-Our next guest is the lead singer
of the iconic rock band The Who.
He can be seen in the new documentary
"Rock Camp: The Movie,"
which is available now on all major streaming platforms.
Please welcome Roger Daltrey!
[ Cheers and applause ] Yes, my man! Come on!
That's my man! -Hey, Jimmy.
-Roger, welcome back to the show.
You know, I love having you on the show.
We've been very lucky to have you on.
Thank you so much.
The last time you guys came on,
we did a "Classroom Instruments."
And we did "Won't Get Fooled Again."
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Oh, dear.
Jim, now, I've got to tell you, the Roots,
they're one of my favorite bands of all time.
[ Cheers and applause ] They're fantastic musicians.
-We've been called -- -I got to say,
I've never had so much fun singing that song
other than the first time I sang it on the record.
That was fun. -Wow.
-But doing it with the Roots on those instruments,
that was so refreshing.
It brought it back to life.
It was fabulous.
I absolutely loved it. [ Cheers and applause ]
And thank you, guys. You were fabulous.
-We've been called --
Tariq calls us the Dream Team of late night.
[ Laughter ]
I'll let him have that, but we are.
But obviously, The Who is an iconic rock band,
but you as a lead singer of the band,
not only your singing but your fashion,
but also your -- the swinging of the microphone.
That is iconic, and no one else can do it without me going,
"That's Roger Daltrey."
When did you do it first and go like,
"Well, that could be my thing"?
-I did it out of pure boredom, actually,
because I was on a stage with two maniacs
and a very straight bass player. [ Laughter ]
And I just got bored and I thought,
"I've got this thing in my hand that I'm fed up
with holding up there.
What do I do with it?"
So I kind of threw it and held on to the cord.
And, of course, it came back,
and I thought, "Well, that was interesting.
Let's see what more I could do with it."
And I went on to be quite good with that thing.
I mean, I could take a cigarette out of someone's mouth
from about 20 yards, which is quite good, you know?
-Oh, my gosh. That's crazy.
-Yeah, I was a really, really good shot with that thing.
But I can't see it now, of course.
-Yeah, well, no.
-I throw it up in the air, and I just pray
that it comes down somewhere within that kind of --
-So it can hear your voice somewhere. Yeah.
Is there an earthquake where you are, Roger?
[ Laughter ]
-No, we don't have earthquakes.
Oh, it's my foot on the camera.
[ Laughter ] -Stop doing that!
Don't do that! It's not your thing!
-Oh, no, no! [ Laughter ]
-No, I don't want that to be your thing.
-It's Moon come back to haunt us!
He's in the next room! [ Laughter ]
-Do you remember -- You obviously remember
"The Smothers Brothers" when you guys went on to
"The Smothers Brothers" -- he put, like, explosives
in his drum and blew up the drum set live
and didn't tell anyone on TV.
-No, that was -- it was planned for a little bit of smoke
and the skin was going to break.
But Moon being Moon decided this wasn't grand enough.
And I think he got the pyrotechnic man drunk
with a bottle of brandy and talked him into putting
about 10 times the amount of powder in the cannon
that was supposed to be there.
And it was literally like a hand grenade going off.
If you look at the film and you study the film a bit --
you can see it on YouTube --
you see Pete banging his head.
And Pete is about 10 feet from the drum kit.
And he's patting his head like this.
And what he's trying to do is put his hair out.
His hair is on fire. [ Laughter ]
-We have that clip. I want to show everyone.
Here's The Who from "The Smothers Brothers."
Check this out.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
[ Laughter ] Yo!
Yo!
That's the greatest clip ever.
Yeah. I don't know how -- I just love you guys.
I want to talk about "Rock Camp: The Movie"
because I loved it,
and obviously, you know I'm a fan of rock 'n' roll.
And I think everyone, in the back of their minds,
wants to be a rock star.
You know, and I think this rock 'n' roll fantasy camp,
you go like, "Wow, that's interesting.
I get to jam out and meet these icons."
And you just get to sing with Roger Daltrey.
What made you say yes for the first time in doing this?
-I said yes mainly, well, first of all, I got invited to do it
for a charity thing for Levon Helm, the drummer of The Band.
-Yeah, absolutely. -And I was a huge fan of Levon,
and I just wanted to meet him and tell him --
'cause he just got over throat cancer.
And they were doing a fundraiser for him.
So I decided to go along and have a look.
What it did for me was remind me of all the reasons
why I did this in the first place.
I did it because we were young and we were having so much fun.
And we were just fans of music.
Simple, very simple living and playing music.
We'd do anything just to play music.
And I was with people of varying abilities of playing,
some very good, incidentally.
Some of them extremely good,
but some of them [Laughs] extremely bad.
-Yeah, of course. -And it makes it fun.
It's good to be reminded of where you started.
'Cause we've been around so long now,
I feel like we're the wallpaper.
I mean -- -No. No.
-And it's just good to be reminded that, when we started,
how simple, and how -- we were just doing it for the music.
We didn't know how far it would take us, and look where we are.
-Yeah. -It's wonderful.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
You'll never be the wallpaper.
Yeah, that's my man! Roger Daltrey, the one and only!
"Rock Camp: The Movie" is out now.