this is straight up one of the best bass lined ever written its so driving and fat and saturated with thought and precision. it;s so weird how the bass notes he plays are NOT thesame he sings...it makes it even harder to play ahahah
This is definitely Geddy's Vital Signs bass line. God, he is just amazing. Love the tone of the Rick 4001. As much as I love his Jazz, the Rick is classic.
3:00 - 3:13 PERFECT bass solo, why? while it may not be difficult to play or showy its melodic and perfectly placed. Many so called "bass solos" are just a bunch of percussive noises.
I love how you can hear in this version that he shifts from the 1st fret Bb on the A string to the 6th fret Bb on the E string in the chorus. It's a nice, smooth transition that you just don't hear as easily in the final product.
I was reading how the plug-in voice removal works. Basically a voice track is a center track or mono or something which allows it to be removed but most of the time you can hear the singer. I think it only works properly on a true 8 track reel system where once it is digitize it bleeds over slightly into other tracks. so go find a analog vs of a true 8 track and remove it from that. But it wont be no home PC with emulation software ;)
Geddy: Look at those glasses eating my entire face. XD
Agreed, Geddy has incredible bass tone. He's an incredible bassist (a huge understatement, I know). And I absolutely love the sound on the Rickenbacker. <3
Almost nobody recognizes the fact that Geddy tunes are not difficult to play for a serious bass player.
The fact that makes Geddy so great is NOT his technique in my opinion. Its his creativity. Note choices, his overall conciousness of the overall sound, the song and how he complements with his band comrades. Thats to me what makes him great...Not the hands.
You can hear it in his vocal lines as well, wonderful compositions, by their own right.
@intioyarzun Gonna agree and disagree with you. Geddy's bass playing is, yes, defined by his creativity...but his ability to sing behind that bass playing is legendary.
@intioyarzun Funny you say that. I havent heard anyone play a RUSH song like Geddy. Oh sure, there are some great Bass players that can play some RUSH songs right out of the book, but Geddy doesnt play out of the book. If you ever listened to RUSH with headphones, you would hear that he plays way outside of the printed notes.
@intioyarzun Actually, Geddy has been approached a few times about making an instructional DVD and has usually said "Who would want to learn anything from me?" On the other hand, I couldnt disagree with more that his stuff his easy to play, that's a complete crock of shit. I could only hope to play songs like Digital Man or YYZ one day. Post some videos of you effortlessly rocking some serious Rush tunes out, then I'll be impressed.
@intioyarzun It's both, I truly believe. It's maybe not difficult to play the notes, but to play with the same sense of emotion and rhythm as Ged, that's no easy task- even for the accomplished bassist. Although I do agree on the creativity part, he constantly wrote (and continues to write) bass parts which are completely outside the box, whether the bass acts as the lead instrument or is a supporting role.
Some of hiss basslines are kind of difficult, it depends where you're coming from someone who a plays alot of fast metal, or is classically trained will probably find Gedd's lines relatively easy to pull off, someone coming from playing pop/country/ or most or covering popular rock songs will probably have trouble grasping Gedd's lines.
@intioyarzun but you have to agree how difficult it is to coordinate playing all of this and singing... than we have something way beyond the average skill. Other quality in Geddy Lee's bass is his catch, the way he takes the most of the instrument, specially with his rickenbacker (too bad he changed instruments), playing hard but without making that annoying fret noise, or when the string hits the coil - I don't know if my basses suck too bad, but those are usual problems for me.
His tone and style rules for rock bass! Distortion to fill out the three piece band sound and sitting nicely in the mix with Alex and Neil on the studio stuff. Love the chorus sounding molodic part at 3:00. Then nasty stabs starting at 3:14.
@Fenderjazz1987 Red Barchetta, Limelight, The Camera Eye, and Vital Signs were all Rickenbacker tracks. Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Witch Hunt were Jazz tracks. I'd put money on it.
I remember reading an article where Geddy says he didn't use the Rickenbacker was often as people think. I've also been playing bass for a long while and slaved over Geddy's tone, trying to match mine to his. I can safely say this song is definitely a Fender Jazz, as is Limelight. Red Barchetta and Camera Eye are Rickenbacker.
