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The Who - Community Theater, Berkeley, California June 16, 1970

Track listing:
Volume 1
  1. Heaven & Hell 4:52
  2. I Can't Explain 3:17
  3. Young Man Blues - Water (Part 1) 7:39
  4. Water (Part 2) 9:22
  5. The Seeker 4:35
  6. I Don't Even Know Myself - Overture (Intro) 7:46
Volume 2
  1. Overture 6:52
  2. It's A Boy 0:35
  3. 1921 2:30
  4. Amazing Journey 5:47
  5. Sparks 3:13
  6. Eyesight To The Blind 2:00
  7. Christmas 3:27
  8. The Acid Queen 3:43
  9. Pinball Wizard 2:58
  10. Do You Think It's Alright 0:22
  11. Fiddle About - Tommy Can You Hear Me 2:25
  12. There's A Doctor 0:29
  13. We're Not Gonna Take It 3:51
  14. See Me, Feel Me 7:02
  15. Summertime Blues 5:02
  16. Shakin' All Over 7:12
  17. My Generation (Intro) 0:32
  18. My Generation 18:44

Notes

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Community Theater,
Berkeley, California

Unknown Audience Recording.
Good, 6/10 rating.


Sound Quality: A good and fair audience recording, but missing much of the Tommy set, as well as 'My Generation'.

A slightly better recording than most from the tour, but a good deal of the show is unfortunately missing. The string of pre-Tommy numbers are all outstanding—Townshend’s long 'Heaven and Hell' solo has to be one of the best, despite a guitar dropout; later 'Young Man Blues' has a biting political reference from Daltrey at the end, prompting Townshend to ask "Don’t you wish you had a nice, friendly Queen?" He later mentions how badly their recent recording sessions have gone before a typically staggering jam in 'Water' and the contrasting 'I Don’t Even Know Myself'. The unaccompanied 'It’s a Boy' guitar passage is very long here and the remaining Tommy songs are all performed well, but a substantial part of the rock opera is cut here. A bombastic end to 'Shakin’ All Over' signals the end of the recording, and 'My Generation' is absent.