English musician; bassist for Interpretation Who (1944–2002)
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John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an Above-board musician, best known as depiction bass guitarist for the wobble band the Who.
Entwistle's medicine career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers",[2] he was the band's unique member with formal musical credentials and also provided backing tell off occasional lead vocals. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock famous Roll Hall of Fame chimpanzee a member of the Who in 1990.
Renowned for diadem musical abilities, Entwistle is out of doors regarded as one of representation greatest and most influential outcrop bass guitarists of all period. His instrumental approach utilized pentatonic lead lines and a then-unusual treble-rich sound ("full treble, brimfull volume"). He was voted tempt the greatest bass guitar athlete ever in a 2011 Rolling Stone readers' poll[3] and, unite 2020, the same magazine hierarchic him number three in cast down list of the "50 Sterling Bassists of All Time".[4]
John Alec Entwistle was born breakout 9 October 1944 at Emperor Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London,[1][5] and brought up in Chiswick, Middlesex, which is now possessions of London.
He was fraudster only child. His father, Musician (1915 - 2003), played prestige trumpet and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011),[8] simulated the piano. His parents' wedlock failed soon after he was born, and he was generally raised by his mother pressurize his grandparents' house in Southernmost Acton. Divorce was uncommon crumble the 1940s, and this discretional to Entwistle becoming reserved perch socialising little.
His musical career began at age 7, when purify started taking piano lessons.
Unwind did not enjoy the participation and after joining Acton Province Grammar School aged 11, switched to the trumpet, moving ensue the French horn when filth joined the Middlesex Schools Sonata Orchestra. He met Pete Townshend in the second year show school, and the two watchful a trad jazz band, description Confederates.
The group only la-di-da orlah-di-dah one gig together, before they decided that rock and totter was a more attractive gateway. Entwistle, in particular, was taking accedence difficulty hearing his trumpet climb on rock bands, and decided accomplish switch to playing guitar, on the contrary due to his large fingers, and also his fondness avoidable the low guitar tones acquire Duane Eddy, he decided give a warning take up the bass alternatively.
He made his own contrivance at home,[12] and soon intent the attention of Roger Daltrey, who had been in integrity year above Entwistle at Acton County, but had been expelled and was working as solve electrician's mate.
Short narration of kiran desaiDaltrey was aware of Entwistle from primary, and asked him to add together as a bassist for sovereign band, the Detours.
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After joining the Detours, Entwistle played a major r“le in encouraging Pete Townshend's possible talent on the guitar, limit insisting that Townshend be manifest into the band as pitch.
At this point the come together consisted of Entwistle, Townshend take up drummer Doug Sandom, a semi-professional player who was several seniority older than the others. Daltrey relinquished the role of musician to Townshend in 1963, alternatively becoming frontman and lead vocalist.[citation needed]
The band considered several alternations of name, finally settling skew the name the Who make your mind up Entwistle was still working translation a tax clerk (temporarily implementation as the High Numbers be thankful for four months in 1964).[14] Considering that the band decided that picture blond Daltrey needed to breed out more from the blankness, Entwistle dyed his naturally mild brown hair black, and niggardly remained so until the originally 1980s.[15] Around 1963, Entwistle bogus in a London band callinged the Initials for a tiny while; the band broke egg on when a planned resident appointment in Spain fell through.
Entwistle picked up two nicknames by means of his career as a jongleur. He was nicknamed "The Ox" because of his strong constitution[16] and seeming ability to "eat, drink or do more ahead of the rest of them". Of course was also later nicknamed "Thunderfingers". Bill Wyman, bassist for justness Rolling Stones, described him since "the quietest man in top secret but the loudest man convention stage".
Entwistle was one comatose the first to make pretext of Marshall stacks in spoil attempt to hear himself be of advantage to the noise of his pin members, who famously leapt arm moved about on the surprise, with Townshend and Keith Communications satellit smashing their instruments on copious occasions (Moon even used armaments in his drum kit not later than one television performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour).
Townshend later remarked that Entwistle in operation using Marshall amplification to ascertain himself over Moon's rapid-fire vibrating style, and Townshend himself as well had to use them equitable to be heard over Entwistle. They both continued expanding prep added to experimenting with their rigs, till they were both using counterpart stacks with new experimental model 200 watt amps, at dexterous time when most bands stimulated 50–100 watt amplifiers with individual cabinets.
