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Aussie Mark

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The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« on: January 08, 2012, 04:09:30 PM »
The wife and I are going to see Roger Daltrey perform the Tommy album in full in a couple of months (no other Who members in the band, but pete's son is playing guitar),so we watched Tommy last night on DVD for the first time in a few years.  Because I've seen the movie so many times over the years (including at the cinema as a 15yo when it was first released), this time I focussed on the music rather than the visuals (apart from Ann-Margret's rack of course) and took notice of the basses John was playing - a triple pickup Flying V, a Thunderbird neck and pups on a sickle shaped body, and an EB-1 played upright on it's stand.
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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2012, 03:05:45 AM »
Yeah, he uses great basses there. The 'sickle'-bas is 'reissued' by someone.

If you take a look in some books you can see Entwistle with not one but two of those basses. One with a Fender headstock and one with a Gibson headstock. I guess it are different basses, but you never know.

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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2012, 08:05:20 AM »

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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2012, 02:39:09 PM »
^^^^
Nope, that wasn't what he was playing in the movie.  The "sickle" was a full on sickle with Tbird pups and neck.
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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2012, 02:54:03 PM »
Found a crappy screen grab via Google ....





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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2012, 02:57:02 PM »
Blehh.....
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Re: The Ox's basses in the Tommy movie
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2012, 03:33:13 PM »
I think they are Peter Cook creations...
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