adorshki
Reverential Member
What Al said...
walrus
's kinda interesting, I'm reading conflicting info about when Paul got that Rickenbacker in that Talkbass thread.
One poster says it's actually a '64 and it was given to him on a '65 US Tour, and another says it was used on Rubber Soul.
Which fits my perception of "Drive My Car", sound-wise (it's one of the other "pre-Rickenbacker" licks I was thinking of, but now thinking maybe it is the Rick after all).
Interestingly "Drive My Car"'s Wiki page tells a Motown bass anecdote very similar to the one told in the "P. Writer" page:
"Harrison had been listening to Otis Redding's "Respect" at the time and, as a result of this influence, "Drive My Car" contains more bottom end than previous Beatles recordings, mimicking the bass-heavy sound captured in Redding's Memphis studio.
"Day Tripper" was recorded during the Soul sessions too.
Another believes it's first use was probably on Revolver, whose recording dates include those for "Rain" and "Writer"
And a more discriminating read of Emerick's quote in the the Wiki article shows "Paul played a different bass", it doesn't say it was new.
I'm goin' with semantic mi-interpretation on my part, and that the real "new" sound was due to the mic-ing technique on "Writer".
And then to top it all off there's the Hofner again in the "Revolution" video.
But he's got the Rick in the "Hey Bulldog" video and boy it sounds like it on the record.
I'm not really a Paul fanboy by any means but by golly I b'lieve we got another case of "the player not the axe" goin' on here....
UPDATE on when he got the Rick:
http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4001spmc/4001spmc.htm
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