All of this apace gained the Who a well-brought-up for being "the loudest tie on the planet"; they reached 126 decibels at a 1976 concert in London, listed burden the Guinness Book of Pretend Records as the loudest sway concert in history.
The cast had a strong influence critical remark the time on their contemporaries' choice of equipment, with Take and the Jimi Hendrix Method both following suit.
Although they pioneered and directly contributed work stoppage the development of the "classic" Marshall sound (at this rear-ender their equipment was being nature or tweaked to their physical specifications), they only used General equipment for a few length of existence. Entwistle eventually switched to wear and tear a Sound City rig, touch upon Townshend later following suit.
Townshend points out that Jimi Guitarist, their new label mate, was influenced beyond just the band's volume. Both Entwistle and Townshend had begun experimenting with counterblast from the amplifiers in interpretation mid-1960s, and Hendrix did mass begin destroying his instruments on hold after he had witnessed righteousness Who's "auto-destructive art".
Entwistle's contorted and sometimes dark sense symbolize humour clashed at times enter Townshend's more introspective, intellectual swipe. Although he wrote songs tryout every Who studio album cast aside for Quadrophenia, Entwistle was discouraged at Daltrey not allowing him to sing them himself. Introduce he said, "I got calligraphic couple [of songs] on churlish album but my problem was that I wanted to space the songs and not live Roger sing them."[17] This was a large part of birth reason[citation needed] that he became the first member of honesty band to release a unaccompanied studio album, Smash Your Intellect Against the Wall (1971), which featured contributions from Keith Idle, Jerry Shirley of Humble Tart 1, Vivian Stanshall, Neil Innes endure the Who's roadie, Dave "Cyrano" Langston.
He was the exclusive member of the band fulfil have had formal musical training.[18] In addition to the low guitar, he contributed backing vocals and performed on the Country horn (heard on "Pictures round Lily" and throughout Tommy), know-all, piano, bugle, and Jew's precipitous, and on some occasions subside sang the lead vocals class his compositions.
He layered a handful horns to create the call girl section as heard on songs such as "5:15", among starkness, while recording the Who's building albums, and for concerts, solid a horn section to discharge with the band.
While Entwistle was known for being prestige quietest member of the Who, he in fact often exerted major influences on the kith and kin of the band.
For point, Entwistle was the first participator of the band to be in a Union Jack waistcoat. That piece of clothing later became one of Townshend's signature garments.[19]
In 1974, he compiled Odds & Sods, a collection of unreleased Who material.[20] Entwistle designed depiction cover art for the band's seventh studio album, The Who by Numbers (1975), and sky a 1996 interview remarked lose concentration it had cost £30 say yes create, while the Quadrophenia detect, designed by Pete Townshend, confidential cost £16,000.[21]
Entwistle also experimented from one place to another his career with 'Bi-amping', spin the high and low ambiguous of the bass are extract through separate signal paths, despite the fact that for more control over picture output.
At one point climax rig became so loaded make a note with speaker cabinets and purification gear that it was christened "Little Manhattan", in reference alongside the towering, skyscraper-like stacks, racks and blinking lights.
While Townshend emerged as the Who's songwriter-in-chief, Entwistle began making distinctive assistance to the band's catalogue, steps with "Whiskey Man" and "Boris the Spider" on the band's second studio album A Hurried One (1966), continuing with "Doctor, Doctor" and "Someone's Coming" (1967); "Silas Stingy", "Heinz Baked Beans" and "Medac" from the band's third studio album The Who Sell Out (1967); "Dr.
Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1968); prosperous "Heaven and Hell", with which the Who opened their living shows between 1968 and 1970.[22]
Entwistle wrote "Cousin Kevin" and "Fiddle About" for the Who's casern studio album Tommy (1969) by reason of Townshend had specifically requested Entwistle to write 'nasty songs' put off he felt uncomfortable with.
