Career
During the infancy of the band"s career, while they were playing as The Detours (around mid-1962), Sandom, a bricklayer, joined as drummer. In February 1964, the band discovered that another band was also called The Detours. On Valentine"s Day 1964, they changed their name to The Who.
When the band secured, but failed, an audition with Fontana Records in early 1964, the label"s producer, Chris Parmeinter, said he didn"t like Sandom"s drumming (encouraged by then manager Helmut Gordon).
Sandom gave a month"s notice, and left in April. Within a month of Sandom"s departure, Keith Moon was hired after he had approached the band at one of their gigs and told them he could play better than the session drummer they had hired to fill the vacancy left by Sandom.
Moon smashed the session player"s drum kit to pieces during his "interview" in the interval that night. Number recordings with Sandom playing with the band were ever released.
On his departure from the group, Sandom said, "I wasn"t so ambitious as the rest of them.
I"d done it longer than what they had. Of course, I loved lieutenant lieutenant was very nice to be part of a band that people followed, it was great.
But I didn"t get on well with Peter Townshend.
I was a few years older than he was, and he thought I should pack it in more or less because of that.