@Fenderjazz1987 Geddy said this album was the first time he used half Ric and Half Jazz, with Signals being the other album that used a lot of Jazz. As a bassist for ten years, Ged head, and Ric owner/enthusiast, I honestly believe this is the Ric. Plus he plays the jazz in the music video, and in all the music videos he's using the bass he didn't use on the album. Also, in an interview on his basses he says Limelight is the Ric. It's straight from his mouth.
@Fenderjazz1987 Lemme just confirm your statement that Moving Pictures, indeed, as a whole, was performed with the Fender Jazz. According to Robert Telleria's awesome Rush Tribute - Mereley Players compendium, the Rickenbacker 4001 featured in the Tom Sawyer studio video is for "effect".
One more tidbit...the Jazz was strung with Rotosound Swing Bass 66 round-wound long scale strings (.45, .65, .80, .105).
Thanks jndlee92, for making this conversation possible with this cool youtube video
The Rush Camp had to have supplied "real" stuff for Rock Band. It's possible they wanted to have "fun" and sent off alternate takes of some of the lines... or mixed-in different "punches" here and there... but the tone the style and playing is no dount Geddy.
Not a fan of Jazz basses myself, but this is almost certainly a Jazz. The Rick sounds different in the bottom end. But he did not use it as much as Fender or Geddy, because of his endorsement deal, would like you to think.
There was a fair amount of revisionist history when the Sig jazz bass came out.
He used the Steinberger a lot more than folk know too
Steinberger alot on touring and Grace Under Pressure-Power Windows,
Wal- Power Windows to Roll the Bones
Counterparts and forward Fender Jazz again,
I'm not a fan of the jazz anymore myself but the exact jazz he got from that pawn shop, used on the p waves to signals, had such an amazing sound and warm tone,
Couldnt be sure, but he braces his middle finger with the 1st and 3rd and swipes at the strings.... HARD!!! So he's probably catching the string with the end of his nail as he does, or it could be his famous flamenco thing he does.
@mindhead2005 You're picking up on what Geddy's doing with his right hand and fingers plus nails on this track and you have only 9 thumbs compared to the bullshit comment above yours that was posted by some gaylord who has 20 thumbs up. It's too bad he closed his account. I wanted to check out how effortlessly it was for him to copy Geddys' bass lines and tone authentically. La Villa Strangiato would have been a good one. You copy Geddy the same way you copy Entwistle.
@mindhead2005 You're picking up on what Geddy's doing with his right hand and fingers plus nails on this track and you have only 9 thumbs up compared to the bullshit comment above yours that was posted by some gaylord who has 20 thumbs up. It's too bad he closed his account. I wanted to check out how effortlessly it was for him to copy Geddys' bass lines and tone authentically. La Villa Strangiato would have been a good one. You copy Geddy the same way you copy Entwistle.
i have a ricky and i was usin this thing called line6 gearbox where i plug my bass into the comp and play with headphones and there were lots of custom tones to chose one, it had a geddy lee replica of this tone. it was fuckin amazin
oh thats awesome man yeah ricks are definetly amazing when you get the hang the hang of em. i dont know how geddy gets this tone naturally i wish i knew how because my rick dont sound really like this naturally only when i did that thing with my friends line 6 gearbox. but a trick to definitely help gettin closer to this tone is attack hard with your fingers over the bridge pickup.
@vaportrails44 you sir, are wrong. only a few songs were recorded with the jazz, you can tell its a rick on red barchetta and on the tom sawyer video he plays a rick
I promise you he used the fender jazz on the entire record. Geddy has stated in many interviews that they think it's the Rick and it's not...it's the Fender Jazz. Go investigate it. The videos for Tom Sawyer and Limelight in studio were just that...videos. Geddy plays a Rick in the videos for Body Electric and Enemy Within but used the Steinberger on record and live for them...videos are not good for argument sake. Lifeson used a Fender Strat in the video for Big Money when he recorded it with..
yeah it actuallly sounds like he uses the jazz bass more too, I know his ricky tone and its a bit more trebly then this and his playin is a little tighter with the rick. but either way geddys tone sounds almost the same on every bass i see him play, mainly cus of his amp and his style and hard hitting attacks
the Howard Roberts, and in Show Don't Tell he is using the white Gibson but recorded it and used live a PRS. Geddy used a jazz bass in Show Don't Tell video as well but recorded it with a Wal bass and used a Wal live.
