I'm always in awe of how difficult it must be to play something so completely different from the melody one is singing. Not just in terms of the actual notes, but the rhythm, as the bass line is so often syncopated. I'd love to hear an isolated bass track for "The Anarchist."
i feel like its oretty easy to sing over this song if you kinda dont focus on what your playing if you know it. thats why it gets more complex under the solo he can focus on the bass more than singin. also geddy's just good lol
The trick is to practice the bass part to the point where muscle memory takes over. Once you have that down, you practice the bass and the vocals together at a slow tempo and gradually increase it until you are able to reach regular tempo.
You can see the that he doesn't mix up bass rithym with voice rithym in this track, but the number of great variations he does is just so high, he is naturally a genius, but a lot of hard work and practice was definately involved in the recording of this song for sure
Super Wukongo les is great in his own way, he plays more of a rhythmic style, he actually was influenced by geddy, i personably think geddy is better with being better more on beat with the drums, and his fills are way better. my two favorite bassists by far, but geddy wins this one :)
I'd say Chris Squire is a bit better. Chris' sound is equally powerful, but cleaner, less aggressive, so it cuts through more. IMO the best album for Geddy's bass is Clockwork Angels, specifically Seven Cities of Gold and Halo Effect, where his aggressive sound better suits the harder music and the bass riffs were more, uh, killer, especially the opening of Seven Cities. Whereas Chris' less aggressive, more open sound is extremely well suited to Yes, especially their sound in the early 70s. A lot of it comes down to what kind of music you prefer, but in aggregate I would say Chris' bass sound on Fragile (the best record for his bass) was slightly better suited to the record than even Geddy's bass was on Clockwork Angels. I mean, there are two really amazing tracks on CA for bass and three on Fragile (Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround and Heart of the Sunrise).
It comes with practice really. I used to wonder the same thing when I played this song when I was younger thinking it was impossible. Now that I'm older and 10 years more experienced at playing bass, it came pretty naturally. But I have a shitty singing voice so it doesn't really matter anyways.
I’ve been able play and sing this both on bass and guitar it just takes time and practice. I don’t have his range so I have to play it at a lower tuning.
his ability to match the Professor and play fills at the same time is intoxicating. also, his playing never intrudes on Alex's playing. they truly are the most balanced 3 piece of all time
Bloody hell listen to that tone. Sounds like the Jazz to me. It's only when you hear Ged's bass isolated that you appreciate how much he brings to their sound.
@@fever_spikeI think that Geddy doesn’t remember these things. This sounds like a jazz with neck pickup. Spirit of the Radio and Entre Nous are recorded with his jazz too.
I swear I’ve heard that he was back on the jazz for this record but my god does this ever sound like a Rickenbacker. I’ve gotten stuff like this out of my 4003.
Why is everyone arguing over whether Geddy used a Ric or a Jazz? What the ever living fuck does it matter, he used a Ric and a jazz to play this at concerts, so obviously he doesn't care very much what it was recorded with, or he would have made sure to use the same bass, so stop fighting and just enjoy the music, and the fact that no one could ever get close to this tone, out of any bass! *note* That's not a jab at other bassists proficiency, just that Geddy has a very unique tone.
+liam morse "so obviously he doesn't care very much what it was recorded with" ahahaha ya, when they go in the studio they just grab a bass and slam a mic in front of an amp. oh dont forget to plug the bass into the amp to then bam they hit record!!! hahahahaha
snapascrew obviously a lot of time and care was put into setting up the rig for each take, and a lot of sound checking was done to make sure the tone and the way the bass would sit in the mix was just right. What I meant was that now, decades later, he doesn't stay up at night worrying about whether or not it was recorded with a Ric or a Jazz, as he uses both on stage as well as a variety of other basses that were never used in any original Rush recording, not that back in the day he showed up to the studio and just sent watever bass he picked up first directly into a powered control console and called it good enough. Context is everything, my friend, and you'd do well to learn to interperate things with it in mind.
Totally agree.I don´t understant why peole start arguing instead of enjoying music..Of course, ther is and will only be one Geddy lee over this Planet...=)
it's these bass tones where the player rips the living hell out of the strings and then compresses it to oblivion that really get me. they're so creamy sounding yet so harsh. unbelievable crafting of sound
I think all three of them are prodigies and borderline genius , Geddy also played synth pedals , mooge bass pedals , bass and keyboards, vocals simultaneously
I’ve been listening to a lot of live Rush tracks, as a guitar player, Lee has given me a new respect for great bass players. My next musical trick is gonna be playing bass. Lee is doing three things in most performances synths/keys bass and singing…that’s mad skills.
