I saw this on PBS the other night and found the same clip on YouTube. The best shots of the bass begin at 1:59 into the video. I'm not sure of the year. Enjoy.
Looks like they were taking off the bridge p/u covers even back then!
I wonder where that bass is today.....
"Freedom of expression is important, but I have learned that people want to know how much you care before they care how much you know." The only time a bass player gets noticed is when he stops playing.
Well, Pretty Woman was at it's chart peak on 9-5-64, so it's probably a '63 or early '64? Beautiful early Deluxe jobber in Mapleglo. Looks like black knobs with no silver inserts too. And, depending on my monitor quality, perhaps no thumbrest either. Nice shots!
Roy might have sang that live, or it was lip-synched to an outtake because those vocals are different than the original release. The whole thing actually sounds a little different to my old ears!
That is most definitely not synched. You can see the placement of the drums and piano to avoid any leakage into the Roy's mic. The mix is completely different than the single release and you can hear the ambient drum reverb all over the mix as well. The piano is drowned out by the snare.
Great version.
Once, just once in my so-called musical career I want to be on a stage whose set design concept is giant stereo components with each band member standing on a big box with some baloney-sliced doweling used as the fake knobs glued to the front.