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Post by cynical1 on Oct 9, 2011 10:33:50 GMT -5
If he'd have made it, John Entwistle would have been 67 today.
For those of you too young to remember John Entwistle:
The drill here is Highway Star to 11...but for bass players it's My Generation to 11. For John Entwistle, and the Who in general, it's around 12 or 13...
Happy Birthday, John. Thanks for the inspiration.
Happy Trails
Cynical One
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Post by newey on Oct 9, 2011 11:01:06 GMT -5
I recall seeing them on TV in the '60s doing "I Can See For Miles", I think it was on Ed Sullivan. In the big finale, they destroyed their instruments, Moon kicking in his drum heads, destroying his kit, Townsend using his guitar like a hachet into his amp's speakers.
Entwhistle just stands there, continuing to play the bass line while chaos breaks out all around him.
I was about 10 years old at the time and thought it was the coolest thing ever- been a Who fan ever since.
Happy Birthday, John!
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Post by gumbo on Oct 10, 2011 5:08:04 GMT -5
Yep, he was my favorite Who too........
...sigh
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Post by irwired on Oct 20, 2011 20:45:50 GMT -5
This is why I have avoided becoming a rock star.  Too many early retirements.  Wirey |
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Post by Yew on Oct 21, 2011 16:11:23 GMT -5
Newey is that the gig where one of the guys put 10 times more gunpowder in the pyrotechnics that he was supposed to, and nearly deafened them?
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Post by newey on Oct 21, 2011 19:46:05 GMT -5
No, Yew. That was "My Generation" on the Smothers Brothers show, which also has the great Entwhistle solo front and center. Moon allegedly did it as a prank on the rest of the band:
Turns out I'm wrong on it being on Ed Sullivan, they were never on there. So not sure where I saw the "I Can See For Miles", the only early videos of that tune that I saw posted are from British TV. I definitely didn't see it there from suburban Chicago in 1967! So, a mystery where it was shown, but lots of TV stuff is lost forever from those days before consumer videotape.
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Post by cynical1 on Oct 21, 2011 20:22:21 GMT -5
Newey is that the gig where one of the guys put 10 times more gunpowder in the pyrotechnics that he was supposed to, and nearly deafened them? Naw...they were nearly deaf already... |
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