Say good-by to the Who.

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey think it’s time. John Entwistle and Kenney Jones aren’t quite ready yet.

And those are the voices that count. Because they are the Who, the British rock institution whose influence and popularity has been rivaled only by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Obviously, Townshend and Daltrey have prevailed because the Who has announced that its current U.S. tour is a farewell trek; the group’s concerts Saturday and Sunday at the St. Paul Civic Center will be its last ones in the Twin Cities.

“It doesn’t feel like a farewell tour for me,” Entwistle said by telephone from Pittsburgh this week. “I feel like we’re sort of at the peak of our career. Who knows what’s going to happen by the end of the tour?”

Yes, Daltrey and Townshend have said they are interested in undertaking a European tour and then recording one last Who album. But then, as far as they are concerned, it’s fini.

“I’m afraid it’s definite,” announced Townshend in a separate interview Tuesday. “I don’t see the Who appearing live again the way we have in the past. Roger feels much as I do. I know John doesn’t feel it’s right. We have come so close to stopping by default in the past either because we’ve become disenchanted with the music we’ve been making, or worried

about getting older, or worried about individual pressures.

“Now that we are all strong, in good physical, spiritual and mental health, we want to grab at the opportunity to close our career while we feel like a band. So we know we’re stopping because we want to stop, not because of factors out of our control. It’s important that we should come through in one piece.

“I’m 37. I’m fit. I’m happy. I have a beautiful family. I’ve got a lot of things I want to do. I’ve got the money and faculties to do that. I haven’t sailed around the world. I feel very, very lucky.”

Entwistle feels the Who is a live band, that albums are merely a vehicle for providing new material for the concert