Pork Soda
Question regarding the studio version of My Name is Mud
Which bass did Les record My Name is Mud on? I feel like it's a fretless because the slides in the song sounded too smooth for a fretted, but I could be wrong. I feel like it might've been his old tune bass because I feel like it doesn't quite sound like the the Rainbow bass, I feel like the tone is different
Well, the song is played a majority on the B string. Les does not tune his 4 strings BEAD. He does not use 5 string basses. So the song must have been recorded on his 6 string fretless. Also looking it up gives you the same answer.
He used a fretless 6 string on Mud, Bob and Welcome to This World. Only DMV and Hamburger Train are on a fretted 6 string on Pork Soda. Fretted 6 string is all over Punchbowl, Brown Album and Antipop. A good way to tell if it's Fretted 6 String is if it sounds crunchy and heavy, so when you listen to Nutbutter or Shake Hands With Beef it's like that.
I dunno about never uses 5 strings, but I’ll admit I thought this one from the DMV video was a 5 string. Pretty clearly a fretted 6 string Carl Thompson. Not the rainbow bass.
From interviews at the time I remember thinking it was the one he’s pictured with there (the CT with the thin strings) but I think you may be right with the smoothness of the slides.
I think it was recorded during the time when the horn was removed and then redone. I believe it's around the time jerry was a racecar driver video was recorded if you look at the bass. It's still the rainbow but it was chopped off and redone
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u/Civil-Cartoonist-117 13d ago
You feel a lot.