Artist: JOHN ENTWISTLE [THE WHO]
Album: ANTHOLOGY (DIGI)

Release date: 1996/ 2006
Media type: CD

Entwistle's first solo album, Smash Your Head Against the Wall (1971) was, in many ways, a lost Who album, recorded the way the bassist would've handled the group. His next album, Whistle Rhymes (1972), released the same week as Pete Townshend's Who Came First, was a rather more uneven album. Nine months later, Entwistle's third solo album, Rigor Mortis Sets In (1973), was released, to indifferent sales and critical response. It was nine years before another Entwistle solo album, Too Late the Hero, would appear. By that time, the Who had long passed their prime (Moon had died in 1978, and the group was in the midst of an awkward reassessment), but the record still managed to peak at number 71 in America. The band was to have retired following its farewell tour in 1982, but Entwistle's financial problems, coupled with the seeming demand for a reunion, led to another tour in 1989, which set the bandmembers up well financially but was a critical disaster.

In 1996, a never-released Entwistle album from the mid-1980s titled Rock appeared on the Griffin label; a year before, Entwistle had begun putting together a backing unit with producer Steve Luongo. Christened simply the John Entwistle Band, the outfit featured guitarist Godfrey Townsend and keyboardist Gordon Cotton, with vocal chores divided between all the members. This group issued Left for Live in 1999. In late June 2002, the Who had regrouped and were about to kick off a North American tour when John Entwistle died at the age of 57 in Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel.

TRACKLIST:

01 My Size 3:42
02 What Are We Doing Here? 3:48
03 I Believe in Everything 3:03
04 Ten Little Friends 4:03
05 Apron Strings 3:41
06 I Feel Better 4:40
07 I Wonder 2:54
08 The Window Shopper 3:24
09 My Wife 3:16
10 Roller Skate Kate 3:38
11 Pet Leg Peggy 3:41
12 Made in Japan 3:46
13 Drowning 4:35
14 Mad Dog 5:23
15 Fallen Angel 4:39
16 Dancing Master 4:21
17 Too Late the Hero 7:18
18 Red Red Robin 1:08

LINE-UP:

John Entwistle Synthesizer, Trombone, Trumpet, Piano, Bass, Bass Baritone, Cover Photo, 8-String Bass, Soloist, Cover Art Concept, Main Performer, Producer, Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar (Bass), Flugelhorn

Eddie Jobson Piano
Peter Frampton Guitar
Joe Walsh Synthesizer, Guitar
John Weider Violin
Jimmy McCulloch Guitar (Electric)
Billy Nichols Vocals (Background)
Jim Ryan Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Jerry Shirley Drums
Bryan Williams Piano, Trombone
Cy Langston Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Graham Deakin Percussion, Drums
Jim "Shaft" Ryan Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Jon Astley Mastering
Alan Ross Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Vocals (Background)
Joe Vitale Flute, Drums, Piano, Percussion
Tony Ashton Organ, Piano
Gordon Barton Drums
Howie Casey Sax (Tenor)
Doreen Chanter Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Irene Chanter Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Juanita "Honey" Franklin Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Gary Grainger Guitar (Acoustic)
Nashville Katz Strings LadybiRdS Vocals (Background)