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it completely ruined my day, this news- I couldn't concentrate on anything or 
eat properly even. first david o'leary and now this. 
mr luongo, the drummer from his other band, is quite right to claim 
hendrix-like stature for entwhistle's influence on rock bass-playing, though 
I came to this opinion quite late myself after years of being drawn to the 
work of bruce, squire, lee, pappalardi et al. I perhaps felt his influence 
most keenly while listening to the multi-track of "won't get fooled again" at 
townshend's studio in twickenham (then the home of the cocteau-'tron; 
passim), when I noticed he was slightly outreaching himself, muffing some of 
the more ambitious runs, in a way all-too-familiar to me, but doing enough 
solid timekeeping to allow moon to cut loose; I'm not good enough to even 
aspire to this. 

he did as much as mccartney and bruce, maybe more, to elevate the status of 
the bass guitar, to make it into something that people actually *wanted* to 
play (mccartney didn't, lest we forget, start out as the beatles' bassist). 
the first real rock bassist. one louder? ten louder.

the heck with glastonbury. "live at leeds".

duncan/400nr1098 and eight basses. and some spiders.