Who's actually playing bass on The Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"?

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Pretty sure it was Prince (retroactively).

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Big Bird.

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Ron Carter happened to be in London that weekend. Coincidence? I think not.

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I’d go with

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Paul was dead, so it couldn’t have been him.

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Wasn’t it the guitar player from the Rolling Stones? What’s his name… The super old one… Oh! JFK.

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Well it was a guitar player who couldn’t really play the bass. Or someone emulating a guitar player who couldn’t play the bass. Just root notes, octaves, and fifths.

So John, who played exactly the same style of bass on Helter Skelter, or pretty much any randomer.

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Or Paul playing both bass tracks, with one overdubbed, all of which is recollected by people almost 60 years on.

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“mystery” solved.

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OK OK, I give up, it was me.

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Let’s see, that was November 1968? I was … um … negative 19 months old. Probably not me, then. Especially since I can’t play the bass.

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tl;dr: You thiiiiiiiiiink it’s Paul. Everyone just knowwwwwwwwwws it’s Paul. But iiiiiiiiiis it Paul?

…yeah, possibly. Or maybe John. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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James Last would have done it if they had asked him.

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George was 27 (updated) when the Beatles broke up. Sheesh. I need to get busy.

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I think your math’s off, he was born in ‘43.

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The answer to all musical Beatles mysteries is: George Martin manipulating tape.

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Oops. I corrected it. Thanks!

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He’s played with almost literally everyone else, so who knows?

So, not Ron Carter.

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The Walrus, right?

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