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Entwistle Resurrected for New Who
By Josh Grossberg
John Entwistle may be gone, but his playing will live on.
A bass line the late Who rocker recorded shortly before his death may be featured on the legendary British rockers' upcoming album.
Surviving members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, who elected to keep the Who going after the 57-year-old Entwistle died of a cocaine-fueled heart stoppage in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2002, are considering whether to use a rehearsal recording featuring one of Entwistle's famous bottom lines.
"You get an instinct for what their input would have been and I think Pete's musical ability will write a bass part that would be John's bass," Daltrey, 60, told Virgin Radio in an interview on Monday. "We've got a rehearsal tape of John playing one of the songs. We are thinking about using it on the album."
The long-anticipated studio album, the Who's first collection of new material in 22 years, is expected to hit stores later this year. After which, the newly retooled band will launch a world tour to support both the new album and the April 27 release of a 40th anniversary greatest hits compilation Then and Now: 1964-2004. That disc will also feature two new cuts, "Real Good Looking Boy" and "Old Red Wine."
Those latter tracks will feature veteran session musicians backing Daltrey and Townshend, including Townshend's longtime bassist, Pino Palladino, filling in for Entwistle.
"How can we carry on without John?" posited Daltrey. "What is extraordinary is when you get up there and there's two of us and there's Pino Palladino on bass, you can still hear John playing because the music is so structured."
The frontman says the sudden loss of "The Ox"--as Entwistle was known--just days before the band was to embark on a North American tour still is difficult for his Who mates to grasp.
"He will be missed," said the vocalist. "We were with John for 38 years and when you've been with someone that long it is an incredible connection."
But, just as they did when drummer Keith Moon (news) died of an accidental overdose in 1978, the Who will soldier on. Aside from the forthcoming releases, the band is scheduled to play concerts in London's Forum on March 22, 24 and 25, and perform a live version of the seminal rock opera Tommy March 29 at London's Royal Albert Hall as part of a series of benefit concerts for Britain's Teenage Cancer Trust.
The band will follow up with a headlining slot at Britain's Isle of Wight Festival on June 12.
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| glencar |
If only they had an old drumline from Moon left over... |
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| Joey |
" If only they had an old drumline from Moon left over..."
You make Joey giggle.
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| Nellcote |
Nothing like a good dose of Dead Man Rock! |
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| Joey |
" Nothing like a good dose of Dead Man Rock! "
..............another WHO Corpse !
Pete calls the band " WHO2 "
I like it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...........................................and YOU ?!?!?!?!
" Feeling Frisky Ronnie ! "
Jack !
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| Nellcote |
Where's The Music?
(insert Clara Peller's voice here) |
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| Joey |
" Where's The Music?
(insert Clara Peller's voice here) "
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| Nellcote |
Long departed Wendy's ad voice
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
My God Townsend, you are not that young not to recall that media giant! |
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| Some Guy |
Those cats still around? |
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