Pete Townshend has been discussing the likelihood of The Who making another album – and he seems the more enthusiastic between him and Roger Daltrey.

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With Townshend now 79 and Daltrey having turned 80 this year, the pair are coming to the end of their illustrious careers. The pair are the only surviving members of The Who’s classic lineup, and the only two currently in the band.

Speaking to The Daily Beast, Townshend said: “I don’t know what’s gonna happen with The Who. I’m hoping Roger [Daltrey] and I can find some common ground and find some way to work again, possibly without an orchestra, because I think we’ve done that. But also, there’s this sense that we’re in the last tour period of our career. Are we just hoping to do what Bob Dylan does and just keep going?”

He explained that he’s “encouraged” by Daltrey’s solo tour, and likes the idea of them putting a small band together. But, he says, “Roger and I don’t converse. We don’t talk. So, it might be difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in. But it’s there for the taking, I think.”

The Daily Beast asked Townshend if he’d like to get Daltrey into the studio to make an album and promote it with a tour, but he said he wasn’t going to “bully” his bandmate into it.

“I don’t want to have the job that I used to have around the time of ‘Quadrophenia’, which is bullying everybody in The Who to do exactly what I want to do,” he said. “It was no fun. And at the end of that, Roger knocked me out. I asked for it, but he knocked me out.”