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senmen
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Username: senmen

Post Number: 294
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 7:40 am:   Edit Post

Hi Guys,
I have discovered this rare shot:
John onstage with his Spyder 8 and Pete
Townshend also playing Alembic.....

Oliver (Spyderman)
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 452
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 8:29 am:   Edit Post

Now that's something I haven't seen.
Thanks Oliver

Sam
senmen
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Username: senmen

Post Number: 295
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 8:32 am:   Edit Post

Me also not yet.
I am still wondering if it is a guitar
or a bass that Pete is playing....

Oliver (Spyderman)
bsee
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Username: bsee

Post Number: 89
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 8:39 am:   Edit Post

Well, I have no knowledge of this, but two things suggest that it might be a bass. Roger seems to be looking at Pete like he's nuts, and the scale length of Pete's intrument seems to match John's.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 1701
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 10:50 am:   Edit Post

Cool shot! It looks like Pete is playing John's Zebrawood Series I.
senmen
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Username: senmen

Post Number: 296
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 11:50 am:   Edit Post

Mica, Bob, guys,
yes I also think that it is a bass. I am really wondering what song they played.....
Mica, as for your suggestion:
I think this photo was taken in the early eighties,so it could either be the Zebrawood from 1974 or another series I John owned with a birdseye maple top which was auctioned also at Sotheby´s, but earlier on April 7th, 1988.

Oliver (Spyderman)
kungfusheriff
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Username: kungfusheriff

Post Number: 94
Registered: 8-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 2:13 pm:   Edit Post

The Who does Spinal Tap!
effclef
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Username: effclef

Post Number: 174
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 3:11 pm:   Edit Post

KFS - not to morph this thread too badly into something else, but Harry Shearer, who plays Montgomery Burns in THE SIMPSONS, and was also in This Is Spinal Tap, apparently really IS a bass player. I saw the amazing interview of the Simpsons cast in Inside the Actors' Studio where he said he played bass. Here's a shot of him in the movie A Mighty Wind:

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0310281/Ss/0310281/249.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Shearer,%20Harry

I wonder if he's ever played an Alembic?

Now back to the regularly scheduled Entwistle program.

EffClef
slugbass
Junior
Username: slugbass

Post Number: 31
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Thursday, May 27, 2004 - 3:21 pm:   Edit Post

Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest are all excellent musicians. Besides writing and performing all the miusic for "Spinal Tap", they also wrote the music for "Waiting For Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind". Shearer's wife is a musician of some note (although her name escapes me at the moment), and I know he's sat in with her playing bass. She was in Chicago less than a year ago, and I know he played bass with her on that show.
senmen
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Username: senmen

Post Number: 299
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 12:30 am:   Edit Post

Guys,
I will get a photoprint of this particular photo soon. I hope it will be a little bit clearer so that I can identify the bass....

Oliver (Spyderman)
bracheen
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Username: bracheen

Post Number: 456
Registered: 11-2003
Posted on Friday, May 28, 2004 - 2:57 am:   Edit Post

That would be great Oliver. I'd like it if it turns out to be the zebrawood. That is my wood of choice.
I notice that John doesn't look to worried about his job.

Sam
senmen
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Username: senmen

Post Number: 309
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 2:41 am:   Edit Post

Guys,
I just received the original photos. Still a bit blurry but you can clearly see that the bass played by Pete is definetely Johns zebrawood Alembic.

Oliver (Spyderman)
stoney
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Username: stoney

Post Number: 287
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - 9:51 am:   Edit Post

Of course Pete's playing a bass (and Roger's having a good laugh at him) They are most likely performing "Trick of the Light". The Quadropheniacs (my old Who Tribute band) used to do 'Trick' that way.

stoney
ox_junior
Intermediate Member
Username: ox_junior

Post Number: 188
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Friday, October 22, 2004 - 7:04 pm:   Edit Post

Have to concur with the "Trick of the Light" theory. Looks period-correct.

What I'm not understanding is those stupid boots on John. Fashion-forward or just being outrageous?

What a nutty guy, that Johnny Twinkle.
stoney
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Username: stoney

Post Number: 338
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:35 am:   Edit Post

Those are riding boots Mike....to be used after the show, I'm sure ;)
dgcarbu
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Username: dgcarbu

Post Number: 58
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 - 6:00 pm:   Edit Post

John was just being his cool self and doing his thing.
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 157
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Saturday, April 09, 2005 - 11:00 am:   Edit Post

I've come across a rather excellent Who site that has these pages about Johns gear. http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear.html Check out the 1974 page for some fantastic alembics

graeme

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