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Naturalust
I am a huge Who fan and have a good story to tell of John.
It was during a show in KC, Missouri back in 1980 at a venue called Kemper arena. I was just a young teenager but was working at the show and granted access to the band. John was the only one who seemed approachable and so I took the opportunity to ask him a few questions before the show, let him know I was a big fan of his song My Wife, etc. He listened with a real parental like sincerity and then grabbed me and told me to help him with a couple of things. I was kinda star struck and agreed, he threw me the keys to a rental van and asked me to go back to his hotel room and pick up something he had left behind. I'm thinking this is really cool, I just got my drivers license and I'm running errands for John Entwistle. I was on top of the world. I did as he asked and when I got the hotel room and opened the door, there was a few things I had not seen before in my innocence. Not to get into too much detail but they involved the same things he was up to at the time of his death. I grabbed his missing bag explaining to the girls in the room that I had the authority to do so, and hurried back to the venue. John was so appreciative he offered to put me to work for the rest of the tour. I unfortunately had to tell him that I had to return to school the next day and didn't thing my Dad would allow me to take a couple months off. He laughed and set me up on a road case on his side of the stage where I watched the first Who concert of my life as John's special guest. ON THE STAGE. Whoo Hoo! When they played My Wife John kinda looked and me with a smile and a wink, I thought it was all for me.
He was just so nice to me I never forgot it. I looked for him after the show but he was surrounded by many other fans and left pretty quickly. I quietly left after finishing up my other duties, thinking my ears will probably never quit ringing and maybe I will just run away and travel with this band, after I go home and ask my Dad. Never got that chance again but I will always remember the huge giant of a man who trusted this young long haired blond kid to access his personal life is such a way. I never looked in the bag.
Very sad when I heard of his death but he indeed went out with a flourish that reminded me so much of that night over 32 years ago. At least his amazing generosity allowed me to share the stage with the Who, something I cherish to this day. Thanks tatters for this post and tribute to a mountain of a man. peace
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One of the Who songs John wrote, but did not sing. He used to tell a story about how this track was supposed to be the A-side of the new Who single in 1978, but when DJs saw "Entwistle" on the label, they figured it had to be the B-side, so they flipped the record over and played the song that was supposed to be the B-side, Who Are You.
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Naturalust
I am a huge Who fan and have a good story to tell of John.
It was during a show in KC, Missouri back in 1980 at a venue called Kemper arena. I was just a young teenager but was working at the show and granted access to the band. John was the only one who seemed approachable and so I took the opportunity to ask him a few questions before the show, let him know I was a big fan of his song My Wife, etc. He listened with a real parental like sincerity and then grabbed me and told me to help him with a couple of things. I was kinda star struck and agreed, he threw me the keys to a rental van and asked me to go back to his hotel room and pick up something he had left behind. I'm thinking this is really cool, I just got my drivers license and I'm running errands for John Entwistle. I was on top of the world. I did as he asked and when I got the hotel room and opened the door, there was a few things I had not seen before in my innocence. Not to get into too much detail but they involved the same things he was up to at the time of his death. I grabbed his missing bag explaining to the girls in the room that I had the authority to do so, and hurried back to the venue. John was so appreciative he offered to put me to work for the rest of the tour. I unfortunately had to tell him that I had to return to school the next day and didn't thing my Dad would allow me to take a couple months off. He laughed and set me up on a road case on his side of the stage where I watched the first Who concert of my life as John's special guest. ON THE STAGE. Whoo Hoo! When they played My Wife John kinda looked and me with a smile and a wink, I thought it was all for me.
He was just so nice to me I never forgot it. I looked for him after the show but he was surrounded by many other fans and left pretty quickly. I quietly left after finishing up my other duties, thinking my ears will probably never quit ringing and maybe I will just run away and travel with this band, after I go home and ask my Dad. Never got that chance again but I will always remember the huge giant of a man who trusted this young long haired blond kid to access his personal life is such a way. I never looked in the bag.
Very sad when I heard of his death but he indeed went out with a flourish that reminded me so much of that night over 32 years ago. At least his amazing generosity allowed me to share the stage with the Who, something I cherish to this day. Thanks tatters for this post and tribute to a mountain of a man. peace
Holy crap, this is one of the coolest stories ever!
thanks for sharing.
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Had Enough (The Who song)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Had Enough" is a song written by The Who bassist John Entwistle, and featured on their eighth studio album, Who Are You. It was also released as a double A-sided single with "Who Are You", making it Entwistle's second single A-side, after "Postcard" from Odds & Sods in 1974. Despite this, "Had Enough" received far less radio airplay than "Who Are You", and was never performed live by the Who, although it featured in some of Entwistle's solo concerts. "Had Enough" was the second John Entwistle composition that had Roger Daltrey on vocals (after "Someone's Coming" from 1967), and unusually for a Who song, it features a full string orchestra, which was arranged by Ted Astley and were much to the annoyance of Daltrey, who reportedly headbutted producer Glyn Johns over it. Like "905", "Had Enough" was planned to feature on a rock opera in the process of being written by Entwistle, but was never finished. It was written a long time before work was started on Who Are You, and was shelved when Entwistle gave up on his project, but was handed over for the revived Lifehouse project. The lyrics describe the main character of the failed rock opera, 905, finally snapping under the pressure and stress of his life.
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Funny how Jimi Hendrix explains the LOUD phenonenom in his Dick Cavett interview. He says "we play loud because our music must be felt from the inside out". He also said many bands at that time didn't get this and just played LOUD to be really really heard. Ouch.