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Pyramid Gold flats here.....all I use now.

I get 'em from juststrings(dot)com

hello Greg,
as far as I know, Entwistle used nylon tape wounds on My Generation.

Hi Wolfgang. I read an interview with Entwistle from a couple years ago where he said he used Labella flatwounds on a Jazz bass on My Generation. He was trying to use a Danelectro because of the tone it could get him, but he kept breaking the strings on the Dano's, and he would buy another one to get that sound again, because he couldn't buy the same strings that were on the Dano. After buying 3 new Dano's and repeatedly breaking strings, he gave up and used the Jazz bass.

What a story! They were great!

All I got was a tiny CD cover of the My Generation LP. There's a picture on the back John playing his Jazz Bass. The strings looked black to me. And they sounded like nylon ones.
(Labella aren't nylon ones? )

Greg's story is correct, and the Jazz had flats not nylon flats. That bass is pictured in his book.
http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/equipment/bass/equip-entwistlegear.html

That Enwistle gear read is great! Thanks for that. In the gear section he mentions Squire, and it got me wondering, had they ever met? Have they mentioned each other in interviews that anyone knows of?

Squire recently mentioned in an interview, when asked about Daltry narrating the recent Yes rockumentry and how well he knew him (Daltry), that he knew John & Pete quite well (better than Daltry).

How about the Ox with a Rick?

Just about every interview with Squire you read they ask the same questions, one being about influences/starting to play, and he ALWAYS and only mentions The Ox. John mentions Chris in his new book, on the page for the 8-string Ric.
The above photo of John w/Ric has been my screen saver for quite a while now.

Squire doesn't mention Mac? I've always heard traces of Paulie in Squires playing. The spirit is surely there. Yes always struck me as a band that took an aspect of the Beatles writing and ran with it. Prog has seemed an extension of psychedelic and the sort of Baroque rock of about the same era as psychedelia. I know I'm nuts, but in all periods of rock there seems to be a thread.

He usually says he prefered the Stones over the Beatles.

From the book Close to the Edge by Chris Welch quoting Chris Squire: "It's only when I turned 15 in 1963 that I was the right age to be a Beatles fan. They sort of changed my musical tastes from church to secular music."

A few pages later: Chris was undoubtedly inspired by Paul McCartney's melodic violin bass style but he was also influenced by the mighty John Entwistle of The Who.