Rock: well recorded bass...60s/70s

Band On the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings

Awesome predominant bass throughout by McCartney.

This whole topic is a doubled edge sword. I believe that the only point in music history where bass lacked in recordings was in the 80's and for some dumb reason that was on purpose.

Although recording techniques have come a long long way that MAKES recording bass easier because it does take a little imagination to get it right and if the producers and engineers back then didn't have that then the obvious would happen.

Also BASS is a matter of opinion anyway in fact all of this is a matter of opinion, so enjoy what you like.

As a lad growing up in the 1970s, believe me we liked our Rock loud and clear with heavy bass.
We saw many of Rock legends perform live, some several times over the decades.

By the late 1970s I became aware of "certain pressings" to hunt down that were far better sonically then I possibly had at hand.
I noticed a business ad here on Audiogon someone doing just that, selling "certain pressing", with a money back guarantee...Better Records

The avalanche of re pressings/ reissues and out right bad recordings was the problem of many Rock Lps that truly sucked sonically.

I agree with Audiofeil, I too have thousnds of Lps, Rock, Jazz and Classical, many over 50 years old with well defined, air moving low octaves,ie Mercury Living Presence.
As a matter of fact, I'll take a well recorded first pressing from the 1950s over anything today...

"Still Life" Van Der Graaf Generator. Lots of low organ notes recorded well in an otherwise sparse mix on tunes like the title track, very rare for rock genre recordings.

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