I don't think it's fretless. I can hear the frets when he slides. Also, in a book I have, it says for Another One Bites The Dust, Deacon played his MusicMan StingRay.
Yeah, he plays with his Honeyburst P-Bass or Music Man Stingray for most of the tracks in this era but with really low action, no bass, no mid and high treble
Sean Riddle The bass on this song is most likely to be a 1954-57 Fender Precision (sunburst with white pickguard and maple fingerboard) which was bought by John in the USA in 1978 (according to an interview John gave in 1979). It was seen in use live a few times in 1978 then used as a spare bass in 80/81. It was used for recording one song before September 1979. This was either Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Coming Soon, Save Me or Sail Away Sweet Sister. Based on the sound of the bass on those songs Crazy Little Thing Called Love fits best with the sound of a single coil 50’s P bass. John did play fretless, but not on many songs. Dreamers Ball and My Melancholy Blues are two that come to mind. His use of flatwound strings and frequent use of slides in his playing can lead people to think that he is playing a fretless. Cynical Who John Deacon didn’t have a honeyburst Precision. By 1974 he had two 60s sunburst Precisions which by 1976 he had stripped the finish off to make them both natural finishes. In 1986 he repainted one of them black. His other P basses were a Sahara Taupe 1981 Precision Special, a Candy Apple Red 1983 Precision Elite, a Sunburst 1976 Precision Fretless and the aforementioned Sunburst 1954-57 Precision. His 1976 Music Man StringRay was used on Another One Bites The Dust. It is not known for definite which other songs it was used on, but probably only a few. John’s main basses for recording were always his 60s Precisions.
Let me clear things up here in these comments. THIS IS JOHN LMFAO. This is the bass stem ripped from the Rock Band game. He didn't use his fretless in studio ever, only live on songs like '39, Dreamers Ball, and My Melancholy Blues. John switched to roundwounds around the Jazz album, before though he did use flatwounds. But this sounds exactly like Johns playing with the lots of attack he had and his classic precision bass sound.
I've checked, and I've compared to the original, all the parts are correct + the ending is the same as in Rock Band. This is ripped from the game Rock Band 2 I guess.
this bass track accommodates only six repetitions of "crazy little thing called love" after the final pre-chorus; the track from the album accommodates 10 before the fade-out is complete. other than that, this is note-for-note, and I might have even believed it was Deacon because I know from experience that things can groove with the rhythm section and sound out of time when isolated.. but this isn't the track that made the album. it's short about 8 bars. now I'm going to find the actual bass track...
I don't know what you mean by "the real deal" but you do realize that if it ends differently than the ending on the record it is NOT the same track, right? @@eltorpedo67
It was probably the version used in Rock Band. If you access those song files you can find isolated tracks for each instrument. On top of that, the Rock Band version of the song ends perfectly with this one(understandable since they always cut fade-outs)
This is some guy playing bass parts of the song and acting like its John Deacon. On the recorded version the bass sounds fatter. This is not John's bass
so do you think the uploader covered Freddy Mercury's vocals for this song too, because he has the isolated track for that, and for the guitar and for the drums. Don't see how he would have all those but have to fake the bass...
Yes it is John. Compare it to the backing track here: ruclips.net/video/YwNoLXpSyZ0/видео.html It sounds different when it's syncopated with the kick drum.
Well, this is definitely not the original track. Even on first 2 bars this bassist loses notes. Timing is quite bad compared to original one, and bass is not the same. This should not be fretless, but a regular one - not even Fender perhaps... Please listen carefully, you must spot the differences! I'm happy John is not this bad...
petey815 I appreciate your hard work on this, it puts some effort for me too! But now: please explain why this bass line stops before Deacon's base stops on the record? I put the original track and this bass track to Cubase and immediately noticed two things: the bass track is a bit faster than original, it speeds up. Of course that can be caused by several things. But, how come the last notes are missing from the track? Instead it is ending to one long note, and on record John keeps playing on the fade out. I took a pic of that too, but unfortunately I cannot put pictures here...
