| Author | Message | ||
| senmen
Advanced Member Username: senmen Post Number: 294 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hi Guys, I have discovered this rare shot: John onstage with his Spyder 8 and Pete Townshend also playing Alembic..... Oliver (Spyderman)  | ||
| bracheen
Senior Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 452 Registered: 11-2003 |
Now that's something I haven't seen. Thanks Oliver Sam | ||
| senmen
Advanced Member Username: senmen Post Number: 295 Registered: 7-2003 |
Me also not yet. I am still wondering if it is a guitar or a bass that Pete is playing.... Oliver (Spyderman) | ||
| bsee
Member Username: bsee Post Number: 89 Registered: 3-2004 |
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
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 1701 Registered: 6-2000 |
Cool shot! It looks like Pete is playing John's Zebrawood Series I. | ||
| senmen
Advanced Member Username: senmen Post Number: 296 Registered: 7-2003 |
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
Member Username: kungfusheriff Post Number: 94 Registered: 8-2003 |
The Who does Spinal Tap! | ||
| effclef
Intermediate Member Username: effclef Post Number: 174 Registered: 1-2004 |
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 |
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
Advanced Member Username: senmen Post Number: 299 Registered: 7-2003 |
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
Senior Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 456 Registered: 11-2003 |
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
Advanced Member Username: senmen Post Number: 309 Registered: 7-2003 |
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
Advanced Member Username: stoney Post Number: 287 Registered: 7-2002 |
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 |
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
Advanced Member Username: stoney Post Number: 338 Registered: 7-2002 |
Those are riding boots Mike....to be used after the show, I'm sure ;) | ||
| dgcarbu
Member Username: dgcarbu Post Number: 58 Registered: 6-2004 |
John was just being his cool self and doing his thing. | ||
| jacko
Intermediate Member Username: jacko Post Number: 157 Registered: 10-2002 |
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 |
