Like a lot of the groups in this locale, The Who did a lot of experimentation before becoming the internationally famous quartet it now is.

Advance sale tickets for the appearance of The Who from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Thursday in the NEW BARN, the Memorial building at the Fairgrounds are $3. Tickets at the door will be $3.50. Advance tickets can be obtained at Welles, The Loft or Record Houses.

John Entwistle, bass player, and Roger Daltrey, the fair-haired singer, got together with a couple of other guys to play in a nowhere group The Detours. Soon fed up with it, desiring to create their own scene and own kind of music, they left. In a local coffee house, they met Peter Townsend, who did play guitar, but wasn't in a group, because most of them couldn't stand his weird music. They followed Peter to the home-made recording studio built in his father's garage. He picked up a battered guitar to play a standard R'n'R, but with such a fantastically weird arrangement that it completely knocked the other guys out.

They got hold of an adequate drummer, decided upon a name The Who, started playing dates and things began going alright, except for the drummer. A couple of months later, they were playing in home territory, when a long-haired boy who'd been madly dancing in the audience leaped onstage and asked if he could have a go at the drums. Roger said fine ... and so ... Keith Moon became the new drummer.

He was a fan of the California Surf Sound, but they clicked. Things began happening. They began breaking box office records, recorded "I Can't Explain," which Peter had written and it went straight to the top of the charts.

Their clothes, their stage act became fantastic. Pete was experimenting all the time to find new sounds even to the extent of ramming his guitar into the amp to get strange new effects. He also developed a system of incorporating feedback into numbers ... and it became Pop Art Music.