i doubt that George played bass on Rock n Roll Music,
it would have been known i think & George never played bass
before, & wasen't even that confident.
I only know he played a bit of bass in later years, Golden Slumbers..
and John played bass on The Long & Winding Road.

Quoted from Andy Smith

[...] i think & George never played bass
before, & wasen't even that confident.
I only know he played a bit of bass in later years, Golden Slumbers..
and John played bass on The Long & Winding Road.

You're wrong, George played the bass some time before ...
... confident enough? George played Paul's bass in The Cavern on April 05, 1962!!!




Yep, Paul on drums and Pete singing ... another pic of George from that day:



The Rock And Roll Music bass part is not a difficult one ...
... and George played the bass on several tracks later, among others:

Birthday, Back In The USSR, Honey Pie, Maxwell's Silver Hammer (?) or Carry That Weight
and probably for the first time on record on Drive My Car (1965):
(He said so in the Anthology book:
"GEORGE: I played the bassline on 'Drive My Car'. It was like the line from 'Respect' by Otis Redding. "
http://wingspan.ru/bookseng/ant/08.html )

Quoted from raxo

Birthday, Back In The USSR, Honey Pie, Maxwell's Silver Hammer (?)

well, i'd better note it down in my Beatle book of triva!
You do research well Raxo!

Quoted from Andy Smith

well, i'd better note it down in my Beatle book of triva!
You do research well Raxo!

Naaah, only that I've been into this kind of stuff for a while!  

1966 Burns Nu-Sonic Bass

"What's known about this bass? Practically nothing. It shows up in a photo from the Paperback Writer session with George playing it. It was sometimes called a "Lady Bass" because it was a short scale model. The Nu-Sonic was cherry red. That's all I know! It wasn't used on the final recording, though.

Read this post from Don Butler of the BeatGear Cavern forums. He says, "On John's use of the Gretsch 6120, most likely the guitar was borrowed from "Sound City" for a couple days. Sound City was the Gretsch dealer in London and in fact the biggest music store in London in the early to mid/late Sixties. George got his first 6122 Country Gent and his 6119 Tenny there. they loaned The Beatles alot of equipment during those years. The Burns Bass that George used on Paperback Writer was most likely a loaner from either Sound City or Burns. Neither of those instruments were ever seen again after the Paperback Writer/Rain sessions."


In the studio with the Nu-Sonic.


The full view of the picture above.


This bass is a Baldwin, a subsidiary of Burns. The bass is the same as the one George played, except this one's made by Baldwin.

from here: http://www.nickmartellaro.info/gear/george/burns.html

Cool photos Raxo!

Quoted from Andy Smith

Cool photos Raxo!

Cool George!  

and that's a great site you found.
so much more to learn on the fabs!

Quoted from Andy Smith

and that's a great site you found.
so much more to learn on the fabs!

There's always something new ... to learn!