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Re: "Tommy" trumpet



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