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

Les Cargill <lcargill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DGDevin wrote:
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.

That, um, wasn't what killed him....

One could argue that the amount of coca-cola that Entwistle consumed
would not have resulted in the death of a healthy male. I'd say smoking
was a contributing factor, along with excessive use of cocaine, a
pre-existing heart condition, and the excitement of the old geezer
getting it up for a floozy.

<Not an anti-smoking rant. Trust me on this ;-)>


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