Geddy even did an interview saying he played both on the album. Being a bassist and Ric enthusiast myself, I believe he played the jazz on two tracks, Tom Sawyer and Witch Hunt.
no one said these are the tracks that went into the final released version- right? If anyone on this has ever been in the studio before- then ya know who many various little elements are sussed out until you finally say "this one- that one- or I can't choose, producer you pick..."
My vote is this one- Vital Signs is most def. REAL
think you could do the keyboards and bass track for subdivisions? great vids dude! its been great in helping me learn these songs much better than anything else! thanks!
thats him playing you morons. its an isolated bass track. If its fake, which its not, someone went to great, great lengths to split a jazz pickup to make bridge distorted (at perfct level) and neck clean and use the same effects and pick up all of the subtle things geddy incorperates while he plays
Nice pic of him playing guitar but those are horrible glasses even by his standards. He would say they are eating his face. Does anyone have any videos of Geddy playing guitar aside from Resist and Xanadu? I would like to gauge his skill although it is probably top notch. Or how about him or Alex playing drums or Neil playing guitar or bass. Yeah.
Whoever it is playing this, they are very good. However, this is not the bass track from the Moving Pictures album. If it's Geddy Lee, he isnt even playing to half of his ability of his skill.
thanks. u opened my eyes :D! i agree with u. i have red barchetta bass track and i knew it was fake( thats why i havent uploaded it). This one seems to be fake too. But i think limelight,YYZ,tom sawyer, the camera eye and whitch hunt are real bass tracks from moving pictures.
Yeah its definitely real. Please upload the others as I doubt they are fake. This bass tone is the same as the limelight tone, not to mention that it's the same tone as on the record.
Even though that part in Red Barchetta is different, the rest of the song is absolutely right on with the studio release. All of the tiny intricacies that cannot be reproduced are there.
@jndlee92 Multitrack masters bro...... just different takes or the unedited version of many takes. Its the real deal here. Just the multitrack masters.
This kind of this truly shows how brilliant Geddy is.....and yes "BLUESUB6" there are other great bass players out there. I think it's easy for serious fans to think he is the best because overall we think Rush is the best. He is my personal favorite but I like other bass players as well. :)
This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate Rush fans, even if I love Rush. There is no "best" bassist out there, despite your childish, utter cult-like fanboyism.
Geddy sold his soul at the crossroads to come up with these bass lines.
dvdfrnzwbr 3 weeks ago
Anyone can learn to play a bass line that's already bean played. It's another to compose it.
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SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
I can't get tired of watching these isolated bass tracks from Geddy. And I don't even play the bass
Alvinegro1904 2 months ago
this is straight up one of the best bass lined ever written its so driving and fat and saturated with thought and precision. it;s so weird how the bass notes he plays are NOT thesame he sings...it makes it even harder to play ahahah
utubedestroysmytime 2 months ago 2
Geddy is a briliant artist.
dvdfrnzwbr 2 months ago 3
Hilarious how its a video of Geddy's isolated bass tracks and yet he's holding a guitar in the picture. Lmao.
UltimoGuitarist2 2 months ago 4
Just Amazing
Thanks for sharing this masterful track
powerman5000ca 4 months ago
Bass lines are just epic!!!
LOLKloklok 4 months ago
This is definitely Geddy's Vital Signs bass line. God, he is just amazing. Love the tone of the Rick 4001. As much as I love his Jazz, the Rick is classic.
WestwardOneOH 5 months ago
@WestwardOneOH Vital Signs is the jazz
Shadic159 4 months ago
These isolated Geddy tracks are like crack for bassists.
