Currently enjoying their first major tour since the 2002 death of founding bassist John Entwistle, British rockers The Who [ tickets ] have extended their itinerary with the band's first confirmed dates for 2007.

Led by surviving members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, the band's tour, which kicked off back in September, now extends to a March 1 show in San Diego. The group has also added a pair of February dates, and fleshed out the December portion of its outing with a Dec. 2 show in Boston. Details are included below.

The Who finished up the tour's first leg in October, taking a few weeks off to ready the release of its first new album in nearly a quarter of a century. "Endless Wire," which hit stores Oct. 31, includes several brand new tracks, as well as music culled from a 29 minute mini-opera inspired by Townshend's novella 'The Boy Who Heard Music." The book is available online at Townshend's website.

As previously reported, surviving group founders Townshend (guitar) and Daltrey (vocals) are now backed by drummer Zak Starkey (son of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr), guitarist/vocalist Simon Townshend (Pete's younger brother), bassist Pino Palladino and keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick.

Original Who bassist John Entwistle died of a cocaine-induced heart attack in 2002 at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, where the band was preparing for a North American tour that was scheduled to launch three days later. Daltrey and Townshend canceled the first two shows, but ultimately forged ahead with the outing.

Original drummer Keith Moon died of a drug overdose in 1978.

"This is not the old Who," Townshend wrote in a diary entry posted at his website earlier this year. "We never said it would be. It is something else. It matters."