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tjkrol
This is a very good recording and excellent performance. Supposedly recorded by a Dead Head with very good equipment.

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Milan
"Quite the crowd mix...Who fans & Dead Heads!"

- haw... here's a nice anecdote & photo from a friend of mine, who gave the permission to post it:


My first Who show (dork content)




(lousy foto I took)

So me, my girlfriend, my brother and some chick with a car drove 5 hours from Carson City, NV to Oakland Stadium. I insisted we leave at 3:00 in the morning or something....so we could get there early and get up close. This was very exciting.

Bill Graham prided himself on the diverse bills of his shows. Opening band for the Who that day was The Grateful Dead.

So we get into the stadium and run up to the front of the lawn by the stage and claim our spot. After awhile The Dead come on and everything is groovy you know.....

Four hours later...apologies in advance to any Dead fans.....but good f**king Christ!!!......that's a long ass opening band....sitting in the sun....waiting for The Who....all this bitterness I have didn't come from a vacuum....I earned it.

Anyway, I was young...I took it like a man, but I hated the Grateful Dead for many many years afterward.

I'll never forget when The Who finally came on. First Bill Graham introduces them and then Keith and Pete ran onto the stage with Pete chasing Keith around the drumset Keystone Cops style, Roger comes out and does a cartwheel, Entwistle strolls on, cool as can be, and bang, all of a sudden, it was all worth it.

October 10.1976:
Oakland, Stadium
I Can't Explain
Substitute
My Wife
Baba O'Riley
Squeeze Box
Behind Blue Eyes
Dreaming From The Waist
Magic Bus
Amazing Journey
Sparks
The Acid Queen
Fiddle About
Pinball Wizard
I'm Free
Tommy's Holiday Camp
We're Not Gonna Take It
Summertime Blues
My Generation
Join Together
My Generation Blues
Won't Get Fooled Again
Shakin' All Over,
Spoonful
Johnny B. Goode

The Shakin' All Over encore was a surprise. The Who weren't 'doing encores' back then, but Bill Graham came out after the last song's applause started to die down, and gave a double thumbs up signal to the audience to keep cheering, and he somehow guilted an encore out of them.

Only slightly dull moment was maybe Squeeze Box in retrospect.

The stadium was a little more than 2/3 full. The Who/Dead did 2 shows that weekend.


*text & photo -- Blair Miller, San Francisco

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tjkrol
I believe this is the following release:

[www.thewho.net]]

This recording is definitely 9th October (as John Entwistle's birthday is name checked) with the encore from 10th.