{"id":16879,"date":"2012-12-13T07:33:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16879"},"modified":"2012-12-13T07:39:01","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T12:39:01","slug":"whats-the-coolest-bassline-in-a-solo-george-harrison-song-or-rock-town-halls-shortest-thread-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-the-coolest-bassline-in-a-solo-george-harrison-song-or-rock-town-halls-shortest-thread-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Coolest Bassline in a Solo George Harrison Song (or Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Shortest Thread Ever)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J2RIkY-wI5s?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember the details\u2014and maybe I&#8217;ve got the details completely wrong\u2014 but isn&#8217;t there a story about George thinking Paul&#8217;s bass part on &#8220;Something&#8221;\u00a0was stepping all over his song? Can anyone remember the details, at least as reported?<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking: Is there a <em>solo<\/em> George song that features a cool bass part? Surely there&#8217;s an obvious answer I&#8217;m missing or not hearing beneath Phil Spector&#8217;s crumbling Wall of Sound. Was George a bassphobe? Was he one of those guys, a guitar chauvinist pig, who thought the bass should stay in its place? I&#8217;m not blaming the bassists he used. <strong>Klaus Voorman<\/strong>, for instance, whose wife wouldn&#8217;t let him do an interview with us when we tracked him down a few years ago, did some spirited, memorable, if rudimentary work on John Lennon records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the details\u2014and maybe I&#8217;ve got the details completely wrong\u2014 but isn&#8217;t there a story about George thinking Paul&#8217;s bass part on &#8220;Something&#8221;\u00a0was stepping all over his song? Can anyone remember the details, at least as reported? This got me thinking: Is there a solo George song that features a cool bass part? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-the-coolest-bassline-in-a-solo-george-harrison-song-or-rock-town-halls-shortest-thread-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[596,436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}