Regardless of the exact equipment used on this recording, I maintain that the single greatest influence on what we’re hearing is Ged’s own masterful playing. Be the best YOU can be. Enjoy and look up to your favorite artists, but just remember that the greatest gift you can give yourself and others is finding your own voice. :)
this man is a boss on bass i dont know who is better jean paul jones of Led or geddy they all have their strenghts but one thing this song is a masterpiece when i listen to it so does my family next door and the neighbours as well
@@KingMasterBasser6 I have no doubt that it is all Geddy cause of all the other stems put together make up the song but the guitar solo sounds like they double tracked it but then scrapped it. If you listen you can make out the way he plays it on the master recording.
@@kevinsheppard2312 no one said it wasn't Geddy. This iso track has some different parts than what's exactly on the album recording. What ended up on the album is probably most of this iso track with punch-ins that differ.
It's a Rick! In the low notes Geddy plays here, you can subtly hear the essence of Chris Squire's classic picked Rickenbacker tone coming through all of Geddy's intense finger attack boinking. It's even easier to identify this characteristic in The Camera Eye. Then, listen to an isolated bass version of YYZ (which is unmistakably done on his Jazz bass).
Ill let you in on the secret to this tone boys and girls. Take your jazz bass, and ONLY play on the front pickup, turn the rear volume off. Thank me later. I could NEVER figure out how to get this nasaly sound, it def wasn't the rick. When I picked up the jazz one day and played just front pickup, it was an epiphany!!!!!!!!
@joshcop69 Not to sure what you mean by "ghost noise" I think you are talking about "print through" or "crosstalk". Crosstalk is from poorly aligned tape machines where the tracks "bleed" over to the next closest track. Print through happens from storing tape "front out" instead of "tails out". Literly printing the oxide on the oposite side of the tape.Led Zeps Black Dog,The Way down inside , Woman part is print through. That echo before Plant sings his line is printhrough. Wasnt meant to be.
Right at 3:31 and 4:02 on this video (and final recording) are "punch-ins". This is where Geddy has the Sound Engineer punch-in to overdub what was previously there. Certainly not uncommon. This could be because of a mistake, a rewrite or to emphasize / punctuate a part a little better. I've been an Audio Engineer and Pro Musician for 30 + years. Truly, Geddy is one of the Greatest at his art.
WrongButtonGames I eventually got it and it has become one of my favorite songs to play. It’s one of those songs that is not technically difficult to play (there are no fast runs) but there’s a lot to memorize and of course there are the odd time signatures. Red Barchetta is the same way for me.
For people still wondering, this song was definitely recorded on his Ric; I watched an interview on RUclips here where the interviewer asked him that, and he said it was the Ric, despite what the video shows. Tom Sawyer was on the Jazz.
Thanks to you, I needed this so much. Some of those notes I just couldn't distinguish with the whole band. Now I hear my mistakes and the real part clearly.
@Annonymus121 Jazz Basses have a more scooped midrange when both pickups are used VS a Rickenbacker bridge going into a guitar amp. Since the pickups are spilt, the midrange on Rickenbacker comes out more than the Jazz.
I read an interview once where he says that this song is "pure Ricky" and that in fact, TS is the first one the JB is played on. Being an owner of one of each, this guitar distorts like my 4003S.
Great comment. Mostly because (correct me if I'm wrong) he put a comp before and after his preamp (distortion) so when he played light he could sit in the mix and when he played hard he could be 'in front'. Truly an innovator.
@snapascrew Thanks again for that. Interesting that he said "it was the Rick, I think" on Limelight. The two sound so similar on that record, but both are fantastic.
To clear things up, as Geddy Lee said on numerous interviews. He recorded this song on his 72' Fender jazz. Beg to differ? Look up a coupe of interviews of Geddy Lee.
I remember in an interview with Neil peart that he said that limelight was the first song to be recorded for the album .then came red barchetta then YYZ and Tom Sawyer came later in the process . And in a interview with fender about his jazz bass, Geddy Lee said that he first wound up using the Jazz bass on Tom Sawyer . So that makes me come to think that he only used his jazz bass once on side one of moving pictures and on side two he used the Jazz bass for the whole thing
@bugnny He didn't use the Stein until Grace Under Pressure. You can definitely tell those tracks aren't Stein, as for them being Jazz, they all are except Losing It, which is the Ric. I don't know who told you otherwise.
