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Post subject: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:39 am
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Scrolling through the bass section, see your username pop up a lot, start thinking I wonder if he means Ox fan, like a fan of Entwistle?


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:18 pm
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bigcribber42 wrote:
Scrolling through the bass section, see your username pop up a lot, start thinking I wonder if he means Ox fan, like a fan of Entwistle?



Most definitely! He's my hero! When I picked up the bass again, after playing only in church bands, and just not playing at all about six years ago, a friend gave me a copy of The Who: The Ultimate Collection, which really blew me away. I spent the next few years in a cve mastering all of john's styles. Literally three years of him exclusively. I found a bunch of dvds, a lot had isolated tracks of him only and i got to see just how he did it.

I am in no way saying that i am anywhere near him, but, i can play his stuff well.

Check this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAOmIxbUus


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:29 pm
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sweet, I was wondering because my cousin is a big Ox fan and he was scrolling through the forum for basic stuff just checking because he recently bought a Jazz, but he noticed your username and was like "he has to be talking about Entwistle" lol but yeah we (mainly me lol) are in the process of making a Fenderbird like he had.


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:23 pm
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Are you talking about an Explorer with a Fender neck?


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:25 pm
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oxfan wrote:
bigcribber42 wrote:
Scrolling through the bass section, see your username pop up a lot, start thinking I wonder if he means Ox fan, like a fan of Entwistle?



Most definitely! He's my hero! When I picked up the bass again, after playing only in church bands, and just not playing at all about six years ago, a friend gave me a copy of The Who: The Ultimate Collection, which really blew me away. I spent the next few years in a cve mastering all of john's styles. Literally three years of him exclusively. I found a bunch of dvds, a lot had isolated tracks of him only and i got to see just how he did it.

I am in no way saying that i am anywhere near him, but, i can play his stuff well.

Check this out.


Ox I tried to open the vid but it was taking 100 years on my junk. Bumner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAOmIxbUus


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:39 pm
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it's a Thunderbird body with a Fender neck


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:54 pm
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Good Job,... Oxfan,...you really nailed Entwhistle's sound & playing style,.......
while listening to your You Tube post I scrolled down to see the comment's & feed back & with out fail there was a stupid comment form one of those "Meh" not bad could be better" guys who frequently leave stupid comments......what an Idoit.
anyway it Rocked! oh & by the way I saw Bebe got some bling the other day,..looking good!!


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:43 pm
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bigcribber42 wrote:
it's a Thunderbird body with a Fender neck



Okay I haven't seen the Thunderbird body with the rounded bouts with a Fender neck but I have seen the Explorer body (orange I think) with the pointed bouts (like a skewed star) and the maple Fender neck. I'm not a Gibson bass owner and I don't have one. :P I could be wrong but I thought a Thunderbird was neck thru. Anyway a Tbird body and a Fender neck would be a "FenderBird". Right?


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:02 am
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Yes the Thunderbird is a neck thru, but since we are going to be taking the neck off, he is going to buy the cheaper Epiphone one which has a bolt on neck. He is a fan of the Ox and wants an interesting bass so he decided to make a Fenderbird lol
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/images/bass/fbird/fenderbird_rsg-2.jpg


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:45 am
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Sorry for the ad, here's his Fenderbird.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdLIerfXuZ4


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:52 am
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James Coderre wrote:
Good Job,... Oxfan,...you really nailed Entwhistle's sound & playing style,.......
while listening to your You Tube post I scrolled down to see the comment's & feed back & with out fail there was a stupid comment form one of those "Meh" not bad could be better" guys who frequently leave stupid comments......what an Idoit.
anyway it Rocked! oh & by the way I saw Bebe got some bling the other day,..looking good!!


Thanks James. He always wanted full bass and full treble, with a whole lot of stuff in between.

Bebe is enjoying her new adornments and, with all this John Entwistle talk, I tried some of his licks on the fretless.

No good, you need a Precision to play his licks, anybody remember Frankenstein? He used it on virtually all of The Who's best, all the way up to Who's Next.


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:44 am
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oxfan wrote:
Thanks James. He always wanted full bass and full treble, with a whole lot of stuff in between.

Bebe is enjoying her new adornments and, with all this John Entwistle talk, I tried some of his licks on the fretless.

No good, you need a Precision to play his licks, anybody remember Frankenstein? He used it on virtually all of The Who's best, all the way up to Who's Next


I've tried the samething trying to play Rush licks & Yes licks on my fretless,......it's not the same...you need frets & speaking of Rush they're here in Vancouver tonight & needless to say
I'm gonna see Geddy slappa da Bass man (I love that scene from "I Love you Man" )
I remember The Ox's Frankenstien Bass well.. would it be safe to say he was the first or one of the First guys to modify his bassses by swapping out parts?? I think Bill Wyman was doing a bit of this too back in the '60's.


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 5:08 am
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Geez...And all this time I thought that you just had some weird-ass fetish with Oxen.


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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:05 pm
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One Ox does not necessarily rule out the other Ox....lol.

Now I want to come and hear you play. The fact that you dedicated that much time to figuring out his work is incredible. He has to be on just about everyone's short list of bass players that made an impact.

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Post subject: Re: Question for Oxfan
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:57 pm
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Geez...And all this time I thought that you just had some weird-ass fetish with Oxen.


I wish you hadn't brought that up.


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