Paul McCartney DIDN'T Play Bass On These Beatles Songs?!
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- Learning that Paul McCartney DIDN'T play bass on some of my favorite Beatles tunes was a shocker. It gave me even more respect (if that was possible) for John Lennon and George Harrison. But there is also a lot of mystery and false information when it comes to these tunes. Let's break it down!
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0:00 Intro
0:31 Background
0:51 Back In The U.S.S.R.?
1:51 Rocky Raccoon
2:35 Helter Skelter
3:35 Honey Pie
4:26 Maxwell's Silver Hammer
5:43 Oh Darling
6:30 Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight
7:30 Two Of Us
8:12 Dig It
8:43 The Long And Winding Road
9:56 Rumors - Old Brown Shoe
10:37 Rumors - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
11:25 Rumors - She Said, She Said
11:59 Final Words
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Common mistake. Abby Road was recorded after Let it Be.
Most of it. But Let It Be was the last with Beatles touch-ups and overdubs (minus John, of course, who had left).
@@lordofthemound3890 work was done on the movie editing the album was done. Pretty sure. John wasn’t there for Free as a Bird either. 🤔😎
Let it Be mixing didn’t start until six months after Abbey Road.
"I Me Mine" was recorded in January 1970 with Paul, George & Ringo (John quit the group the previous September).
Really?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Some additional info about some of the songs listed:
1. Since Ringo stepped out for Back In The USSR, all 3 other Beatles ended up playing bass and drums on the track. Over 4 tracks, Paul played the main drum part, a jazz bass, guitar and piano while John and George both individually played the Fender VI, a snare drum and guitar.
2. Both George and Paul play bass on Rocky Raccoon. George played a bass part with a tremolo effect live alongside the rest of the band and Paul later overdubbed a jazz bass part.
3. John's bass part on The Long and Winding Road only sounds as "bad" as it does because they were still rehearsing the song. The take used on the album was the first take of that song to be recorded and it was still while John was learning the chord changes so his performance wasn't going to be perfect and no one expected it to be used for the actual album. 5 days later after actually learning the song they recorded what they expected to be the final version (which was the one used on Let It Be Naked) but when Phil Spector went to mix the album he chose the first take as it had the best vocal but not as good of a bass performance since it was basically just a rehearsal. If you listen to Take 19 on the Let It Be Super Deluxe you can hear that John's bass playing is much better than the actual album since he actually learned it for this take.
The complete "live in the studio" take, John sitting under the piano, is quite good. John plays very well and Billy does a gorgeous Hammond part, not Rhodes.
fantastic. Thank you.
@@deanallen927 very true
He didn't step out back, he quit. Then promptly went on a cruise on the Mediterranean where, after the captain told him some things about strange octopus behavior, came home with the bones of Octopus' Garden.
You can EASILY tell if Ringo is not drumming.
RINGO STARR invented MELODIC drumming
NOT 2 of the Beatles catalog has the same DRUM groove
Two of us is George playing a great bass line.
One small correction. You referred to Back in the U.S.S.R as the "title" track of the White album. It was the opening track. A title track is a song that has the same name as the album it's on, like Let it be.
You are right! Thank you!!!!
Everyone I talk to about the Beatles agrees that John absolutely hacked The Long and Winding Road bass part. But then, it was John's band, so maybe he did that on purpose, tongue in cheek sort of thing.
@@somebodyspapa5005 If it was so bad, why didn't Paul simply re-record the bass track? The song has like a million orchestral overdubs!
@@somebodyspapa5005 It was not John's band. John was the bread baking wife beater of the group. Paul was the ambitious visionary leader and virtuoso of the group. Hope this helps.
@@vvblues Was there !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOLOLOLOL............................... So incorrect. John hit Cynthia once. Don't push it pal. Fact - It was John's Group, WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!
George’s bass on the Two Of Us is superb.. love it.. it makes the song.
I agree. As a teenager, I envisioned a bearded Paul playing it on his little violin-bodied Hofner bass…and I was WRONG, lol! Ah, youth.
Yes, it kind of became the bones of the song as it developed. He did it on a guitar, that's why it sounds that way.
@@deanallen927 It looks like a 6 string guitar.. but it’s actually a Fender V1 6 string bass, George & John played it at times & most probably Paul.. it featured on Helter Skelter & I think Let It Be & others..
@@7colliemac John and George did use the Bass VI on Let It Be a lot but in the film you can see it's the all rosewood Telecaster. And on the record there aren't any notes too low for a guitar.
@@deanallen927 The reason you can’t hear it is Spector edited out Johns sloppy bass & concentrated on vocal harmonies & orchestrating & Pauls piano. Paul hated the edited Let it Be & The Long & Winding Road by Spector. The bass strings on the Bass V1 were very light compared to the 6 string bass we have today.
For most long term Beatles fans, it is no surprise that the Beatles interchanged instruments. However, the one that surprised me when I learnt about it, was Paul McCartney on lead guitar on "Taxman". Amazing !!!
Paul also played the slide guitar solo on Drive My Car
@@bpabustan Paul also played the guitar solo on Good Morning.
And "Ticket To Ride" guitar motif at the end of the choruses.
