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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: Bill Wyman's hands/ upright bass
Date: Thursday, February 09, 2017
Time: 10:26:21 AM
Remote Address: 66.36.116.94
Message ID: 306447
Parent ID: 306443
Thread ID: 306430

RE: Bill Wyman's hands/ upright bass

From what I recall reading about Bill, and I also read this in his first book, he played it in that matter for both reasons, although his small hands was the main reason. His tiny hands was also the reason why he stopped playing lead guitar, as he was the lead guitarist in his first band, but in his first book he noted that because of his small fingers, playing guitar was hard on his hands, so that's why he switched to the bass, since the 4 strings were easier to play. Plus yes, he first learn to play guitar and formed a band because he saw that as a way to pick up more girls, he felt that in the late '50s, that the lead guitar players got the most girls.

My father says it was mccatney who started thistype of bass first but there had to be others before him?

It was around before McCartney, as by the late '50s and early '60s, almost all rockers played the bass guitar only, and you pretty much never saw the upright bass played in rock music again (only called the "upright bass" in Rock and jazz music, it's real name is "double bass").

The double bass was of course first used in classical music, and is tuned differently and in that genre is played using a bow only. When the early jazzmen started to use it, they renamed it "upright bass" and they played it both with a bow, or by plucking it with their fingers. Then in mid 1950s when rock music came about, because rock music was so much louder than any other music, thanks to the electric guitar being it's main instrument, that's when the bass guitar was invented, since it could be played louder. It of course came with an amp that you played it through, making it as loud as a regular guitar. Yes, they got the idea to invent and use a bass guitar from the electric guitar. So even though both forms of these 2 bass instruments are used for the same reason, and produce the same sound, the double bass comes from the violin family, where the bass guitar comes from the guitar. The upright bass is only used once in a blue moon today in rock, and yet it seems to have a deeper sound to me. Think of the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side". A upright bass was used in that song (yet they called it a "double bass" in the song credits for some reason), and to my ears that's a much deeper sounding bass than what you hear in a normal rock song. It's sounds more to me like the sound you get when a 6 string guitar is used to play bass. Example, think of the Stones song "Heart of Stone". You can barely hear Bill's bass guitar in there, yet Brian's six string bass is the main guitar sound that you hear in the song, since he played his bass part using a 6 string. I believe that's the only Stones song to feature 2 bass parts in it, too, unless anybody here can think of another one?

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