Music from Van-Pires

Music from Van-Pires is a debut studio album recorded by the John Entwistle Band and is Entwistle's final solo album before his death in 2002. It was a soundtrack for the Sci-Fi Award-winning UPN animated children's computer-generated television series Van Pires, which only aired between 1997 and 1998, shooting 13 episodes, which Entwistle had been involved with. The album was not officially released as a collection. Some of the tracks appear on his solo compilation album So Who's the Bass Player? The Ox Anthology, despite this. Notably, this album was not re-released alongside Entwistle's other solo studio albums in 2005.

The song "Bogey Man" was originally written for The Who's 1978 album Who Are You by John Entwistle, but was rejected by the band for being too humorous. A demo was recorded by Entwistle and Keith Moon. The demo went largely forgotten, until Entwistle resorted to his old demos for material the soundtrack to the 1997 children's television programme Van Pires, to help him meet a contract which agreed he would write and record 13 new songs and a theme tune in 3 months. When the band's drummer, Steve Luongo heard the demo, he recognised Keith Moon's drumming on the demo, and the band decided to record a new version of the song with Moon's original drum track.^[1]

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Track listing

All songs noted by who wrote them

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Horror Rock" (John Entwistle, Steve Luongo)	2:55
2.	"Darker Side of Night" (Entwistle, Luongo, Alan St. Jon (Levi))	4:22
3.	"Sometimes" (Entwistle, Luongo, Levi)	4:20
4.	"Bogey Man" (Entwistle)	4:00
5.	"Good and Evil" (Godfrey Townsend, Levi, Entwistle, Luongo)	5:31
6.	"When You See the Light" (Luongo)	4:01
7.	"Back on the Road" (Entwistle)	4:06
8.	"Left for Dead" (Levi, Entwistle, Luongo)	3:53
9.	"When the Sun Comes Up" (Townsend, Levi, Entwistle, Luongo)	4:12
10.	"Rebel Without a Car" (Entwistle, Luongo)	3:37
11.	"Don't Be a Sucker" (Townsend, Entwistle, Luongo, Levi)	4:18
12.	"Endless Vacation" (Entwistle, Luongo, Hitt)	3:20
13.	"I'll Try Again Today" (Entwistle, Luongo)	3:56
14.	"Face the Fear" (Townsend, Entwistle, Luongo, Levi)	3:38

Personnel

John Entwistle - Bass Guitar, Composer, vocals, Producer, Orchestration, Mixing
Steve Luongo - Composer, Percussion, Drums (all other songs), vocals, Producer, Orchestration, Mixing
Leslie West - Lead Guitar, vocals
Alan St. Jon - Keyboards, vocals
Keith Moon - Drums on "Bogey Man"
Godfrey Townsend - Guitar, vocals
Dave "Cyrano" Langston - Engineer

References

↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98Lgnne9o0

John Entwistle

Studio albums	Smash Your Head Against the Wall Whistle Rymes Rigor Mortis Sets In Mad Dog Too Late the Hero The Rock Music from Van-Pires Edge of the World

Live albums	King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert Ringo Starr and His Third All-Starr Band-Volume 1 Left for Live

Compilations	Thunderfingers: The Best of John Entwistle So Who's the Bass Player? The Ox Anthology

Collaborations	One of the Boys Fabulous Poodles Rough Mix McVicar Un autre monde You'll Never Walk Alone The Iron Man When You're a Boy A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who Baptizm of Fire The Deep End, Volume 1

Songs	"I Believe in Everything" "My Size" "Do the Dangle" "Talk Dirty" "Too Late the Hero" "The Ox" "Boris the Spider" "Whiskey Man" "In the City" "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" "Heaven and Hell "Cousin Kevin" "Fiddle About" "My Wife" "Success Story" "Had Enough" "Trick of the Light" "905" "The Quiet One" "You" "It's Your Turn" "Dangerous" "One at a Time" "Twist and Shout" "The Real Me"

Related articles	The Who Quarwood

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