THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT - THE WHO | FRANKS BASS COVERS

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THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT - THE WHO | FRANKS BASS COVERS #shorts2025

Released August 1966 from the album “My Generation”

Visually, not exactly epic to watch being played, as the bass line is basically focused on 9 frets.

However, it is not an easy bass line by any means. Bassist John Entwistle’s overwhelming emphasis on octaves and differing lines on every verse makes this challenging and certainly an education; so melodic.

The song uses a standard I-IV-V chord progression in the key of D while the chorus uses a ii-V-IV-I chord progression.

Written by Pete Townshend but not released as a single until more than six months after it first appeared on the LP, first in the United States, and in the United Kingdom the following month.

While not huge hits this, along with the title track became anthems for the band and the “Mod” subculture of England.

The song later became the name of the documentary for the band in 1979.

Check out Keith Moon's drumming on this song - he used his cymbals and toms to emphasize the vocal lines, crashing down at the end of lyrical lines. This was one his innovations with The Who.

Bassist: John Entwistle (10/9/44 – 6/27/02) age 57.
Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers.

Was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.

Was voted as the greatest bassist of all time in a 2011 Rolling Stone magazine readers' poll and in its special "100 Greatest Bass Players" issue in 2017, Bass Player magazine named Entwistle at number seven.

Bill Wyman, bass guitarist for the Rolling Stones, described him as "the quietest man in private but the loudest man on stage"

Used a then-unusual treble-rich sound ("full treble, full volume")

He contributed backing vocals and performed on the French horn trumpet, piano, and bugle.

Early on the band decided that the blond Daltrey needed to stand out more from the others, Entwistle dyed his naturally light brown hair black, and it remained so until the early 1980s.

Designed the cover art for the band's 1975 album, The Who by Numbers,

Owned one of the largest guitar collections belonging to any rock musician.

Entwistle was notorious for the extremely high volume at which he played bass, going so far as to rig pick-ups to each string on his instruments.
This led to him developing hearing loss, he reputedly had to rely on lip reading to understand speech in his later years.

Cited R&B bass guitarist James Jamerson as a huge influence.