The Who considering 2008 tour dates

Roger Daltrey says the Who are considering plans for a 2008 tour. Daltrey told Reuters, "I think we'll do some shows next year. We just finished 13 months of touring all over the States and Europe, and are probably due to go back to Japan and Australia next year. So we'll see what happens there. We don't want to stop now. We don't want those long hiatuses that we used to have."

Daltrey, who battled severe vocal problems on the band's recent world tour, said that he and Pete Townshend are eager to keep the band an ongoing touring entity: "We feel at this time of our lives it's too precious a thing to take liberties with time. When you're young, you've got that time. When you're old, you haven't. You should at least keep the ball rolling."

He went on to say Townshend is currently hard at work on new material. Daltrey added that he feels Townshend's best work is still ahead of him: "I've always felt -- after Pete had written Tommy -- I always had a little thing inside me saying, 'He'll write his best work when he's an older man.' Pete has that kind of intellect."

Although Townshend and Daltrey will originally booked to appear on October 30th at the U.S. premiere of the Who documentary Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who at New York City's Paley Center, representatives for Townshend have said he will not be appearing due to "personal reasons."

Daltrey will be on hand, but said that he will hold off on watching the film again: "There's no point in me seeing it, I lived it. I'll watch me, I won't see the film. I'll watch me in the film, and I find that very uncomfortable."

Daltrey thinks that the touring version of the Who are still on top of their game: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "I think the band's playing better than ever. The energy -- We may be older in ourselves and maybe individually, or even collectively, not actually have as much energy, but the music generates as much energy, if not more, than it did in the '60s and '70s."

A deluxe DVD version of Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who will be released on DVD on November 6th.

On November 7th, Daltrey will join Slash, Joe Walsh, Vince Neil, Bad Company's Simon Kirke, Yes' Alan White and Kiss' Bruce Kulick for the 10th anniversary Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino.