Set List:
I Can't Explain Summertime Blues My Generation I Am The Sea The Real Me Punk And The Godfather I'm One Helpless Dancer 5.15 Sea And Sand Drowned Bell Boy Dr. Jimmy Love Reign O'er Me Encore unknown
The Who sold out the Amphitheater over three weeks prior to the gig, grossing $87,000 in the process. Tickets were available through mail order only to avoid trouble at the box office. Later, Pete said he thought that this show and Montreal "were the two solidest performances" of the tour.
The Chicago Tribune (November 30) carried a review of this concert by Lynn Van Matre, who was among 12,000 fans who attended. She wrote: "Well, the highest energy rock band has come and gone. The Who arrived on stage at the Amphitheater last night in the usual way, lead singer Roger Daltrey's legs chugging like pistons, microphone twirling, Peter Townshend's guitar arm windmilling, Keith Moon manic on drums and John Entwistle minding his business on the bass. The din from the stage was incredible; the din from the audience matching that and then some... When it comes to rock theater, The Who must be the masters. No Alice Cooper theatrics needed, no props other than voices and the charge the group self-generates. With them it's all energy, transcending the music, transcending the scene. Harness 'em up, and they could probably transcend the energy crisis as well..." According to Van Matre, Pete sardonically referred to Quadrophenia as "a pot-boiler album we put together to please the industry and a long drawn-out piece of shit". She concluded: "They are, in the final analysis, pure, raw energy - which is, after all, what rock'n'roll's always been about."