If a spring corker at the Erwin Center counts, it took the Two – Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend – three-plus decades to perfect the farewell tour. Their first, for 10th and last album with “thunderfingers” bassist John Entwistle, It’s Hard, paired them with the Clash at a New York ballpark. Appropriately, they – plus Keith Moon replacement Kenney Jones (Small Faces/Faces) – go through the motions worse than their showmates’ sorry live LP from the same night. Like April here, Who Are You bristles (“Sister Disco”) and a golden oldie pops (“Tattoo”), but otherwise two hours of rain tanks.

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This article appears in August 7 • 2015.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.