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Your favorite Fender Bass VI songs?
- Thread starter Matthew Fisher
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Lawrence Welk Orchestra - Deep in the Heart of Texas
A lot of The Beatles recordings from 1967 on were done on a Bass VI. The Let it Be movie is filled with scenes with George or John playing a Bass VI. Even the version of Hey Jude played live had George on the Bass VI. Overall, it's a very underrated instrument. I just could never bond with the POS that Fender sold as a Pawn Shop Edition or the horrible Squier version that required tons of modifying for it to be playable.
This coming from someone who has a friend with a left handed Custom Shop version that is more like what was offered back in the 1960's from Fender.
This coming from someone who has a friend with a left handed Custom Shop version that is more like what was offered back in the 1960's from Fender.
SRV's version of Willie the Wimp on Live Alive has a ton of melodic VI on it, played by his brother Jimmy. In fact I think there's three or four songs on that album with Jimmy playing VI, alternating between melodies and doubling the bass. Good stuff, showing how it can be used in a blues rock context.
Yes Sir, legendary band - Coltrane meets the Grateful Dead - Soft Machine. as I remember, Roy Babbington's recorded contributions started with the Four album on upright. Don't remember if he started using the Fender VI on the Five album but for sure on Bundles. Before him Hugh Hopper, the man with the stripped jazz was in charge.
I forgot they had another guitarist as featured on this recording before Allan Holdsworth.
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I'm not sure if that's what Joe Perry used on Back In The Saddle, but if he did, that's my favorite 
Check out 1:19 in this tune if you are inclined. My buddy Roger left his at my house for a year and I loved having it: the perfect thing to add to an arrangement at the right spot. This also has mellotron, Suzuki omnichord, 12 string, electric mandolin, a pedal steel app on my iPad and Glockenspiel so it's a real kitchen sink affair.
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Ric5
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- I like 5, 8, 10, and 12 string basses
Ric5
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I think a lot of the 4 Seasons big tunes (Oh What a Night, Who Lives You) were recorded with one.
Anything done at Owen Bradley’s studio in Nashville in the 50’s and sixties had a Bass VI or a Danelectro. They called it a “tic-tac” bass. They would use them to double the string bass giving it a cool clicking. Anything that wasn’t done at RCA back then was produced by Owen Bradley at his studio. All the Patsy Cline stuff has a tic-tac. Patsy Cline’s version of “Crazy” being my personal fave.
