The man himself thought that the bass solo was quite important, he said so himself.
[color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]“On [/size][/font][/color][i][url="http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/tablature/substitute-bass.txt"]Substitute[/url][/i][color=#000000][font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3] I played a two pickup medium scale Gibson bass and I managed to find a decent set of Gibson wirewound strings that vibrated properly. The session was going well and I felt that we were ready for the master take, so when it got to the solo in the middle, I turned the bass up and there was nothing the engineer could do about it. They’d previously balanced everything and it was all going through the mixer at the same time.”[/size][/font][/color]