After more than 40 years, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey can still kick it out with the best of them.

The two rock gods--and remaining original members of The Who--turned in a typically killer show Friday night at Borgata's Event Center, mostly concentrating on the material that has made the British band one of the most revered and beloved of all time.

With the exception of a few songs from "Endless Wire," the band's most recent collection of new material (from 2006), the group stuck to a greatest-hits format--a strategy that certainly didn't disappoint anyone in the rabid, sold-out crowd.

Such signatures as the show-opening exacta of "I Can't Explain" and "The Seeker," "Behind Blue Eyes," "5:15" and "Pinball Wizard" were uniformly exciting, but the powerhouse versions of "Love Reign O'er Me," "Baba O'Relly" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" were simply the pinnacle of the rock concert experience.

Sure, the microphone-twirling Daltrey can't hit the high notes of his youth. But his vocals still have unlimited amounts of strength and drama. And Townshend remains one of rock's most compelling live performers, a bundle of kinetic energy whose "windmill" style of playing guitar is one of rock's iconic moves.

But the two legends couldn't have done it alone. They were backed by the same lineup that's been intact since the 2002 death of bassist John Entwistle: The melodically monickered Pino Palladino replacing Entwistle, keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick and guitarist Simon Townshend (Pete's brother).

And as he has been since he replaced Kenney Jones in the late 1990s, it was drummer Zak Starkey who was the revelation Friday night.

Starkey comes from one of the most royal bloodlines in rock (his dad is Richard Starkey, who, as Ringo Starr, kept time for a British "beat" band of some note back in the 1960s). He doesn't imitate the late, great Keith Moon, as much as he seems possessed by Moonie's spirit,creating perfect replicas of Moon's singular bashing style..

It all made for a glorious two-plus hours of the some of the best rock music of all time.