Excellent: a couple of duds - Run for Your Life and Michelle - but I particularly look forward to the remix of Drive My Car
Geoff
I can do that type stuff with "Rip-X" and Audacity - drums - vocals - "other" reasonably clean - but "bass" timbre is decimated, and relegated to a mushy - phase shifting pile sans any good character. Perhaps adding other tracks which are bandwidth limited could put the bass sounds back in place.
Cal, please remember that the Beatles were the most important and pioneering band of the 1960ies, if not of all times till today. So no wonder about your findings 😉!
Best regards!
Every Beatles album is like listening to their greatest hits. They were astonishing.
You guys are making want to go on a Beatles binge. I'll drift off dreaming of Rickenbackers and meter maids.
I think perhaps by 1966 the Gretsch (George) and Rickenbacker (John) were gradually falling falling out of favour, at least in the studio.
In concert they were still using them but apparently they'd started using Gibsons, Epiphones and Fenders in the studio; Paul stuck to his Hofner bass but started using a Rickenbacker in the studio and is 'playing' it in I am the Walrus and Hello Goodbye. He's playing the Hofner in Get Back and still owns it; I think he had two but one was stolen.
George had some cool guitars, his hand-painted 'Rocky' Stratocaster and the Rosewood Telecaster he played in the Get Back film come to mind.
I guess they played whatever suited the song.
Geoff
In concert they were still using them but apparently they'd started using Gibsons, Epiphones and Fenders in the studio; Paul stuck to his Hofner bass but started using a Rickenbacker in the studio and is 'playing' it in I am the Walrus and Hello Goodbye. He's playing the Hofner in Get Back and still owns it; I think he had two but one was stolen.
George had some cool guitars, his hand-painted 'Rocky' Stratocaster and the Rosewood Telecaster he played in the Get Back film come to mind.
I guess they played whatever suited the song.
Geoff
Paul is quoted as saying that he bought his iconic Höfner violin bass in Hamburg in 1961 because it had a symmetrical body shape which he thought he might play upside down and not look stupid! He played it up to the autumn of 1963, after whch it became his backup bass. It was the one that was stolen under uncertain circumstances.
It's incredible just how much history arises from that one instrument - just check out the article below!
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/paul-mccartney-hofner-bass
It's incredible just how much history arises from that one instrument - just check out the article below!
https://www.guitarworld.com/features/paul-mccartney-hofner-bass
I just love Paul with a Rick. Rick and Jazz basses have always been my favorites.
Does that depend on the strings etc?
Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience used a Jazz bass, sometimes the sound was nice and warm, other times - particularly in 1969 - his sound was hard, thin and trebly.
Paul always sounded great, no matter what he was playing. 'Rain' on the new release really shows off his skill and inventiveness.
Geoff
Paul always sounded great on everything that he played. Different strings, round wound, flat wound, etc., string gauge, amp choice, pickups, etc all play into it, and whoever is mixing, whether live or studio, also plays a part. The player brings the music out of the gear. As far as Noel and his sound change, he may have done that intentionally , hoping to cut through more, or it could be how he was mixed. He and Mitch were one of my favorite rhythm sections of all time, and Mitch is one of my favorite and most influential drummers ever. That swing he had with the power and fire...magical! I very much worked on learning to cop his groove, feel, and flow. He was a beast with beautiful musicality, creativity, dynamism, and style. Glenn.
Yes, Mitch was great; apparently he auditioned for Wings but somehow I doubt that he would have been happy to always play according to the script.
Noel was a much-underrated bassist.
Paul, of course was a great fan of The Experience and got them on the bill at Monterey.
Geoff
Noel was a much-underrated bassist.
Paul, of course was a great fan of The Experience and got them on the bill at Monterey.
Geoff
I have had a listen and was amazed at the details and clarity. It is their best album and deserves a good stereo mix.
Mine too 😀! As a bass player I own a 1977 or '78 Fender Jazz Bass, a '84 Rickenbacker 4003S in jet-glo, and a DIY Jazz Bass-oid that I built in '83 from a kit sold by a German company. It's neck is of the wider Precision type. Anyway, I'm still in search for an affordable Gibson Thunderbird in good condition 😉.
First of all and as it has been said yet by you and others, the sound primarily is defined by the musician itself, his playing style, technique etc. This is why we can recognize most musicians just by a few tones that she/he plays. Anyway, there are some instrument properties that ease achieving certain sounds. Through body necks, roundwound strings and low inductance pick ups unsually result in a more trebly sound with - much - more sustain than a set or bolt-on neck and flatwounds, see e. g. Chris Squire's signature sound with his '63 Rickenbacker 4003S and Rotosound Swing Bass 66 string sets. But there are exceptions as well: John Entwistle, who pioneered that trebly bass sound (and was the example for Chris Squire, btw.), used a bolt-on neck Fender Precision Bass during his early career with the Who, see his '65 studio recording of My Generation.
Best regards!
Kay, you're mentioning my favorite classic rock era bassists! Geddy has to be favorite, but John and Chris were hid favorites, and had they not had such an impact on him, who knows if we would even have his decades of greatness. Those old Thunderbirds are crazy expensive in great shape, and finding one that hadn't had a kneck/ headstock repair is seemingly rare. Look at one wrong and it falls over and snaps! 🤪 one of my long time friends has one that he repaired to perfection, as he is a top flight antique refurbishment woodworker, and he wouldn't part with it for the world. I wish that we were close enough to lay down some jam grooves! Glenn.