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Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: senmen on May 27, 2004, 07:40:01 AM

Hi Guys,
I have discovered this rare shot:
John onstage with his Spyder 8 and Pete
Townshend also playing Alembic.....
 
Oliver (Spyderman)(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/10401.jpg)

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: bracheen on May 27, 2004, 08:29:43 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: senmen on May 27, 2004, 08:32:19 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: bsee on May 27, 2004, 08:39:28 AM

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.

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: mica on May 27, 2004, 10:50:17 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: senmen on May 27, 2004, 11:50:39 AM

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)

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: kungfusheriff on May 27, 2004, 02:13:05 PM

The Who does Spinal Tap!

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: effclef on May 27, 2004, 03:11:57 PM

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 (http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0310281/Ss/0310281/249.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Shearer%2C%20Harry)
 
I wonder if he's ever played an Alembic?
 
Now back to the regularly scheduled Entwistle program.
 
EffClef

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: slugbass on May 27, 2004, 03:21:35 PM

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.

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: senmen on May 28, 2004, 12:30:30 AM

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)

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: bracheen on May 28, 2004, 02:57:08 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: senmen on June 08, 2004, 02:41:26 AM

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)

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: stoney on June 16, 2004, 09:51:59 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: ox_junior on October 22, 2004, 07:04:23 PM

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.

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: stoney on October 26, 2004, 06:35:19 AM

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

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: dgcarbu on December 30, 2004, 06:00:56 PM

John was just being his cool self and doing his thing.  

Title: John Entwistle, a friend and two Alembics.....
Post by: jacko on April 09, 2005, 11:00:13 AM

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 (http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear.html)   Check out the 1974 page for some fantastic alembics
 
graeme