Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
What about felt picks? I've heard good things about them. Did Carole Kaye use one?
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Praise Report: GHS Precision Flats
- Thread starter Linnin
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I keep telling people....leather. Felt is good, don’t get me wrong, but you gotta try leather. Leather gives you the motion of a pick with the tonal quality of your fingers + more attack (depending on how hard or soft the leather is).
Felt picks are kind of wacky. To me they sound a lot like the attack & tone of the thumb. To the best of my knowledge Carole Kaye did not use felt picks, but rather Fender 351s.
With the ongoing ukulele craze there are new felt picks for them!
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Ah so Carol Kaye was using the 351's as well! The sound she gets on Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman", with those flatwounds on a Precision with that heavy pic is just to die for!
I got this from wiki: "The musicians used on the recording included Campbell, Invalid Link Removed and James Burton (guitar), Carol Kaye (guitar), Don Bagley (bass), Jim Gordon (drums) and Al De Lory (piano).[15] The orchestral Invalid Link Removed were by De Lory.[16][17]" And I know for a fact that Glen Campbell played the lead line using a (what was then brand new) Fender Bass VI strung in Fender flats through a Fender Twin Reverb.
Here he's playing a Danelectro baritone guitar:
It's not like wiki is perfect. Carol talks about writing quite a few basslines she never recorded as if she did. The older she gets, the more of them she has written. I don't hold it against her though it does make it difficult to nail down actual facts.
Yes, she never changed bass strings and used the stock Fender flats that came on her Precision(s).
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
And this is a perfect example. States Don Bagley plays bass on Wichita Lineman. Click on his link and his wiki says absolutely nothing about recording with Glen Campbell at all. Click on Carol Kaye and her wiki has a long list of tunes she recorded bass on to include Wichita Lineman; Galveston, and Rhinestone Cowboy. And there you have it. Trust God. Not Wiki.
This photo of early original D'Andrea made Fender picks courtesy of Terry Foster. This shape would become the famous '351'.
