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John Entwistle!
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moogboy
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He played Success Story at least a few times I'd seen 'em (I think I caught a total of 4 JEB shows). He was so damned loud that I can still hear it in the back of my head. And, what was interesting was how different his tone was with the JEB from The Who. With JEB, his tone was much more distorted and over-the-top. I'd read he programmed something like 22 custom patches in his midi controller, and used them all (although not all in a single show)!
From the time I saw Tommy until the time I saw them in John's last show in 2000, I never saw them with a backup band. The first time I saw a backup band was in 2002 when The Counting Crows opened up in Toronto.
yeah, John had a larger setup with the Who, for with JEB he had much lower stage volumes, and i assume that the different patches were made at Johns home and then before the show they would just pick one tone to do the whole show with
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Horny toad:
Alembic is far to expensive for me, i would probaly buy a used Status Buzzard if i collected enough money to buy anything alembic.
Go to the first page of this thread and see my Entwistle tribute bass
I dont think roman number inlays would fit very well on a Dragons wing(i also thing the current inlay is a little overkill..), and i have grown very found of Roman numbers on "special" body basses.
ive seen those basses before, i believe that they are a German company. i saw some pics of the Lakland prototype, and the attention to the details of Johns old basses was incredible
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Well, to be fair, I should have stated that Chris (who is/was married and living on the Cotswold estate with his wife), Queenie (who also lived on the estate), and Lisa (who was never formally listed in the will) sold it to pay for debts.
Here's an article about a guy who supposedly bought the house.
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Here's another "tabloidish" article about Quarwood... http://archive.thisisthecotswolds.co.uk/2005/10/30/25979.html
Here's a cute "little" picture of the Quarwood home, clearly no smaller than his rig or bass collection...
http://www.boddyparts.co.uk/quarwood.htm
And, one last link to information about the final "house cleaning"...
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Here's a cute "little" picture of the Quarwood home, clearly no smaller than his rig or bass collection...
http://www.boddyparts.co.uk/quarwood.htm
And, one last link to information about the final "house cleaning"...
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Um, sounds like you never saw the JEB live.
His stage volume with them was so high, it was almost hard to believe. I remember seeing them once at the Stone Pony here in NJ about 20 years ago - it was just minutes before the show started. It was very loud in there, people talking, house music, etc.... John's bass tech walked on stage with one of John's basses to test something - maybe the wireless, maybe just the overall volume, I don't know. I remember him just plucking a string a couple of times for that test. The volume level that came out of John's rig was enough to silence every single person in the club. The tech hit his few notes on the bass, then walked off the stage. Everyone just stood there in stunned silence for a minute. Then from the back, I heard someone say "holy crap". Everyone just laughed, and the conversations started up again. It was amazing. I'm surprised there weren't broken bones from the sound pressure.Link Removed
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Um, sounds like you never saw the JEB live.
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i unfortunately was not a fan until after John died, so i try to find as much info on him as possible, and that is where i was told that he needed a smaller setup with JEB so that he didnt knock the rest of the band off the stage.
I saw the JEB 4 times, 3 of which he was running his full rig, the 4th he only had one side running. Those shows were all with the A.S.S. rigs, before he officially endorsed Ashdown (essentially the same company, as I've heard).
I've got a picture or two somewhere I'll see if I can find and scan from one of the Chicago JEB shows a while back. I literally stood close enough for him to kick me in the face if he wanted to, and I can STILL hear the bass! He was so loud it wasn't even funny. No wonder he had to wear hearing aids!
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actually, A.S.S cabs were made in england and were a tiny company that made these butt-kicking cabs with speakers that held up to everything you threw at them. John once said that he never changed the speakers in those cabs, but those speakers could kill another cab in 5 seconds flat.
Sadly I never got to see the Who or John live.