@Ronbo710 he uses his jazz in the video but i saw in an interview about his bass pass he says he used the Ricky for Limelight and the Jazz on Tom Sawyer
I have met geddy and as a bass player had to asked him back stage at a sound check how do you get your sound, funny thing he runs his gain a little high, but beleive it or not the distortion is cause by him playing hard on the strings , I played through his rig at a sound check back in the 80's and it didn't sound the same as him because I play light, this was on his entire rig and bass, he picked it up and sounded great. the attack of your fingers on your right hand control alot of tone .
Actually he only used the Fender jazz bass to Track on certain songs. You can hear the difference. The Rick has a real metallic string buzz sound to it whereas the Jazz bass is a little smoother. Listen to Limelight.....That's the Jazz bass, also on YYZ it's used on the punch- ins for geddys solo parts. Interesting right?
@funkydude734 I'm 90% certain I've heard Geddy say in interviews that Permanent Waves was his Rick and Moving pictures was his Jazz with some Rick. Additionally, the "videos" for a few of the songs from Moving Pictures, filmed during the recording, show him using both.
He clearly uses the Fender Jazz in the vid. Don't know why people say it's a Rick. As much as I would like it to be :). THE best bass sound I have heard ...EVER.
this is his Fender Jazz, wired to stereo, and compressed to HELL. thats how they got it to sound "ricky-like". any fender jazz you buy off the shelf will be wired to mono. totally different sound when you get two pickups summed into one, rather than two pickups routed seperately into two different amps/ signal processing.
Max Distortion that's hilarious, in that clip, he's using two amps, but only one of the sends on the bass guitar. I've never heard Geddy reference altering the wiring in any of his interviews, but it's an interesting idea. I recently started playing a fretless American Jazz bass, and can't get a decent tone out of the bridge pickup, maybe I'll give this a go.
The first track I learned (without the aid of an isolated track) way back when on bass. If you listen to this overlaid on top of the studio track, it seems to match perfectly. There's no doubt in my mind this is the track that made it to "Moving Pictures". It's the ending that clinched it for me - the slide down on the high D# at 4:05 sounds exactly the same to me.
Well, first off he didn't get the Jazz until around Permanent Waves. The Rickenbacker was definitely his main bass from Fly By Night through Hemispheres, but after that it gets complicated. He's explicitly said Red Barchetta was on the Ric, and this has a similar tone. Tom Sawyer, on the other hand, was on the Jazz.
CORRECTION... Geddy used his '72 Jazz on this track. I agree that it does sound like a Ric, but, using the right gear like I do with my Geddy Jazz, I can get that same Ric-sound. He also used the Jazz on Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Vital signs from the Moving Pictures album. He used a Ric on the rest of the tracks.
+keith ruddell Except this was the jazz :P Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Witch Hunt, Vital Signs were all jazz; Red Barchetta, YYZ, Camera Eye were Rick. Listen to Red Barchetta then this one back to back and you can easily hear the difference.
Definitely. Even though Ged on all the Ricks he uses are a high action, he somehow still got the percussive nature down! Entwhistle uses low action to achieve that, so naturally Ged followed suit on his Jazz later since he was a big influence on him besides Squire and Bruce.
All you need to do to get this sound is use any Rickenbacker Bass from the seventies and play through two 15" speakers with at least 200+ watts of power and make sure the treble nob on the bass is turned up all the way and cut the bass tone nob down a bit! On certain parts Geddy used light chorus effects so a chorus pedal will help a bit depending on the song you are playing. Have fun chompin' at the bit Geddy lovers!
Seems like it sometimes with Billy, yeah. But even as busy and complex as Geddy and his cohorts have always tended to be with their instrumentation and playing, very rarely has it ever seemed like it was for the purpose of showing off. Everybody knows they can play, but they probably don't get enough widespread acclaim as songwriters. Some of their stuff, especially after they matured a bit, is amazingly well constructed.
Attack is how you hit the strings. The only way strings will affect that is how hard they make it to play with heavy attack. Light to light-medium gauge should be good for that.
Im pretty sure it's a rick. He didn't get into the jazz bass much until '93. Plus, he talks about having to play the Rick extra hard to get the right tone whereas he found the Jazz and SVT combo to have it more readily available with more bottom.
