The song of the WHOs that John Entwistle detested

The Whoho They are still active over 60 years after their debut. Of four who were now remained in two: the singer Roger Daltrey and the guitarist Pete Townshend. The other two, the drummer Keith Moon and the bassist John Entwistle They passed by a better life, at least so they say. The first in 1978 at the age of 32, the second followed him in 2002. He was 57 years old, he was also quite young.

John Entwistle On stage he was not as a pyrotechnic like his companions, he always seemed calm and in control while around him it was all an exploding of energy. Every now and then he sported a smile, but little else to indicate what he thought of certain songs. Some of those were flour of his sack, like “Boris the Spider” And “My wife”that he himself sang live.

All members of
Whoho
They were explicit in saying which songs they hated. Townshend said he had never loved
“Dreaming from the waist”
from the album
“The Who by Numbers”
. Daltrey felt “not being able to get in tune” with songs like
“Substitute”
And he seemed to have fun dismantling the group’s classics, as when he claimed to “bore himself to death” to sing
“Won’t Get Foled Again”
. Even Entwistle had one that was unable to digest when it came to playing it in concert:
“Magic Bus”
.

In the interviews collected for the box
“Thirty Years of Maximum R&B Live”
Entwistle explained: “I really hated playing” Magic Bus “. Sometimes” Magic Bus “lasted, like, eight minutes in La”. He even goes to say that there are some recordings in which he almost falls asleep by playing the song. In concert sometimes “Magic Bus” could last almost 15 minutes. However, as always, it is a matter of Townshend points of view, in the same interviews, he said, on the contrary, to appreciate the song for the use of the beat of
Bo Diddley

.