My favorite period was the Live at Leeds/Isle Of Wight era. The band jelled at it's best in my opinion in so many ways, musically, sonically and creative. I love the way they played the songs different than on the records, instead of like a lot of bands who try to recreate the recording so it's like watching the band act out the EXACT recording.
I think that period was both John, Keith & Pete's best sounds. Pete sounded the best to me with his SG and P90 pickups. That guitar screamed like a strat, but with the warmth of a Gibson. The LP period just was not the same for me.
Likewise with John. My favorite bass sounds he had were the P, T bird & Fenderbird basses. In my opinion, when we went active with Alembic/ Buzzard, etc his bass sounded artificial & sterile. It lost all its natural sound and warmth. By the end his Buzzard sounded so terrible to me, it's so artificial sounding. He was still a bass playing terror till the end. Just amazing.
My favorite period was the Live at Leeds/Isle Of Wight era. The band jelled at it's best in my opinion in so many ways, musically, sonically and creative. I love the way they played the songs different than on the records, instead of like a lot of bands who try to recreate the recording so it's like watching the band act out the EXACT recording.
I think that period was both John, Keith & Pete's best sounds. Pete sounded the best to me with his SG and P90 pickups. That guitar screamed like a strat, but with the warmth of a Gibson. The LP period just was not the same for me.
Likewise with John. My favorite bass sounds he had were the P, T bird & Fenderbird basses. In my opinion, when we went active with Alembic/ Buzzard, etc his bass sounded artificial & sterile. It lost all its natural sound and warmth. By the end his Buzzard sounded so terrible to me, it's so artificial sounding. He was still a bass playing terror till the end. Just amazing.
I've been a Who fanatic for almost 30 years, and my vision of outstanding live rock has been defined by Live at Leeds for almost as long. So it's no wonder I feel most at home on a P-bass!
I guess my avatar says it all. By happenstance, my buddy and I flew to Vegas the day after John passed, and the photo is of the marquee outside the Vegas Hard Rock. They turned the venue into a memorial of sorts. It was quite a scene.
We both assumed the band would disappear, and I was a little upset when I learned they were continuing as The Who. Having seen them with Pino a couple of times, I've grown to accept it at some level, but it still isn't really The Who to me.
I guess my avatar says it all. By happenstance, my buddy and I flew to Vegas the day after John passed, and the photo is of the marquee outside the Vegas Hard Rock. They turned the venue into a memorial of sorts. It was quite a scene.
We both assumed the band would disappear, and I was a little upset when I learned they were continuing as The Who. Having seen them with Pino a couple of times, I've grown to accept it at some level, but it still isn't really The Who to me.
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Sadly I never got to see the Who or John live.
My favorite period was the Live at Leeds/Isle Of Wight era. The band jelled at it's best in my opinion in so many ways, musically, sonically and creative. I love the way they played the songs different than on the records, instead of like a lot of bands who try to recreate the recording so it's like watching the band act out the EXACT recording.
I think that period was both John, Keith & Pete's best sounds. Pete sounded the best to me with his SG and P90 pickups. That guitar screamed like a strat, but with the warmth of a Gibson. The LP period just was not the same for me.
Likewise with John. My favorite bass sounds he had were the P, T bird & Fenderbird basses. In my opinion, when we went active with Alembic/ Buzzard, etc his bass sounded artificial & sterile. It lost all its natural sound and warmth. By the end his Buzzard sounded so terrible to me, it's so artificial sounding. He was still a bass playing terror till the end. Just amazing.
i am actually looking to get a pedal that will allow me to create the sounds of Live At Leeds. those tones are what a bass should sound like when it doesnt have effects on it, even when it does, it should sound like that, because those are THE best tones for rock music.
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i think that the band shouldnt have gone out as the Who, i think they could have done it better by going out as Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend playing the music of the Who. that would give the media some time to calm down, but hey, isnt it press that makes the people come to concerts?
Just split your signal into two amps, other clean and other slightly distorted. Better still if you have two Hiwatt valve heads and cabs and a P-Bass.