petey815 If the Rock Band track tempo is changed -0,367 % it is almost the same until the end. But still it leaves some timing & phrasing issues, when these are compared by earphones. It is very close, but the original is still a little bit better to my ears - more consistent. It is now proven the track is definitely not the same as in record until the end. Professional bass player can copy John this well, no issue with that, but still this leaves a possibility this could be another take or even a compilation of other takes by John. The Game was not recorded digitally, so the original tape is one continuous analog track, and probably at some point the whole cake has been downloaded to digital - and then whatever can be done. The tempo change is still curious - AD conversion itself should not make anything to that, I assume either loading to youtube should not be able to affect like that. This is digital, not a tape rolling... But it is well known that there are some converters in social media applications, like in Facebook to enhance colours - but I don't get why youtube would like to speed up your download this way. Of course when original multitrack is digitized, the tape recorder might have had slightly wrong speed - even though studio stuff is usually well calibrated.
I love the bass of this song
Same!!
@@danielamascorro3237 like I mean, who doesn’t :)
Has this infectious rhythm to it
It isn't 12 bar blues.
This is actually quite a brilliant bass line.
I still didn't found any bass "acceptable" cover of this "crazy little thing called love"
Deacon #1 bass player
Lmao
Yeah but Cliff?
(Cliff Burton - Metallica’s bassist
1962 - 1986)
@@woy4711 cliff and deacon,both legend
Hell yes he is
Alan Kozhakmet cliff was great but he’s overrated tbf
Deacon is so cool. Awesome bassist!💜 #Legend #Queen4ever
Its literally the biggest thing that stands out to me so im glad i found this. Deacon is a legend
He did it on a fretless p-bass. That is the reason most people don't think it's him, but Deacon played fretless on a lot of songs.
I don't think it's fretless. I can hear the frets when he slides. Also, in a book I have, it says for Another One Bites The Dust, Deacon played his MusicMan StingRay.
Yeah, he plays with his Honeyburst P-Bass or Music Man Stingray for most of the tracks in this era but with really low action, no bass, no mid and high treble
Cynical Who nah deaky cranked his mids and some bass almost no treble
Sean Riddle
The bass on this song is most likely to be a 1954-57 Fender Precision (sunburst with white pickguard and maple fingerboard) which was bought by John in the USA in 1978 (according to an interview John gave in 1979). It was seen in use live a few times in 1978 then used as a spare bass in 80/81. It was used for recording one song before September 1979. This was either Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Coming Soon, Save Me or Sail Away Sweet Sister. Based on the sound of the bass on those songs Crazy Little Thing Called Love fits best with the sound of a single coil 50’s P bass.
John did play fretless, but not on many songs. Dreamers Ball and My Melancholy Blues are two that come to mind. His use of flatwound strings and frequent use of slides in his playing can lead people to think that he is playing a fretless.
Cynical Who
John Deacon didn’t have a honeyburst Precision. By 1974 he had two 60s sunburst Precisions which by 1976 he had stripped the finish off to make them both natural finishes. In 1986 he repainted one of them black. His other P basses were a Sahara Taupe 1981 Precision Special, a Candy Apple Red 1983 Precision Elite, a Sunburst 1976 Precision Fretless and the aforementioned Sunburst 1954-57 Precision. His 1976 Music Man StringRay was used on Another One Bites The Dust. It is not known for definite which other songs it was used on, but probably only a few. John’s main basses for recording were always his 60s Precisions.
Those are flatwound strings
John Deacon is one of the best bassist out there, and yet he has underrated bass line like this❤
such an amazing bassist
Who can't hear that it's Deacon, doesn't have ear.
I just can hear him sometimes
Do i have 1 ear?
@@Jiova nice joke.
Let me clear things up here in these comments. THIS IS JOHN LMFAO. This is the bass stem ripped from the Rock Band game. He didn't use his fretless in studio ever, only live on songs like '39, Dreamers Ball, and My Melancholy Blues. John switched to roundwounds around the Jazz album, before though he did use flatwounds. But this sounds exactly like Johns playing with the lots of attack he had and his classic precision bass sound.
thank you!
Okay Sherlock 👌
@@Dibbles2005 Ok guy
@@frostmusicofficial guy
Oh wow you must be a pretty close friend of Johns, have fun next time jammin with him!
One of my favourite bass lines
Bassing like a BOSS!
