Celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Who at the Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969 with live HD performance of Young Man Blues, Substitute (4:24), My Generation (7:20), and Pinball Wizard (9:34). The Who original members Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle were live at Shea Stadium New York concert in 1982. Watch the full concert on Eagle Rock DVD/Blu-Ray.

Young Man Blues and Substitute live were first included on the great 1970 album Live At Leeds. The Who performed My Generation and Pinball Wizard (part of Tommy segment) at Woodstock 1969.

Woodstock 50 anniversary concert was originally scheduled for August 16-18, 2019 and after high hopes, recently cancelled. The Who was asked to participate 50 years later but declined as explained in the article below.

Ultimate Classic Rock August 2019 edition: Woodstock Was the Who’s Worst Gig Ever, Says Roger Daltrey

The Who have long expressed disdain for their Woodstock performance, and in a new interview, singer Roger Daltrey noted that a series of delays and equipment problems prevented them from playing until 5AM.

"You’ve got to remember, by the time we went onstage, we’d been standing in the mud for hours," he told The New York Times. "Or laying in it, or doing whatever in it. It wasn’t actually that muddy backstage, but it wasn’t comfort, let’s put it that way. ... That’s all you could do. Waiting, waiting, waiting. We were young, and life is a lot easier when you’re young. I wouldn’t do that show now. Sod that. I’d walk away from it. I’m joking. No, I’d walk away and come back 10 hours later."

Daltrey said he has never listened to the Who's set to reassess it with years of detachment. But, after noting it was the band's worst gig, he still has vivid memories of what went wrong.

"It was a particularly hard one for me, because of the state of the equipment," he said. "It was all breaking down. I’m standing in the middle of the stage with enormous Marshall 100-watt amps blasting my ears behind me. [Keith] Moon on the drums in the middle. I could barely hear what I was singing."

Still, Daltrey has a few positive memories of the weekend, like noting Creedence Clearwater Revival were "fantastic". (Watch the best CCR performance at Woodstock on Cal Vid: [ Ссылка ]).

"The audience were the stars," he explained. "That half a million people put up with that crap for three days. That coming together of that community was, I think, the key to getting America out of Vietnam. That’s when politicians actually started to take notice."

Ultimate Classic Rock article: PETE TOWNSHEND REVEALS THE ONLY THING THE WHO DON’T ARGUE ABOUT

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend said the only thing he doesn’t argue with singer Roger Daltrey about is the fact that “we are both old.” He said that several songs on their upcoming new album explore how advancing years changed him, and how his approach to writing for Daltrey had changed too.

“Growing old includes growing up, even in the rock business,” Townshend told the Dallas News in a new interview. “I listen now to what Roger says, attend to what he needs as an artist and try to be a supportive colleague onstage. I also try to sincerely demonstrate that I love him.”

He noted that he "certainly wrote a few songs specifically about what happens when you get old. But funnily enough, I did a fair bit of that the first time I thought I had got old, when I passed through being 30, in 1975. I think in writing songs that I hoped Roger would connect with, I had to accept that, although we are both old men now, we are very different. So it's the broader issues I ended up writing about. The songs are about what we agree on, and one thing we can't argue about is that we are both old.”

Asked about the biggest misconception of the Who, Townshend said, "That we are, in any way, a heavy rock band. We can do it, but we're closer to prog-rock than, say, Led Zeppelin. On the other hand, there is a part of me that really doesn't give a shit what you think of us. That may be what makes us seem like an old-school rock band: We do our best, but if we fuck up, so be it.”

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