were after whenever they made their tunes, and once Pete Townshend started piling up his amplifiers well above the average setup, people started to feel the music a lot more than they heard it. But it\u2019s not like all that volume was covering up for a lack of talent by any stretch.<\/p>\n In fact, Townshend was already one of the most verbose songwriters coming out of the British invasion. Not everyone would have been able to come up with the same kind of intensity in a song like \u2018My Generation\u2019 or eventually draft a concept album that told a story from back to front like Tommy, but Daltrey was always the one who was willing to give a voice to their masterpieces like \u2018I Can See For Miles\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n But the story of The Who is a lot different from the usual rock and roll setup. Considering how many wild basslines John Entwistle was used to playing, Townshend could have been the \u201ctrue\u201d foundation of the band every time he played those power chords. He could leave it to Entwistle to fly off the handle whenever they needed something a bit more intricate, but they were truly blessed when they got Keith Moon in the band.<\/p>\n Moonie was definitely a bit cheeky when he told the band to their face that their original drummer was crap, but it\u2019s not like he was that off the mark when he started pounding the life out of the drums. He was a storyteller half the time he played the drums, and even during sections when things would have seemed too busy, Moon never sounded out of place whenever he started tearing through tunes like \u2018Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again\u2019.<\/p>\n