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I once went to the old Bass Centre in Wapping because they'd just had a new delivery in of Trace Elliot and there was a new combo I wanted to try out. They had so much stock that they'd had to make corridors of TE gear for people to walk down.

So there I am, sitting on top of the TE combo I wanted to try and was idly fooling around with the intro of Wherever I Lay My Hat and trying to remember how it continued into the verse. Next thing I know there's someone soloing on fretless over my verse patterns. I thought it sounded quite cool so just kept playing a basic pattern whilst listening to the mysterious fretless player.

Eventually I stopped and stood up to peer over the stack of cabs to discover my soloing partner was none other than Pino himself on an old fretless P bass!

I was instantly embarrassed and ducked down behind the cab wall again, grabbed the combo and headed off to buy it. As I went past Pino said  "those new Trace combos are really good, excellent choice'. I mumbled my thanks for his opinion and staggered off to pay for it (no such thing as neo speakers those days so it weighed a ton!).

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5 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

Now that was a place. No disrespect to the specialist shops but a warehouse of bass stuff on a single floor was something to behold.

I agree . Hands on the best Bass outlet I've ever been in .

I only went twice - 1st time to try out gear , and 2nd time a decade later (2001 I reckon) , to buy a rig . Can still picture it in my mind

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Regarding rounds, I'm not sure he uses them any more - he was using Cobalt Flats at one point recently. However more to the point I have read that he has had the board re-shot or replaced multiple times. It makes sense really because rounds wear grooves eventually (think fret wear of a fretted) - if you have grooves and deep swirls it can affect playability and presumably tuning. 

I also read somewhere that Pino's wife said that the bass had been signed by Rocco Prestia, presumably one of his heros. 

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On 18/09/2018 at 18:05, bubinga5 said:

............. No music reading which is interesting for such a prolific bass player and session man.

Some people on here are touchy about being able to 'read' so I don't want to kick the metaphorical wasps nest. I'm guessing that being so hugely talented and being in such demand it's 'overlooked' or allowances are made, if you want Pino then that's how he rolls. Not that it matters in the great scheme of things, but I wonder why he never bothered to learn? Surely something to do on those long transatlantic flights to LA?:D

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On 19/09/2018 at 10:23, molan said:

I mumbled my thanks for his opinion and staggered off to pay for it (no such thing as neo speakers those days so it weighed a ton!).

Another old bass centre memory from me too (a couple, actually...) - I remember taking my Warwick Pro-Bass IX head back there for repair using a luggage trolley on the tube, and I bought a 2x10 TE cab (also pre-neo and weighed a ton) sometime back in the early 2000s as an extension cab for the Warwick CCL I owned back then.

It truly was an epic place. Getting that 2x10 back to the car near Ealing Broadway via the tube was not something I'll forget... although it did make a good seat on the tube between heroic platform changes. 

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On 21/09/2018 at 11:40, mentalextra said:

Some people on here are touchy about being able to 'read' so I don't want to kick the metaphorical wasps nest. I'm guessing that being so hugely talented and being in such demand it's 'overlooked' or allowances are made, if you want Pino then that's how he rolls. Not that it matters in the great scheme of things, but I wonder why he never bothered to learn? Surely something to do on those long transatlantic flights to LA?:D

I imagine for the same reasons of everyone else who doesn't read - he didn't need to... 

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I love Pino in any register really, but much prefer him rocking than doing his fretless shtick. I think I haven't shared this video here (yet), got me headbanging each time I watch it. So hypnotically groovy...

 

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On 19 September 2018 at 08:14, Wolverinebass said:

At least he's not talking about how he ruined My Generation with the Who.

I've come across a couple of people who've commented negatively on his playing with the Who. However for me he's actually improved the role of the bass in that setting because for once you can hear it properly!!

Pino is a great rock player - just listen to the John Mayer clip - in fact he's a great all round musician/bass player. 

The fact is Entwhistle was a national treasure (along with Keith Moon) and it is difficult for anyone to stand/sit in the place of national treasures - especially for some fans of the band. 

I think Pino does a great job of it to be honest - I've heard him play some great renditions of the classic solo in My Generation. 

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7 hours ago, drTStingray said:

However for me he's actually improved the role of the bass in that setting because for once you can hear it properly!!

Let me know how your stand up set gets on.

However, if that was actually a serious comment you've never ever been to a show where Entwistle played. He was monstrously loud.

I don't dislike Pino, he's just wrong for that band. His clean tone with virtually no treble is just wrong. No grit, treble or chorus. Plus, his disciplined approach goes against everything that the Who's semi organised musical anarchy stood for. 

He's great at fusion, but being in the Who? Er, no.  

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On 26/09/2018 at 00:16, drTStingray said:

I've come across a couple of people who've commented negatively on his playing with the Who. However for me he's actually improved the role of the bass in that setting because for once you can hear it properly!!

 

That was always Entwistle's problem. Too content to just stick to the root notes and thump away.

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