Author Topic: Entwistle's Alembic beginnings (Read 402 times)

garethnh · « **Reply #45 on:** August 04, 2008, 03:02:23 PM »

You'd be surprised...Face Dances has some really, really good stuff on it, and of course contains JAE's typically fantastic bass lines. You Better You Bet, Cache Cache, You, Quiet One... all belters!

tomhug · « **Reply #46 on:** August 04, 2008, 04:36:15 PM »

Although clearly Who are You and Who by numbers are IMHO more potent and coherent offerings, Face Dances and It's Hard have a lot to offer, especially if you're interest is around JE's tone and playing. How can you do it alone? in particular has that unique Alembic/JE sparkle and drive.

You (on Face Dances) has some truly filthy (in a good way) Alembic tone.

JE, Emminence Front, and The Kids are Allright movie were largely the reasons I plunked down the small fortune (to me at the time anyway) for that used Series 1 way back in the 80's.

Tom

811952 · « **Reply #47 on:** August 04, 2008, 06:04:55 PM »

John's tone on The Kids are Allright is mostly responsible for me having 811952 built as well.

John

garethnh · « **Reply #48 on:** August 05, 2008, 06:49:45 AM »

Yep, I quite agree Tom. WBN and WAY are probably superior albums not only for the songs, but WBN especially is a master class in rock drumming (Keith was a bit lost by the time of WAY,unfortunately).'Dreaming From The Waist' has to be one of the greatest Who performances on vinyl and live ever. But as you rightly say, those last two Who albums aren't the 'albatrosses' many think they are. Jeramaya, if you can, get hold of the remixed 'Who By Numbers' there are cracking live versions of songs on there too.

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s_wood · « **Reply #49 on:** August 05, 2008, 08:03:42 AM »

If you are a fan of the Ox you absolutely MUST get a copy of the The Kids Are Alright Special Edition DVD. The Special Edition has a feature called Ox Cam which allows you to use select camera angles that at are focused on John. You can also isolate his audio track! By doing that, you can really get a sense of how wonderful and utterly unique his technique and overall concept were. No matter how great you think JE was, the OX cam will blow you away!

borisspyder · « **Reply #50 on:** August 05, 2008, 11:15:01 AM »

Entwistle had a lot of complaints about wandering necks...but I wonder if that was only with his Spyders and not with the older Series One that he used prior. I played the Entwistle instrument that sat for a dozen years in a case at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and while the instrument was filthy and the strings were toast the action was still insanely low and it played really well. No neck movement there.