POX: John Entwistle moments

2. Skeet shooting with gold records in The Kids Are Alright

3. "Trick Of The Light" (I blew out a set of speakers to this song)

4. (from a 1989 interview in Musician magazine)

MUSICIAN: Care to share a fond memory of a concert before your book comes out?

ENTWISTLE: I very rarely lose my temper. I let things bottle up and then something small or silly will be the last straw and I'll blow my top and everyone will run away and hide. Roger had been yelling at me all tour in 1974 to turn down. So I'd turn down and I'd be quite happy playing like that. And then Pete would scream from the other side of the stage, "I can't hear you! Turn up!" So I'd turn up, thinking, "What the fuck is this." For three weeks Roger would yell at me to turn down, and four seconds later Pete would yell at me to turn up. Finally we were in Houston, Texas, and Roger screamed in the microphone, "TURN DOWN!"

I thought, "I don't mind you screaming at me to turn down, but I don't need you to scream at me in front of the bloody audience." So I smashed the head off the bass, threw it in front of him and said, "You play the fuckin' thing!" He just stood there, with the song halfway through. I walked to the back of the amplifiers and they'd taken the fuckin' stairs away. I was in a bad enough temper that I jumped off the back of the stage. And it was 12 feet high. It felt like my spine came out the top of my head. But it was Chinese water torture out there: "TURN DOWN!" "TURN UP!"

5. Any song in which he plays a french horn solo (especially "Pictures Of Lily")

6. "The Real Me"

7. (also from the 1989 interview)

MUSICIAN: You agree with Pete's assessment that Keith was basically sad?

ENTWISTLE: Yeah, I did a drawing of Keith from a photograph once. I was just trying to transfer the photograph but somehow in the process I changed his eyes, so now I've got this portrait of Keith and when you look in his eyes, they're almosts in tears. Really weird. I've only just hung it up in my house, because I couldn't face looking at it.

8. First one to stack together Marshall amplifiers.

9. Townshend might be more famous for the Union Jack jacket, but Entwistle wears it first on the cover of My Generation

10. Entwistle's quote after touring on one of those Ringo Starr ensemble tours in the mid 90s. "I have the dubious pleasure of knowing that I have performed 'Yellow Submarine' more times than Paul McCartney."

god, i know how he feels

my answer: "Boris the spider"

I don't have much more to add, Elvis. But I thank you for this thread; I loved those interview excerpts! I actually just listened to "Bargain" again because of that other thread, and man, his performance on there is so great. It's funny because it's so high in the mix too; it's nice that, despite the onstage anecdotes relayed above, this was one band that treated its bassist with respect. I guess maybe it was only Daltrey that had the problem; obviously it was Pete's band, and he wanted John UP THERE.

Without Entwistle there's definitely no Chris Squire, I can tell you that much.

Also "My Wife" rules too.

This probably doesn't count as a moment, but his explanation that he taught himself to play with his ring and pinky fingers so that he could still be a bassist if he lost the first two in an accident.

The first appearance of the skeleton suit.

OX CAM!

cello cello cello..etc.. (rock n roll circus)

That Ox cam is fucking awesome.

iirc, those gold records he skeet shoots in The Kids Are Alright were for his playing on a Roger Daltry solo album.

90 minute documentary "An Ox's Tale" streaming online...

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/john_entwistle_an_oxs_tale/

"I have the dubious pleasure of knowing that I have performed 'Yellow Submarine' more times than Paul McCartney."

Awesome. And I still feel that way about Ox-Cam.

The live "My Wife" on the Who box set, I believe from Swansea '74, has to be heard to be believed. This guy was a fucking classic.

Spelling the album title "Smash your head against the wall." with a period.

Also the album cover is awesome

http://cdn1.ioffer.com/img/item/106/448/323/YKbf2ADKqVRZGJa.jpg

The manner of his death seemed like a fine way to go, also