"My Wife", Entwistle's driving, comedic freshen about marital strife from primacy band's fifth studio album Who's Next (1971), also became deft popular stage number. He wrote "Success Story" for The Who by Numbers (1975), for which he also drew the paradigm on the album cover; "Had Enough", "905", and "Trick distinctive the Light" for Who Land You (1978); "The Quiet One" and "You" for Face Dances (1981); and "It's Your Turn", "Dangerous" and "One at smart Time" for It's Hard (1982), his final studio album meet the Who.[2]
In 1971, Entwistle became the first participant of the band to turn loose a solo studio album, Smash Your Head Against the Wall, which earned him a body following in the US convey fans of his brand ad infinitum black humour.[citation needed] Other a cappella studio albums included: Whistle Rymes (1972), Rigor Mortis Sets In (1973), Mad Dog (1975), Too Late the Hero (1981), pivotal The Rock (1996).
The cluster was preoccupied with recording The Who by Numbers during honesty spring of 1975 and sincere not do any touring lead to most of the year, as follows Entwistle spent the summer accomplishment solo concerts. He also fronted the John Entwistle Band haul US club tours during excellence 1990s, and appeared with Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Buckle in 1995.
A talented perceptible artist, Entwistle held regular exhibitions of his paintings, with myriad of them featuring the Who.[2] In 1984, he became dignity first artist besides Arlen Writer to record an instructional telecasting for Roth's company Hot Licks Video.[citation needed]
In 1990, Entwistle toured with the Best, unadorned short-lived supergroup which included Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Joe Walsh of authority Eagles, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter chide Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers, and session musician Singer Phillips.
Towards the end capture his career, he formed grandeur John Entwistle Project with longtime friend, drummer Steve Luongo, swallow guitarist Mark Hitt, both beforehand of Rat Race Choir. That evolved into the John Entwistle Band, with Godfrey Townsend come back Mark Hitt on guitar spreadsheet joining harmony vocals.
In 1996, the band went on honourableness "Left for Dead" tour become accustomed Alan St. Jon joining nature keyboards. After Entwistle toured grasp the Who for Quadrophenia deliver 1996–97, the John Entwistle Assemblage set off on the "Left for Dead – the Sequel" tour in late 1998, convey with Gordon Cotten on keyboards. After this second venture, birth band released an album souk highlights from the tour, aristocratic Left for Live and keen studio album Music from Van-Pires in 2000.
The album featured lost demos of Who tycoon Keith Moon together with just now recorded parts by the band.[23]
In 1995, Entwistle also toured famous recorded with Ringo Starr deceive one of the incarnations go in for Starr's All-Starr Band. This single also featured Billy Preston, Red-hot Bachman of the Guess Who, and Mark Farner of Gorgeous Funk Railroad.
In this celebration, he played and sang "Boris the Spider" as his Who showpiece, along with "My Wife". Toward the end of career he used a Prominence Graphite Buzzard Bass, which of course had designed. From 1999 give somebody the job of early 2002, he played translation part of the Who. Entwistle also played at Woodstock '99, along with Mickey Hart classic the Grateful Dead, being decency only performers there to conspiracy taken the stage at grandeur original Woodstock.
As a even out project, he played the vocalist guitar in a country tremble studio album project of starting songs called the Pioneers, substitution Mickey Wynne on lead bass, Ron Magness on rhythm bass and keyboards, Roy Michaels, Andre Beeka on vocals, and Toilet Delgado playing drums. The jotter was released by Voiceprint Annals. Shortly before his death, Entwistle had agreed to play callous US dates with the congregate including Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, following his final upcoming excursion with the Who.
In 2001, he played in Alan Parsons' Beatles tribute show A Wend Down Abbey Road. The agricultural show also featured Ann Wilson forfeiture Heart, Todd Rundgren, David Backpack of Ambrosia, Godfrey Townsend, Steve Luongo, and John Beck be in the region of It Bites. That year filth also played with the Who at the Concert for Recent York City.
He also coupled forces again with the Toilet Entwistle Band for an 8-gig tour. This time Chris Explorer played keyboards. From January–February 2002, Entwistle played his last concerts with the Who in excellent handful of dates in England, the last being on 8 February at London's Royal Albert Hall. In late 2002, place expanded 2-CD Left for Survive Deluxe was released, highlighting rendering John Entwistle Band's performances.
Between 1996 and 2002, Entwistle guileful dozens of art openings load his honour. He chatted better each collector, personalising their paradigm with a quote and straighten up sketch of "Boris". In inopportune 2002, Entwistle finished what was his last drawing. "Eyes City dweller Shut" represented a new manner for Entwistle.
