So besides this song being incredible in itself, the bassline is just amazing...i want to know what equipment did he use on this track...
so far i've discarded the possibility of it being a ric...it sounds like the Hofner through a Vox but it COULD be a fender Jazz (though i doubt it)...any ideas?
I found this doing a Google search. This site says he was using the Rick, but I can't vouch for the reliability of the info on that site. I'm sure Sir Paul could have recorded it with a cigarbox banjo and still made it sound good.
Dear Prudence reeks of Rickenbacker to me... gotta have that vintage toaster pickup... doesn't quite work with my 4003 - closet approximation I can get is both pickups selected, with the treble pickup rolled off slightly... tone controls a half-turn open, fingerstyle near the neck pickup. It would probably help to have flatwounds - I could open the tone controls more and get more of the "attack"
on the version on the White Album, it sounds like he was playing fingerstyle or with his thumb for most of the song, and switched to using a pick at the end- the "click" is audible there.
It's definately a Ric, Paul was pretty much using them exclusively by the time they recorded the White Album.
His Hofner was put in it's case and left their until sometime in the 80's when Paul was producing a record for Elvis Costello... Apparently Mr. Costello wanted Paul to play bass on a song(s) and wanted him to use the Hofner. When they opened the case, Paul's setlist from the Candlestick Park gig was still taped to the back of the bass.
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did you get that thing I sent you?
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