Actually Paul and John both do a lot of leads.
Paul McCartney played lead on ticket to ride
McCartney, the most successful musician and songwriter in history, just wants credit for what he did do, just like everyone else. McCartney gives a ton of credit to John, George and Ringo because they deserve a ton of credit. They’re all great together and apart. Ringo is a vastly underrated song man, singer and musician. He has it in spades. Lennon was a brilliant dynamic underrated rhythm guitarist and George was a beautifully tasteful guitarist who lifted many songs with his playing. The lead guitar on Something is as good as it gets; nobody has surpassed him.
John also played a few of the lead guitar parts that we thought George played. There's a video out about that.
@@plynbass1292 John wrote and played fantastic lead parts. George famously wrote and played the first four notes of And I Love Her which took the song to a new level. The fabs were a hell of a foursome and the magic continued after they parted company.
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The lead guitar on Something is as good as it gets; nobody has surpassed him. This lead guitar is Eric Clapton.
@@RAUL61000 George Harrison played sublime lead guitar on “Something”, not Clapton. Clapton played lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.”
George's style of guitar playing and styling has been described as lyrical, so it isn't surprising that his bass playing is the same.
I recommend George playing in On the Road to Freedom. That is one of his most sharp , sharpest a-playin. Lefevre and the fallar from 10 years after. Listen to than. George at his best!
ua-cam.com/video/15X0A0Z7DFY/v-deo.html Hereby the complete version of the Two Of Us "bass" on a Hofner V63. Thanks Andrew for sharing a bit of this in your awesome vid! Cheers from Holland, Norby Hofner
About 'Old Brown Shoe':
In a 1987 interview for Creem magazine, however, Harrison recalled that he was the bass guitarist on the track, rather than McCartney.[60][61] When the interviewer, J. Kordosh, suggested that the bass part "sounds like McCartney was going nuts again", Harrison replied: "That was me going nuts. I’m doing [on the bass] exactly what I do on the guitar."[62]
John's bass on "Helter Skelter" is awesome, totally perfect for the song. "Helter Skelter" is my favourite track on The White Album and Lennon's isolated bass is the isolated instrument I visit the most on youtube.
I still cannot believe that is John on bass. I guess it sounds sloppy in isolation but on the recording it is fantastic. One of my favorite bass parts on a Beatles recording . Or anyones for that matter.
..but that is mistaken. Lennon played bass on the basic track recordings like the ones heard on Anthology or the White Album outtakes disc. The album take came from sessions where McCartney is heard talking and demonstrating what he's saying on bass. The bass on the album take is sloppy and raw sounding but the strumming is too accurate and forceful to be Lennon & too idiosyncratic to be Harrison.
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@@melamineflorentine8134😂😂😂
In Barry Miles' McCartney biography (best Beatles book alongside Geoff Emerick's incredible book---both are fascinating deepdives into the actual making of the songs), Paul is quoted saying he didn't play bass on "She Said She Said", and that George did.
It’s likely Paul is misremembering this. If you listen to the backing track rehearsal from the Revolver reissue last year, you can clearly hear Paul counting the song in and playing virtually the same bass part as appears on the final record
@@iPro3million Yes, that's right. He totally rehearsed the song with them, but then left before the final take. Quoting his words from "Many Years from Now", Paul says, "John brought it in pretty much finished, I think. I'm not sure but I think it was one of the only Beatle records I never played on. I think we'd had a barney or something and I said, 'Oh, f*ck you!' and they said, 'Well, we'll do it.' I think George played bass." Either way, what this video and Andrew Freed show us is how amazing George was as a bass player!!!
@@pedrohorta6266 no, macca is playing bass on the backing track. With a 4 track machine they couldnt just take him out and put george over top. They played really loud in the studio, almost concert levels. Youd still hear the first bass track come through on the other mics. He is 100% playing bass on this song. He left before they put vocals on it so that is correct.
@@TheEvbox They recorded multiple takes---it wasn't an overdub. Paul's saying that they recorded a whole new full-band take without him (after he stormed out), this time with George on bass...
@@pedrohorta6266 Paul is wrong. He is for sure playing bass on take 15 which is the take they used as the backing track for the master. You can hear all the beatles talking before the take. You can clearly hear ringo, john and a few times you can hear paul quite clearly. On top of that early on they almost never switched the lineup unless they needed to. Theres still a chance its george I guess but I guess the only evidence we have of that is macca (infamous for not knowing his own history) saying so 20 or 30 years after it happened.
Only proves, john or any band member can play other instruments, drums, bass, harmonicA, guitars, vocals. Anything at all. Amazing musicians!
They fooled you then!
@@paulsawtell3991 no. In the 60s, you can see john playing harmonixa for " youve got to hide yiue love away" . He played bass for ballad of J&yoko. If you seriously study them, you know. Im a musicologist too
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Well one thing about the Beatles is the instruments rotation. And singing. That is something many bands 4m the UK (or US) used to do. I admire that approach. That describes the soul of that bunch of desperate talented musicians. It happens from time to time and is great
I read an interview where George said he played the bass - he said it was a simple matter of playing bass exactly how he'd play guitar.