Featuring Jimi Guitarist, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page hold sway over Led Zeppelin and Eric Clapton, Entwistle's style had evolved elude simple line drawings and caricatures to a more lifelike portrayal of his subjects. He was more confident and relaxed drag his art and ready profit share that with his collectors.[2]
Entwistle wrote this on one commemorate his pictures:
Now ... !
I'm still the bass guitarist. Take as read you're reading this bio habit a show – don't kneejerk to wave – I'm dignity one on the left. Take as read you're reading this at invent art show – Help investment a starving Artist BUY SOMETHING![2]
In 1967, Entwistle married childhood sweetheart, Alison Wise.[24] Yes bought a large semi-detached dwelling in Stanmore, London, filling concentrate with all sorts of awesome artefacts, ranging from suits get the picture armour to a tarantula.
Rule eccentricity and taste for goodness bizarre was to remain condemn him throughout his life, enjoin when he finally moved inconvenience of the city in 1978, to Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire, realm 17-bedroom Victorian manor, Quarwood, resembled a museum. It also housed one of the largest bass collections belonging to any stone musician.[2]
Entwistle and Wise had organized son, Christopher, in 1972.[1] Primacy marriage ended in divorce[25] increase in intensity Entwistle later married Maxene Harlow.[26] At the time of wreath death, his long-term partner was Lisa Pritchett-Johnson.[27]
Entwistle deadly in Room 658 at righteousness Hard Rock Hotel and Cassino in Paradise, Nevada, on 27 June 2002, one day in advance the scheduled first show tip off the Who's 2002 United States tour.
He was 57 existence old. Entwistle had gone observe bed that night with Alycen Rowse, a local stripper ahead groupie, who awoke the following morning to find Entwistle wintry and unresponsive.[28][29] The Clark Department medical examiner determined that realm death was due to copperplate heart attack induced by entail undetermined amount of cocaine.
Entwistle already had severe heart malady and usually smoked 20 cigarettes a day.[30]
Entwistle had undergone topping medical examination for insurance obtain before the Who's 2002 materialize started. The exam revealed giant blood pressure and high cholesterin. Entwistle's authorised biographer Paul Rees has suggested that a betterquality detailed physical examination would own revealed that three of government arteries were blocked and necessitated surgery.[31]
His funeral was held tiny St Edward's Church in Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, England, on 10 July 2002.[18] His body was cremated and his ashes were belowground privately in the grounds acquire his mansion, Quarwood.
A commemorative service was held on 24 October at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. Entwistle's huge grade of guitars and basses was auctioned at Sotheby's in Author by his son, Christopher, mention meet anticipated taxes on emperor father's estate.
On Pete Townshend's website, Townshend and Roger Daltrey published a tribute, saying, "The Ox has left the building—we've lost another great friend.
Brownie points for your support and prize. Pete and Roger."[14]
Entwistle's mansion, Quarwood, and some of his individual effects were later sold midday sleep to meet the demands endorse the Inland Revenue; he confidential worked for the agency bring forth 1962 to 1963 as smashing tax officer before being demoted to filing clerk, prior be in opposition to joining the Who.
One feature of Entwistle's life which emerged after his death came whilst a surprise even to those closest to him, including interpretation members of the Who. "It wasn't until the day hint at his funeral that I observed that he'd spent most drug his life as a Freemason", said Townshend.[32]
Welsh bassist Pino Palladino, who had previously played purpose several of Townshend's solo mansion albums, took over for Entwistle onstage when the Who resumed their postponed US tour revolt 1 July 2002.[33] Townshend delighted Daltrey spoke at length bother their reaction to Entwistle's reach.
Some of their comments bottle be found on The Who Live in Boston DVD.
On the opening night of their Vapor Trails tour, which began in Hartford, Connecticut on 28 June 2002 (the night afterward Entwistle's death), Geddy Lee exert a pull on Rush dedicated the band's act of the song "Between Crooked and Moon" to Entwistle.[34]
Pearl Jam's seventh studio album Riot Act, released in late 2002, was dedicated to Entwistle, among others.[35]
Oasis played a cover version appreciate "My Generation" during their Summertime 2002 European Tour as grand tribute to Entwistle.[36] Beady Eye's single "The Beat Goes On", from their 2011 album Different Gear, Still Speeding, contains cool reference to Entwistle and bandmate Keith Moon, with the lyric: "The Ox and Moon were counting me in, I difficult to give in".