Hello
0:08
Deaky was incridible !
Awesome bassline! Sweet!
I've checked, and I've compared to the original, all the parts are correct + the ending is the same as in Rock Band. This is ripped from the game Rock Band 2 I guess.
pretty sure is john
or rock band 2 copied the entire song slap machine for slap machine
Toca muito mito
1:22
1:59
this bass track accommodates only six repetitions of "crazy little thing called love" after the final pre-chorus; the track from the album accommodates 10 before the fade-out is complete. other than that, this is note-for-note, and I might have even believed it was Deacon because I know from experience that things can groove with the rhythm section and sound out of time when isolated.. but this isn't the track that made the album. it's short about 8 bars. now I'm going to find the actual bass track...
Well, the same guy who uploaded this has videos for the isolated vocals, guitar and drums too so this is the real deal.
I don't know what you mean by "the real deal" but you do realize that if it ends differently than the ending on the record it is NOT the same track, right? @@eltorpedo67
It was probably the version used in Rock Band. If you access those song files you can find isolated tracks for each instrument. On top of that, the Rock Band version of the song ends perfectly with this one(understandable since they always cut fade-outs)
Its seems like a " Jailhouse rock"
Its based off of something elvis would write
I love john deacon
What makes you think so?
Matteo 😊
He start playing at about 0:09
Guitar boogie?
1:23 1:26 1:28
:)
many things
I think he play with flatwounds?
+Johan Rodén yeah... he used rotosound jazz (medium gauge i suppose) with very low action and "strong plucking"
Too much fret noise for that to be the case. He uses rounds here.
Its sounded like flats but the buzzing sounded more like rounds wtf?
@@kennet7837 he used a fretless bass hows that possible
Evidence?
Deacy
Yeah, but it ain't no bass cover. And please point at what of those many things.
0:53
This is some guy playing bass parts of the song and acting like its John Deacon. On the recorded version the bass sounds fatter. This is not John's bass
so do you think the uploader covered Freddy Mercury's vocals for this song too, because he has the isolated track for that, and for the guitar and for the drums. Don't see how he would have all those but have to fake the bass...
Yes it is John. Compare it to the backing track here: ruclips.net/video/YwNoLXpSyZ0/видео.html It sounds different when it's syncopated with the kick drum.
Well, this is definitely not the original track. Even on first 2 bars this bassist loses notes. Timing is quite bad compared to original one, and bass is not the same. This should not be fretless, but a regular one - not even Fender perhaps... Please listen carefully, you must spot the differences! I'm happy John is not this bad...
petey815 I appreciate your hard work on this, it puts some effort for me too! But now: please explain why this bass line stops before Deacon's base stops on the record? I put the original track and this bass track to Cubase and immediately noticed two things: the bass track is a bit faster than original, it speeds up. Of course that can be caused by several things. But, how come the last notes are missing from the track? Instead it is ending to one long note, and on record John keeps playing on the fade out. I took a pic of that too, but unfortunately I cannot put pictures here...
petey815 If the Rock Band track tempo is changed -0,367 % it is almost the same until the end. But still it leaves some timing & phrasing issues, when these are compared by earphones. It is very close, but the original is still a little bit better to my ears - more consistent. It is now proven the track is definitely not the same as in record until the end. Professional bass player can copy John this well, no issue with that, but still this leaves a possibility this could be another take or even a compilation of other takes by John. The Game was not recorded digitally, so the original tape is one continuous analog track, and probably at some point the whole cake has been downloaded to digital - and then whatever can be done. The tempo change is still curious - AD conversion itself should not make anything to that, I assume either loading to youtube should not be able to affect like that. This is digital, not a tape rolling... But it is well known that there are some converters in social media applications, like in Facebook to enhance colours - but I don't get why youtube would like to speed up your download this way. Of course when original multitrack is digitized, the tape recorder might have had slightly wrong speed - even though studio stuff is usually well calibrated.
This is the original !
Leon Rauch Yes!
Bad!?!!
Bass COVER
Just trust me : ). It's not John Deacon.
hmm it is
It's not John Deacon.
lol skrub it is
kalsmith22 it is
It is bitchhole
Bitch, it is Deaky
then who is it lmao