Let Me Roll it Bass

roadrunners · Post by **roadrunners** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:46 am

Everyone..........Take a quick listen to the song "Let me Roll it".......is that not the greatest rickenbacker bass sound you have ever heard?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:45 pm

Very thick, I always thought he was trying to imitate the production of John Lennons stuff there. Wasn't that done around the time they were feuding?

apollo11 · Post by **apollo11** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:10 pm

Great bass lines in Let Me Roll It; they almost seem like the 2nd generation of the bass in Oh! Darling. This song was the first I ever learned on the bass.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 1:13 pm

I just listened to it closely on the way home from work...you are right Alex, I am finding myself going back and listening even more closely to the bass lines and am amazed at Macca's inventiveness....

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:16 pm

The entire BoTR album/CD is a great bass album. He seems to have pushed the bass level up above the other tracks like they use to do back in the day! That’s ONE of the last Wings/solo albums where the bass really turned me on! For the record I’m a HUGE Macca fan – no mail please!

bigbajo60 · Post by **bigbajo60** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:41 pm

Was that really the Ric? I was under the impression that he only took the "upside down" Jazz with him to the studios in Lagos, Nigeria where BoTR was recorded.

The reason I ask is that I remember the big Polaroid photo poster insert that came in the original vinyl album, and not once was the Ric pictured. Another reason for my asking is that I copped that exact sound once upon a time on a flat-strung '73 Jazz plugged through a Trace tube amp. It sounded so much like the bass tone on "LMRI" that my brain even prompted me to begin playing that exact song's bassline.

bottom4 · Post by **bottom4** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:53 pm

I think your right about the Jazz Alvaro! The album still has a great bass mix though!

cheers!

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 3:22 pm

I thought it might have been a jazz also.

roadrunners · Post by **roadrunners** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:46 am

na, that is pure compressed (fairchild) rick, there is no doubt in my mind

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:19 am

Another vote for a Jazz here.

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:29 am

As much as I love Rics I too feel it's a Jazz. FWIW the only bass pictured in the photos in the CD is a Jazz.

roadrunners · Post by **roadrunners** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:38 am

The only picture of a bass used on mccatney is of a rick, and most people doubt that it is on mccartney! you cant always beleive what you see

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 10:30 am

Hence the FWIW in my post.

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:10 am

I believe it is his Fender Jazz as well.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:42 am

McCartney, you mean his first solo album right? That sounds like a Ric to me all the way.