John played bass on 'Fixing A Hole'.
John is on bass for all early 'Let It Be' - takes, the Glyn Johns Mix, and the movie version. 'Naked' version has a mixture of bass parts by John and Paul.
George played bass on 'Good Day Sunshine'.
George played the Fender VI on the Video version of 'Hey Jude'.
This is not correct. Fixing a hole is Paul, like in any other Pepper songs. He will add the bass line after the song's basic track was finished. George Martin asked Paul to record a new bass line for Let it be because John's work was a disaster. Paul plays Good day Sunshine bass line, George is on guitar, John on acoustic. Check the early takes.
@@desoxido Paul is playing harpsichord, John on bass. Both instrumenta recorded live together!
@@desoxido I read that Fixing A Hole has TWO bass lines. The basic track has Paul on Harpsichord John on Bass.. later overdubs have George Martin on harpsichord with Paul overdubbing the main bassline & underneath the basic track is still there.
The Hey Jude video was mimed and only vocals were love. Paul played bass on the released version
@@sebastiandenhoff1616 true, but Paul overdubbed bass, doubling John’s somewhat erratic playing and covering up the really dodgy bits. George isn’t on the recording, Paul plays the lead as well.
I remember learning so many Beatles bass lines for an off Broadway show, “Sargent Peppers On The Road”, before the investors chose to make a movie. So many wonderful bass lines, songs.
The “big 3 “ front line of The Beatles…since 1958 was John, Paul, George..originally all 3 on guitar and all 3 were lead vocalists. The main thing is they were their own session men. In the entire Beatles recorded catalog they played all guitars and bass parts, with the LONE EXCEPTION being Eric Clapton once on WHILE MY GUITAR….playing lead guitar.
We for so long missed that the Beatles never had advanced to become fantastic musicians. They, however, had superhuman skills writing songs, melodies, lyrics, arrangements, rhythms, accompaniments, and studio effects in overwhelming volume that they could play. And their singing was great, even in how their voices meshed. Such skills will perhaps always outdo musicianship.
Paul is a fantastic musician. And everything you list, "writing songs, melodies, lyrics, arrangements, rhythms, accompaniments" are parts of musicianship.
@@johnwelsh2769 alot of people are great musicians, good enough to make a handsome living at it, be it playing complicated jazz or chamber music. But few could ever write popular songs as Paul has. Even great classical composers fell short of condensing everything into breathtakingly melodies and harmonies the likes which Paul and John composed.
I don't know if you really paid attention to their music but all of the Beatles were far more advanced musicians than any other musicians. Paul McCartney mastered so many instruments during the Beatles years and after. Bands all over the world try to copy there musical style. All of the Beatles also had great solo careers.
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Paul also didn't play bass on I Will. He hummed it. As for Old Brown Shoe, George said he played bass on that one in an interview to Creem Magazine.
I assume that the fact that he didn't play in the actual recording it doesn't mean that he didn't come out with the lines. He could've just gone to John and George and teach them how he wanted it played. I've read that he always taught Harrison and even Ringo how to play their parts in his songs.
John also plays bass on Let It Be and The Long and Winding Road. And George on Good Day Sunshine, that's why there's footage of the revolver sessions where George plays bass.
George had often said that he played bass on his composition, Old Brown Shoe.
The demo on Anthology III is George alone playing the bass line, isn't it?
@@rogeriocyrillogomes7662 playing all the instruments...
Old Brown Bass
his quote could have been a drive my car situation. as in, where he says he played the bass, but he's actually referring to the guitar line that doubles the bass
It’s fairly common for John or George to play bass on a song that Paul was doing guitar or piano so most of these I did know, and I’m pretty sure that George also played on Hey Jude, as he’s seen with the Bass VI in the promotional video for the song
No George was miming to the bass in the promo for Hey Jude. George played lead guitar and sang backing.
@@scottandrewbrass George played bas live on stage. but I think paul overdubbed the bass on the record. George played elec rhythm
@@victorarena23 None of the instruments were live on the promo. So George was miming to Paul's bass.
@@scottandrewbrass I haven't read that. Ringo wasn't live but PJG were same as on all you need is love
it was also common for McCartney to go back and overdub his baselines later. People forget that recording doesn't have to be done at the same time.
I found out that George played bass on “Oh! Darling” ages ago, I love that bass line. ✌️☺️
Are you sure? I heard it was Maurice Gibb from the Bee Gees.
@@thenowchurch6419 Nah, I couldn’t have been!! 👌😂
@@aaronsinger If you see the Get Back sessions you'll see John playing the bass line melody on his guitar. The bass line was pretty much defined from the very beginning. In my opinion, by Paul.
@@aaronsinger It’s not a bad bass line when it comes to difficulty to be fair. ✌️😌
@@desoxido I haven’t seen them, I need to though. 👌☺️
No other band worked in this way, swopping instruments, but it enhanced the variation and creativity song to song. One of a kind!
Listen to The Band
@@mikeormickvandyke5238 Thanks - I'll look into that!
