Air Canada Center - Toronto, ON Dec 4, 2006

Photos by William Snyder

Set List

I Can't Explain
The Seeker
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
Fragments
Who Are You
Behind Blue Eyes
Sound Round
Pick Up The Peace
Endless Wire
We Got A Hit
They Made My Dreams Come True
Mirror Door
Baba O' Riley
Eminence Front
Man In The Purple Dress
Black Widows Eyes
Mike Post Theme
You Better You Bet
My Generation / Cry If You Want
Won't Get Fooled Again 

Encore:
Pinball Wizard
Amazing Journey
Sparks
See Me Feel Me
Listening To You
Tea and Theatre

Support Band: The Pretenders

Video Clips: Sound Round, WGFA, PW, MIAPD/T&T, excerpts

Online Articles:  Buffalo News, Now Toronto, Chart Attack, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Steeltown Kids

Review by G. G. Toronto

What impressed me most about the Toronto show was Pete's dynamic guitar playing.  He didn't stop for a minute (except for the acoustic work, interesting in its own right).  One could see from this show where his reputation as a master of power playing, power riffs and power stage performance comes from.

 

It has been a while (in my experience) since he has played like this.  He is going back to his roots of loud, aggressive, propulsive playing and it enhances the band's work greatly.

 

Roger had a cold so he wasn't up to standard but still was good - with all the volume and echo, and the supporting vocals of the others, you could hardly notice the reduced power.  His stage presence made up too for the gruffness and vocal miscues.

 

Zak played the best I have ever heard him.  Pino's work seemed higher in the mix than during recent tours which added depth to the ensemble sound.

 

The keyboards, due to Rabbit's absence, were less featured than formerly, but I never though the Who needed keyboards much except for a handful of songs. 

 

But it was Pete's night (as generally on this tour I think) and that is fine with me - it is his sound that drew me to the band to begin with.

 

A negative, slight in the overall context, was the band seemed a bit tired.  It is near the end of this leg of the tour, and I think they need a break.  E.g., they didn't interact much with the audience (or seemingly even with each other).  Still, they got a good show across that shone in numerous aspects as mentioned above.

 

I would like to see the band near the beginning of a long tour or in the middle.  But put it this way: given a chance to see them again under any circumstances I'd say yes in an instant.

 

I never thought, 30-35 years ago, that I would see a powerful, much less any, Who performance in 2006.  I never thought 20 years ago that I'd ever see Pete play loud electric guitar again like he is doing now - that is recompense enough but in fact the show offered a lot more.