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SuperMegaUberGenius 5 months ago
Good idea. Thanks for posting.
kyoozoocanada 5 months ago
3:00 - 3:13 PERFECT bass solo, why? while it may not be difficult to play or showy its melodic and perfectly placed. Many so called "bass solos" are just a bunch of percussive noises.
jedw 6 months ago
His tone is so badass, especially when he turns on the chorus near the end. Bass tone master!
Xanadu1115 6 months ago
This was very nice to hear. Do you have same sort of recording about Animate? That is my favourite song and my favourite bass line from Rush.
keulimos 7 months ago
he doesnt seem to use dynamics much
corgang 8 months ago
i could listen this bass track for hours and hours...
returninghero 8 months ago
Can you isolate the drums on Vital Signs? That'd be great to practice with.
loverickbass 9 months ago
I love how you can hear in this version that he shifts from the 1st fret Bb on the A string to the 6th fret Bb on the E string in the chorus. It's a nice, smooth transition that you just don't hear as easily in the final product.
tepes22b 10 months ago
I was reading how the plug-in voice removal works. Basically a voice track is a center track or mono or something which allows it to be removed but most of the time you can hear the singer. I think it only works properly on a true 8 track reel system where once it is digitize it bleeds over slightly into other tracks. so go find a analog vs of a true 8 track and remove it from that. But it wont be no home PC with emulation software ;)
tsatm2011 11 months ago
don't feed the eyeglasses in reverse
SuperMegaUberGenius 11 months ago
Sounds like he's playing the Ric with each output jack leading to a separate amp like Entwhistle used to do.
lucifer73 1 year ago
Wow amazing tone from 3:00. Does he use a pedal for that?
x1te 1 year ago
@x1te i think he uses overdrive and chorus during the solo
bugnny 1 year ago
Geddy: Look at those glasses eating my entire face. XD
Agreed, Geddy has incredible bass tone. He's an incredible bassist (a huge understatement, I know). And I absolutely love the sound on the Rickenbacker. <3
EntustinMeYourLife 1 year ago
Just three words:
Geddy is God!
ricardopetrinni 1 year ago
does it really matter what bass he used for this song?
cant we all just try and enjoy the playing?
jbassman666 1 year ago
Geddy Lee and Rush are amazing :)
BDizDaBest 1 year ago
Almost nobody recognizes the fact that Geddy tunes are not difficult to play for a serious bass player.
The fact that makes Geddy so great is NOT his technique in my opinion. Its his creativity. Note choices, his overall conciousness of the overall sound, the song and how he complements with his band comrades. Thats to me what makes him great...Not the hands.
You can hear it in his vocal lines as well, wonderful compositions, by their own right.
intioyarzun 1 year ago 29
@intioyarzun Idk if your referring to the WAY he sings, but those lyrics are written by Peart
TheGuitarman355 1 year ago
@TheGuitarman355 Really!? I feel Illuminated. A vocal line is not a lyric.
intioyarzun 1 year ago
@intioyarzun Gonna agree and disagree with you. Geddy's bass playing is, yes, defined by his creativity...but his ability to sing behind that bass playing is legendary.
PurdueRules15 6 months ago
@intioyarzun Funny you say that. I havent heard anyone play a RUSH song like Geddy. Oh sure, there are some great Bass players that can play some RUSH songs right out of the book, but Geddy doesnt play out of the book. If you ever listened to RUSH with headphones, you would hear that he plays way outside of the printed notes.
SRTST51 5 months ago
@intioyarzun Actually, Geddy has been approached a few times about making an instructional DVD and has usually said "Who would want to learn anything from me?" On the other hand, I couldnt disagree with more that his stuff his easy to play, that's a complete crock of shit. I could only hope to play songs like Digital Man or YYZ one day. Post some videos of you effortlessly rocking some serious Rush tunes out, then I'll be impressed.
keviinmach 4 months ago 2
@intioyarzun hes got great timing as well
IronMaidenDoD 4 months ago
@intioyarzun Let's see you play the entire 1st track off Hemispheres. :)
jonpaulmoen 4 months ago
@intioyarzun It's both, I truly believe. It's maybe not difficult to play the notes, but to play with the same sense of emotion and rhythm as Ged, that's no easy task- even for the accomplished bassist. Although I do agree on the creativity part, he constantly wrote (and continues to write) bass parts which are completely outside the box, whether the bass acts as the lead instrument or is a supporting role.
