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ok, not sure if this was ever covered, but... what bass did Paul use on "Another Day"? i'm just bowled over with that bassline... sounds Rick-ish to me and sounds Jazz Bass to me...

anything?

That was during the period when Paul was using his Rick a lot. I'm not sure, but if I had to guess, I'd say the Rick.

Kevin and Kris, I think it's a pretty good guess to say he used his Rick.

cool, thanks.

I agree with the others. The 4001 was his primary bass at the time and the sound sure seems to ring 4001 on the recording as well.

No coincidence that when he produced and played everything on Mary Hopkin's "Que Sera Sera 45, from around the same time, every instrument sounds the same, especially the bass, which incidentally is a great line. And very Rick-y, which I always assumed these two songs were. What a beautiful, fat sound!

Paul is quoted somewhere as saying that the bass sound on Another Day -- very up front -- was a mistake in mastering but that he liked it and decided to keep it.

Very interesting stuff about Paul's bass on this one. ..

I remember the huge frakus this song caused when it was first released.

It had gads to do with McCartney crediting the song to "Paul and Linda McCartney".

This was around the time frame(1971) when the three other Beatles were at their zenith in the most intense of their legal battles against Paul.

And this pushed an agitated Lennon over the top!
JWL had made many public derogatory comments about Linda's suppossed instant "musical ability" which escalated into a very ugly petty exchange in song form lyrics initiated by Paul on his Ram album and than a direct response by John to Paul on his Imagine album.

The worst thing I believe that occurred by this, is that both artists sold more records then they would have otherwise just because it was all very timely and sophomoric provocative!

It was very sad to witness such near lifetime great friends being reduced to such childlike nonsense.

The bass sounds fantastic on this song, and the bass line is really superb.

I always shake my head and marvel at the natural talent when the bass goes off on those long 8th note runs in the song. Lack of formal music theory training is no match for Paul's phenomenal ear. That and his creativity.

The bass line on this song is awesome, one of my favorites by Paul. It definitely sounds like a Rick to me.

Gotta be his Ric. ...

I wasn't at all keen on this song when it was first released back in 1971. It sounded like commercial tripe to me back then, partially because it was coming off within months of the Beatles officially announced break-up and partially due to fact that McCartney was way, way over-hyping it as is his natural bent.

But now, 35 years latter it sounds somewhat decent.