While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Bass Only)

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[TheMarianitotv]

yo can hear mccartney's fingers sliding over strings aswome

[Grumpfff]

@DerIkke666 Tha Bass Track from helter-skelter was played by Lennon.

[MissFonebone]

Sexy as hell.

[rogerscottq]

Round-wound strings.

[mtc1982mtc]

FROM BRAZIL

DO POST THE BASS ON "HONEY DON'T".

HUGS!

[wings4ever]

@Grumpfff no it was mccartney

[LBrilliante]

@Grumpfff The books say only that Lennon played bass on the original session.. at some point McCartney overdubbed the bass. clear from the tone which is pure Rickenbacker... also.. McCartney is playing bass CHORDS through much of this!!! Lennon wasn't that kind of player .. check out the rythym isolate of Revolution to hear Lennon at work or his bass on Back in the USSR or Long and Winding Road

[beatlefan247]

@LBrilliante thos are also the same characteristics on a jazz bass. you need to remember mccartney barely used the sharp punchy tone on his rick and preferedthe wooly sounded of the neck pick up

[LBrilliante]

@beatlefan247 The book is in serious error that says that the Helter Skelter on the White Album is John.. he may have played bass during the original session but somewhere before the final album mix, McCartney overdubbed. The bass here is TREBLY AND BASSY.. the characteristics of the Rickenbacker bass.i.e. Long Distance Turnaround by YES whose Chris Squire also famously played the RIC.. same sort of tone.

[LBrilliante]

@LBrilliante Also.. notice how McCartney plays off of Clapton's solo and even plays a fill that mirrors Ringo's fill near one of the final "Look at you all"'s. A Fender VI has a light mellow tone and couldn't get anywhere near this deep barking tone under normal circumstances. McCartney in an interview says that he plays the most melodic runs when using the Hofner.. but on the Rick or Yamaha kind of stuck to basics because they had a different feel.

[LBrilliante]

@appmanga Ummm.. no this is not at all typical of Lennon's playing. This is actually quite typical of Mccartney's playing on the White Album in particular.. I'm So Tired.. Yer Blues.... even Martha My Dear all have this sort of trebly distorted bass sound. John played bass on Back in the USSR and may have played on the original Helter Skelter session but the version on the album is a McCartney overdubbed bassline. This is Paul's signature work on the White Album.

[MonkeySeeism]

Also they probably recorded it with the usual mic (Di?) and with a 2nd mic close to the strings.