The Who - Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 12-13-1971

Perhaps I shouldn't post this album, because the entire thing has been officially released. But I feel it needs a lot more exposure. A recording of this concert has been kind of a holy grail for serious Who fans for many years, and for good reason. This shows the band at their absolute live peak.

The Who were great in 1971, a year that included the release of their classic album "Who's Next." However, it seems very little live music was professionally recorded, other than a concert at the Young Vic in London in April, and this. The Young Vic concert was released on a deluxe version of "Who's Next" back in 2003. But only a song or two from this concert was released here and there, until the whole thing finally came out in 2023 on a super deluxe edition. 

There was a bootleg of this concert available for decades, but the sound quality was so poor that it wasn't worth listening to, in my opinion. Now, we can finally hear what the anticipation was all above, and in my opinion it lives up to all the hype.

By the way, the super deluxe edition of "Who's Next" is no less than eight CDs long. Two of those CDs make up this concert. If you're a fan of the album, there's a lot more to enjoy from that massive edition.

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

01 talk (Who)
02 I Can't Explain (Who)
03 Substitute (Who)
04 talk (Who)
05 Summertime Blues (Who)
06 talk (Who)
07 My Wife (Who)
08 talk (Who)
09 Baba O'Riley (Who)
10 talk (Who)
11 Behind Blue Eyes (Who)
12 talk (Who)
13 Bargain (Who)
14 talk (Who)
15 Won't Get Fooled Again (Who)
16 talk (Who)
17 Baby Don't You Do It [Don't Do It] (Who)
18 talk (Who)
19 Overture [Instrumental] (Who)
20 Amazing Journey (Who)
21 Sparks [Instrumental] (Who)
22 Pinball Wizard (Who)
23 See Me, Feel Me (Who)
24 talk (Who)
25 My Generation (Who)
26 Naked Eye (Who)
27 Going Down (Who)
28 Magic Bus (Who)

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The cover photo of lead guitarist Pete Townshend is from a concert at Cobo Hall, in Detroit, Michigan in July 1970. I picked it because I'm so impressed with Townshend's leaping ability.