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The Who

Lowed, with a new tune "Dangerous" slid between the two.

During "Sister Disco" lead vocalist Roger Daltry's dancing certainly left disco behind as he ran, stomped and pranced about the stage.

The title track from the new album, "It's Hard," was presented in a unique manner.

The album cover depicts a video game, with the band members shown on the screen in colorful LED images.

To parallel this, the stage during this tune was glowing with purple spotlights, giving the video game effect.

Occasionally a colorful spotlight would make a band member stand out on the stage/"screen."

Two classics crashed this mysterious atmosphere.

"Behind Blue Eyes" was followed by "Baba O'Riley," both from the album "Who's Next?"

Daltry played the role of "bad man" and "sad man" with remarkable feeling.

"Baba O'Riley" seemed to be the perfect workingman's anthem, and the crowd naturally responded to the lyrics "teenage wasteland" and "they're all wasted."

The stirring ending of the tune built up intensity, then suddenly left the crowd screaming for more.

The band followed these up with tunes from "Quadrophenia," including "The Punk Meets the Godfather" and "Drowned."

Intensity built throughout the rest of the show.

The title track from "Who Are You?" started the blitz, and the crowd was never given a rest.

"Pinball Wizard" followed "Who Are You?" and ran into "5:15."

"Long Live Rock" had the boisterous crowd screaming, and one could not help but think "long live the Who."

The end of the tune brought intense flash bombs on each side of the stage, and the band began the final tune of the regular set, "Won't Get Fooled Again."

The dark stage during the opening keyboards filled the audience with anxiety, suddenly broken by Townshend's wild guitar antics.

Daltry's patent scream toward the end of the tune was accented with another flash bomb explosion, and Daltry fell to his knees.

The band lit the entire audience with huge white spot lights and waved goodbye.

After an extended period of applause the Who came back for an encore set of three songs; "Athena," the single from the new album, "Summertime Blues," an old favorite, and the old Beatles' tune "Twist and Shout."

Pittsburgh and the entire record world will miss The Who!