The Who Close Outside Lands Fest

The Who capped off this year’s annual Outside Lands Music Festival. The event saw the rock legends play to 80,000 fans who were also treated to Lorde’s headlining performance earlier in the evening. Despite a younger crowd largely unfamiliar with their work, the band rolled out a veteran performance packed with hits, according to usatoday.com.More »

By on August 15, 2017

The Who capped off this year’s annual Outside Lands Music Festival. The event saw the rock legends play to 80,000 fans who were also treated to Lorde’s headlining performance earlier in the evening. Despite a younger crowd largely unfamiliar with their work, the band rolled out a veteran performance packed with hits, according to usatoday.com. “An indifferent audience of 80,000 – mostly millennials – vaguely familiar with the headliner’s work, save for TV car jingles and theme songs from the CSI franchise. And yet The Who packed a powerful, two-hour punch of arena rock that jostled the Outside Lands gathering out of its numbed state at Golden Gate Park last night. A deep catalog of rock anthems, punctuated by power chords, windmills, introspective ballads, booming vocals and a couple of strategic scissor kicks did the trick,” writes usatoday.com’s Jon Swartz. The band also hit The Tonight Show last month where they opened with “I Can See for Miles” from 1967’s The Who Sell Out, before performing “You Better You Bet” off 1981’s Face Dances. The performance closed with a quick shot of host Jimmy Fallon and Roots guitarist Captain Kirk Douglas singing along in the crowd. Copyright(c) 2017 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «