Celebrating the golden anniversary of The Who at the Woodstock Festival on August 18, 1969 with live HD performance of Young Man Blues, Substitute (4:24), My Generation (7:20), and Pinball Wizard (9:34). The Who original members Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle were live at Shea Stadium New York concert in 1982. Watch the full concert on Eagle Rock DVD/Blu-Ray.

Young Man Blues and Substitute live were first included on the great 1970 album Live At Leeds. The Who performed My Generation and Pinball Wizard (part of Tommy segment) at Woodstock 1969.

Woodstock 50 anniversary concert was originally scheduled for August 16-18, 2019 and after high hopes, recently cancelled. The Who was asked to participate 50 years later but declined as explained in the article below.

Ultimate Classic Rock August 2019 edition: Woodstock Was the Who’s Worst Gig Ever, Says Roger Daltrey

The Who have long expressed disdain for their Woodstock performance, and in a new interview, singer Roger Daltrey noted that a series of delays and equipment problems prevented them from playing until 5AM.

“You’ve got to remember, by the time we went onstage, we’d been standing in the mud for hours,” he told The New York Times. “Or laying in it, or doing whatever in it. It wasn’t actually that muddy backstage, but it wasn’t comfort, let’s put it that way. … That’s all you could do. Waiting, waiting, waiting. We were young, and life is a lot easier when you’re young. I wouldn’t do that show now. Sod that. I’d walk away from it. I’m joking. No, I’d walk away and come back 10 hours later.”

Daltrey said he has never listened to the Who’s set to reassess it with years of detachment. But, after noting it was the band’s worst gig, he still has vivid memories of what went wrong.

“It was a particularly hard one for me, because of the state of the equipment,” he said. “It was all breaking down. I’m standing in the middle of the stage with enormous Marshall 100-watt amps blasting my ears behind me. [Keith] Moon on the drums in the middle. I could barely hear what I was singing.”

Still, Daltrey has a few positive memories of the weekend, like noting Creedence Clearwater Revival were “fantastic”. (Watch the best CCR performance at Woodstock on Cal Vid: https://youtu.be/75VQp8iGNF0).

“The audience were the stars,” he explained. “That half a million people put up with that crap for three days. That coming together of that community was, I think, the key to getting America out of Vietnam. That’s when politicians actually started to take notice.”