The John Entwistle Band trip to the UK. Day 1
Well every good trip starts off with some sort of travel. This trip started with a trip to London on Virgin Airlines. OK I guess they didn't mean to give me a seat that's only big enough for a small 12 year old. They most likely didn't know that I'm 6'4". Thankfully they realized that we were in the wrong section and moved us up to the right section.
Now it's just after midnight and we've been flying for about an hour. I just received my Virgin diet cola in a 120ml can. At first I thought is was a small can of concentrated pineapple juice. Everyone else has regular size drinks??? I was looking around for someone to give me the punch line but there was none. I had just been served my beverage in an eye cup with a pop top.
Godfrey was the first one to fall asleep and he always looks like he's faking being asleep. He has this look on his face that makes you think he's peeking out though his eye lids. I did the flying peanut test and confirmed that he really was asleep for a while.
BTW today's film is Twister which is perfect. They have these little screens on every seat and a set of headphones (ALA walkman) which really makes the movie experience a bad trip. The thing is that on a plane it sounds like you are listening to the "Twister" with or without the headphones. I think I'll wait for pay per view.
Our stewardess has a name plaque on and underneath her name it says "green and friendly." Now I figured it meant that she was new and ready to be extra nice to the passengers but it turned out to be an environmental thing -- bravo!
Here we are in London Heathrow airport and we've just seen Lisa ( John's girlfriend) who has come to pick us up and after a short wait for our bags, we're off to Quarwood (John's estate).
Here we are and it's good to see our friend again. He looks good sporting a tan from a recent trip to Cabo. After a few minutes of catching up on the past couple of months it's into the studio to take a look at the equipment. It has all arrived in good shape so I guess we're almost ready to start recording. The plan is to rehearse for a few days and then start cutting tracks on Monday. Bob Pridden will be engineering for us and for you trivia buffs Bob not only ran monitors among other things for The Who from the early days until now but he was our FOH soundman for the '88 tour.
Well, it's time for dinner so we'll go to a restaurant, eat, drink and laugh, tell a few stories. The band, Lisa and Bob were joined for dinner by Bob's wife Mia.
Now it's back to the house.
Jet lag is setting in now and it's midnight in England so it's off to bed. Oops not quite yet. It seems that the hounds of the Entwistles need to be walked and when two 200 pound wolfhounds ( Scarlet & Flynn ) want to be walked they can sing or howl up a storm. So Lisa and I took them for a quick one (no pun intended) and now it's time to crash. Good night.