NR92CP 3 months ago 3
@intioyarzun There's no doubt the key to his greatness is the sum of his parts!
takingdaggers 2 months ago
@intioyarzun la villa strangiato
Thiswasnotmade 2 months ago
@intioyarzun
Some of hiss basslines are kind of difficult, it depends where you're coming from someone who a plays alot of fast metal, or is classically trained will probably find Gedd's lines relatively easy to pull off, someone coming from playing pop/country/ or most or covering popular rock songs will probably have trouble grasping Gedd's lines.
RuroiniStenchin 1 month ago
@intioyarzun but you have to agree how difficult it is to coordinate playing all of this and singing... than we have something way beyond the average skill. Other quality in Geddy Lee's bass is his catch, the way he takes the most of the instrument, specially with his rickenbacker (too bad he changed instruments), playing hard but without making that annoying fret noise, or when the string hits the coil - I don't know if my basses suck too bad, but those are usual problems for me.
tricao 1 month ago
I don't care who you are.....playing the bass while singing such songs as Anthem and Digital man is hard.
Rowdyrecords55 1 month ago
Awesome, completely awesome!!!
skylineavs 1 year ago
this is a hard song to play. I couldnt imagien tryen to sing it too.
MrRush1974 1 year ago
I'd like to see Bieber's bassist play this
AGENTxx47 1 year ago
@AGENTxx47 Bieber doesnt have a bassist its all fake electronic computer shit
TOSportsFan1990 8 months ago
His tone and style rules for rock bass! Distortion to fill out the three piece band sound and sitting nicely in the mix with Alex and Neil on the studio stuff. Love the chorus sounding molodic part at 3:00. Then nasty stabs starting at 3:14.
ebasss 1 year ago
Geddy is the master of bass tones. The tone he gets from his Fender Jazz on this song and Limelight are amazing.
Fenderjazz1987 1 year ago
@Fenderjazz1987 I'm still trying to figure out how he gets that tone.
dLema1 1 year ago
@dLema1
Jazz bass with DR nickel round wounds and an Ampeg SVT with 2x JBL K240s. CRANK IT and stick a great mic in front of it!
wado1942 1 year ago
@Fenderjazz1987 Red Barchetta, Limelight, The Camera Eye, and Vital Signs were all Rickenbacker tracks. Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Witch Hunt were Jazz tracks. I'd put money on it.
burningxdimx 1 year ago
@burningxdimx
I remember reading an article where Geddy says he didn't use the Rickenbacker was often as people think. I've also been playing bass for a long while and slaved over Geddy's tone, trying to match mine to his. I can safely say this song is definitely a Fender Jazz, as is Limelight. Red Barchetta and Camera Eye are Rickenbacker.
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burningxdimx 1 year ago
@Fenderjazz1987 Geddy said this album was the first time he used half Ric and Half Jazz, with Signals being the other album that used a lot of Jazz. As a bassist for ten years, Ged head, and Ric owner/enthusiast, I honestly believe this is the Ric. Plus he plays the jazz in the music video, and in all the music videos he's using the bass he didn't use on the album. Also, in an interview on his basses he says Limelight is the Ric. It's straight from his mouth.
burningxdimx 1 year ago
@burningxdimx this is the Ric its so bright sounding the Jazz bass is more mellow and deep
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@Annonymus121 I said it was the Ric,and by the way it's Wal not Wall
burningxdimx 1 year ago
@Fenderjazz1987 Lemme just confirm your statement that Moving Pictures, indeed, as a whole, was performed with the Fender Jazz. According to Robert Telleria's awesome Rush Tribute - Mereley Players compendium, the Rickenbacker 4001 featured in the Tom Sawyer studio video is for "effect".