@@peterjlake2531 Levon Helm was the main drummer but Richard Manuel played drums on some songs when he wasn't playing piano. Helm played mandolin and some other assorted things. With three legitimate singers, Rick Danko, Helm and Manuel (Robbie Robertson didn't do much singing), the lead singer could vary during different parts of songs.
I have an inkling that Billy Preston played that bass track for Old Brown Show. I seen some Let It Be footage of him playing the Fender 6 string as George was playing piano. And Paul was acting like he was playing a right handed guitar. It was just a rehearsal sort of thing, while showing them the song. Or getting used to the song. I noticed Preston do that rolling style on and off on the verses, because the clip didn't show but a few seconds of the middle 8.
Yeah, I think it was Preston who originated that rolling bass style in that song.
And George only finished that song the night before the Jan 30 concert! Interesting.. I haven't watched Get Back with the sound coming through my system so I missed all the bandwidth of the music... but you can just hear how Billy's piano & the bass & guitars were feeding back and forth to each other.
I like this interpretation! sounds right, literally
Old Brown Shoe was the first song that came to me. Always heard that George played that magnificent bass line.
I read that George SAID he played bass on "Old Brown Shoe" and "went nuts" on it.
I’m sure I have read something about George Harrison talking about playing bass on ‘Drive my car’. He referenced the bass line on Otis Redding’s ‘Respect’ as his main influence for that bass line.
The guitar part he plays on Drive my car is sort of a bassline on guitar so I think that’s what he was referring to.
Yeah he only doubles it on guitar
He plays the same line as the bass on guitar, an octave higher.
Thanks for using my cover of Dig It! Nice video
I LOVE the bass line on the Long & Winding Road. I am shocked, that it wasn't overdubbed and performed by Paul though! It seemed to have the same feel as the bass line on "Something".
Most of it though is single notes.. a lot of them bum notes. Spector claims he contacted McCartney or sent word anyway inviting him to overdub bass on to L&WR.. one wishes he had done so!
It was mentioned a few times here in the comments, but both John and Paul played bass on Let It Be.
As seen in the Get Back doc, when the words appear on the screen saying that what we’re currently watching was the actual take of Let It Be that was released, John is on the floor with the Bass VI and basically playing basic whole and half note root notes.
Paul went back after and overdubbed a proper bass track, on top of John’s single sustained root notes. If you listen closely you can hear it!
I didn’t realize this until I watched the documentary!
You have to compare Lennon playing on the Phil Spectre version of “the Long and winding Road” (which Paul complained about not only the strings and chorus on, but also the choice of take), and the version which is on the “Let it Be Naked” record, which was the take the Beatles themselves chose. (please note Paul‘s extremely detailed letter complaining about this to Apple and Spector, and insisting none of his songs ever again be changed without his permission), and you will see that John was learning the song during that take, not sabotaging it in any way-on their chosen chosen he plays perfectly fine- not great but truly not amateurishlly or ineptly in anyway.
The truth is out there, and easily available in any record store, I mean, honestly!
absolutely correct
Let It Be was also John on bass. I actually like the bass on Long And Winding Road.
I too.
George originally played bass for paperback writer because Paul was doing lead guitar but then they recorded over George’s playing by accident with someones vocals (I thinks don’t quote me)and replaced it with Paul’s
I’m pretty sure George’s playing was always intended to be wiped.
What you have to remember for Let it Be sessions it was impractical for Paul to play bass as the intention was to play live, on the piano
The ballet of john and yoko...i thought was done by all 4 till i learned it was just john and paul..
Very informative in that I grew up in that era and now it seems apparent that the style in the melodic sounds of the band was ever so refreshing. And why not, if the members were exchanging their instruments to fit the narrative.
My favorite bass line from the Beatles is probably Paperback Writer. Amazing 😎
BASS Reinvented.
That entire song is 🔥! The lead smokes as much as the bass line.
I love "Drive my car" bass line.
George did play bass on "Old Brown Shoe" and from what I've always read Paul had an argument and walked out on "She Said, She Said" session.
She Said She Said was debunked last year as the session tape shows McCartney was there and playing on the basic tracks & as it was the last session for the album made no attempt to overdub another bassline. Also.. the middle section where the interviewer asked "McCartney is going crazy on the bass there and George says 'that's ME going crazy'" doesn't explain why the middle section is bass & guitar playing in unison just like on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
Paul played bass. You can hear Paul on outtakes for the song, the Revolver remix book says it’s Paul, and Mark Lewisohn says it must be Paul because of the way it was recorded with 4 tracks
George also played bass on She Said She Said from Revolver. George was a solid bass player.
Not true, geroge took over the bassline when Paul stormed out but Paul later overdubbed it with him playing the bass
Paul played bass. You can hear Paul on outtakes for the song, the Revolver remix book says it’s Paul, and Mark Lewisohn says it must be Paul because of the way it was recorded with 4 tracks
Paul hated the song and wouldn’t play for the song. The McCartney fanboys refuse to believe it, bc the song is hot, thanks to the other guys!
@@ewest14 correct. paul admitted there was a 'barny' during this session, but he must have walked out after the basic track recordings. thats why its only george and john on the vocals
i suspect
@@ewest14 Paul was there for the recording session, but had an argument with the band and left mid-way. If you look at the song's personnel chart, it's marked that George ended up playing bass.
