Or do they just not care?  Tonight, when watching the ESPN broadcast of the Rutgers - West Virginia game they showed a couple of very excited West Virginia fans, right as the game came to an end in a tie.  What was interesting was one of the persons attire:

The little black bar over the sweatshirt is covering a distinctly non-basic cable word.  I mean, was this the only person they could find in the crowd to film?  I can't imagine that they put these crowd shots on live, do they? And did they notice (they were up there for several seconds at least?)  I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere else, so maybe it isn't a big deal.  

The night before Thanksgiving, my wife and I took a drive from Cleveland TN (not Ohio) where we were visiting our parents for the holiday, down to Atlanta to see one of my favorite rock bands, The Who.   Despite being over 60 years in age (they ain't old yet) Roger and Pete brought it just as well as they did when I saw them back in 89.  The only downer was Atlanta traffic, where it took us like two and a half hours to travel 20 miles (in Atlanta's defense, it was the day before Thanksgiving on 295, but still.)

The night started out pretty awesome with the Pretenders as an opening act.  Clearly they were a cut above the average opening act and it showed.  Chrissie Hynde and band gave it a good go and was quite energetic.  They played like 10 songs. 

Then Roger, Pete and band came out and rocked for like two hours.  They did some classics including My Generation, Can't Explain, and what my wife and I have dubbed the CSI trilogy: Baba O'Reilly, Won't Get Fooled Again, and Who Are You.  All of the classics rocked and popped really nice with some excellent graphics on 5 (or 6) video screens that moved around (my view of the screens were partially obscured by speakers in some positions).

One thing that bothered me was with the new material.  Pete Townshend is an artist, and his material on the new album is very very good.  I have experienced the same kind of thing with Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, and even Jethro Tull when I have seen them in concert.  Pete even made reference to this a bit when he explained that he was going to play his new rock opera (in mini form, at least) and made reference to the idea that people would want their money back, and that one of the older songs that they sang was "our" song more than his these days.  True enough because as a 61 year old dude, he is no longer a punk kid, but a respected artist.

I personally would rather go see them do only new stuff, and perhaps a few reworked versions of old songs in new forms.  But a dose of nostalgia is great too.

The Who concerts are all recorded and taped for sale if you want to see what you missed, a touch that is made even more nice by the fact that the proceeds go to some decent looking charities (you will have to do some searching for more information about what charities): http://www.themusic.com/encore/thewho2006/

For a professional review/setlist, check here: http://www.ajc.com/Music/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/Concertreviews/entries/2006/11/22/the_who_plays_gwinnett.html