Band On The Run equipment ?

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:20 am

IIRC, the "Polaroid Poster" that came with the original BOTR LP pictured PM in front of the grill cloth of at least one large Fender amp, probably a Bassman.

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:55 pm

He had a Dual Showman for "Let It Be," I do believe. Back then, the DS was a killer bass amp. Don't know how it'd stand up against today's amps -- it was only 100W.

randy_malone · Post by **randy_malone** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:15 pm

Let It Be was a blackline Bassman, so it was 50W and probably 2 x 12

rickinroma · Post by **rickinroma** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 1:43 am

the bass is really out of tune in BOTR

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:30 am

the bass is really out of tune in BOTR

All part of the subliminal charm of BOTR!

Some of that "out-of-tune-ness" actually sounds (to me) like Macca is really whacking those strings on the attack... causing a bit of a pitch-up for the first bit of a note. You can hear this more on particular cuts like 'Mrs. Vanderbilt' and 'Let Me Roll It'.

fran4001 · Post by **fran4001** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:58 pm

Legend has it that on Let It Be, it's a 50w Silver-face Bassman with 2 15s. Pics seem to corroborate this.

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:27 pm

Looks like a 2 x 15 cab to me ... probably it was a Bassman head (DS would have more knobs on Channel 2), since Paul has the sticker on his bass in LIB. In Geoff Emerick's book, he says they purposely mixed the bass high in BOTR because they loved the sound. Out of tune? Listen to the acoustic guitar in the little rundown it does in "Bluebird." Out of tune purposely, I think. GE also indicates that Paul let up on his perfectionism a bit for BOTR, even allowing an extra beat in "Let Me Roll It" (caused by a bad edit.)

levykev · Post by **levykev** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:56 am

love that photo!