@funkydude734 Permanent Waves is entirely the Ric as well. Tom Sawyer is the very first song he actually recorded using the Jazz. Don't talk down to people till you get your own facts straight.
@funkydude734 Well there your wrong, because he used both he's fender and Rickenbacker on moving pictures, for example, on the song Red barchetta, there he uses the Rickenbacker, and on Tom Sawyer, there you got the Fender ;)
Isolating Geddy really show why he’s regarded as the GOAT. Definitely the greatest tone ever.
Definitely one of the best! 🎉
I didn't know Geddy played dog in this song
Yup. I knew because of the fuzzy tone lol
It was a little.....Ruff....
Yes, a Geddy played lead dog on Red Barchetta. I think he used a Irish Setter for that solo.
Rickenbarker?
Turn up the woofers and you can hear it.
I'm always in awe of how difficult it must be to play something so completely different from the melody one is singing. Not just in terms of the actual notes, but the rhythm, as the bass line is so often syncopated. I'd love to hear an isolated bass track for "The Anarchist."
i feel like its oretty easy to sing over this song if you kinda dont focus on what your playing if you know it. thats why it gets more complex under the solo he can focus on the bass more than singin. also geddy's just good lol
The trick is to practice the bass part to the point where muscle memory takes over. Once you have that down, you practice the bass and the vocals together at a slow tempo and gradually increase it until you are able to reach regular tempo.
Band I was in did this song. I was bass/vocals. Once you get it it's not too hard. Kinda a disconnect happens.
You can see the that he doesn't mix up bass rithym with voice rithym in this track, but the number of great variations he does is just so high, he is naturally a genius, but a lot of hard work and practice was definately involved in the recording of this song for sure
Geddy is the best bass player in the world! Hands down!
Look up Jaco Pastorius.
He's no longer alive so a bit difficult for him to be better than Geddy
Uhhhhh Les Claypool
Super Wukongo les is great in his own way, he plays more of a rhythmic style, he actually was influenced by geddy, i personably think geddy is better with being better more on beat with the drums, and his fills are way better. my two favorite bassists by far, but geddy wins this one :)
I'd say Chris Squire is a bit better. Chris' sound is equally powerful, but cleaner, less aggressive, so it cuts through more. IMO the best album for Geddy's bass is Clockwork Angels, specifically Seven Cities of Gold and Halo Effect, where his aggressive sound better suits the harder music and the bass riffs were more, uh, killer, especially the opening of Seven Cities. Whereas Chris' less aggressive, more open sound is extremely well suited to Yes, especially their sound in the early 70s. A lot of it comes down to what kind of music you prefer, but in aggregate I would say Chris' bass sound on Fragile (the best record for his bass) was slightly better suited to the record than even Geddy's bass was on Clockwork Angels. I mean, there are two really amazing tracks on CA for bass and three on Fragile (Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround and Heart of the Sunrise).
HOW ON EARTH can Geddy sing while playing this? It escapes my understanding
It helps to have a four lobed brain instead of the usual two.
It comes with practice really. I used to wonder the same thing when I played this song when I was younger thinking it was impossible. Now that I'm older and 10 years more experienced at playing bass, it came pretty naturally. But I have a shitty singing voice so it doesn't really matter anyways.
P R hahaha well, we got the "voice" part in common, I can tell you that! cheers
Practice practice practice and then some more practice. Until it gets second nature. Impressing level of multitasking for sure 🤘
I’ve been able play and sing this both on bass and guitar it just takes time and practice. I don’t have his range so I have to play it at a lower tuning.
Man Geddy not only is surgical, he picks up momentum in emotion. Greatest band ever!
He has a natural second nature ability to think outside the box, that's all there is to it.
Just listening to his bass playing i can tell Geddy would have made an excellent drummer.The man knows his rythme and changes.
Except then Rush never would've worked, because they already had the best goddamn drummer to ever have walked the earth. Lol.
We know what you mean. Rhythm... We know you were trying to spell rhythm when you typed 'rythme'
his ability to match the Professor and play fills at the same time is intoxicating. also, his playing never intrudes on Alex's playing. they truly are the most balanced 3 piece of all time
Bloody hell listen to that tone. Sounds like the Jazz to me. It's only when you hear Ged's bass isolated that you appreciate how much he brings to their sound.
Sounds lovely! Jazz bass with the Neck Pickup on, I’m thinking. Great time in his playing!
No I think this is the Rick.
