Recent content by darkhorse9

For me it's "Old Brown Shoe" by the Beatles. The constant runs are deadly to keep up with.

I'veseen my fair share of tribute acts come through here, and many of them are simply named after a song or an album by the group their playing. Sometimes the names do get clever (and sometimes better than their playing), however. One's I've liked included: Aeromyth Rolling The Stones...

I have heard that McCartney's tone at that time was rather surly and sarcastic. Oh, wait, that was his tone of voice. Sorry. You mean somethign else.

he used the Ric pretty much exclusively at that time, although he did not play bass on every song. There's dispute on whether he played on Fixing A Hole. Judging by the rather pedestrian bass line on that song my guess is that he did not.

The only thing I'll add is...the word in the second paragraph is spelled "losing" not "loosing." Reading misspellings in an article designed to teach is distracting.

I'd suggest a couple of easy ones All My Loving - The Beatles Moondance - Van Morrison

I do work in a Beatles tribute band. Honestly, the image and appearance comes first. That will truthfully cover a lot of sins. Secondly comes the singing. That's important. If you can nail the first two, then most people will not notice if you simplify the bass lines while you're singing. That's...

It's easier to sing and play bass when the bass line isn't a melodic one. Songs like Dock of the Bay and such aren't hard to do. When you add a walkign bass line like All My Loving, it's a bit tougher but doable. When you have a full-on melodic bassline with counter melodies it becomes...

I agree it's tough to play bass and sing, particularly when the bass line is counter to the melody. But it can be done with muscle memory practice. I worked for ages just getting the fingering down for All My Loving - by the Beatles until I could do the bass line in my sleep. From there the...

Don't take that tone with me. I fought the war for your sort.

Because this guy is blue, it makes me cry

You can actually thank their engineer Geoff Emerick for that tone. On those songs he devised a crazy technique to turn an amp into a receiver and actually used the amp as a microphone for Paul amp. It was the only time he was able to do that for the recording sessions. Check out the book...

I was listening to the radio a while back and a listener requested the song "With This Ring" since he had just proposed to his girlfriend. The DJ said how great that was and he'd be glad to play it for them. Then he proceeded to play "This Diamond Ring" by Gerry Lewis and The Playboys which...

The one that always bugged me was Paradise By The Dashboard Lights. In the Phil Rizutto baseball play by play there were two outs when the batter bunted down a sacrifice bunt. If there were two outs the defense would simply field the bunt and throw to first for the third out negating the run...

Actually Paul used fuzz before that, including "Think For Yourself" on Rubber Soul with a Rickenbacker bass through Gary Hurst Tone Bender MK