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The Who, 1972

“John is the lead guitar player and although I’m not the bass player he does produce a hell of a lot of the lead work. It’s really funny to this day where you get a song like Dreaming From The Waist when John is doing this blinding bass solo and making Alvin Lee look like he plays in slow motion and I’m just standing there strumming a chord. And the audience looks at me and goes, ‘How does he do it? How does he produce that noise?’ And of course John won’t demand attention, not like the guy in Earth, Wind & Fire. You see, for years nobody even knew John was there. He used to wear all black and nobody ever put a lamp on him: if we appeared on TV you never saw him unless the camera was whipping from Roger to Keith.”