John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rock bassists of all time,[LINK: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0904339.html] infoplease.com[LINK: http://www.johnentwistle.com/images/bass2kp1.jpg] johnentwistle.com Bassist of the Millennium creating an aggressive lead sound that helped influence contemporary and later bassists such as Steve Harris, Lemmy, Geddy Lee, John Paul Jones, Phil Lesh, Noel Redding, Billy Sheehan, Chris Squire, Duff McKagan, Markus Grosskopf, Mike Watt, Peter Hook & Krist Novoselic. Entwistle helped uncover the potential of the bass guitar as a lead instrument, using aggressive pentatonic lead lines, and a trebly sound virtually unheard of in the early 1960s. He