Help Please with U.F.O. Lights out in London

[mntallpaul]

Friends,
99% of the time I can fiqure out basslines, Old school player here.....45 yrs young. But my ears are old and have been at too many shows.
Well I know Pete Best loved the distortion , and I just am having a heck of a time with this song..
Any ideas or help is appreciated!
Paul from Rapscallion...70s and 80s rock.

[Dirk Diggler]

It's not Pete Best it's Pete Way, hehehe I'm an oldy too.
Not sure what you're asking though. I think he used an old Marshall rig in the day, just a bit of tube grit.
Rock on man!
Dirk

[mntallpaul]

Yes, your right my friend........pete way.......dooh!
I was just wondering what the bass line was in the beginning of the song.....the first 3 notes. Maybe E-F-G....pretty low octave but the distortion is throwing me off.....

[Dirk Diggler]

I don't have the disk handy but If I recall it's a chromatic step up from E, so E F F# since the lick is F# E. Now I have to get nostalgic and get that disk out, it's funny my tastes have radically changed nowdays, but I still have great respect for the roots as it were. And I still like to rock out every now and then.

I saw Pete several times many years back, he was like the Angus Young of bass, running like a madman all over the stage. He even blew out his leather pants at one show, thank goodness for the Union Jack boxers. LOL
Dirk

[mntallpaul]

I was told that he wanted to look great and play loud.
Now that I am 45 I think I will leave the shirt on and leave the tight pants to the young guys!
Groove on.......Paul