Late 60s beat-pop bass style/sound

[Beedster]

Love this thread, love the bass tone in question, amazing how hard it is to achieve a lo-fi sound with hi-fi gear 👍

[Belka]

Here are Dave Richmond's own words on the Walker Brothers (taken from the Talkbass thread):

 

I did some work with The Walker Brothers before they split up. That was at the very start of my session career just after I had left the John Barry Seven. On that Solo album with Scott there were three different musical directors. Herbie did play on some of the tracks. I can usually spot Herbie’s style of playing. As you know he played on ‘War of the Worlds’ on it you can here him playing a lot of stuff very high up at times. As far as I know he always played a Fender Bass Guitar. You can spot the difference on the ‘The Old Man’s Back in Town’ where the sound is more ‘Gutsy’. I had no idea I was playing on ‘The old man’s back in Town’ until last year. In fact I had never even heard it before. I was asked by Paul Osborne of KPM music to be interviewed on Soho Radio (a small independent radio station based in Windmill Street in Soho, London) When I arrived there they asked me about The ‘Old Man’s Back’ track. I said ‘Play it to me and I’ll tell you’ As. soon as they played it I new it was me (one guy nearly fainted, he was so excited!) It was exactly my style of playing at the time. If anyone is interested you can go to Soho Radio’s website and hear the broadcast as it went out. Just search on ‘Dave Richmond’ and it should come up.