JOHN ENTWISTLE
Name: John Entwistle
Birth name: John Alec Entwistle
Also known as The Ox, Thunderfingers
Born: 9 October 1944 Chiswick, London, England
Died: 27 June 2002 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 - June 27, 2002) was an English bass
guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass
guitarist for the rock band The Who. He is regarded as one of the greatest and
most influential rock bassists of all time, creating an aggressive lead
sound that helped influence contemporary and later bassists such as Steve Harris,
Lemmy, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, Phil Lesh, Noel Redding, Billy Sheehan, Chris
Squire, Duff McKagan, Markus Grosskopf, Mike Watt, Peter Hook and Krist
Novoselic.
Entwistle helped uncover the potential of the bass guitar as a lead instrument,
using aggressive pentatonic lead lines, and a trebly sound virtually unheard of
in the early 1960s. He pioneered the use of roundwound steel bass strings, made
to his personal specifications by RotoSound. His search for a sound to cut
through The Who's sonic onslaught led him to experiment with more and different
basses, leading him to amass a collection of over 200 instruments by the time of
his death. His search for the perfect sound led him to experiment most notably
with Fender and Rickenbacker basses in the 1960s, Alembic's basses in the 1970s,
Warwick in the 1980s, and Status all-graphite basses in the 1990s.
Name: John Entwistle
Birth name: John Alec Entwistle
Also known as The Ox, Thunderfingers
Born: 9 October 1944 Chiswick, London, England
Died: 27 June 2002 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 - June 27, 2002) was an English bass
guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass
guitarist for the rock band The Who. He is regarded as one of the greatest and
most influential rock bassists of all time, creating an aggressive lead
sound that helped influence contemporary and later bassists such as Steve Harris,
Lemmy, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, Phil Lesh, Noel Redding, Billy Sheehan, Chris
Squire, Duff McKagan, Markus Grosskopf, Mike Watt, Peter Hook and Krist
Novoselic.
Entwistle helped uncover the potential of the bass guitar as a lead instrument,
using aggressive pentatonic lead lines, and a trebly sound virtually unheard of
in the early 1960s. He pioneered the use of roundwound steel bass strings, made
to his personal specifications by RotoSound. His search for a sound to cut
through The Who's sonic onslaught led him to experiment with more and different
basses, leading him to amass a collection of over 200 instruments by the time of
his death. His search for the perfect sound led him to experiment most notably
with Fender and Rickenbacker basses in the 1960s, Alembic's basses in the 1970s,
Warwick in the 1980s, and Status all-graphite basses in the 1990s.