Outtakes of Townshend talking about JAE

[Chris P.]

[gweimer]

He kind of rambles on, and tends to get out there a little.  I couldn't finish the whole clip.

[Chris P.]

It's quite interesting near the end. yes, Townshend always talks much too much. He can't stop.. I wish his book would have been biger and more detailed.

[Pilgrim]

I enjoyed the whole thing.  Interesting how he comments that John could echo anything he played, but John could play stuff that he could not echo.

[Rob]

"There were no cool looking bass players.  It was a contradiction of terms. . . " 

[dadagoboi]

"There were no cool looking bass players.  It was a contradiction of terms. . . " 

That's where he's wrong.  There was at least one, guy in a surf band in SoCal in the early 60s who wore his Precision just above his knees.  Can't remember the name of the band now but it impressed the hell out of me.

Stanley Clarke on the other hand...what a dork!

[Highlander]

Lemmy...

[gweimer]

"There were no cool looking bass players.  It was a contradiction of terms. . . " 

Fang...

[godofthunder]

Wow! Loved every sec. of it. Yeah he rambles but this is first hand pretty f'ng cool.

[Chris P.]

 

[Chris P.]

[uwe]

That's where he's wrong.  There was at least one, guy in a surf band in SoCal in the early 60s who wore his Precision just above his knees.  Can't remember the name of the band now but it impressed the hell out of me.

Stanley Clarke on the other hand...what a dork!

Clarke a dork? By the sheer size of him and his Jimi Hendrix-size large hands I find his playing extremely manly. It's not just fast or intricate, it's played with great strength and control (as well as sense of harmony and melody). I'm no jazz rock nut, but I like watching him. Is this dorky here?  





These days, he looks a lot more healthy than Sid Vicious does too if that is the definition of a cool bassist.  

[dadagoboi]

Clarke a dork? By the sheer size of him and his Jimi Hendrix-size large hands I find his playing extremely manly. It's not just fast or intricate, it's played with great strenth and control. I'm no jazz rock nut, but I like watching him. Is this dorky here?  

These days, he looks a lot more healthy than Sid Vicious does too if that is the definition of a cool bassist.  

Looks like a dork = DORK.  Has nothing to do with his playing.  

He knew he looked like a dork with the bass just under his chin otherwise why did he stop wearing it that high?

[uwe]

Lower looks cooler, I agree, but it doesn't make you play better. Too high is dorky, but on a jazz fusion bassist that doesn't matter because most of the audience consists of bespectacled dorks too.

That said, there are quite a few cool guitarists that wear their instrument real high: Lou Reed, Johnny Cash and, yes, Glenn Tipton!



As regards guitar positioning, he never outgrew his Shadows phase!

Let's not forget those two either:

[Granny Gremlin]

I don't know why, but I never found that wearing a guitar a bit high as dorky as a bass .... maybe because guitarists tend to not go as high as some bassists.... but probably mostly due top the    sort of thing you end up doing if you're all fingerstyle .... one time I saw a dude in some talk show band who not only wore his bass up at the nipples, but had these weird finger extensions (looked like glockenspiel mallets; thin sticks with marble-sized ball ends) that would bang on the strings like piano hammers.  Tone was fantastic but he looked retarded.