Days after performing to a densely packed Madison Square Garden, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for a hilarious rendition of Wont Get Fooled Again.
Joined by the Roots and Fallon himself, the group played the 1971 Whos Next classic with classroom instruments. Daltrey sang while shaking a tambourine, Townshend strummed a toy guitar, Questlove hit the bongos and Kamal Gray played the xylophone. Fallon tapped a wood block on a Casio.
The group sang the chorus in unison, throwing up their instruments while screaming, Pick up my guitar and play/Just like yesterday/Then Ill get on my knees and pray/We dont get fooled again! In his signature style, Townshend smashed his guitar into bits at the end, while Daltrey proclaimed, Im leaving the band!
The Who have just started their Moving On! tour, which kicked off in Grand Rapids, Michigan on May 7th. While theyve been playing the hits, theyve worked a surprise gem into to the set: Imagine a Man from 1975s The Who by Numbers.
Though its not exactly a farewell tour, Daltrey has said it just might be the bands last. Im just being realistic about going through the 75th year of my life, the frontman told Rolling Stone in January. I have to be realistic that this is the age I am and voices start to go after a while. I dont want to be not as good as I was two years ago.