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Favorite Sir Paul tone?

ecadad

ecadad

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Sep 4, 2011
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What McCartney or Wings or Beatles track has the best bass tone in your opinion?

I think that Abbey Road, as an album, has some incredibly great tones. So does "Wings Over America"- actually, most Wings songs have great bass tone IMO.

What do you think?
 
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dtripoli said:
Agree but isolated tracks of Sir Paul's bass especially "Oh Darling" on Abbey Road sound crappy.
In the mix they sound incredible.
Bottom line, like James Jamerson whose isolated tracks sound thin and distorted, it's their actual playing and choice
of notes in the mix that makes them so great.
Tone takes a back seat to technique and skill.
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True, I was listening to the isolated bass from "Band On The Run" and it sounded pretty horrendous, thin, distorted in a wrong way... but in the track it sounds so juicy!
 
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ecadad said:
.. but in the track it sounds so juicy!
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Which is all that really matters in the end, at least IMO.

"Think For Yourself" was the song which made me realize that there was such a thing as bass guitar some four decades ago...

Love his sound on "Venus And Mars" album, but then again, I would be pressed *very* hard to find a tone of his that I hate, unlike some of my other heroes from younger years.
 
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So many i could name, but i really like the great woody tone he gets with his Ric with flats on tracks like:

Paul McCartney and Wings - Loup (first indian on the moon) ....listen to about 1:30...nice little solo



Paul McCartney & Wings - Mr Vanderbilt (yeah i know that some reckon this was recorded with a Jazz instead, idk but sounds great)
 
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ecadad said:
What McCartney or Wings or Beatles track has the best bass tone in your opinion?

I think that Abbey Road, as an album, has some incredibly great tones. So does "Wings Over America"- actually, most Wings songs have great bass tone IMO.

What do you think?
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I like the one where he turns the bass off & walks away.

All jokes aside, I can't say I can name a tone of his that stands out. It all gets so mixed into everything that you can't really tell it from another guitar, especially with how they liked to use baritone guitars over top of the bass line.
 

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