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Re: "Tommy" trumpet
- Subject: Re: "Tommy" trumpet
- From: briancady@juno.com (Brian S Cady)
- Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 19:27:15 PST
DayTriper1 writes:
>Listening to my old man's vinyl version of "Tommy" now, and I notice
>the
>prescence of trumpets in the "Overture" number. This isn't the first
>time
>I've heard it, but it sparked my curiosity: I have read that John
>Entwistle
>was a trumpet player before switching to bass, so is that
>"Thunderfingers"
>playing trumpet, or a session musician(s)???
Yes it's John hisself. John joked recently that they got him to do the
horn arrangements on Who records to get out of paying a session
musician. He also occassionaly played a horn live. I saw him do this
during the Quad concert in 1973.
-Brian in Atlanta