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By Robert Wilonsky, Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 11:43AM
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Categories: Music
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I love The Who. But I doubt I will buy the band's just-on-sale Super Bowl tee.
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I see Richie's not terribly excited that The Who -- meaning, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey -- have been tapped to play the Super Bowl halftime. Then again, his musical taste is highly suspect (trying to be ... diplomatic). So don't mind me, Mr. Whitt, when I tell you that, coincidentally enough, the band's in the process up making available, absolutely gratis, video selections from its December 4, 1982, show at the Cotton Bowl, which was a stop on the first Farewell Tour among many since then.

Right now, 10 soundboard-quality, broadcast-ready songs are up out of the 23 performed that night, among them songs you forgot (which is to say, most anything from It's Hard that's not named "Eminence Front") and the requisite standards ("Substitute," "I Can See for Miles" and "Baba O'Riley"). I know, I know. You were there. We probably sat next to each other.
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Comments (8)

Heywood U. Buzzoff says:

Have The Who or Cher had more farewell tours?

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 1:11PM
ChrisU says:

aw c'mon don't you want the requisite 'i was there' stories? it was freakin cold, Pete smashed his guitar on 'Cry if You Want'. sorry could'nt help myself.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 4:10PM
Robert Wilonsky says:

Chris, nobody loves the I-was-there story more than I. Bring it. Me, I remember thinking, "Why couldn't I have seen the band with Keith Moon?" Sorry, Kenney Jones.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 4:17PM
MushMouth says:

I was there, worked security for the ticket sale at Texas Stadium. KZEW sponsored the concert and part of the money went to the Dallas Zoo. Had the KZEW shirt that said "The Who Plays For The Zoo In Dallas". Billy Squire opened and had the Cowboys Cheerleaders on stage dancing to The Stroke.

My date was a girl from England named Jillian and neither one of us wore a jacket which wasn't a problem until The Who took the stage. Then it got cold, we got stoned and didn't care.

Posted On: Friday, Nov. 27 2009 @ 5:29PM
Strafing Run says:

I think the guitarist and singer from the Who should join up with the drummer and bass player for the Beatles.

Just sayin'.

Posted On: Saturday, Nov. 28 2009 @ 1:19PM
SteveT says:

G.reat idea Strafing Run; but a lot of ego and legal work would have to be done before that could happen

Posted On: Sunday, Nov. 29 2009 @ 4:03PM
True Fan says:

Didn't make Cotton Bowl '82 (wasn't old enough to attend concerts, and the fact that I made it to my the-local show in Houston was a true miracle.)
I *did* see Cotton Bowl in '89.
Had spent year "studying abroad" in London and beat a path back to Texas when I realized The Who ware going back on tour the U.S.
Haven't meissed a Dallas or Houston show since them.
Good Times!

Posted On: Monday, Nov. 30 2009 @ 1:06AM
Steve says:

Fun show and my first "real" concert. I will never, however, get over the opening act. Dallas got Billy Squire, much of the rest of the country got the only band that mattered, the might Clash.

Posted On: Tuesday, Dec. 1 2009 @ 8:56AM

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