Occasionally levitating, sometimes hypnotized by giant screen video closeups of hands flying across bass and guitar necks so fast it seemed fingers couldn't possibly be fretting the strings.

The concert was kind of laid back, discounting the aerial acrobatics a human heart does while Pete Townshend does giant swings on a Fender Stratocaster.

Between songs, the band members – mostly Townshend – talked to the audience, remarking on what a long, strange trip it's been or on origins of songs.

John Entwistle introduced My Wife, a song about an insanely jealous spouse, by saying, "I wrote this song about someone I don't see much of anymore."

Townshend said he wrote Behind Blue Eyes after going to a barbecue outside Cleveland with The James Gang, a Cleveland band fronted by Joe Walsh, a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with The Eagles.

Before Won't Get Fooled Again, Townshend said, "The doctors didn't tell me in 1972 that I was going deaf. They said, 'Mr. Townshend, you'd better learn to lip-read. Fast.' "

Before Gettin' In Tune, he mused, "They call music the highest art, but it might just be the most abstract art. But we don't take it seriously."

In his intro to Bargain, Townshend said that in the '60s, "a love affair started between The Who and the audience," and acknowledged that drugs played a role, "although for me it was booze."

Being of advanced age, the audience was polite during the commentary and went completely berserk during the songs, hallucinating on adrenaline.

During Who Are You, a guy in the club seats went spastic, caught in the throes of religious experience and totally unaware he was only inches from a 20-foot fall to the floor.

During Bargain, a well-dressed man and a woman in a dress danced wildly at the corner of the stage, lost in a moment they may never forget.

The Who have a big, big sound that fills arenas to overflowing, but the crowd could often be heard singing, voices arcing over the band like the ceiling of a cathedral, most notably during Baba O'Riley: "It's only teen-age wasteland – They're all wasted."

The show closed with a 12-minute encore that began as My Generation and evolved into a medley/jam with Townshend and Entwistle giving everything.

Roger Daltrey said goodbye, thanking drummer Zak Starkey and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick.

"We know who you are and are very, very lucky to play for you," Daltrey said to the crowd.

Apparently, Daltrey is glad he didn't die before he got old and at least somewhat happy that The Who haven't f-f-f-faded away. Fans certainly are.