<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> In the studio for Who's Next and thereafter, Townshend used a 1959 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins hollow - body guitar, a Fender Bandmaster amp and an Edwards volume pedal, all gifts from Joe Walsh . Townshend started his career with an acoustic guitar and has regularly recorded and written with a Gibson J - 200 . </P> <P> A distinctive part of the original band's sound was Entwistle's lead bass playing, while Townshend concentrated on rhythm and chords . Entwistle's was the first popular use of Rotosound strings in 1966, trying to find a piano - like sound . His bassline on "Pinball Wizard" was described by Who biographer John Atkins as "a contribution of its own without diminishing the guitar lines"; he described his part on "The Real Me" from Quadrophenia, recorded in one take, as "a bass solo with vocals". Entwistle's basses include a "Frankenstein" assembled from five Fender Precision and Jazz basses, and Warwick, Alembic, Gretsch and Guild basses . </P> <P> Moon further strengthened the reversal of traditional rock instrumentation by playing lead parts on his drums . His style was at odds with British rock contemporaries such as The Kinks' Mick Avory and The Shadows' Brian Bennett who did not consider tom - toms necessary for rock music . Moon used Premier kits starting in 1966 . He avoided the hi - hat, and concentrated on a mix of tom rolls and cymbals . </P>

Which band’s early albums included many covers of blues songs