Meet the new Pete, not quite the same as the old Pete.

Then again, he never is, is he? The reinvention of Pete Townshend 6 confessional, self-critical, 53-year-old guiding light-guitarist-singer of the band that was the Who 6 continues, and the reconfiguration of his songs (both solo and Who) progresses in concert.

And this is good. I almost hate to write this, but after absorbing Townshend 6s 2
912-hour set at Harborlights along with a full

house of 4,500, I 6ve got to say: I understand why he does what he does and why he 6s not eager to put the old warhorse called the Who back together again.

This rock n roll 6 hard-edged but warm, loose but coiled 6 is the kind of adult rock no one could have conceived of back in 1965, when the Who took on the elders with My Generation.

The key point last night: Townshend is making the old new again. He gave a lot of bang for the big ($45) buck. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, the old aggro youth anthem, started in a contemplative jam-band-mode and then mutated into a power-