Not the Jazz…he was asked in an interview which bass he used on Limelight, and he said it’s the Ricky.
@@fever_spikeI think that Geddy doesn’t remember these things. This sounds like a jazz with neck pickup. Spirit of the Radio and Entre Nous are recorded with his jazz too.
I swear I’ve heard that he was back on the jazz for this record but my god does this ever sound like a Rickenbacker.
I’ve gotten stuff like this out of my 4003.
Amazing tone. Having this isolated track really helped me learn this song on the bass a few weeks ago. 👍
I love all the little slides and the low action fret buzz. He’s so consistent and powerful in his attack too. One of my bass heros.
Why is everyone arguing over whether Geddy used a Ric or a Jazz? What the ever living fuck does it matter, he used a Ric and a jazz to play this at concerts, so obviously he doesn't care very much what it was recorded with, or he would have made sure to use the same bass, so stop fighting and just enjoy the music, and the fact that no one could ever get close to this tone, out of any bass!
*note* That's not a jab at other bassists proficiency, just that Geddy has a very unique tone.
+liam morse you can actually get his tone pretty easy if have either a rick or a jazz and a sansamp
+liam morse "so obviously he doesn't care very much what it was recorded with" ahahaha ya, when they go in the studio they just grab a bass and slam a mic in front of an amp. oh dont forget to plug the bass into the amp to then bam they hit record!!! hahahahaha
snapascrew obviously a lot of time and care was put into setting up the rig for each take, and a lot of sound checking was done to make sure the tone and the way the bass would sit in the mix was just right. What I meant was that now, decades later, he doesn't stay up at night worrying about whether or not it was recorded with a Ric or a Jazz, as he uses both on stage as well as a variety of other basses that were never used in any original Rush recording, not that back in the day he showed up to the studio and just sent watever bass he picked up first directly into a powered control console and called it good enough. Context is everything, my friend, and you'd do well to learn to interperate things with it in mind.
It matters to those who care about it. Those who want to get that tone, for example.
Totally agree.I don´t understant why peole start arguing instead of enjoying music..Of course, ther is and will only be one Geddy lee over this Planet...=)
it's these bass tones where the player rips the living hell out of the strings and then compresses it to oblivion that really get me. they're so creamy sounding yet so harsh. unbelievable crafting of sound
The compressor is such a large component of this tone. It as almost create an envelope filter-type sound. Amazing!
I think all three of them are prodigies and borderline genius , Geddy also played synth pedals , mooge bass pedals , bass and keyboards, vocals simultaneously
I’ve been listening to a lot of live Rush tracks, as a guitar player, Lee has given me a new respect for great bass players. My next musical trick is gonna be playing bass. Lee is doing three things in most performances synths/keys bass and singing…that’s mad skills.
The bass is WAY too under-appreciated
Love these Isolated bass tracks from Geddy and Rush.. As a drummer.. the bass is what I really listen/follow. Liked and shared.
Great Rickenbacker sound from Ged. Classic bass line.
its the jazz bass
@@nigelpisswater484 there’s an interview in which Geddy says it’s the Rickenbacker on Limelight.
@@AllenSJ5 fender said it was the jazz but you could be right
@@nigelpisswater484 Geddy says otherwise.
he's playing a Fender Jazz in the video
Regardless of the exact equipment used on this recording, I maintain that the single greatest influence on what we’re hearing is Ged’s own masterful playing.
Be the best YOU can be. Enjoy and look up to your favorite artists, but just remember that the greatest gift you can give yourself and others is finding your own voice. :)
this man is a boss on bass i dont know who is better jean paul jones of Led or geddy they all have their strenghts but one thing this song is a masterpiece when i listen to it so does my family next door and the neighbours as well
No, 1972 Fender Jazz Bass. Used on this, Tom Sawyer, Vital Signs and Witch Hunt.
If you listen to this and the isolated track from tom Sawyer, you can tell this ones the ricky. It has a punchier sound than the j bass
@@metalfox146 that's what I thought.
Waffle Lord - Jazz Bass has 10x the punch of the Rick.
jass bass can sound like a rickenbacker (or any other bass)
the opposite is much harder to achieve
Metal Fox on a fender video for his signature, geddy said he used a j bass on Tom Sawyer
good bass line.
Geddy Lee is a master of the electric bass.
I've listened to this song a billion and 3 times. That's a very different baseline than I thought I was hearing. Neat.
It surely is slightly different from the album version. Listen to the beginning of the guitar solo for example.
