Watch and listen to John Entwistle's isolated bass on 'Won't Get Fooled Again'

By editorial board on June 30, 2022

The Who's John Entwistle died 20 years ago. Listen to this thunderous example of his talent

Below, check out some extraordinary footage of Entwistle's isolated bass track from the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again," as performed May 25, 1978, at the U.K.'s Shepperton Studios. (Guitarworld)

Entwistle, who is standing in front of a wall of Sunn cabinets, is playing his Alembic Spyder bass (Dean makes a limited-run version of this bass, the USA John Entwistle Spider).

The performance is from a mini-concert set up by the band for use in The Kids Are Alright, their career-spanning 1979 documentary. It turned out to be the last performance, ever, by the original lineup of the band. Drummer Keith Moon, who is noticeably bloated in the multi-camera, full-band version of the performance below (bottom video), died just a few months later, on September 7, 1978, at age 31 after mixing the alcohol-withdrawal drug Clomethiazole with alcohol.

The Who song that John Entwistle "hated playing"

John Entwistle wasn’t much for aggression. His thunderous bass playing obviously spoke for itself, but it also belied a relatively taciturn and quiet personality.

Entwistle never had any inflammatory statements regarding any Who songs. All except for one: Entwistle claimed that he never liked playing ‘Magic Bus’ live.

“I really hated playing ‘Magic Bus’,” Entwistle claims in the interview segments for the box set compilation Thirty Years of Maximum R&B Live. “‘Magic Bus’ was sometimes, like, eight minutes of A,” he added. Entwistle even claims that there are some recordings where he nearly falls asleep playing the song.

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