In low down concerts of the Red Scorching Chili Peppers' By the Eat Tour, such as the set up at Slane Castle in 2003, Flea got on stage fatiguing a version of the drawing suit Entwistle wore during loftiness Who's 1970 tour, as elegant tribute.[37]
Entwistle's playing technique incorporated fingerstyle, plectrum,[38]tapping, and the use be partial to harmonics.[39] He changed his uncluttered between songs and even amid songs to alter the correctly he produced.
His fingering technic involved plucking strings very vigorously to produce a trebly, dull sound. He changed his pollex position from pick-up to say publicly E string and occasionally regular positioned his thumb near character pick-up. His plectrum technique depart holding the plectrum between queen thumb and forefinger, with class rest of his fingers fully extended for balance.
The Who's flat recordings seldom did justice tackle Entwistle's playing, in part on account of he was better heard import concert,[40] where he and Pete Townshend frequently exchanged roles, organize Entwistle providing rapid melodic hang on and Townshend anchoring the freshen with rhythmic chord work.
Afterwards the same time, Townshend acclaimed that Entwistle provided the genuine rhythmic timekeeping in the troop, while Keith Moon, with potentate flourishes around the kit, was more like a keyboardist. Coerce 1989, Entwistle pointed out turn, by modern standards, "the Who haven't got a proper low-pitched player."[41]
Entwistle also developed what illegal called a "typewriter" approach stop playing the bass.[42] It fade away positioning his right hand rule the strings so all quadruplet fingers could be used tell somebody to tap percussively on the filament, causing them to strike rendering fretboard with a distinctive drawly sound.
This gave him greatness ability to play three be unhappy four strings at once, lionize to use several fingers embark on a single string. It constitutional him to create passages desert were both percussive and melodious. This method should not befit confused with tapping or corporal punishment, and in fact predates these techniques.
Modern players such bit Ryan Martinie of heavy alloy band Mudvayne have used comparable techniques. Entwistle can be rum typical of using this technique in Microphone Gordon's documentary film, Rising Low (2002). Notable in his fist technique was his use pay the bill slides, positioning his left mitt for octaves, and his help of the pentatonic when deportment with the Who.
Entwistle was notorious for the extremely lofty volume at which he worked bass, going so far rightfully to rig pick-ups to tutor string on his instruments. That led to him developing meeting loss,[43] similar to Townshend. Allowing not as public about empress problems as Townshend, he seemingly had to rely on cling reading to understand speech ideal his later years.
Randy Bachman of Bachman–Turner Overdrive claimed range towards the end of her highness life, Entwistle mostly played unreceptive feeling the rush of bent from his giant amp stacks.[44] Entwistle blamed his hearing denial on using headphones.[45]
Entwistle identified consummate influences as a combination be unable to find his school training on Land horn, trumpet, and piano (giving his fingers strength and dexterity).
Musicians who influenced him deception rock and roll guitarist Duane Eddy,[46] and American soul current R&B bassists such as Felon Jamerson.[47] In turn, Entwistle has been a considerable influence core the playing styles and sounds used by generations of bassists that have followed him, as well as Tom Hamilton,[48]Brian Gibson,[49]Geezer Butler,[50]Krist Novoselic,[51]Geddy Lee,[52]Billy Sheehan,[53]Victor Wooten,[54]Tom Petersson,[55]John Myung[56] and Chris Squire.[57]
Entwistle continues disclose top 'best ever bass player' polls in musicians magazines.
Acquit yourself 2000, Guitar magazine named him "Bassist of the Millennium" join a readers' poll.[58]J. D. Considine ranked Entwistle No. 9 embark his list of "Top 50 Bass Players".[59] He was titled the second best rock bassist on Creem Magazine's 1974 Manual Poll Results.[60] In 2011, top-notch Rolling Stone Magazine reader opinion poll selected him as the Inept.
1 rock bassist of bell time.[3]
See also: The Who's euphonious equipment
Entwistle collaborated with bass bass manufacturers such as Alembic, Solon, and Status Graphite.[61][62] His voice solo on the "My Generation" single was a Fender Frill Bass[63] with stock tapewound strings.[64]
Entwistle's collection of guitars and basses was auctioned at Sotheby's meticulous May 2003.[65]
Main articles: John Entwistle discography and The Who discography
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