Rocker Michael Been remembers when he was funnier than late comedian John Belushi—at least on paper.

Been, who leads the Call at 9 tonight at Londons in Westport, recalls when he and Belushi were drama students at crosstown Chicago high schools in 1969.

The friends competed in state forensics finals for original humorous interpretation. Been won with his act about a gay motorcycle gang. Belushi finished second with a wilder comic skit about a children's summer camp run like a concentration camp.

"I thought John was funnier," Been said in a telephone interview from Dallas. The judges "thought he was way too physical and they kind of frowned on it. But they couldn't deny that he was hysterical.

"It was so unusual, because both of us wrote things that we thought would be pushing the edge quite a bit."

Been continues to push, whether playing the disciple John in the film "The Last Temptation of Christ" or hitting the road with "Christ" co-star Harry Dean Stanton, as he did last year for a club tour that included Londons. The Call's new album is "Let the Day Begin," but don't let the upbeat title fool you.

"Some people use music as an escapist tool, and I don't think we do that," Been said. "So if you like to use music in order to run away from your problems and yourself and your own life, then you probably wouldn't like the Call that much."

Where were Who?

Fans still riding a major high from the thrilling Who concert Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium may not have noticed that the T-shirts on sale listed the concert as being in Kansas City, Kan. Kansas?

Of the 27 stops printed on the back of "The Kids Are Alright Tour 1989" T-shirts, only our fair city was geographically lost. What's the deal?

"Someone failed to look at where Arrowhead was," admitted Andrew Rich on Monday. He's an executive at Winterland Productions in San Francisco, the company licensed to manufacture and sell official Who tour T-shirts.

"Like New York, N.Y., people must just say Kansas City, and think Kansas City, Kan.," he said.

Rich didn't know for sure where the goof originated, but the band management gets final inspection before shirts are printed, so the boo-boo slipped by both parties.

Rich couldn't promise that a correction would be made. That's a possibility, because more shirts may be printed for remaining Who dates and others could later go on sale in retail outlets.

Strangely, the Who didn't play "The Kids Are Alright," their 1966 British hit and the tour's namesake. Also, we could have done with a few more '60s classics such as "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" or "Pictures of Lilly" and a bit more from "Tommy" such as "Christmas," "I'm Free" or "Sally Simpson." And where were "Long Live Rock," "Bargain" or John Entwistle's best-ever ditty, "My Wife"?

Ultimately, such quibbling proves the Who's wealth of available material. If only for past glories, they deserved respect at Arrowhead. But the Who didn't just sit back and wait for it. They earned it.

Who food

The Who had nothing "real fancy" to eat Saturday in their stadium dressing rooms—"just a lot of liquor," said concert caterer Penny Rush.

The band arrived at the stadium about 5 p.m. and "they were actually really pretty down-to-earth, which was nice to see," Rush said.

The band ate barbecue, fish, baked potatoes and beans, and pies—"the same as everybody," Rush said. Most of the band left right after the show in limousines, carrying food boxed for them.

Pete Townshend stuck around for about 30 minutes in the Chiefs locker room before leaving in a limo with his meal.

"I guess he was in the mood to stay and soak up the atmosphere," Rush said. Maybe he was looking for the mustard.

Spirits included champagne, cognac, red and white wines, spring water, juices and imported beers at room temperature. "They couldn't drink all that in three days if they tried," Rush said.

Compared to the Monsters of Rock and Pink Floyd concerts Rush catered last summer at Arrowhead, the Who show had "a nice, mellow vibe to it."

"It was really just kind of uneventful," she said. "Usually we have some kind of dressing-room person that likes to freak out and tell us something isn't right."

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend on Saturday at Arrowhead (staff photo by Vic Winter)