@@KingMasterBasser6 I have no doubt that it is all Geddy cause of all the other stems put together make up the song but the guitar solo sounds like they double tracked it but then scrapped it. If you listen you can make out the way he plays it on the master recording.
@@kevinsheppard2312 no one said it wasn't Geddy. This iso track has some different parts than what's exactly on the album recording. What ended up on the album is probably most of this iso track with punch-ins that differ.
@@xerofg my apologies for misunderstanding.
Woah, this song is a lot more complex then I thought, completely different then what I was playing
Agis Shaw I think the beautiful part of this song is you can play it however it sounds right to you and it’ll still be awesome.
a lot of rush songs are like that
The most easily recognizable bass I've ever heard.
How do you get that muddy kirky tone? its so good the weight of it the muddiness and of course the melody makes it amazing
Most of the tracks on Moving Pictures we're recorded with his Jazz
It's a Rick! In the low notes Geddy plays here, you can subtly hear the essence of Chris Squire's classic picked Rickenbacker tone coming through all of Geddy's intense finger attack boinking. It's even easier to identify this characteristic in The Camera Eye. Then, listen to an isolated bass version of YYZ (which is unmistakably done on his Jazz bass).
Anyone watching and enjoying this, defintely check out the Gibson Icon interview with Rex. Such a humble, funny, gentle, sincere and talented man!
Ill let you in on the secret to this tone boys and girls. Take your jazz bass, and ONLY play on the front pickup, turn the rear volume off. Thank me later. I could NEVER figure out how to get this nasaly sound, it def wasn't the rick. When I picked up the jazz one day and played just front pickup, it was an epiphany!!!!!!!!
As someone who spent a lot of his youth playing along to Rush albums, I'd say for definite that this is Geddy.....
@joshcop69 Not to sure what you mean by "ghost noise" I think you are talking about "print through" or "crosstalk". Crosstalk is from poorly aligned tape machines where the tracks "bleed" over to the next closest track. Print through happens from storing tape "front out" instead of "tails out". Literly printing the oxide on the oposite side of the tape.Led Zeps Black Dog,The Way down inside , Woman part is print through. That echo before Plant sings his line is printhrough. Wasnt meant to be.
Right at 3:31 and 4:02 on this video (and final recording) are "punch-ins". This is where Geddy has the Sound Engineer punch-in to overdub what was previously there. Certainly not uncommon. This could be because of a mistake, a rewrite or to emphasize / punctuate a part a little better. I've been an Audio Engineer and Pro Musician for 30 + years. Truly, Geddy is one of the Greatest at his art.
Great insight there sir, thank you.
3:31 is clearly a skip in the track, just listen to the rest of the music, like half a second of it is missing lol
Such inventive solo ing
Anyone else notice the track skips right at 3:31?
yep :c
Sounds like a tape edit.
Can’t help but hear it if you’re keeping time, which everyone is during a rush performance
This song simply makes me so in love with bass guitars especially if it's Geddy the one play in' em !
Is it just me or is the bass part during the guitar solo really hard to memorize?
Trust me, it's the same for me.
WrongButtonGames I eventually got it and it has become one of my favorite songs to play. It’s one of those songs that is not technically difficult to play (there are no fast runs) but there’s a lot to memorize and of course there are the odd time signatures. Red Barchetta is the same way for me.
Chris Cosentino
Yeah, it isn't hard, just kinda...jumpy, if that's a correct word.
Chris Cosentino God don't even get me started on Red Barchetta. That and 2112 I and II....
+Chris Cosentino I thought I was the only one
For people still wondering, this song was definitely recorded on his Ric; I watched an interview on RUclips here where the interviewer asked him that, and he said it was the Ric, despite what the video shows. Tom Sawyer was on the Jazz.
Any half deaf mute, could tell its a Ric in the audio of this vid. Only the butthurt trolls that only own Fenders are commenting lol
Thanks to you, I needed this so much. Some of those notes I just couldn't distinguish with the whole band. Now I hear my mistakes and the real part clearly.
Awesome !! Geddy Lee is the man !!
@2:35 wow....
That's some powerful bass. Geddy Lee will always be an inspiration to me as a bass player, though, of course, I could never play like him. :)
this is goin to help me out so much! thanks. and rush is the greatest band in world history!
the best bass sound period
0:08 *stank face enabled*
bad punch in?
