Here is a cover of a tune I am currently practicing such that I can play it at my wife’s 50th birthday in about three weeks. Someone had mentioned the bass line to this song somewhere on a bass-related webpage, and I got intrigued.
The problem is/was to filter out the original bass from the song to record a cover - mainly because much of the playing is fairly high up the neck. @gcancella graciously offered to help with his “hi-tech” tool, but even that couldn’t quite get it done. So, in the end, I opted to use a “karaoke” type cover that can be found (and purchased) without the bass track. I would have preferred the original, but this karaoke cover is actually fairly close to the original and the vocals are quite good.
As I am still not completely routined in all this recording of both video and audio, the video here is from a different take than the audio you hear (thought I wanted to disclose that!). I used the Mayones here, almost fully dialed to the neck PU and mids and treble rolled off a bit - I was going for a P-sound with the tone rolled almost all the way off. Perhaps I try to post a version with my P-copy at some time as well…
Just for credits: composed by Carole King, who sings and plays piano on the original, while her then-husband, Charles Larkey, played the bass. James Taylor provided the guitar playing… The song was released in early 1971, so almost the year my wife was born 