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While Pete Townshend’s ongoing tinnitus problem threatens to dock the Who for the foreseeable future, Roger Daltrey is already lobbying to work with another guitar god who’s on the lookout for a vocalist. “I’d love to do an album with Jimmy Page. He needs a singer to drive him. I’m a great blues singer,” Daltrey told BBC 6Music. “I don’t sing the blues with the Who, but that’s what I used to be before Townshend started writing. I used to be a great blues singer.”

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As Rolling Stone previously reported, Page seemed eager to return to the live stage in 2010 after spending last year mostly on the sidelines, watching his Led Zeppelin counterparts like Robert Plant, who released Raising Sand with Alison Krauss and is reportedly working on a solo album, and John Paul Jones, who joined the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, take on other musical projects. “Next year I have every intention of playing music live and manifesting it,” Page said late last year. “I’ve got the music waiting, and that’s what I’ll be doing.”

Before any possible collaboration with Page takes place, Daltrey will first hit the road with another of rock’s greatest guitarists. As Rolling Stone reported, the Who frontman and current RS cover star Eric Clapton will embark on a joint tour starting February 25th in Pittsburgh.

Starting with their Super Bowl XLIV halftime show, 2010 was expected to be a big year for the Who, with a tour to follow the band’s most-watched performance ever. However, Townshend continues to suffer from the tinnitus that has plagued his hearing for years. The guitarist was introduced to a new in-ear monitor that might prevent any further damage, and he’ll give the device a test drive when the Who play their only scheduled date of 2010, a March 30th Teenage Trust Cancer benefit concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall where the band will perform its classic Quadrophenia in its entirety.

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On Tuesday night (February 16), a cutthroat competition came to a close and saw a dominant champion crowned once again. No, it had nothing to do with the Winter Olympics (where Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko took home a gold in the Short Program and Canada's Maelle Ricker took the top spot in Women's Snowboardcross) nor did it involve the ongoing saga of "American Idol" or the thrilling overtime win that the University of Kentucky posted over Mississippi State in basketball. The real action took place at Madison Square Garden, where the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show came to a close with Sadie the Scottish terrier taking the prize for Best in Show.

It was a nail-biter of an evening. Following Sadie's victory in the Terrier group, she went up against stiff and eclectic competition in the all-around category. Though the crowd at MSG loved the Doberman pinscher, the toy poodle, the brittany, the puli, the French bulldog and the whippet, the Scottish terrier clearly had the most support. It's been a dominant career for that dog, as Tuesday night's victory represented Sadie's 112th Best in Show Award (a staggering figure), and in winning she also became the first pooch ever to win the dog show version of the Triple Crown (adding to her victories at the National Dog Show in November at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in December).

In honor of Sadie's dominant victory (consider her the Michael Jordan of the dog world) and because every elite athlete needs a badass theme song, here's Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog."

Foo Fighters had a pretty sweet view of the Washington, D.C. fireworks on Independence Day, as they were on stage on the lawn of the White House while they were happening. The band played a private show for the Obama family and White House staff to celebrate the Fourth of July. “It’s an honor to be playing here for you people. I’m glad that we’re here and I’m glad that we’re spending this Fourth of July together,” Grohl said as he opened the show, which featured the unveiling of a new song called “Wheels.” Grohl described the song as about “the feeling when the wheels touch the ground and you’re like ‘I’m glad that’s over with.’” In the chorus, Grohl sings, “When you feel like it’s all over, there’s another round for you.”

It’s a very appropriate sentiment for Foo Fighters, who are currently in a state of flux. The group has been on an official hiatus since the end of their tour last year, and bassist Nate Mendel is hitting the road with his old band Sunny Day Real Estate. Grohl himself has a new project too: He’s teaming up with former collaborators Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age) and John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). The still-unnamed band’s existence isn’t new (Grohl has been discussing the project since 2005), but they are currently recording an album in Los Angeles.

What would you name the band? We’re bummed that Probot has already been taken, but we’re sure those guys will come up with something.