Re: On Topic: A clip only a bass player could love ...

SheaNC wrote:

Thanks for the correction on the film location, you're right, I was
thinking of another location, but same footage.

Yes, they essentially shot the whole concert over again at Shepperton since
they were so unhappy with the Kilburn footage.

I used to consume lots of music media since '79 when I started
playing. And I tell you, Entwistle was not only rarely mentioned, he
was practically shunned. Thar "bassplayer of the millenuim" thing came
along a lot later, and it was quite a surprise. Throughout the 80's
and into the 90's, it seems like every other bass player received
press except JE. It was always Stanley Clark this and Jaco that, and
then Flea or Billy Sheehan or whatever, and most especially Jack
Bruce. That used to really surprise me: whenever they wrote about
trailblazing English bassplayers, it was always Jack Bruce all over
the place. Finding any mention of Entwistle was like searching for a
needle in a haystack. And other musicians I knew seemed to have never
heard of him either. In fact, being a Who fan in the 80's was very
fourth-rung.They might be mentioned at the bottom of a list, or often
not at all. I don't know why.

I think it was because The Who had slipped from the public eye to a great
extent, they'd first announed they wouldn't tour anymore and then Townshend
said the band itself was done. There was lots of competition then too, U2
for example, those old 60s bands didn't get much respect, even The Stones
missed most of the 80s. With punk and new wave and so on coming one after
the other, with all the new bands, the former members of The Who kind of
slipped off the radar. But I'm surprised bassists wouldn't have still been
hip to Entwistle, that's hard to explain.

That's all changed not, for whatever reason. JE's death helped his
career a lot, which he would have probably got quite a laugh out of.

I wish he'd taken better care of himself, dropped the damn cigarettes
decades ago at least. When Townshend decided he wanted to play Who music
again at the end of the 90s The Who came back to life, that 2000 tour was
startling, surprised the hell out of a lot of people me included. They
still put on a great show but not what it could have been with Entwistle
onstage, his death was a greater loss than Moon's.


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