The roots of the Who go all the way back to the late Fifties when Roger Daltrey formed a skiffle group called the Detours with his schoolmates, including longtime best friend Harry Wilson on drums. John Entwistle joined on bass in 1961, and he invited in his buddy Pete Townshend to play guitar the following year.

“News Flash! Who Backs Zak!” the group’s guitarist and co-founder, Pete Townshend, wrote in an Instagram post on Saturday. “He’s not being asked to step down from The Who. There have been some communication issues, personal and private on all sides, that needed to be dealt with, and these have been aired happily.”