who in portland

The Rose Garden,  Portland 10/13/96

Set:
Quadrophenia
encore:
Won't Get Fooled Again (Pete and Roger only)
Behind Blue Eyes
Boris the Spider (extended version)
Naked Eye
Substitute

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The tour kicked off at the 20,000+ capacity Rose Garden arena in Portland.
    Built for the Portland Trailblazers by team owner Paul Allen,   the Rose
Garden sounded remarkably well for place this large.   The show appeared to
be less than 2/3 full,
but the audience was enthusiastic throughout.    The opening act was
Hovercraft,  a 3 piece band from Seattle who usually perform a single long
improvised instrumental to the accompaniment of archival film footage.
   They played 32 min.
     The Who came on at 9:00pm and played til 11:00pm.     The notable
difference between this tour and the NYC shows in July is that this time
around Pete is playing electric guitar during the set.     The songs he
played electric on were:
The Real Me
The Punk and the Godfather
Dirty Jobs
I've Had Enough
5:15
Sea and Sand (last 3rd only)
The Rock (last 3rd only)
Love Reign O'er Me
Boris the Spider 
Naked Eye
Substitute
Pete played Stratocasters (a gold one, white one, and red one all with whammy
bars which he used at every opportunity),  and a Rickenbacker on  Substitute.
     His mix on the P.A. varied from song to song,   but he dominated Love
Reign O'er Me, Naked Eye and Substitute.    It was great to see him play
electric again on the Quadrophenia material,   but it was definately the
first show of a tour,  in that the band didn't really gel quite yet.    The
show never felt like it quite got off the ground although it came close
several times,   particularly during 5:15, Love Reign O'er Me,   WGFA (better
than any of the versions I saw in NYC), and Naked Eye.    Pete
seemed to be constantly fighting the urge to windmill or leap (continuing the
battle he begun on his solo tour in April and May and carried on to the NYC
shows in July.)   
Simon Townshend seemed woefully inadequate in the songs he was expected to
play lead on relying mostly on chording.    Roger sounded great,  and for the
most part seemed to be having a good time.