I think I seen a video where George says he played the bass guitar part for Old Brown Shoe. He was certainly capable of coming up with and playing that part.
there's an interview from Guitar World in the 80s.. but it's not clear if he's claiming the WHOLE bass part OR claiming to have come up with the bass part during the middle 8 sections of the song where the bass is being DOUBLED by guitar playing the same part.
@@melamineflorentine8134 It has been widely interpreted that George meant that he played the bass on OBS but that can’t be possible cos that bass riffing guitar shares a track with the bass, indicating that both instruments were recorded together.
George is very melodic, like to play the chord tones and have great timing on guitar, why not on bass? He was lead guitarrist cause he was the best on it in the group
Best lead guitarist in the group? That’s debatable.
He’s done more than enough to have to pad his credit. He’s hands down the most gifted and versatile musician in the Beatles. His list of acknowledged credits on iconic bass, guitar, piano, Mellotron and many other instruments speaks for itself.
Sorry but the Mellotron you refer to is on ' Strawberry Fields '. That was in fact John. Paul took credit for it on The Anthology but That is not what the pictures and recording liners from Abbey Road say. He also claimed he wrote ' Cellophane Flowers of Yellow and Green ' from ' Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds ' When in a Beatles report from 1967 states by both John and Paul that John wrote it all entirely at home based on Julian's picture. Since John's Death, Paul has taken A Lot more credit than he have ought to.
@@kevinleclerc9632 agreed
Who are you referring to?
@@kevinleclerc9632 The iconic beginning Mellotron (from take 7) was played Paul. John played it at the end.
@@kevinleclerc9632 that’s not true at all. All records state that Paul played the mellotron and Paul did in fact write those lines in Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds. John has corroborated that and said Paul did contribute those lines to the song
To me those last 2 are not mysteries. On the rhythm track of she said she said paul can be heard counting in and you can hear him clearly talking right before the take. I also dont think the other 2 were good enough bassists to play what is on she said (in 1966 atleast). Its so tight with ringo in a way very few people could get. Bass on gently weeps is 100% macca. The bass 6 triples the chorus line with a 12 string and you can really hear bow different it sounds to the jazz bass. Macca used his jazz bass on a few white album songs and its really easy to hear if youve heard it in iso.
Lennon played the incredible solo on honey pie
Similarly, many of the great Rolling Stones bass parts which I used to praise Bill Wyman for were actually played by Keith Richards!
.. and those that weren't were played by Mick Taylor (Ventilator Blues, Dancing With Mr D) or Ron Wood (Start Me Up).. generally Keith didn't seem to trust Bill if he didn't do it just how he wanted to DESPITE Wyman's amazing style and tone that can be heard 100% of the time on their live records.
I studied and went to music school to play bass because of Paul McCartney. I listen the Beatles daily, or at least hear them. It only makes sense. My take away is that I want to learn how to play, create, or find that Fender 6. LOL
George played bass on Old Brown Shoe, he said so. Paul said he didn't like She Said at first and took a break and George did the bass while he was gone.
Funny that you included a quick clip of the Fab Four tribute band. Theyre friends of mine for the past 30 plus years (well, the original lineup is).
The average person (if they know the instruments at all) will think Paul was only a bass player. Bet Paul played guitar on more songs than he didn’t play bass on.
Certainly only young people would think that. Paul pretty much played everything on his first solo album.
@@Versul1 we know. I doubt the mainstream public have a clue. My mom is the age that was the target group of The Beatles. My brothers and I play. She doesn’t understand that a bass is different than a guitar. Her musical knowledge is that she thought Davy Jones was cute. Knowing who played what would require more than most people invest in this.
@@explorervango880 I suppose your right. Perhaps being a multi instrumentalist myself gives me a bias.
@@Versul1 the good thing is most people think you are doing magic.
Crazy how one of rocks best basslines comes from the apparently “instrumentally ungifted” john lennon
Which one is that?
@@timothyd9543 presumably Helter Skelter?
@@StuartQuinn If someone thinks that's one of rock's best basslines, I shake my head. It's barely a bassline at all. It's not even the best bassline on that side of the vinyl album.
Might have been referring to While My Guitar Gently Weeps baseline
@@kris_chico That bass line is absolutely 100% Macca. I'm a bass player. Trust me, I know. Everything from the tone to the choice of noters is Macca all day, all year long.
When read the book “Revolution in the head” 25 years ago, and read some of this also Paul playing lead in a lot of 65-66 track, Paul playing drums when rings left in 68, etc.
As far as I know, George also played the Bass VI on Birthday. That one has always been one of my favorites.
I heard that story too.
Paul himself has said that George played bass on "She Said She Said"
John played bass on Let It Be, as can be seen in the movie and the Get Back documentary, but it's said that it was so bad that Paul re-recorded it.
It ain't that bad
Listen to the naked the bass is
Clear
On Naked part of the bassline is the overdub.. doesn't come in as soon as the original release though. Also.. Spector himself said later in an interview that he asked McCartney if he'd like to overdub a new bass on Long & Winding Road and he said McCartney wasn't interested at the time he was working on the album.
