The Who Classic 1982 Concert Gets A Release Date

Author Screamin' Scott

January 19th 8:19 AM

The Who North American Tour in 1982 supported a new album for the band. “It’s Hard,” was the first release for the band since the death of founding member and drummer Keith Moon died in 1978. New drummer Kenny Jones replaced Keith in 1978 and played on the new album.

Released on September 4, 1982.

The Tour Stop In Michigan

On September 30, 1982, The Who played in front of 76,000 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome with the Clash and Eddie Money. The show featured 22 Who songs with a 3-song encore. Pete Townsend said to the crowd, “I wish we had many more years to play for you. So we would never play a piss-hole stadium again.” Pete was allured to the acoustics inside the Silverdome, which wasn’t very good as the sound bounced all over the Teflon-coated fiberglass panels.

Sept 30th 1982 The WHO played the Pontiac Silverdome

October 13th, 1982 Concert At Shea Stadium

The Who performed at Shea Stadium in Flushing, NY, on October 13, 1982, with The Clash opening. An audio souvenir of the full concert is being released via Universal Music and Mercury Studios on March 1, 2024,

The set list included several tracks from It’s Hard, some of which the band would only play live on this tour. The show also featured classic  Who rock favorites such as “Pinball Wizard,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” “My Generation,” “Substitute,” “Who Are You,” “I Can’t Explain,” “Baba O’Riley,” and more.

Watch The Who perform  “Love Reign O’er Me” at the  1982 concert

Check out the setlist from the iconic show below. Songs and setlist were confirmed by Setlist.fm.

The Who at Shea Stadium 1982 Setlist
1 Substitute
2 I Can’t Explain
3 Dangerous
4 Sister Disco
5 The Quiet One
6 It’s Hard
7 Eminence Front
8 Behind Blue Eyes
9 Baba O’Riley
10 I’m One
11 The Punk and the Godfather
12 Drowned
13 Tattoo
14 Cry If You Want

CD2
1 Who Are You
2 Pinball Wizard
3 See Me Feel Me
4 Love Reign O’er Me
5 Long Live Rock
6 Won’t Get Fooled Again
7 Young Man Blues
8 Naked Eye
9 I Saw Her Standing There
10 Summertime Blues
11 Twist and Shout

To pre-order Live At Shea Stadium 1982

Oder for Amazon here as well as a 3-LP se. here (A Blu-ray is available here.)

The Who: Their 10 Most Iconic Lyrics

• “Don’t Cry, don’t raise your eye/It’s only teenage wasteland”

  Townshend has always packed a lot of wryness in his lyrics and general demeanor. A great example can be found on “Baba O’Riley.” The “teenage wasteland” refrain wasn’t celebratory; it was more a cautionary tale of young people and their overuse of acid and other drugs, which was inspired by what he saw when The Who played Woodstock.

• “Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss”

  One of the best debates could be whether Townshend was a cynic or a realist. Perhaps it’s a little of column A and B. Like “Baba O’Riley,” “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and its closing line (“Meet the new boss/Same as the old boss”) was inspired by what Townshend saw at Woodstock. He later told Creem in 1982, “All those hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different from that day. As a cynical English arsehole, I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them, and shaking them and trying to make them realise that nothing had changed and nothing was going to change.”

• “Oh, who the f*ck are you?”

  “Who Are You” came to be after Townshend tied one on with the Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones and Paul Cook in New York City. The guitarist got so drunk, he was found passed out by a cop. The officer recognized Townshend and let him go if he could “get up and walk away.” Of course, that still didn’t stop Townshend from asking the cop, “Who the f*ck are you?” when he was awoken from his drunken slumber.

• “Things they do look awful c-c-cold/I hope I die before I get old”

  As long as more people are born, “My Generation” and its angst will resonate. Long after every member of The Who has left this mortal plane, young people will find this song, and it’ll hit as hard as it did for the Mods of the ’60s.

• “I’d gladly lose me to find you/Gladly give up all I got/To catch you, I’m gonna run and never stop”

  On the surface, “Bargain” seems like a love song. However, there’s a far greater depth than is expected. Townshend once said of the track, ” … This song expresses how much of a bargain it would be to lose everything in order to be at one with God.”

• “Listening to you, I get the music/Gazing at you, I get the heat/Following you, I climb the mountain/I get excitement at your feet”

  Closing out Tommy was “See Me, Feel Me.” These lyrics acknowledge the overall theme of senses in relation to the rock opera’s titular character.

• “I got your body right now on my mind/But I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T. Rex”

  To begin with, drinking while listening to T. Rex is just fun and highly recommended. Also, while The Who’s catalog is incredibly angsty, it’s nice to just hear an upbeat love song.

• “I’m happy when life’s good, and when it’s bad, I cry/I got values, but I don’t know how or why”

  “The Seeker” embraces the destructiveness of trying to find yourself in an increasingly dark world. Townshend told Rolling Stone in 1970, “Quite loosely, ‘The Seeker’ was just a thing about what I call Divine Desperation, or just Desperation. And what it does to people.”

• “I know if I go, things would be a lot better for her/I had things planned, but her folks wouldn’t let her”

  Another tribute to youth, but it’s a little more optimistic about drinking and drug use. Townshend said during the recording of The Who’s 2000 live album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, “When I wrote this song I was nothing but a kid, trying to work out right and wrong through all the things I did … There was almost nothing that I didn’t try to use, and somehow I’m alright.”

• “Long live rock, I need it every night”

  An autobiographical tale, “Long Live Rock” is one of The Who’s best anthems. Anyone that loves rock music and the joy of a raucous live performance can relate to this track on a very primal level.

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