Track features Keith Moon on drums
A lyric video for John Entwistle’s “Bogey Man” has been released just in time for Halloween. The track was originally recorded in the 70’s with fellow Who bandmate Keith Moon on drums.
The track is featured on Entwistle’s Rarities Oxhumed–Volume One, the first of a series of posthumous releases in a new partnership with Deko Entertainment and longtime friend and collaborator Steve Luongo. The set features previously unreleased recordings by the former Who bassist.
As explained in the album’s expanded booklet, the resurrection of “Bogey Man” was kismet. Entwistle began his quest with just a demo cassette of a rhythm track with Entwistle’s vocal and horns. When Luongo identified Moon on drums, Entwistle futilely made an exhaustive search for the multi-track tape, so he could add the missing tracks and complete the song. As he was giving up, “…a bloody loud bang from behind scarred me half to death.” It was the “Bogey Man” multi-track tape. Entwistle described the event as “spooky!”
Rarities Oxhumed features 13 tracks including demos for the Who’s “Where Ya Going Now” and “Life Goes On,” the unreleased studio track “I Wouldn’t Sleep With You,” and live tracks “Trick of the Light” and “Under a Raging Moon,” recorded during the John Entwistle Band’s final tour in 2001. All are packaged in a six-panel digipak with artwork conceived by John’s son Chris Entwistle and Luongo. There is also a limited edition expanded booklet with never-before-seen photos and a track-by-track description giving details of each of the 13 tracks included in this release.
Nicknamed the Ox and Thunderfingers, Entwistle’s music career spanned over four decades. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990. Renowned for his musical prowess, Bass Player magazine named the bassist at number seven. Entwistle was voted as the greatest bassist of all time in a 2011 Rolling Stone magazine readers’ poll and in its special “100 Greatest Bass Players” issue in 2017.