"Gently Wheeps" - Lennon on the verses playing Fender VI. McCartney joins on choruses playing his lefty J Bass, doubling the hook. you can also hear guitar doubling the hook in octaves, most likely George, most likely playing his Ric 12.
It probably is good if we don't forget that Paul was originally a guitar player. He took over the role of bass when Stu Sutcliff left the band, since George was clearly a lead player. So it shouldn't be a stretch to see that Paul enjoyed playing guitar and would happily let someone else take over bass. In those days bass was still considered by many to be something less important. Obviously we know this was just unfounded bias and, we hope, no longer a common misconception.
The bass is usually not as important. And it was typically the instrument played by the least talented member of the band with the arguable exception of the drummer.
Having said, so, and some songs like rain, the base is the most important instrument in the song. And if you ever listened to Stanley, Clark or Chuck Rainey, you know that the base can be as challenging and amazing as any other instrument in the group.
You can definitely hear George’s country influence when he takes the bass
On the bridge part of "Old Brown Shoe" it sounds like Chris Squire playing bass.
Your work on Rush is fantastic!! Over the last few weeks, I've been asking, "Who was/is the "mystery" Bass Player"? On the live in Dallas Clapton/Layla 1976 version. Opps, but I think the bass player is one of the favorite parts of the song.
Ive always heard that "she said she said" was the only Beatle song recorded without Maca on it
Same that's what I thought.
Well theres Revolution 9 :D
@@bryemycaz the book Beatlessongs (a must !) claims Paul’s playing piano at the beginning
@@brgreg8725 I don't even hear piano in that song? Let alone the beginning?
@@adabofeverything7120 listen again,
Paul played the guitar solo on Taxman, a song written by George Harrison. Paul may not have played bass on every Beatles song, but whatever instrument he did play on a Beatles song it was always the best AND most creative part.
Excellent video! My only bone to pick is at 3:48: the word "homage" is pronounced "Oh-Mahzhh"
I've scene a vid where the interviewer claims Paul played the bass part in silver hammer and compliments him on the Tuba like approach of the part at which point Paul demonstrates the part on a bass.
The White Album definitely isn't called 'Back In The USSR'.
This video is another example of the genius of The Beatles who were some of the greatest musician who ever lived.
Fooled you again haven't they....
There were two bass played in Obbla Di Obbla dah. Different octaves 😊
According to The Beatles Recording Reference Manual. 1.) Back In The USSR: Backing track- Harrison Drums, McCartney Casino Guitar, and Lennon Fender Bass VI. Overdub 1 McCartney Drums, McCartney (Fender Jazz) and Harrison (Fender Bass VI) on Bass simultaneously, Lennon on Snare Overdub 2 McCartney Piano, Lennon and Harrison on Lead Guitar 2.) Rocky Raccoon: Harrison on Fender Bass VI 3.) Helter Skelter: Lennon on Fender Bass VI 4.) Honey Pie: Harrison on Fender Bass VI 5.) Maxwell’s Silver Hammer: Harrison Bass (either Fender Bass VI or Fender Jazz Bass) 6.) Oh Darling: Harrison Bass (either Fender Bass VI or Fender Jazz Bass) 7.) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight: Harrison Fender Bass VI 8.) Two of Us: Harrison on Fender Rosewood Telecaster 9.) Dig It: McCartney Hofner 500/1 Bass 10.) The Long and Winding Road: Lennon Fender Bass VI 11.) Old Brown Shoe: McCartney on Rickenbaker 4001S Bass 12.) While My Guitar Gently Weeps: McCartney on Rickenbaker 4001S Bass 13.) She Said, She Said: McCartney on Rickenbaker 4001S Bass* McCartney had recorded his bass on the track before he and Lennon had an argument with McCartney leaving.
You forgot "it's all too much"
The entire song is a mystery on who plays what
It's all too much to take in,really!!😇
The mystery being why this song.. where this AMAZING psychedelic like guitar that evokes the sound of the guitarists in Big County from years later and which features a pretty grand horn arrangement by George Martin is absolutely NEVER mentioned. It's also the only session the Beatles did without George Martin as producer. The thing they did right before All You Need Is Love & days before Pepper's release! It's just completely in a memory hole somewhere. It's the one question I'd LOVE to ask McCartney about!!! Why doesn't anybody???
It really doesn't matter who played what. They are just the greatest band there's ever been.
OR WILL BE and they were
OURS.....
Found out recently no beatles played on sgt pep shes leaving home. Great you tube vid of the lady brought in to play harp
YES you`re right and there will never be a better band they were the greatest I am almost 73 y.o. and I still listen to Beatles music
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Drive My Car is another. I have read one account (wish I could still recall where) that George recalled playing bass on this song and even indicated it was a swipe from someone else's song, though it's hard to believe it's not Paul. You mention Lewisohn's book which I used to be in awe of but over the years seems to be rather thin in information. He would be better served going back to researching and rewriting a more complete version than writing their biography and attempting to position of the world authority on the Beatles, which he is not.
I don't know about the studio versions of Hey Jude but George plays the bass on the live version that was made for the David Frost show.
