Macca's bass on Wings 'Silly Love Songs'

[SMART]

Just been 'a clearing and re-organising the loft this evening and grabbed an old CD I haven't played for years (was in a 70s frame of mind...had the 'Best of the Sweet' on before...'Hellraiser' 'twas the very first single [showing my age now!] I ever did buy, followed by 'Gonna Make you A Star' by David Essex [produced by none than Jeff Wayne of 'War Of The Worlds' fame, you can hear his distinctive synth sound pre-TWOTW], then a groovy number called 'Jive Talkin' by them Bee Gees pre-'Saturday Night Fever', then I fell for the theme from 'Van Der Valk' called 'Eye Level' [you young 'uns won't know what I'm rambling on about!] and that was the beginning of a very large TV and film sound track collection...).

Getting back to the point of this new topic, the CD I grabbed was Wings 'Greatest Hits' and along came 'Silly Love Song' with a really great bass riff. Any of you out there tried it? It's great Macca bass playing!

Just some thoughts.

Ciao

Ian

Edited December 31, 2007 by SMART

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='SMART' post='111281' date='Dec 31 2007, 02:28 AM']Just been 'a clearing and re-organising the loft this evening and grabbed an old CD I haven't played for years (was in a 70s frame of mind...had the 'Best of the Sweet' on before...'Hellraiser' 'twas the very first single [showing my age now!] I ever did buy, followed by 'Gonna Make you A Star' by David Essex [produced by none than Jeff Wayne of 'War Of The Worlds' fame, you can hear his distinctive synth sound pre-TWOTW], then a groovy number called 'Jive Talkin' by them Bee Gees pre-'Saturday Night Fever', then I fell for the theme from 'Van Der Valk' called 'Eye Level' [you young 'uns won't know what I'm rambling on about!] and that was the beginning of a very large TV and film sound track collection...).

Getting back to the point of this new topic, the CD I grabbed was Wings 'Greatest Hits' and along came 'Silly Love Song' with a really great bass riff. Any of you out there tried it? It's great Macca bass playing!

Just some thoughts.

Ciao

Ian[/quote]

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[SMART]

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Many thanks EBS Freak, very thoughtful of you. Looks interesting, I'll have a real good gander later on...

Love Macca's grooves!

Ciao

Ian

[6stringbassist]

I wanted to be a vet, but didn't get high enough A level grades due to Paul McCartney, I spent too much time playing along to tracks like Silly love songs instead of revising.

Ended up at music college instead.

[obbm]

In the Macca vein you just might enjoy [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/fifteenminutemusical_mon"]Macca & Heather - The 15-minute musical[/url]

I wonder who the session bassist is?

[Thunderthumbs]

[quote name='SMART' post='111281' date='Dec 31 2007, 02:28 AM']Just been 'a clearing and re-organising the loft this evening and grabbed an old CD I haven't played for years (was in a 70s frame of mind...had the 'Best of the Sweet' on before...'Hellraiser' 'twas the very first single [showing my age now!] I ever did buy, followed by 'Gonna Make you A Star' by David Essex [produced by none than Jeff Wayne of 'War Of The Worlds' fame, you can hear his distinctive synth sound pre-TWOTW], then a groovy number called 'Jive Talkin' by them Bee Gees pre-'Saturday Night Fever', then I fell for the theme from 'Van Der Valk' called 'Eye Level' [you young 'uns won't know what I'm rambling on about!] and that was the beginning of a very large TV and film sound track collection...).

Getting back to the point of this new topic, the CD I grabbed was Wings 'Greatest Hits' and along came 'Silly Love Song' with a really great bass riff. Any of you out there tried it? It's great Macca bass playing!

Just some thoughts.

Ciao

Ian[/quote]

Ha ha.....being an old'un, I get every part of your ramblings!

Silly Love Songs is a fantastic bass line. It just proves that underneath an awful lot of cheese, there's some real cream. (I'll get my coat!).