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The Legacy of The Who’s John Entwistle With Steve Luongo On This Month’s Groove – The No Treble Podcast

Steve Luongo is this month’s conversation on Groove – The No Treble Podcast.

You can listen the new episode right here: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #96 – The Legacy of John Entwistle With Steve Luongo.

Who is Steve Luongo?

The year was 1982. My older brother (a guitarist) showed me a live broadcast of The Who‘s The Final Concert from Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto. I know the words to every song on that setlist, and can also mimic the between-song banter. That show had me memorized. I watched it and re-watched on my Betamax until the tape turned to dust. In particular, the bass playing of John Entwistle. In the middle of Roger Daltrey‘s soaring vocals and swinging mic cords, Pete Townshend‘s windmill passes at his guitar and knee-to-chest jumps, and Kenney Jones holding down what was Keith Moon‘s drum fort, there stood the man also known as The Ox. Subdued in comparison to his bandmates? Yes. Playing notes and rhythms that I had never heard before from a bass guitar? Yes. It was in those moments that I knew I wanted to play the bass. To this day, good ole’ Thunderfingers is still a lighthouse for many bass players. His legacy and discography with The Who can’t be denied. Rock n’ roll hall of famers and part of the British Invasion, songs like Baba O’Reilly, Won’t Get Fooled Again, My Generation and countless others are still streamed and heard every day – from coast to coast. Rolling Stone magazine named Entwistle as the greatest bassist of all time in a reader’s poll, and its special, 100 Greatest Bass Players, ranked him at number three. Entwistle died in 2002 at the young age of 57. Now, twenty years later, we get Rarities Oxhumed – Volume One – the first in a series of posthumous releases coming from John Entwistle as part of a new partnership with Deko Entertainment and longtime friend and collaborator, Steve Luongo. From unreleased music and demos to live tracks of his work outside of The Who and beyond, this is an amazing journey for one of rock’s most solid bass players. Now, for the first time, Groove – The No Treble Podcast interviews a drummer. Steve Luongo and John worked together for 15 years on Entwistle’s solo work. This rhythm section extended beyond the music into a great friendship, and now Steve (who delivered Entwistle’s eulogy) also acts as the curator for all things John Entwistle. Enjoy the conversation….

What is Groove – The No Treble Podcast?

This is an ambitious effort. This will be a fascinating conversation. Our goal at Groove is to build the largest oral history of bass players. Why Groove? Most of the content about the bass revolves around gear, playing techniques, and more technical chatter. For us, bassists are creative artists with stories to tell. They are a force to be reckon with. These are the stories and conversation that we will capture. To create this oral history of why these artists chose the bass, what their creative lives are like, and where inspiration can be found.

Listen in: Groove – The No Treble Podcast – Episode #96 – The Legacy of John Entwistle With Steve Luongo.

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Mitch Joel

Mitch Joel lives at the intersection of technology, business transformation and consumer culture. He is the Executive Director of Next Era Institute, a strategic intelligence platform helping leaders understand the forces reshaping business, technology, culture and society. The Institute identifies which shifts matter, explores their wider significance and translates them into strategic direction and momentum. Mitch is also a globally recognized keynote speaker. He has delivered thousands of presentations across both B2B and B2C industries to organizations including Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Unilever. Strategy Magazine has called him “one of North America’s leading visionaries.” Mitch built his career by working directly inside the waves of change that reshaped modern business. He founded and built a digital marketing agency that worked with some of the world’s largest brands and was later acquired by WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with almost 3,000 employees. Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, and the host of Thinking With Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. His writing and commentary appear in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and Inc. Magazine. He is a member of Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches and was named to the Thinkers50 Radar. Mitch also hosts Groove – The No Treble Podcast, documenting the oral history of electric bass players. Mitch is also Co-Founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class experts into meetings, events and off-sites in focused 15-minute bursts.