Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

McCartney has always been a liner notes reader. He has stated in interviews that when he was in his teens he loved to buy records and read the liner notes on the bus during the trip home.

I have always been one to do that, too. The first thing I do when purchasing a new cd is to look at all the song credits, musician credits, etc. In fact, I can't stand when some albums are released without any information.

Where'd he get the shades, Michael Caine?

Good call, Jerry...

Paul isnt a poser! if anything it is the stones who are posing with their beatle haircuts...

Just to 'pose' an idea: everybody's a 'poser'. It's what we humans do...I'm not sayin' it's a bad thing...

Cats chase mice, dogs pee on trees, humans pose...

That's Right! And dogs pee on mice, cats chase trees, and humans pose as humans, when they're really cat-peeing, dog micing trees!

hmmmm... sounds about right to me!
(sometimes humans even pee on eachother... but thats another story, albeit a perverted one)

Steve, I've never heard of dogs peeing on mice...otherwise, your logic is irrefutable.

Kent...Antarctic lore is rife with human-peeing-on-human stories. Military style 'berthing' (side-by-side army cots) in a canvas quonset hut plus construction workers plus alcohol equals an anti-social behavior that became known as 'hosing'...basically, a guy who is not too drunk to rise up on his 'back twos' and head off to pee (into one of the steel funnels stuck in the ends of the 55 gal. drums that constituted the officially nomenclatured "U-Barrels", which were situated in the very cold 'vestibules' at the exits of the building) sometimes finds himself too drunk to make it all the way to his destination...hence 'hosing' a fellow Antarctic Hero.

Shameful, to be sure...I don't know if you could call it 'perverted', though. I think at least one person's gotta be conscious for a perverted act to occur...

"U-Barrels" Hmm, that's why those reports of the mysterious yellow snow circles dropped off.

You shoulda seen the fun when we had to 'clean out' three decades' worth of those things for retrograding...it's amazing how much impact one little Greenpeace photo can have...

"Watch out where the huskies go..."

I think you guys are getting ever-so-slightly off topic, LOL.
If George played bass on "She Said She Said", would that have been on the Rickenbacker ? Did the Beatles have any other basses lying around the studio at that era?
What about "Golden Showers"...er, "Slumbers"(see what you've done!) That's always sounded like pure Rick to me...that's George?? it'd be cool to see a studio pic of Geroge with the Rick!

George played a Jazz bass, I believe. As far as Rick-sounding basses, listen to the sound Macca gets on his new album using the Hofner with a pick -- lots of Rick-like bite, especially on "No More Rain" and "This Never Happened Before."

According to The Beatles album file and complete discography:

Long and winding road - John
Maggie mae - George
Let it be - George
Carry that weight - John
Bathroom window - George
Honey pie - George
Birthday - George
Helter skelter - John and Paul both played bass parts
Rocky Raccoon - George
Martha my dear - John
Back in the USSR - John on 6 string bass

Martha My Dear? It sounds pretty Rickesque

Pretty Paul-esque as well...