First gig of the new german WHO tribute: WHO ARE YOU

[ed_r]

YOu lose points for no drink bottles, no letter inlays and no groupies in those shots!;)

[zn_bassman]

Oliver,
 
Looks great! From experience, only JAE freaks remember the difference between his regular playing and the extra-outstanding stuff. We players tend to forget how incredible and unique his regular playing was.
 
Now that you've done it once, you'll be be able to open it up next time. In my 4 Who shows, I played best at the last one - but our guitarist broke strings in key places 3 times at that show (like during the big jam at the end of My Generation)!
 
Any sound files?
 
Zvi

[tbrannon]

That is the headstock to end all headstocks.....
 
I've seen it in pictures and seen them on stands, but when you see that bass in your hands and that massive V hanging out up there, it's impressive.   If the drummer gets out of line, you can just impale him!!
 
Great photos.  looks like you had a great time and it looks like it got a bit warm in there too!!

[mpisanek]

When are you guys doing the UK Tour!!!!??

[speicky]

Ed: sorry to correct you, but the only reason Oliver should loose points is the missing bottle. There were lots of groupies around of course, most of them showing off their letter-inlayed bellies. Actually, that was the small talk after the show :-) But no photos here in this public forum, of course !
 
Zvi: I also did a small movie clip with my digital camera which features Oliver thunderfingering his solo in 5:15. Three reasons why I do not post it:
 
I cannot, I'm sure the system will not allow to upload 30MB.
I don't like to, because the sound quality is quite poor
I've got other plans, it's getting close to Xmas, and I wanna be the first one issuing the ultimate WHO-ARE-YOU-first-gig-bootleg and make tons of solid gold on ebay :-)
 
Christian

[senmen]

Christian, I really would like to see it. Maybe you could burn it for us on CD-R? This would be great. Many thanks for the "Thunderfingers", but it was only a small part of it.... BTW here is the spectacular and historic photo (sorry for the bad quality - many thanks to Johannes for this historical important picture) where our singer does the "roll-back". I was awaiting that our guitarist would come across the stage sliding on his knees like Pete did. But I didn?t expect our singer rolling back... The other one is me soloing during THE REAL ME. Bad quality also but I like it...... BTW, next time, promised, the two bottles and maybe a big spider necklace around my neck....  Oliver (Spyderman)

 

  (Message edited by davehouck on November 14, 2005)

[811952]

Oliver,
 
Great stuff!
 
John

[ed_r]

Very cool, Oliver.
And don't worry about losing points- you've got plenty to spare;)

[speicky]

Hi, Oliver and everybody,
 
great response (just what I expected from this great community).
 
Oliver, I burned all the acceptable photos and two vids on a CD-R, your wish is my command. I'll send it by German mail, so you should have that on Friday next week :-)
 
Anyway, here's a sneak preview:

 
I am wondering, just if you put your ear close enough to the computer... but I may be on the wrong track.
 
Have a good night everybody,
 
Christian (the faker)

[David Houck]

Congrats on the gig!!

[zn_bassman]

As long as we're on the subject of Entwistle, here's a piece of news via a friend of mine (edited ever so slightly):
 
An Ox's Tale, a 90-minute documentary on John's life and music, has  
been in production for many months and is nearing a release. The  
producers have decided to select a few choice clips for your viewing  
pleasure.
WARNING: adult language.
 
http://www.johnentwistle.com/MPEG/OxTale.mpg
 
Appearing in this clip are bits from a  
*3.5-hour* interview Pete did with Steve Luongo - John's longtime friend and drummer in the John Entwistle Band - specifically about his (Pete's) memories of John.    
Pete told Luongo that he (Pete) would never need to do another retrospective of his memories of John, as he said it all in this interview.

[David Houck]

Thanks Zvi; that was pretty cool!

[kmh364]

Yes, my sentiments exactly! Very nice..Thanks Zvi!
 
Congrats on the successful gig Oliver! We need more pix, sound bytes, MPEG's, etc., LOL!
 
What happened to the LED's? Bad batteries? Loose connection(s)?

[senmen]

Christan,
many thanks for this great news. I am waiting eagerly.
Zvi, yes I knew about the John documentary. There was also a documentary on John on BBC maybe two months ago. This is also great.
Kevin, more to come soon, promise. As for the 8string LED?s, don?t know. The batteries are ok and at the moment they are working again without any problem.
All in all I have to say that the resonance to our first gig is overwhelming. Not only here on the forum but we get so many inquiries to play here in local clubs as well as in a famous club in Cologne. Seems that our gig was good....  :-)
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

[senmen]

Christian,
many thanks for the CD. It arrived today. The two short video clips are great. The overall sound is bad of course, but I was really amazed about my bass sound. I hadn?t expect this to be so close to Johns classic Alembic sound.....
I really had thought that it would be much bassier. I am positively amazed..... :-)
Well guys, I really would like to share these short sequences with you but I don?t know where to put them due to their big size, each approx. 15mb.
 
Oliver (Spyderman)