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That's so cool, thanks for sharing those! Wow, look at those nut slots and also, bridge saddles. Another confirmation that he didn't bother with fine-tuning the intonation on his basses :D Did you take photos of his Yamaha and Kay basses by any chance?

Yeah for years I thought it was John, but when I heard those studio bits in 2010 or so after The Beatles Rock Band stuff got ripped (multitracks and that bonus audio) I was like "wait a minute..." As time goes on and one way or another more and more information like that becomes available, and...

In the released outtake (Take 17) there is a bit of studio talk and noodling (some of it and other bits were also released as some bonus audio in 2009 videogame The Beatles Rock Band) where one can hear the following: John says something like "that's the way it goes down" then Paul instructs the...

John played Fender Bass VI on three early slow rehearsal takes of it. Album version (recorded a month or so later) has Paul grinding it out on his Fender Jazz Bass.

Moog is used for some "synth pad" style sounds and some melody passages in that song. The bass in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" was played by George Harrison on a right-handed Fender Jazz Bass, there are photos from that day apparently. They tried to get the "tuba" type sound of it and I think...

Yeah it's all confusing to me to be honest. Like how his left handed Rick has actually a neck from a right handed model, and I remember reading somewhere that the wiring/knobs/switches might be also reversed? (or might not be?). But just going on from the tone and sound of his Rick all the way...

I think Paul uses his 4001S on that tour, and it's the one that he got in 1965. It's just that by that point that bass has been through some changes like removing the paint job (already seen like that at the end of Januray of 1969 in recently released Get Back series) and also had bridge pickup...

Some people say that Paul palm muted on bass. I don't know where this is coming from. Listening to some studio noodling inbetween songs, it doesn't sound so, at least when he had Hofner. When he used Rick and Jazz, he most likely just had the stock string mutes engaged.

Sound - Paul had Hofner-like tone on a bunch of Beatles albums where he actually used Rickenbacker, so in this regard Rickenbacker would work great I assume. Especially considering using 'neck' pickup only and flatwound strings, perhaps with the mutes engaged as well. Around the time of Rooftop...

I don't think AJFA is a good example, as it is well known the bass tracks on that album were mixed so low, it was almost basically like they were muted. It was confirmed by some engineer or mixer who worked on that record. Much later another proof of that are some of the rough mixes and work in...

Even much earlier in the 90s, they didn't remember the details themselves - there's a section in Anthology when in the "present" (the 90s) day, George Martin, Ringo, George and Paul are sitting in a studio and are checking out some multitracks, one of them was Take 1 of Golden Slumbers. So...

They cite wrong and Lewisohn admited several times that he had not enough time to listen to every take of every song for his Session books. Babuik's book is about the instruments mostly and not who played what. Besides, I recently looked into it to get some info on Paul's left handed Jazz Bass...

Lennon played Fender Bass VI only on three "slow" rehearsal takes. The final version most likely has Paul playing Fender Jazz Bass, as evident in the studio chat and the outtakes (released on the white album 50th Anniversary set and earlier some bits in The Beatles Rock Band video game)...

The best part is that John was awful on Bass VI, and on any bass in general.

Many good advices were already voiced, so Consider getting quickly to the point and keep the introduction short - I'd assume nobody wants to hear some ramblings about this and that. If it's a bass demo video that people clicke on, that is what people expect from it.