One more tidbit...the Jazz was strung with Rotosound Swing Bass 66 round-wound long scale strings (.45, .65, .80, .105).
Thanks jndlee92, for making this conversation possible with this cool youtube video
pbyker 7 months ago
@pbyker limelight and red barchetta were done with the rick
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@pbyker indeed thank god for freedom of speech
SuperMegaUberGenius 5 months ago
The Rush Camp had to have supplied "real" stuff for Rock Band. It's possible they wanted to have "fun" and sent off alternate takes of some of the lines... or mixed-in different "punches" here and there... but the tone the style and playing is no dount Geddy.
TheMilford 1 year ago
@TheMilford Yeah I think they sent out another version of Working Man with a differnt solo before IIRC.
DelDuio 1 year ago
whats the banging in the back ground during his bass solo?
shaftymcshifterson 2 years ago
The background noise during the bass solo sounds like the synth machine.
DCmar93 2 years ago
Geddy Lee is awesome¡
rushjoako 2 years ago 2
Not a fan of Jazz basses myself, but this is almost certainly a Jazz. The Rick sounds different in the bottom end. But he did not use it as much as Fender or Geddy, because of his endorsement deal, would like you to think.
There was a fair amount of revisionist history when the Sig jazz bass came out.
He used the Steinberger a lot more than folk know too
mindhead2005 2 years ago
This is true. From end Signals-End of POW tour.
GangstaLink 2 years ago
Fender Jazz- Perminant Waves to Signals,
Steinberger alot on touring and Grace Under Pressure-Power Windows,
Wal- Power Windows to Roll the Bones
Counterparts and forward Fender Jazz again,
I'm not a fan of the jazz anymore myself but the exact jazz he got from that pawn shop, used on the p waves to signals, had such an amazing sound and warm tone,
XanaduMyHome 2 years ago
It has a blown rear pickup, So it sounds like the 4001 because it has a .047 capacitor there to cut lows.
His bass tech put it up in a Talk Bass thread. Russ Ryan
The Ric definitely features more than you think - particularly on Permanent Waves. I'm nearly sure thats all Rickenbacker.
The Berger was defnitely on Power Windows,
End of the day, it doesnt matter what he plays, you know its him.
Wen to see them in the NEC and hated the bass sound. That bloody sansamp nonsense.
mindhead2005 2 years ago
by any chance you know why his finger plucking sounds like picking in his bass tracks?
XanaduMyHome 2 years ago
Couldnt be sure, but he braces his middle finger with the 1st and 3rd and swipes at the strings.... HARD!!! So he's probably catching the string with the end of his nail as he does, or it could be his famous flamenco thing he does.
mindhead2005 2 years ago 10
@mindhead2005 I can see why Ged does that flemenco thing once you get it down my god is it fun!
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@mindhead2005 nope he only started that on counterparts :P
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@Annonymus121
Started what on counterparts?
mindhead2005 1 year ago
@mindhead2005 Flamenco picking he started to use it heavilly :P
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@mindhead2005 You're picking up on what Geddy's doing with his right hand and fingers plus nails on this track and you have only 9 thumbs compared to the bullshit comment above yours that was posted by some gaylord who has 20 thumbs up. It's too bad he closed his account. I wanted to check out how effortlessly it was for him to copy Geddys' bass lines and tone authentically. La Villa Strangiato would have been a good one. You copy Geddy the same way you copy Entwistle.
nkmcfrln 3 months ago 2
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@mindhead2005 You're picking up on what Geddy's doing with his right hand and fingers plus nails on this track and you have only 9 thumbs up compared to the bullshit comment above yours that was posted by some gaylord who has 20 thumbs up. It's too bad he closed his account. I wanted to check out how effortlessly it was for him to copy Geddys' bass lines and tone authentically. La Villa Strangiato would have been a good one. You copy Geddy the same way you copy Entwistle.
nkmcfrln 3 months ago
Usually when he plucks with his fingers, he puts a lot of nail behind it which gives it that tone.
