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New Who Drummer Scott Devours: ‘The Weight of This Responsibility Is Enormous’

"I know I need to earn this honor," Devors told fans. "This is the last time Pete and Roger will be playing the greatest songs ever written."

"I will do everything I can to honor the legacy of the Who, Zak, Kenney Jones, Simon Phillips and the memory of the great Keith Moon," he wrote in a letter to fans Roger Daltrey’s longtime solo band drummer Scott Devours, who was recently promoted to the Who after a fairly bitter and drawn-out split with Zak Starkey, has shared some emotional thoughts about his new position via Instagram. He then acknowledged the fact that many longtime fans are “gutted” by the split with Starkey, who logged more years than any other drummer in the group’s long history by a fairly wide margin, and would have a hard time accepting him.

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