>One thing I particularly notice about "Cagayake! Girls" as I've
>listened to it is that, for someone who makes such a big deal about
>the bassist being the least obvious member of the band, Mio plays some
>awfully lead-guitary bass parts. Ritsu's the one who's an avowed Who
>fan, but Mio is often to be found getting seriously Entwistle-y on
>that action. :)

Upon reflection, I suspect the animators of the K-On! and K-On!! opening credits sequences specifically had John Entwistle's style in mind when they made the bits spotlighting Mio's lead-y bassline playing (there's one in each version; see here circa 1:03 for the one from the first season), because she's (unusually for Mio) not using a pick in any of the openings, and, well, compare here at 1:52.

I doubt anything else about Mio is particularly like the man. (She's certainly not very likely to be found dead of a cocaine-induced heart attack, in bed with a stripper, in a Vegas hotel room, at the age of 57.) But just as Ritsu (who is, similarly, unlikely to blow up a hotel bathroom with dynamite* or overdose on anti-alcoholism meds) has the musical spirit of Keith Moon, I'm pretty sure Mio's spirit animal is John Entwistle. :)

(N.B. They can't actually watch that clip all the way through as a band; the bit at the end where Townshend starts trying to break his Les Paul makes Yui huddle protectively around Gīta and cry. Even though by that point, I'm reasonably sure he's just miming it; I think they had stopped randomly breaking their stuff by 1978, except for Moonie's tendency to break cymbals and tom heads just by playing them too hard. That's why he has so many toms in his rig, btw - backups. :)

--G.
* At least if not sorely provoked.
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