I suspect, John also played bass on "Let it be". Paul played piano.
Originally yes, but according with George Martin the John bass was so bad than he call Paul for re-recorded it
@@yoaliehecatl22 I don't even know if the bass was SO bad.. George Martin HATED to work with rock bands... he LOVED the session musicians! But I've heard that Spector suggested the same thing for Long & Winding Road but Paul wasn't participating by then and it just wouldn't have happened by March - April 1970. Martin was supervising the release of the Let It Be single.. and wouldn't have gone near the album unless they'd have specifically hired him to do so.
Paul's memory is not - shall we say - definitive. As a session player of some 45 years who has happily gone through the original master tapes, let me add: The bass on 'She said, she said' was definitely George, after Paul had walked out in a huff during that session. 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' was primarily John on bass, with George doubling the bass line on guitar. 'Old Brown Shoe'...when George was interviewed about this, the interviewer said 'and McCartney going a bit mad on the bass again, eh?' to which George replied 'The bass player WAS going mad but it wasn't Paul, it was me - I played the bass on that.'
It's not George, the recent Revolver remix disproves that. There's two guitars, bass, and drums on the basic track. Paul walked out after the basic track was put down, hence why he isn't on the harmonies, but he did play bass on the track
Was McCartney trying to get back at George for the She Said, She Said, by bossing him on his guitar parts on the Let It Be sessions?
Paul played bass. You can hear Paul on outtakes for the song, the Revolver remix book says it’s Paul, and Mark Lewisohn says it must be Paul because of the way it was recorded with 4 tracks
It's not surprising the Fender Base VI wS used as it is not actually considered a base but more a guitar, tuned to guitar tuning but one octave lower so it sounds like a base, with special strings. John and George would have felt more comfortable because it would have been a familiar six stringed instrument exactly like a guitar except deeper with a slightly longer fretboard.
It's Paul on bass for Helter Skelter. Listen to take 17, which can be found here on UA-cam. At the beginning you hear Paul explain something, he starts singing and playing the same thing on the bass at the same time. There's no way John would've known what to play and be that synced with Paul, especially it being off the cuff. It's also sloppy because Paul is playing and singing at the same time, and he's also singing very hard, so it's understandable that he'd be playing a bit sloppy.
I am very old now and I was brought up on the Beatles. Personally, I always regarded Paul as a singer/songwriter and never as a Bass player. I think they all played whatever was necessary to make the music work. I really don't think it mattered who played what and quite frankly I couldn't care less.
Paul "fooled" a lot of people, then, with his bass playing, as his melodic style was novel in the context of '60s pop and also highly influential. ... If you couldn't care less who played what, why on earth would you watch this video? ... or did you?
You are making the assumption that George/John created the baselines on Paul's songs. You state that George sounds just like Paul when he plays. It is just as likely that Paul created the baselines and George played them and that is why he sounds like Paul. When watching Get Back, one can see Paul telling John what he needs to do on the base because he is struggling with it.
Bass.
@@scottandrewbrass Thanks. That's what three hours of sleep does for the brain.
Fender finally gained a foothold with the post touring Beatles. New studio tools put straight to use.
Oh Darling and Maxwell's Silver Hammer are 2 of my favorite George basslines. George had a fine melodic sensitivity when he played bass. John plodded on the bass, but George played it well.
Oh Darling is for me the most surprising...it's so Paul. Wonder if he gave any "direction" to George...Better not to know and just enjoy 🙂.
Samee, i learned that on the bass and always thought it was sooo macca
nah. Paul did not use as many slides as George on bass. This is definitely something that a guitarist would play. You can hear similarities in Two of Us, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, and Golden Slumbers.
Towards the end, Paul was very bossy in the studio. I could see him writing the basslines on the Abbey Road album for George to play. Also, I heard John’s bass in the Long and winding Road was from an earlier take when he was still learning the song. He eventually got better, but they didn’t use that later take for some reason
you mean faul
Is it the original version of "Helter Skelter" you used in this video? Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me it sounds better here, than the original version ! 😆
George plays that Fender bass on the semi-live version of Hey Jude. Not sure if he did on the recorded version. And I thing Lennon also played that same Fender bass on Let it be. Thanks for the video, cheers!
I think he played bass on the recorded version.. again not something that is mentioned because it was such a sore point for George that he didn't get to play the guitar like he wanted to. Even that one fill that George does late in the song is like a sop to him that must have irked him for years afterwards.
The Hey Jude video is mimed. Paul played on the released version
If Paul lives long enough, he’ll eventually confess to playing every instrument on every album and that he wrote every song.
He’s done more than enough to have to pad his credit. He’s hands down the most gifted and versatile musician in the Beatles. His list of acknowledged credits on iconic bass, guitar, piano, Mellotron and many other instruments speaks for itself.
There's one born every minute
@@HEADLINEZOO wait till Ringo kicks the bucket. You’ll see.
