Philadelphia on Tuesday night is nobody's good time, Nonetheless, because the Who were not coming to New York on their fall tour, it was worth it to go there to hear them. After all, I've been saying for years that they were the best live band in rock.

The Who didn't play New York for reasons of their own. The smart money is saying it was because they plan an extravaganza in the spring. But it would have been an almost unbearable disappointment to me not to have seen them at all. Last time in 1971,1 stood still for five full minutes after they were done, partially because I couldn't believe it was over, partially because of the roar in my ears. ,