@Annonymus121 Jazz Basses have a more scooped midrange when both pickups are used VS a Rickenbacker bridge going into a guitar amp. Since the pickups are spilt, the midrange on Rickenbacker comes out more than the Jazz.
I read an interview once where he says that this song is "pure Ricky" and that in fact, TS is the first one the JB is played on.
Being an owner of one of each, this guitar distorts like my 4003S.
Man that is one chill spaniel with Ged in the photo ❤
Geddys bass sound is so amazing....I'm a drummer....but if I played bass I would definately want it so sound like his!!
Great comment. Mostly because (correct me if I'm wrong) he put a comp before and after his preamp (distortion) so when he played light he could sit in the mix and when he played hard he could be 'in front'. Truly an innovator.
Geddy Lee hits the strings like they owe him money.
@snapascrew Thanks again for that. Interesting that he said "it was the Rick, I think" on Limelight. The two sound so similar on that record, but both are fantastic.
To clear things up, as Geddy Lee said on numerous interviews. He recorded this song on his 72' Fender jazz. Beg to differ? Look up a coupe of interviews of Geddy Lee.
He recorded Tom Sawyer with the Jazz Bass.
I think he recorded all of moving pictures with the Jazz bass
+G Kirk nope. Look up Geddy lee interview and the one where he plays a jazz bass with a rosewood fretboard will let ya know.
Thanks . I found the interview , but he also said that he used the rickenbacker on limelight in that interview
I remember in an interview with Neil peart that he said that limelight was the first song to be recorded for the album .then came red barchetta then YYZ and Tom Sawyer came later in the process . And in a interview with fender about his jazz bass, Geddy Lee said that he first wound up using the Jazz bass on Tom Sawyer . So that makes me come to think that he only used his jazz bass once on side one of moving pictures and on side two he used the Jazz bass for the whole thing
@bugnny He didn't use the Stein until Grace Under Pressure. You can definitely tell those tracks aren't Stein, as for them being Jazz, they all are except Losing It, which is the Ric. I don't know who told you otherwise.
@Ronbo710 he uses his jazz in the video but i saw in an interview about his bass pass he says he used the Ricky for Limelight and the Jazz on Tom Sawyer
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The bassline is great and all, but that dog is really cute!
Thank you so much for recording this--how ever you do it. It make the best play-along possible!
I have met geddy and as a bass player had to asked him back stage at a sound check how do you get your sound, funny thing he runs his gain a little high, but beleive it or not the distortion is cause by him playing hard on the strings , I played through his rig at a sound check back in the 80's and it didn't sound the same as him because I play light, this was on his entire rig and bass, he picked it up and sounded great. the attack of your fingers on your right hand control alot of tone .
@CorvetteCoonass He used the Jazz bass on a lot of signals you can hear it REALLY well on countdown.
@funkydude734 Wait what did he use for Grace Under Pressure to Hold your Fire? I remember it was one of those Basses that didnt have a headstock.
Damn he hits his strings like.. ridiculously hard.
Actually he only used the Fender jazz bass to Track on certain songs. You can hear the difference. The Rick has a real metallic string buzz sound to it whereas the Jazz bass is a little smoother. Listen to Limelight.....That's the Jazz bass, also on YYZ it's used on the punch- ins for geddys solo parts. Interesting right?
@funkydude734 Geddy said in an interview, red barchetta and limelight are the ricky where tom sawyer is the fender.
And singing...... The OG music gods!
i still dont understand how he can sing and play bass i understand its easier to do it when you make the bassline but still this mans a monster
Was this rickenbacher era?
@funkydude734 I'm 90% certain I've heard Geddy say in interviews that Permanent Waves was his Rick and Moving pictures was his Jazz with some Rick. Additionally, the "videos" for a few of the songs from Moving Pictures, filmed during the recording, show him using both.
@CorvetteCoonass Really, I always thought it sounded more like his Jazz..
I read an interview once where he says that this song is "pure Ricky" and that in fact, TS is the first one the JB is played on.
That dog is very cool, just like this bassline.
He clearly uses the Fender Jazz in the vid. Don't know why people say it's a Rick. As much as I would like it to be :). THE best bass sound I have heard ...EVER.
this is his Fender Jazz, wired to stereo, and compressed to HELL. thats how they got it to sound "ricky-like". any fender jazz you buy off the shelf will be wired to mono. totally different sound when you get two pickups summed into one, rather than two pickups routed seperately into two different amps/ signal processing.