DCmar93 2 years ago
@mindhead2005 Actually power windows and Hold Your Fire are the wall bass.
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@Annonymus121
Nope!
A lot of Power Windows is the Steinberger L2
mindhead2005 1 year ago
@mindhead2005 Which songs cause a lot of them sound like the wal :P?
Annonymus121 1 year ago
@Annonymus121
Marathon for one.
Sounds completely different to the Wal
mindhead2005 1 year ago
where can i learn how to rip tracks out of songs from plastic toy video games?
myspacceer 2 years ago
Sounds like a Jazz bass to me. I speak as a fan of both Ric's and jazz's, sounds like a Jazz, IMO.
jedw 2 years ago
Id agree about tone. But one thing Id question is timing, sounds a bit quick in some parts. Kool pic with Geddy with the acoustic
twingats16 2 years ago
i fuckin love the tone
i have a ricky and i was usin this thing called line6 gearbox where i plug my bass into the comp and play with headphones and there were lots of custom tones to chose one, it had a geddy lee replica of this tone. it was fuckin amazin
MattBodossian 2 years ago
Ohhh man... I'm so jealous!! As soon as I graduate nursing school I'm buyin a Ricky!
Gunslinger8806X 2 years ago
oh thats awesome man yeah ricks are definetly amazing when you get the hang the hang of em. i dont know how geddy gets this tone naturally i wish i knew how because my rick dont sound really like this naturally only when i did that thing with my friends line 6 gearbox. but a trick to definitely help gettin closer to this tone is attack hard with your fingers over the bridge pickup.
MattBodossian 2 years ago
...he gets his tone from using quite a bit of compression and a new set of Rotosound swing bass 66 medium light gauge strings.
Of course the details of the settings, speakers etc. are something I could only speculate on
MightySaturn5 2 years ago
this sounds like geddy's 4003 rick for sure!
SirGod85 2 years ago
No question, has to be...
xyz321123 2 years ago
@SirGod85 Geddy recorded all of moving pictures on his fender jazz bass not the rick.
vaportrails44 2 years ago
@vaportrails44 you sir, are wrong. only a few songs were recorded with the jazz, you can tell its a rick on red barchetta and on the tom sawyer video he plays a rick
moses132049 2 years ago
I promise you he used the fender jazz on the entire record. Geddy has stated in many interviews that they think it's the Rick and it's not...it's the Fender Jazz. Go investigate it. The videos for Tom Sawyer and Limelight in studio were just that...videos. Geddy plays a Rick in the videos for Body Electric and Enemy Within but used the Steinberger on record and live for them...videos are not good for argument sake. Lifeson used a Fender Strat in the video for Big Money when he recorded it with..
vaportrails44 2 years ago 2
yeah it actuallly sounds like he uses the jazz bass more too, I know his ricky tone and its a bit more trebly then this and his playin is a little tighter with the rick. but either way geddys tone sounds almost the same on every bass i see him play, mainly cus of his amp and his style and hard hitting attacks
MattBodossian 2 years ago
AND one more thing, the interview you're referring to, he says that people think he's playing Rickenbacker of Tom Sawyer, not the whole album.
burningxdimx 2 years ago
the Howard Roberts, and in Show Don't Tell he is using the white Gibson but recorded it and used live a PRS. Geddy used a jazz bass in Show Don't Tell video as well but recorded it with a Wal bass and used a Wal live.
vaportrails44 2 years ago
@vaportrails44
Geddy even did an interview saying he played both on the album. Being a bassist and Ric enthusiast myself, I believe he played the jazz on two tracks, Tom Sawyer and Witch Hunt.
burningxdimx 2 years ago
yea dude vapor is right, the jazz was pretty much the entire album
rushlover56 2 years ago
no one said these are the tracks that went into the final released version- right? If anyone on this has ever been in the studio before- then ya know who many various little elements are sussed out until you finally say "this one- that one- or I can't choose, producer you pick..."
