CRAZY BASS!! | The Real Me - The Who (Reaction) 

John Entwistle played both the bass & the horns on this. He was an incredible musician.

One of the greatest bassline and drum part ever in one song.

Rock music's greatest bass player, who just happened to be part of rocks greatest band. Nobody can top The Who. Completely original and unlike any other band before or since.

Entwistle overplayed on this as a kind of a joke first take. Of course they kept it because it's one of the best bass grooves ever.

Quite honestly one of the greatest bass lines in Rock , if not musical history.

Greatest Rock Band Ever

That "Crazy Bass" is a Rickenbacker assembled by my Mother Dorothy "Dotty" when she worked at Electro-Strings Rickenbacker Guitars in 1963-67. John Entwistle is considered by many as the Best Rock Bass Player Of All Time. She made four instruments for The Beatles and too many other groups to type here.

My 17 year old son is a bass player (electric and upright bass) and first time he heard this, his eyes were popping out of his head. Between people like Entwistle from The Who and Geddy Lee from Rush, he is learning that bass does not have to be rhythm only. It can be a lead....when the song allows for it. He also just started playing Abba songs as he is playing bass for his school's theater pit and that is another band where the bass lines steal the show.

The Who comes at you like a Category 5 Hurricane; get out of the way once it starts rolling. Good stuff, JMBOY - Thank You.

ALL the brass on this album was played by bassplayer John Entwistle.

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is an English musician. He is the co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.... YES HE IS

classic rock band. One of the BEST screamers in history, Roger Daltry. Amazing voice.

I agree, the bass line and the drums are what drive this song. I like how you worked the thematic stuff in with the music. Good reaction channel! You really try to make sense out of things that are not alway easy to break down! This was awesome...you should be a therapist! ❤❤❤

John Entwistle attacks this song like Godzilla coming up on a Tokyo beach. The Who ROCKS!!!

Patty-I saw them live at the Hollywood Bowl. Keith Moon was legend on the drums. The guitarists were Peter Townsend and John Entwistle, and of course the great Roger Daltry as the soloist. Great pick.

Bought the album the day it was released and knew from the first notes that this would be fantastic--thanks for your reaction!

Great reaction and insights, my man! This is the first full track on The Who's double album Quadrophonia. It's just a kick-ass rocking opener!

Thunder fingers .

Kieth Moon on drums..... Whhoooaaa

I really like your philosophical/psychological break-down of this song! (Plus, as a former trumpet player, I like your take on the horns, as well!)

He's considered by many the best rock bass player of all time. You have some progressive rock guys who play complicated stuff, but as far as just improvising lines, he was insanely good and original. The way he goes from high to low notes, jumping around. Runs, triplets. Saw him live in 82.

I really liked your take on the lyrical content!

Crank it up! 💥

This is from their album/Rock Opera "Quadropehnia" which is about a British youth who finds out that he's likely Schizophrenic, in the mid'60's. I saw The Who do the whole album live in late 1996, in Chicago. They had extra musicians on the tour. It was at The United Center. After playing Quad' entire, they played a few extra songs.

Real music 🎶

Thanks for opening some eyes.. Great Tune, Great Album. Saw them do this in '74

This is from their Rock Opera Quadrophenia , the song is about mental illness

Brilliant synopsis. Spot on.

You have to listen to the whole Album. Great reaction!✌🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Glad i subscribed JMBOY Gr8 Channel Regards to you fro.m Merry old England

The bass slaps you in the azz and doesn't apologize for it and the drums punch you straight in the face and you ask for more!!!!

HIGH JM, write this down, you'll want to do it soon.... The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"

How Ironic.... ZZ Top and The Who back to back.... In the early 80's I saw ZZ Top open for the The Who. I don't think I could hear correctly for 3 days following that concert!!!

By far one of my favorite Who tunes, obviously because of the bass. I still can't quite play it, but I can listen to it over and over. Good choice!

I apologize if you’ve already done it, but look for a live version of 5:15 because Entwistle does a bass solo that blows minds - having done things that others thought they invented years later. Everybody in The Who, which of course consists of one of the best lyricists in Pete Townsend and one of the best rock singers ever in Roger Daltrey, said he was absolutely the best musician of any of them. They said he only took up the bass because he played guitar, but since nobody else wanted to he took it….and basically reinvented how the bass can be played. Think he’s always on at least in the top 5 of any list of the best bass players of all times.

And the bass player played the horn section too wot a band

Couldn't have said it better myself. This such a great song on all levels but holy moly that bass! The Ox was a beast!

Just discovered this show and I love it!

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The bass player john entwhistle also played the horns too

BRITISH ROCK ROYALTY - The Beatles... The Rolling Stones... The Who.... They started it and the rest followed

That Bass.... I have one identical to it, and 6 others in my music room.

Great understanding of the lyrics/meaning and you seemed to realy enjoy the truth of such a perfect song. You should watch the movie Quadrophenia that the album spawned inc complete soundtrack that really explores the characters involved, it's incredible

a great song from a great band.

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The greatest of all time…. Thunderfingers

"Moony" is using one of those Digital Beat Box machines on this song.

Exactly correct on the lyrics interpretation

John is also playing the kettle drum and the horns.

Check out "Behind Blue Eyes" soon

Tru Dat!! What U said.

Roger Daltrey was voted the Number 2 Greatest Male Rock Vocalist behind Robert Plant as the greatest. Both are legendary.

Jimmy!

"The Real Me" - Peter Townshend I went back to the doctor, to get another shrink I sit and tell him 'bout my weekend But he never betrays what he thinks, hoo! Can you see the real me, doctor? Doctor! Can you see the real me, doctor? Oh, doctor! I went back to my mother I said, "I'm crazy, ma, help me" She said, "I know how it feels, son 'Cause it runs in the family" Can you see the real me, mama? Mama! Can you see the real me, mama? Oh, mama! Can you see, can you see the real me? Can you see, can you see the real me? The real me, the real me The cracks between the paving stones, like rivers of flowing veins Strange people who know me, peeping from behind every window pane The girl I used to love, lives in this yellow house Yesterday she passed me by, she doesn't wanna know me now Can you see the real me? Can ya? Can ya? Can you see the real me? Can ya? Oh, yeah! I ended up with a preacher, full of lies and hate I seemed to scare him a little So he showed me to the golden gate Can you see the real me, preacher? Preacher! Can you see the real me, preacher? Can you see? Can you see? Can you see? Oh! Can you see the real me, doctor? Can you see the real me, mother? Can you see the real me, me, me, me...?

Quadrapenia

Great song no doubt, but there is an intro track that leads into this song which would be good to listen to completely some day. The song and album are about a teen boy in England struggling with mental issues. Hence, he is wondering who he really is.

While Lemmy adored McCartney, he always thought Entwhistle was the greatest bass player of all time

Reacciona a "who when i was a boy" de the who o "Bargain" song Gracias !!!!

Thank you for the analysis. Here’s a very good live version in the same year this album came out - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-30OBBz-DUAA.htmlsi=9NHeeveYBO2cNZc0

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The Ox was the greatest bass player ever