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It Was 20 Years Ago Today John Entwistle RIP

We lost one of the greats 20 years ago on this date: John Entwistle died at age 57 the day before the start of a tour. Surviving band members carried on with the tour mainly to offset insurance liabilities. They still continue in their manner.
20 Years Ago: The Who Carries on Without John Entwistle
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Dude is a legend and was one long before he died. We all owe him for his sonic pioneering on bass guitar.
His approach certainly influenced others, both his tone and his more active lines.
Here's Chris Squire citing his influence:
Your bass playing is very different from a lot of the bands from the era in which Yes started. How did you develop your sound?

Just naturally, really. I used to be a big fan of John Entwistle and The Who. I first went to see them and John was actually playing a Rickenbacker bass at the time and I thought, "That sounds like a cool sound." That's why I went out and bought one myself. So I kind of always liked the idea of that kind of rawer sound, swing bass, round-wound string sound. And I guess a combination of how I set the tone controls on the bass, together with the Marshall 100 Watt, that I actually still use, which is an amp from the mid-'60s. The way I set that up and everything, I guess I just waited until I was happy with the sound of it.
Where you viewed as kind of an unorthodox bass player when Yes started?

I think you would say that, yeah (laughs). I don't know. It's funny, it does go back again to my influence, of course, as a teenager, of The Who, who were definitely my favorite band. And of course I wanted to be a showman like [Pete] Townshend was but I wanted to get Entwistle's great sound. So, I guess I combined both traits of those characters and tried to own that personality.
Interview with Chris Squire from Yes: Sustained

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I saw him twice in little clubs in 1999 with the John Entwistle Band, very good band and the thing that surprised me about him was how light he played. The first club was an approx 100 seat local club I used to play in with a 2' stage so I got to stand about 10' in front of him (with every other local bassist) and could watch his very move, when he did his triplets his fingers were almost like butterfly wings. They were loud but the sound was so good and clear it sounded good not painful. The guitarists had full stacks and he had a stack of speakers up to the ceiling, I want to say he used Trace Elliot power amps (4) but it's been a long time, he did have little lights on the side of his fingerboard and played one of the futuristic basses had had. He played with both fingers and picks, about 50/50. He was very good and did a long solo which unfortunately kept tripping the breakers powering his amps. Did Boris, My Wife, other tunes he wrote and some solo stuff and some Who stuff, very impressive.
 
John Entwistle died at age 57 the day before the start of a tour.

Yikes. I'm now older than he was when he died. mind=blown

btw, my favorite Entwistle story is this one that I told a few years ago on TB:
True story: I used to play in a band with a drummer who was also the president of the New York City chapter of the John Entwistle Fan Club. He once hosted John at a Fan Club meet&greet at the (long since defunct) China Club. He says in the space of 4 hours Entwistle consumed 52 cognacs

...and then stuck my bandmate with the bill.
 
20 years wow...I was never a huge fan of most of their music but his chops were crazy good and certainly an innovative player.

Looking back between him and Moon how did Who manage to keep it going? Yet Starr and McCartney are still around and so is Butler and Ward!