My vote is this one- Vital Signs is most def. REAL
CorpusHermeticum 2 years ago
think you could do the keyboards and bass track for subdivisions? great vids dude! its been great in helping me learn these songs much better than anything else! thanks!
npbass 2 years ago
this sounds as though it's played with a pick
belial1237 2 years ago
@belial1237: it does, kinda! but really only the first 35 secs... trippy... it's those Gedworth fingernails!
gilesgoatboy 2 years ago
i can do if i find that file
jndlee92 2 years ago
thats him playing you morons. its an isolated bass track. If its fake, which its not, someone went to great, great lengths to split a jazz pickup to make bridge distorted (at perfct level) and neck clean and use the same effects and pick up all of the subtle things geddy incorperates while he plays
DeltaGaryGordon 2 years ago
Nice pic of him playing guitar but those are horrible glasses even by his standards. He would say they are eating his face. Does anyone have any videos of Geddy playing guitar aside from Resist and Xanadu? I would like to gauge his skill although it is probably top notch. Or how about him or Alex playing drums or Neil playing guitar or bass. Yeah.
Homie0static 2 years ago
Whoever it is playing this, they are very good. However, this is not the bass track from the Moving Pictures album. If it's Geddy Lee, he isnt even playing to half of his ability of his skill.
SRTST51 2 years ago
thanks. u opened my eyes :D! i agree with u. i have red barchetta bass track and i knew it was fake( thats why i havent uploaded it). This one seems to be fake too. But i think limelight,YYZ,tom sawyer, the camera eye and whitch hunt are real bass tracks from moving pictures.
jndlee92 2 years ago
This is not fake. Please upload the Red Barchetta one!
cygnusx211268 2 years ago
Yeah its definitely real. Please upload the others as I doubt they are fake. This bass tone is the same as the limelight tone, not to mention that it's the same tone as on the record.
cygnusx211268 2 years ago
i have uploaded red barchetta bass track. its fake. listen bass solo at the end. it is different than in real one.
jndlee92 2 years ago
No, it's the same.
cygnusx211268 2 years ago
listen red barchetta bass track @5:27-5:32!!.that part is different. compare that part with real red barchetta
jndlee92 2 years ago
Sorry mate you were right! I realized this after i posted the comment!
cygnusx211268 2 years ago
Even though that part in Red Barchetta is different, the rest of the song is absolutely right on with the studio release. All of the tiny intricacies that cannot be reproduced are there.
philritter21 2 years ago
@jndlee92 It was probably a different take, but it's definitely Geddy playing his Rickenbacker. Not a doubt about it.
cygnusx211268 1 year ago
@jndlee92 Its true that there is a difference at that point.
boondawgle 1 year ago
@jndlee92
Could just be an alternate take or a changed edit. That's the beauty of having 24-track tape recorders, you have options in the mix!
wado1942 1 year ago
@jndlee92 Multitrack masters bro...... just different takes or the unedited version of many takes. Its the real deal here. Just the multitrack masters.
marcusdolby1 1 year ago
This kind of this truly shows how brilliant Geddy is.....and yes "BLUESUB6" there are other great bass players out there. I think it's easy for serious fans to think he is the best because overall we think Rush is the best. He is my personal favorite but I like other bass players as well. :)
nopast68 2 years ago
sounds like he used a pick.
brunocoelhobass 2 years ago
i think he used his nails
jndlee92 2 years ago
not only is he the most skilled bassist out there, but he has such incredible tone! mind-boggling.
superhomsar2112 2 years ago 15
This is the kind of stuff that makes me hate Rush fans, even if I love Rush. There is no "best" bassist out there, despite your childish, utter cult-like fanboyism.
Bluesub6 2 years ago
we're all entitled to our opinions.
superhomsar2112 2 years ago
@superhomsar2112
Amazing what actually using an amp for the recording does for the sound. And Geddy could use it too.
wado1942 1 year ago
@superhomsar2112 my tone is really glee inspired.
benlorenc 9 months ago
very good !! super bass.
hellborg1964 2 years ago 2