@@SantiagoTwelvePack McCartney, the most successful musician and songwriter in history just wants credit for what he did do, just like everyone else. McCartney gives a ton of credit to John, George and Ringo because they deserve a ton of credit. They’re all great together and apart. Ringo is a vastly underrated song man, singer and musician. He has it in spades. Lennon was a brilliant dynamic underrated rhythm guitarist and George was a beautifully tasteful guitarist who lifted many songs with his playing. The lead guitar on Something is as good as it gets; nobody has surpassed him.
@@HEADLINEZOO I like Paul and I’ll give him credit for this; of all the Beatles, he was the only one in my view to have reached his full potential. While the others were partying or focusing on spirituality, or being house dads, Paul was working harder than the rest. He had a drive the rest of them didn’t. Still it’s amazing that John, George, and Ringo produced such amazing music when they were in the mood. I doubt there’ll ever be that much talent in one band again.
It seems plausible that George also played bass on Drive My Car. The style and tone are very different from Paul's. It's being played with a pick for one thing. I heard or read a couple things during the Anthology era that this was the case. i don't have the album handy at the moment and I don't remember if it listed song-by-song credits but I do know that Paul is usually assumed to be "the bass player" unless shown otherwise.
How do you know? There might be rehearsal clips, but Paul may have played different parts on different tracks, especially in the later days.
Nice video, never knew most of these!!
In Wings live concerts, in some songs the bass guitar was played by Denny Laine and even guitarist Jimmy McCulloch!
What about Ticket To Ride???
I'd heard it was GH on bass, PM on lead guitar.
Anyone have something to confirm.
There was a syndicated show on radio in 1983, called The Yellow Submarine, hosted by Ringo. He had said that George played bass on TTR. I guess he ought to know, right?
Yes I remember the show but forgot what year it came out! Thanks. Never heard anyone else mention it till now.
Hell, where did those 40 years go?!
Paul is on bass and lead during the solo and bridge of Ticket to Ride
I had seen you on Instagram before, your videos here excellent too!
Thanks a lot!🤘
Not sure if it’s true but I heard John did the bass line on I Will with his mouth. When you hear it isolated you can hear him taking breaths in between some notes.
I have a question : today you can imitate the bass with the Octave Pedal , could somebody tell me if during those years the Octave pedals were already available? Thanx in advance to anybody can give me an answer .
So many talents shared. On Get Back, all four of them play some piano. Harrison even says something like the piano is hard as he plinks out a reasonable melody. That 6 string is handy for guitar players to fill in on.
One thing I can never find out is WHO exactly played what on "It's All Too Much" it was their only self produced session but that guitar work is indicative of Macca but so is the bass and it all seems to have been done in one take!
At 2.14, is that George playing Paul's Hofner upside down?
While My Guitar Gently Weeps sounds like McCartney on his Rickenbacker to me.
I'd suggest that the bass on 'You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)' was also played by John or George, while Paul was occupied with the piano during the recording of the basic track.
Also, it's not a rumour that George played bass on 'Old Brown Shoe'; he confirmed it in an interview. And it makes sense when you consider that Paul was occupied with the drums (Ringo was filming that day, and the previous one (the 'Ballad Of John And Yoko' session)), as confirmed in the book accompanying the anniversary edition of 'Abbey Road'.
There’s no way Paul is playing drums on OBS, the booklet is wrong. The authors were not relying on any documentary evidence that Paul played drums (he did play the piano and bass, the latter at the same time as George doubling on guitar, sharing a track) but made the assumption that Ringo couldn’t have played it because Magic Christian was still in production. The fact that the movie was being made in London and that the recording session was in the evening and that perhaps Ringo had finished his acting duties by then doesn’t seem to have come into the authors’ calculations.
There was a rumor for a long time that George played bass on Drive My Car, but this was a misunderstanding. With Paul playing lead guitar, people weren't sure what George did on that song and when he said in an interview that he came up with the bass part, people put 2 and 2 together...but actually, while the bass part was his idea, he didn't actually play it. He may have doubled it on the guitar, but it's Paul on the bass. As for While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I think it's a combination. Paul probably does play most of it but I think some of it was either John or George on the 6 string, especially the bit that doubles that 12 string guitar part.
George says he came up with the bass part and he and Paul doubled it. he also confused the shit out of everyone for years saying WE laid down the lead guitar afterward. which led lots of people to think that the lead guitar was him or him and paul but evidently it's Paul alone. george did do a guitar part that is said to be heard faintly in the back round but was edited out
The guitar doubles the bass lines in the verses so George could have written them.
With the exception of George’s bass playing on Taxman-where Paul plays the great guitar lead-there are no standout memorable bass parts by John or George. The list of standout lead guitar (Taxman), piano (While My Guitar Gently Weeps), or Mellotron (Strawberry Fields Forever) and drums (Dear Prudence) is long.
Paul played bass on Taxman
@@zetmoon Paul played the lead guitar solo after George was struggling with it. You may be right about the bass part. It’s solid bass and brilliant lead guitar.
Paul played the solo and bass
Ha, the isolated helter skelter made me go “oh yeah, not Paul” 😂
Paul and John played bass on BITUSSR. Paul solely played bass on Helter Skelter as an outtake audio shows him singing and playing bass at the same time. ua-cam.com/video/rhiFJ6L3sS0/v-deo.html