Hi Guys,
I have discovered this rare shot:
John onstage with his Spyder 8 and Pete
Townshend also playing Alembic.....
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

Now that's something I haven't seen.
Thanks Oliver
 
Sam

Me also not yet.
I am still wondering if it is a guitar
or a bass that Pete is playing....
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

Well, I have no knowledge of this, but two things suggest that it might be a bass.  Roger seems to be looking at Pete like he's nuts, and the scale length of Pete's intrument seems to match John's.

Cool shot! It looks like Pete is playing John's Zebrawood Series I.

Mica, Bob, guys,
yes I also think that it is a bass. I am really wondering what song they played.....
Mica, as for your suggestion:
I think this photo was taken in the early eighties,so it could either be the Zebrawood from 1974 or another series I John owned with a birdseye maple top which was auctioned also at Sotheby?s, but earlier on April 7th, 1988.
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

The Who does Spinal Tap!

KFS - not to morph this thread too badly into something else, but Harry Shearer, who plays Montgomery Burns in THE SIMPSONS, and was also in This Is Spinal Tap, apparently really IS a bass player. I saw the amazing interview of the Simpsons cast in Inside the Actors' Studio where he said he played bass. Here's a shot of him in the movie A Mighty Wind:
 
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0310281/Ss/0310281/249.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Shearer,%20Harry
 
I wonder if he's ever played an Alembic?
 
Now back to the regularly scheduled Entwistle program.
 
EffClef

Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, and Christopher Guest are all excellent musicians. Besides writing and performing all the miusic for Spinal Tap, they also wrote the music for Waiting For Guffman and A Mighty Wind. Shearer's wife is a musician of some note (although her name escapes me at the moment), and I know he's sat in with her playing bass. She was in Chicago less than a year ago, and I know he played bass with her on that show.

Guys,
I will get a photoprint of this particular photo soon. I hope it will be a little bit clearer so that I can identify the bass....
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

That would be great Oliver.  I'd like it if it turns out to be the zebrawood.  That is my wood of choice.
I notice that John doesn't look to worried about his job.
 
Sam

Guys,
I just received the original photos. Still a bit blurry but you can clearly see that the bass played by Pete is definetely Johns zebrawood Alembic.
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

Of course Pete's playing a bass (and Roger's having a good laugh at him)  They are most likely performing Trick of the Light.  The Quadropheniacs (my old Who Tribute band) used to do 'Trick' that way.
 
stoney

Have to concur with the Trick of the Light theory.  Looks period-correct.
 
What I'm not understanding is those stupid boots on John.  Fashion-forward or just being outrageous?
 
What a nutty guy, that Johnny Twinkle.

Those are riding boots Mike....to be used after the show, I'm sure