The Beatles - Hey Bulldog

[Hobbayne]

Bloody hell, this bloke has nailed it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEoYkAK-wE

[acidbass]

Nice isolated line here too from the original master tape:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ZaR2RkYhg[/media]

[Oopsdabassist]

When our drummer suggested this song I could have killed him because of that bassline, I'm still nowhere near it!
I may be studying those vids for some time..............

[Happy Jack]

We all spend so much time, money and energy in trying to achieve "great bass tone" and one of the all-time greats gets a sound like a £40 starter bass from Woolworths in desperate need of a set - up.

[Coilte]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1433579910' post='2792201']
We all spend so much time, money and energy in trying to achieve "great bass tone" and one of the all-time greats gets a sound like a £40 starter bass from Woolworths in desperate need of a set - up.


[/quote]

....and here we all are decades later, admiring what he did. Just goes to show that it's not so much the tone.. but what you do with it... that matters.

[wombatboter]

Great stuff, really enjoyed it...thanks for posting !

[ColinB]

That's great. It really shows the bass as a harmony instrument.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1433579910' post='2792201']
We all spend so much time, money and energy in trying to achieve "great bass tone" and one of the all-time greats gets a sound like a £40 starter bass from Woolworths in desperate need of a set - up.


[/quote]
... and as you may be able to confirm Jack, at that time, a new Hofner was about £40 and did need a set-up.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1433581964' post='2792223']
That's great. It really shows the bass as a harmony instrument.
[/quote]
Harmony, melody and drive all at once.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='Coilte' timestamp='1433580807' post='2792208']
....and here we all are decades later, admiring what he did. Just goes to show that it's not so much the tone.. but what you do with it... that matters.
[/quote]

Yup, my point.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1433584087' post='2792253']
... and as you may be able to confirm Jack, at that time, a new Hofner was about £40 and did need a set-up.
[/quote]

Haven't got a price for a 500/1, but the Senator cost 31 gns (= guineas for our younger readers = £1.05) and the President cost 48 gns so the Violin would probably have been somewhere between those two:

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But I've owned a number of 500/1s, ancient and modern, and I've never had one that sounded as Godawful as on this track.

[Hobbayne]

I think its his R*********er on that track. IIRC they filmed the recording session and used it as a promo for Lady Madonna.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya87u5SfK2w

[Colonel36]

Hobbayne:
Love it.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='Hobbayne' timestamp='1433595167' post='2792399']
I think its his R*********er on that track. IIRC they filmed the recording session and used it as a promo for Lady Madonna.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya87u5SfK2w[/media]
[/quote]

That's never the Rick. Sounds exactly like a badly set - up Hofner.

So there's a video loosely associated with that track, maybe, perhaps, I still wouldn't read too much into it.

Especially since the video shows all The Beatles doing different things at different times, including both John and Paul playing piano.