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" From his trademark flying leap to start the opener, "I Can't Explain," guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend, 61, brought a fierce intensity, ferocious passion and kinetic energy to the stage. He would not be denied. "Behind Blue Eyes.

" Lead singer Roger Daltrey, 62, looked marvelously buff and sounded dreadfully Dylanesque. After a while, his phlegm-addled voice got a little better and then it got worse, with him sounding like Joe Cocker on "You Better You Bet." He explained that he was suffering from "terrible bronchitis" but "it's not bleeping opera.

" After clutching his chest throughout "Won't Get Fooled Again," the obviously uncomfortable singer declared, "I'm going to make this night up to you. We'll come back." Well, he didn't even come back for the encore, leaving Townshend to sing three songs, including "My Generation.

" And the Who didn't do anything from "Tommy"; at previous shows on this tour, the group had been doing "Pinball Wizard,"Amazing Journey" and "See Me, Feel Me," all of which were on Friday's prepared set list. Five songs on the list weren't performed; the performance clocked in at about 95 minutes, 25 fewer than previous nights. "Substitute.

" The new kids in the band are alright. Having toured with the Who in 1997 and '02, the suitably mod-looking Zak Starkey, Ringo Starr's son, was terrific, as potent as the late Keith Moon but more precise and less looney. Bassist Pino Palladino, doing his second Who trek, was solid, though he lacked the prominence and inventiveness of John Entwistle, who died days before the 2002 tour.

And Brian Kehew, a band technician, was an able replacement on keyboards for John Bundrick, whose wife is ill. "Love, Reign O'er Me." Despite the disappointment of Daltrey, the band was in fine form and delivered some emotional high points: the galvanizing "Baba O'Riley," the hyped-up "Who Are You" and the unstoppable "Won't Get Fooled Again," bolstered by Townshend's six-windmill guitar flourish.

"I Can't Explain." Of course, Townshend, one of rock's great auteurs, insisted on doing a mini-version of the mini-rock opera on the Who's new album, "Endless Wire," its first studio album since 1982. The group did six of the 10 songs of "Wire Glass.

" The set was lifeless and had little impact on the crowd of 12,000. Four other "Endless Wire" selections were performed, but the only one that connected was "A Man in a Purple Dress," a Dylanesque duet of Townshend on acoustic guitar accompanying Daltrey's fittingly raspy voice. "We're Not Gonna Take It.

" No songs from "Tommy"! Short show! No one booed at the end, but they probably should have protested somehow.

Tickets cost as much as $200 (compared with $135 tops for the Who in 2002 at the X). "The Acid Queen." During the Pretenders' opening set, sassy singer Chrissie Hynde had some sharp-tongued comments, and she and her Hall of Fame band rocked on "My City Was Gone" and "Middle of the Road.