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Cozy Powell was an incredible drummer. I played bass guitar on the late Cozy Powell's hit single "The Man In Black" and the B-side "After Dark" produced by Mickie Most in 1975. I played Mickie's white Fender P bass with foam rubber tucked under the strings, as he always liked to record bass...

Yes, play by the bridge pick up, as zatan130 suggests, plus a lot of compression effect on the Hofner. That will get you started to get the McCartney sound in recording. I've always loved his parts. "And Your Bird Can Sing" is killer for a start!

I tried it. I could never get used to the 5 strings and gave up on that concept. Hence my name here. 4StringsBetter!

My opinion. Andy Fraser has the best rock genre bass sound I've heard on record, back when he was with the band Free. Their guitarist Paul Kossoff told me in 1971 that Andy didn't use the Gibson EB3 much in the studio, that he used a bass that had no name on the headstock, probably Japanese he...