The Who’s Historic Pontiac Silverdome Concert Finally Gets Official Video Release

For the first time, The Who's legendary concert at the Pontiac Silverdome is being OFFICIALLY released on video. Shortly after the Metropolitan Arena in Pontiac, Michigan, opened, The Who booked what would become a legendary concert, as it was the first major concert of that size and set a world record for a solo indoor attraction with an attendance of 75,962 people, in support of their "The Who By Numbers" album.

The band has just announced that they’re going to be releasing a five-CD deluxe edition of their album The Who by Numbers, which is going to include over 90 unreleased tracks.

The most exciting part of the super deluxe package is that they’re also including a Blu-ray of The Who's legendary performance, now known as the Pontiac Silverdome, for the first time. There is footage out there on YouTube; however, these are nothing that's been officially released by the band.

The newly announced The Who By Numbers deluxe Blu-ray is set to contain approximately 1 hour 43 minutes of professionally restored video of the entire December 6, 1975 Pontiac performance.

The footage has reportedly been pulled from The Who's archives, cleaned up, and paired with remastered mono audio. As one person who was there describes the event, it was a night full of thrills and an audience that was truly electric:

During the show the main floor crowd surged forward causing a crush near the front of the stage. Pete admonished the crowd to move back saying "Its f-cking blood and guts up here!". During band introductions, when Keith's name was announced, he came flying out from behind the drums, did a somersault and leaped into the air!

Hopefully, these antics will be some of the footage we finally get to see. You can get all the info on the collection here.