The Beatles Bible - Topic: Songs George Played Bass

GeorgeTSimpson on Songs George Played Bass

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:46:23 +0000

Okay. I don't think it's so important which instrument who playd, the main thing is that the whole thing sounds great, isn't it?

Linde on Songs George Played Bass

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:18:36 +0000

I know that he didn't just use the Hofner. That was an example of the only things I knew.

GeorgeTSimpson on Songs George Played Bass

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:07:07 +0000

Linde said
There are a lot of things that are incorrect on Rock Band, so let's not take that too seriously.

I'm always so flabbergasted when I see how everyone knows all their instruments. I really don't have a clue what guitars or bass guitars they used. I know Paul played a Hofner and Ringo used a Ludwig drumkit and that's about it. Lol.

Paul didn't always use his hofner bass, only until rubber soul and on let it be. He played his great bass stuff on his rickenbacker which imo sounds and looks better

Linde on Songs George Played Bass

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:13:21 +0000

There are a lot of things that are incorrect on Rock Band, so let's not take that too seriously.

I'm always so flabbergasted when I see how everyone knows all their instruments. I really don't have a clue what guitars or bass guitars they used. I know Paul played a Hofner and Ringo used a Ludwig drumkit and that's about it. Lol.

Gerell on Songs George Played Bass

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:21:38 +0000

I still can't believe George played bass on Maxwell's Silver Hammer, the bass sounds really good. How did Paul scold George about the bass in Two of Us? The bass sounds good in that track.

RunForYourLife on Songs George Played Bass

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:57:12 +0000

The Beatles bassist said
- She Said She Said (I've read it somewhere, Paul was not avaiable at the time they recorded it. wonder which bass he used)

A 1966 Burns Nu-Sonic bass.

(Different session, same era)

thewordislove94 on Songs George Played Bass

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:29:51 +0000

George played the bass part on Two of Us on his Fender guitar in the Let it Be movie and on the album.

linkjws on Songs George Played Bass

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 03:46:03 +0100

Duke_of_Kirkaldy said

Ben Ramon said
It's one of those Beatle mysteries- who bassed on Birthday? With the conflicting sources I guess we'll never know. As an experienced bass player myself, though, I'd say the playing is more McCartney-style.

Funny, I always thought the bass line of "Birthday" had a very lumpy sound to it, i.e. not really typical of Paul's playing. Let's also not forget that in The Beatles: Rock Band George is shown playing the Fender VI in that song while Paul plays his Epiphone electric as well as the piano.

I love the dreamscapes on Beatles RB, but they did a ...

Duke_of_Kirkaldy on Songs George Played Bass

Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:50:45 +0100

Ben Ramon said
It's one of those Beatle mysteries- who bassed on Birthday? With the conflicting sources I guess we'll never know. As an experienced bass player myself, though, I'd say the playing is more McCartney-style.

Funny, I always thought the bass line of "Birthday" had a very lumpy sound to it, i.e. not really typical of Paul's playing. Let's also not forget that in The Beatles: Rock Band George is shown playing the Fender VI in that song while Paul plays his Epiphone electric as well as the piano.

linkjws on Songs George Played Bass

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:49:37 +0100

GeorgeTSimpson said
Oh I wrote george was better than george, I didn't notice that. And vonbontee said george wasn't nearly as good as george , but I read not nearly as good as john (my mistake)

Anyway, which bass did George use? John used the Fender Bass VI I think, but I read that george played a fender jazz bass on maxwell, golden slumbers and carry that weight although the beatles rockband video shows him playing a fender bass VI and he also played that fender bass VI on the hey jude promo video and ...

...ontherun on Songs George Played Bass

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:45:31 +0100

...ontherun said

fabfouremily said

GeorgeTSimpson said

Fabfouremily, are you sure, because wikipedia and i think also ian macdonald say that george played on birthday (of course it's possible they're wrong but lewissohn doesn't say who plays on birthday, at least no in chronicle so I believed in wikipedia)

It says on this very site that it was Paul, but it may be wrong.

It has just been re-confirmed that it's Paul here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/fo.....let-it-be/

...ontherun on Songs George Played Bass

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:42:39 +0100

fabfouremily said

GeorgeTSimpson said

Fabfouremily, are you sure, because wikipedia and i think also ian macdonald say that george played on birthday (of course it's possible they're wrong but lewissohn doesn't say who plays on birthday, at least no in chronicle so I believed in wikipedia)

It says on this very site that it was Paul, but it may be wrong.

It has been confirmed that it's Paul here: http://www.beatlesbible.com/fo.....let-it-be/

GeorgeTSimpson on Songs George Played Bass

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 21:10:41 +0100

Oh I wrote george was better than george, I didn't notice that. And vonbontee said george wasn't nearly as good as george , but I read not nearly as good as john (my mistake)

Anyway, which bass did George use? John used the Fender Bass VI I think, but I read that george played a fender jazz bass on maxwell, golden slumbers and carry that weight although the beatles rockband video shows him playing a fender bass VI and he also played that fender bass VI on the hey jude promo video and maxwell's silver ...

Ben Ramon on Songs George Played Bass

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:42:49 +0100

It's one of those Beatle mysteries- who bassed on Birthday? With the conflicting sources I guess we'll never know. As an experienced bass player myself, though, I'd say the playing is more McCartney-style.

fabfouremily on Songs George Played Bass

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:29:20 +0100

GeorgeTSimpson said

Fabfouremily, are you sure, because wikipedia and i think also ian macdonald say that george played on birthday (of course it's possible they're wrong but lewissohn doesn't say who plays on birthday, at least no in chronicle so I believed in wikipedia)

It says on this very site that it was Paul, but it may be wrong.