John Entwistle

[vbance]

So may find this interesting

 

 

[King Tut]

Was just watching this yesterday!

[Alanko]

The Giltrap geezer keeps knocking John's instruments off the shelves in the storage room.

 

I found the whole video slightly sad. John mumbling and grunting away noncommittally. Giltrap slightly too eager with his poodle mullet and 'I'm mates with John Entwistle, me!' The prospect of John alone in a vast country pile with his fake pub in a spare room and a stack of vintage basses hidden away. Talismanic icons of former glories, the lean and hungry years of The Who now decades past. All the time and money in the world, but nothing to do.

[prowla]

Two blokes having a chat.

Gordon Giltrap's Fear Of The Dark is a great album.

[Beedster]

1 hour ago, Alanko said:

The Giltrap geezer keeps knocking John's instruments off the shelves in the storage room.

 

I found the whole video slightly sad. John mumbling and grunting away noncommittally. Giltrap slightly too eager with his poodle mullet and 'I'm mates with John Entwistle, me!' The prospect of John alone in a vast country pile with his fake pub in a spare room and a stack of vintage basses hidden away. Talismanic icons of former glories, the lean and hungry years of The Who now decades past. All the time and money in the world, but nothing to do.

 

His instructional video is equally rather sad, I watched it the whole way through once and could never do it again. Takes nothing away from what he contributed to music and to the bass in particular, but as you say, a very long way from the glory days...... 

[visog]

He had such a great tone with his Alembics but that Status through a flanger and distortion? Ugh! What a mess.

[Alanko]

45 minutes ago, visog said:

He had such a great tone with his Alembics but that Status through a flanger and distortion? Ugh! What a mess.

I'm guessing he lost all his high frequency hearing by then. The more terrifying thought is that was the tone he wanted back in 1964!

 

The Alembic was strident and cut through everything like a piano. The Status, plus all the rack gear, just seemed to sound slushy and compressed and goes missing in the mix. Probably turned up to infinity to compensate for the lack of presence.