I want the viagra concession.

[Gob]

The Who's Roger Daltrey has confirmed a much-rumoured "megafestival" featuring his band alongside Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.



The promoters of the annual Coachella festival are reportedly behind the three-day event in the US this October.

"What a great weekend it will be," Daltrey told BBC 6 Music. "They're all going to be there, on the one spot, at the one time."

"It's amazing really. It's amazing we're still here."

The historic festival was initially reported by the Los Angeles Times over the weekend, but neither the acts nor the promoters had confirmed the event.

It is expected to take place on the weekend of 7 - 9 October at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California, where the Coachella Festival took place last weekend.

The line-up is also expected to include The Rolling Stones and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.

It will be the first, and possibly last, time the artists - all Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees - have shared the same bill.

"We have to face it, we are [at] the end of an era," Daltrey told 6 Music's Matt Everitt. "We're the last of our generation."

"You can see from reading the obituaries lately that we [rock stars] don't make old bones very well, do we?"

The LA Times said Dylan and the Stones were expected to open the festival with back-to-back performances on Friday, 7 October, with McCartney and Young playing the following night, and Waters and the Who concluding proceedings on 9 October.

"I don't think any of us cares who goes on first," said Daltrey. "We've never worried about that. The music is all so different, that's not going to matter at all."

Gary Bongiovanni, editor of Pollstar said: "If you just look at it at face value, a bill like this doesn't exist anywhere else on the concert landscape."

"There are a lot of festivals, but nothing quite like what's being planned there. I expect it will resonate nationally - and internationally."

The Who are currently in the middle of their 50th anniversary world tour, which hits the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK on 11 June.

Dozens of dates were postponed last year when Daltrey contracted viral meningitis.

"I got terrible headaches, then I fell over. It was touch and go there for a few days," Daltrey said.

"I'm doing alright. I don't think I'm 100% but I'm singing better than I've ever sung in my life, so that's a good result."

[RayThom]

"The Metamucil and Sunsweet ® Prune Juice Tour"... Feel the Burn!

The the food concession stands are offering Seniors menus between 3-5PM and all acts will end by 8PM.

[Econoline]

I'm curious...why don't people sneer and smirk when 70-80 y.o. blues musicians, country musicians, or jazz musicians keep on performing?




Okay, okay: Pete "Hope I Die Before I Get Old" Townsend--yeah, I get the smirking about him...but the others? And the fans?

[datsunaholic]

I'm curious...why don't people sneer and smirk when 70-80 y.o. blues musicians, country musicians, or jazz musicians keep on performing?

Because those genres aren't considered "edgy"? Or maybe because none of those Rock musicians were ever expected to MAKE it that long, so when they perform some of their best hits, it's a bit age inappropriate.

Not that I don't mind a little age inappropriate music myself.

[Big RR]

I think also because rock celebrated youth and rebelliousness and change, while blues take a lifetime of hurt to sing well, and jazz is learned slowly and deliberately (I can't comment on country at all). Face it, these guys have become what rock musicians made fin of in the 60s--the Sinatras singing popular music from the past. I personally don't see anything wrong with that, but a little good natured kidding is not out of line.

And FWIW, I'm happy to see them still playing and enjoying themselves.

[Gob]

I'm curious...why don't people sneer and smirk when 70-80 y.o. blues musicians, country musicians, or jazz musicians keep on performing?

Wasn't particularly 'smirking" at them, they can carry on happily peddling nostalgia if they like.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I have seen them all play live except for Bob Dylan.
The Who 4 times (first time in 74 or 75)
Pink Floyd (prior to 1985) 2 times
Paul McCartney and Wings (mid to late 70's?) once
Rolling Stones (in the late 70's after Some Girls album) once

I won't be heading out to the left coast just for this, but if I were in the area I would consider going.

[Gob]

It's on.

Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan have been confirmed for the line-up of a US "mega-festival" this October.

Called Desert Trip, the three-day event will take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California - the site of the Coachella music festival.

Tickets start at $200 (£137) per day, rising to $1,599 (£1,097) for a three-day pass for the area near the stage.

The Who, Roger Waters and Neil Young are also on the bill.

Performances will start after sunset, with each artist playing a full set.