Having exhausted all possibilities in Los Angeles and New York, the laser eye of the music industry cast its gaze further afield. “We were the bastard children of Queen, Aerosmith and Van Halen,” says Cherone. But they also had the sort of vaulting ambition that set them apart. In Nuno Bettencourt, they had a bona fide guitar-hero-in waiting. They had the hair (and the ill-advised headbands to match). That’s what made Boston.”Įxtreme were different from the rest of Boston’s rock fraternity, even the bands who were playing the same strain of rock as they were. And of course there’d be a lot of fights, but it was fun. “When they let us all out at one o’clock in the morning, we’d all end up in this one place, the Pizza Pad,” says Nuno Bettencourt. Big of hair, flashy of guitar, fierce of ambition, their territory was clubs with names like Narcissus, The Rat Skeller and The Channel. But in their hometown of Boston, a musical jungle ruled by the awkward, cerebral college rock of Pixies, Throwing Muses and the Lemonheads, they were an alternative to the alternative. Not in the tattooed squat-punk, didgeridoos-and-dreadlocks fashion. Once upon a time, Extreme were an underground band. He’s a very well-respected guy, and there will be some fan out there who’s in another band, who will say, ‘Robert Plant’s doing this? We will do it.’ I’m hoping.Extreme at the start of their career (Image credit: Brian Rasic/Getty Images) As the two iconic rock singers stood in front of a crowd of photographers, Plant joked with Daltrey, “Do you like guitarists?”Īfter the press conference, Daltrey said of the Led Zeppelin frontman, “He’s been supportive of this for years. “If we can create that home away from home with the Teenage Trust, maybe it will take away some of the mental shock of being sick and having cancer.”Īfter the announcement, Daltrey and Plant autographed a blue Stratocaster to be hung on the wall of the new center. “I look at that, and I just think, ‘Man, I want to go there right now.’ That looks awesome,” Sterner said later. Unveiled at the press gathering were artists’ renderings of the planned center, showing brightly colored rooms with a pool table, couches, a coffee counter, games, computers and posters of the Ramones, Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. “Look at her now, 17 years old,” Daltrey said with a grin, “a complete success story.” She’s been declared cancer-free for the last 18 months. On the small stage, Daltrey stood with an arm around Sarah Sterner, an Atlanta high school student and rock drummer diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was 15. “Let’s hope in the USA it can catch fire the way it did here, because it does save lives,” Townshend said. Instead, the guitarist sent a videotaped statement, pointing to the success of the charity in the U.K. The Who’s Pete Townshend planned on being at the press event, but an expired visa kept him back in England. The Cult of Eddie Munson, The Metal Side of 'Stranger Things,' and the Real 1980s Satanic Panic Some of that support has come in the form of annual benefit concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and the hands-on efforts of Daltrey. The announcement follows more than a decade of support by the Who and other major musicians for England’s Teenage Cancer Trust, which has established 19 cancer units for teenagers across the U.K.
It’s very easy - just be there when they ask for you.” “Adolescent care up until now has been a teenage wasteland,” Daltrey said, quoting from the Who’s “ Baba O’Riley.” “Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn’t be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
On Friday, he was joined in Los Angeles by Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin to announce the launch of the UCLA Daltrey/Townshend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program, in hopes of changing a medical culture that categorizes patients as either adults or children, with few special considerations for teens. Roger Daltrey of the Who wants to pay back some of what he owes to teenagers.
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