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Max Distortion he never fucking wired his jazz in stereo
whether a rick or jazz, the bass sound on MP is clearly a bass going through at least two amps.
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this guy nails the tone, with a Fender jazz wired to stereo.
Max Distortion that's hilarious, in that clip, he's using two amps, but only one of the sends on the bass guitar. I've never heard Geddy reference altering the wiring in any of his interviews, but it's an interesting idea. I recently started playing a fretless American Jazz bass, and can't get a decent tone out of the bridge pickup, maybe I'll give this a go.
Kick-ass. Plain and simple.
The first track I learned (without the aid of an isolated track) way back when on bass. If you listen to this overlaid on top of the studio track, it seems to match perfectly. There's no doubt in my mind this is the track that made it to "Moving Pictures". It's the ending that clinched it for me - the slide down on the high D# at 4:05 sounds exactly the same to me.
Love that tone
Well, first off he didn't get the Jazz until around Permanent Waves. The Rickenbacker was definitely his main bass from Fly By Night through Hemispheres, but after that it gets complicated. He's explicitly said Red Barchetta was on the Ric, and this has a similar tone. Tom Sawyer, on the other hand, was on the Jazz.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing the bass track \m/
CORRECTION... Geddy used his '72 Jazz on this track. I agree that it does sound like a Ric, but, using the right gear like I do with my Geddy Jazz, I can get that same Ric-sound. He also used the Jazz on Tom Sawyer, YYZ, and Vital signs from the Moving Pictures album. He used a Ric on the rest of the tracks.
Ric has a certain airyness to the midrange you won't hear in a Jazz. this tone will take your head off!
+keith ruddell Except this was the jazz :P Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Witch Hunt, Vital Signs were all jazz; Red Barchetta, YYZ, Camera Eye were Rick. Listen to Red Barchetta then this one back to back and you can easily hear the difference.
But it's a Jazz...LMAO.
I think the cleaner sound on this album is the J and the more fuzzy sounds on tracks like barchetta is the Ric
Do I hear Entwistle influence in his sound and playing?
Definitely. Even though Ged on all the Ricks he uses are a high action, he somehow still got the percussive nature down! Entwhistle uses low action to achieve that, so naturally Ged followed suit on his Jazz later since he was a big influence on him besides Squire and Bruce.
Awesome recording.
All you need to do to get this sound is use any Rickenbacker Bass from the seventies and play through two 15" speakers with at least 200+ watts of power and make sure the treble nob on the bass is turned up all the way and cut the bass tone nob down a bit! On certain parts Geddy used light chorus effects so a chorus pedal will help a bit depending on the song you are playing. Have fun chompin' at the bit Geddy lovers!
oh, thank you man. these vids aare gonna help so much in learning these songs.
@ventor11225 he uses rotosound 66 roundwound swing strings and im not sure about pickup or amps.
Seems like it sometimes with Billy, yeah. But even as busy and complex as Geddy and his cohorts have always tended to be with their instrumentation and playing, very rarely has it ever seemed like it was for the purpose of showing off.
Everybody knows they can play, but they probably don't get enough widespread acclaim as songwriters. Some of their stuff, especially after they matured a bit, is amazingly well constructed.
Attack is how you hit the strings. The only way strings will affect that is how hard they make it to play with heavy attack. Light to light-medium gauge should be good for that.
The real relation... The underlying theme! = Feel d real presence of d bass guitar!!!
6 guitarists dislike this... :p
Not this one! Love it!
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+stenx13 either this one!
And this one!
Not this guitarist. The thumbs down crowd can’t play and are jealous of us who can play🎸
Im pretty sure it's a rick. He didn't get into the jazz bass much until '93. Plus, he talks about having to play the Rick extra hard to get the right tone whereas he found the Jazz and SVT combo to have it more readily available with more bottom.
@LegoBricKing
He never had a 4003. He had 4001s, but this is his 72 Jazz Bass
Much as it kills me to say it
Hm... to get more attack for your sound, would lighter strings be good or bad? o.O
@funkydude734 Permanent Waves is entirely the Ric as well. Tom Sawyer is the very first song he actually recorded using the Jazz. Don't talk down to people till you get your own facts straight.
Thanks for the upload!
Brother got skills.
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@funkydude734 Well there your wrong, because he used both he's fender and Rickenbacker on moving pictures, for example, on the song Red barchetta, there he uses the Rickenbacker, and on Tom Sawyer, there you got the Fender ;)