Thursday, July 29th, 1971

The Who play the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York. It rains so hard that The Who have to perform with rubber mats on their shoes to stave off electrocution. The show kicks off with "Love Ain't For Keeping" and includes other new songs, "Pure and Easy," "My Wife," "Bargain," "Behind Blue Eyes," and "Won't Get Fooled Again." Not only does Pete smash two guitars, but John also smashes his Gibson Thunderbird bass. The opening act is Labelle. Tragedy partly overshadows the show as 22-year old usher George Byington is stabbed to death by a gatecrasher. Fan Ira Zadikow shoots part of this show in 8mm.

New York Times review: "

The Who tied, rubber blocks to their shoes to avoid elec trocution and played a long concert in a steady rain Thurs day at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in Queens.

The British group had not played in New York since June of last year, when it performed its rock opera, “Tommy,” at the Metropolitan Opera House. This year's two performances— the one Thursday and another tonight—were both sold out.

For the first show the crowd sat under umbrellas, plastic trash‐can liners, ponchos, last weeks copies of The East Village Other and in one case a souvenir sombrero from Guadalajara, for hours to hear The Who's selection of new songs.

The group—Peter Townshend, guitar; Roger Daltry, lead vo calist; Keith Moon, drums, and John Entwhistle, bass—declared last year that its Met perform ance would be the last one for “Tommy.” At Forest Hills several songs from the opera) were played, as well as a few other Who standards, “My Gen eration,” “Magic Bus” and “Can't Explain” included."