@JerryP is our official Beatles coverer, since he has the Hofner.
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Thanks for the explanation Laurent. Itās very helpful.
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Thank you Pam. I will take up the mantle.
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Hi BassBuzz friends,
Please find link to my latest cover, Billy Joelās āAn Innocent Manā.
It is a great laid back song that I really enjoyed covering, the tone was what I was really trying to emulate, I tried using a couple of different basses and decided that Ernie best suited the requirements to produce the nice smooth tone.
I had a couple of little issues with the video, not sure what caused it ??
luckily itās only in a couple of spots right at the beginning.
As usual all feedback good, bad or ugly is appreciated.
Keep on Rocking,
Cheers Brian
https://bilgerats.billlanahan.com/2021/01/11/an-innocent-man/
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Nice, Brian! Impressive how you play quite restrained and serve the songā¦ I would have fallen victim to the temptation to add a couple of fills here and there 
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Thanks Joerg @joergkutter , yes the temptation is always there, but I want to try and replicate the original recording, maybe I might explore that option with it at a later dateā:+1:
Cheers Brian
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Very nice Brian. Love that song 
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Mellow and well played, Brian!
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Brian @TNKA36 that is awesome. Video glitch aside, the tone and timing are perfect. You did a brilliant job on one of my favorite Billy Joel songs. Bravo!!!
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@TNKA36 Brian you are pumping out some covers brother! Great job as always nice groove, well played
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Another great cover @TNKA36. Nice smooth execution. Perfect.
I was looking into the Billy Joel catalog to try to find something to try. Iāll keep trying.
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> This cover is dedicated to my Aussie friends, and thereās a story behind it. Please read this before you watch/listen to the video
It was mid March of 1969. I was three months short of twenty years old and had spent the past 10 months in the hell hole of Vietnam. Although I wasnāt out there in mortal combat, I saw my share of human death and injury as the boys were helicoptered back to our base (LZ for those who know the lingo). Even those of us who worked in the communications bunker were under constant threat, as the VC liked to sneak up at night and aim their mortars at us. Not a day or night went by without stress and worry.
When an R&R to Sydney became available, I jumped on it. I needed a break, and Australia in mid summer sounded good. It turned out to be he fastest week of my life!
I stayed at a hotel named Texas Tavern in an area of Sydney called Kings Crossing. It was a small, not very luxurious room above an actual tavern. It was a dumpy place, but all I could afford on my army sergeantās pay. The bed was lumpy, but an improvement over the cot I had for a bed back in Chu Lai. In any case, I was happy to be able to sleep at night without worrying about a mortar attack.
In the evenings, I hung out at the tavern below my room, nursing drinks and minding my budget. When the locals struck conversation with me and discovered my American accent, they began to buy me drinks and befriend me. Soon, I had made a passel of new friends who demanded nothing of me, yet offered me warmth and a feeling of welcome to their country. I was even taken in by a family who served me dinner at their home and treated me as if I was part of their family. I came close to defecting to Australia. I will never forget the hospitality of the Australian people and the beauty of their country.
Twelve years later, as a civilian back in the states, I heard a song that reminded me of my love for Australia and itās people. Now, fifty-two years after my visit to the land down under, Iām reliving that memory of my time in Australia with a cover of the song, which Iām dedicating to all my Aussie friends here on the B2B forum: @TNKA36, @Mac, @rory, @russki98, @leonard, @admacdo, @wave, @ian.cossart1, @Shane_W, and anyone whose name I missed; this is for you.
Some of the backdrops at the beginning of the video are aged and faded photos taken with my Kodak Instamatic camera (only us older folks remember those). The rest are stock photos from the internet.
For all you āblokes and chicksā in Melbourne, the backdrops at the end of the video are stock photos of Melbourne, a place I regret never having visited.
Played on my Yamaha BB735, with neck pickup only (Precision Bass sound)
DāAddario Black Nylon Tapewound strings
Ibanez TS9b Tube Screamer
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Really great job, Pam @PamPurrs . . . 
Gotta love your background story, AND the background in your video! . . . 
Cheers, Joe
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Great stuff, both the story and the coverā¦ The song is actually a long-time favorite of mine, so it always makes me happy when I hear it. You should check out more of the composerās music if youāve never done so beforeā¦ Great composer and musician!
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nice cover @TNKA36 ! a few early attacks but thatās fine already
good job @PamPurrs , very nice playing and as always a very pleasant video to watch !
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Great job Pam @PamPurrs,
Plenty of getting around the fretboard ,
Love your production and your story about your visit to Sydney during your R&R.
Iāve left some comments on your webpage, but I will share a little with the Bass buzz friends about the photos you have at the end of the video showing Melbourne.
The first Melbourne picture is taken from the STH bank somewhere near the Art Gallery building looking N/E back across the river, the bridge on the right is Princes Bridge, STH of the bridge becomes Stkilda Rd and the Nth side it becomes Swanston st.
The old building on the left of the picture is Flinders St Station and directly across the road from that is Federation Square.
The second Melbourne picture is taken from the Nth side of the river somewhere near the Queens Bridge st looking S/E out over the Port Phillip Bay.
The oval building in the centre of the picture is the Crown Casino.
The suburb Brunswick you mention is only 10-15mins from my place and has become a very cosmopolitan suburb with lots of cafes and restaurants.
Hope my tour of Melbourne via your photos gives a nice intro to Melbourne where like you mention in your story regarding the friendly nature of people in Sydney, we folks in Melbourne share the same enthusiasm and warmth to international visitors to our beautiful city.
Cheers Brian
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Ah, great job Pam. That was pretty cool. Might have to get me a bb now, dammit. Iām also going to take another look at that songās bassline.
Did you know that the flute playing part of it caused it to be a massive lawsuit with the song āKookaburra sits in the old gum treeā folk song? It cost the band 5% of the profits of āLand down underā and they actually re-released it in 2012 (for Telstra to use in an Ad for the Olympics) with the flute riff at the start removed. Greg Ham, who was the Men at Work flautist for the piece was devastated by the lawsuit and itās largely blamed for him doing himself in right after it was settled.
This all came about because a TV gameshow called āSpicks and Specsā bought up the similarity in 2007.
All I remember is being in School when the song came out and thinking the videoclip of it was hilarious with the Stuffed Koala bouncing around behind them on a rope.
Glad that you liked your stay in Sydney at āthe crossā, Pam, but it IS really unfortunate that you didnāt see more of Australia. It changes as dramatically as the USA does.
Sydney suffers from having developed initially with no specific planning and as such, is laid out in an absolute mess in some parts.
I lived there for six months and hated having to get anywhere, and I was on the outskirts.
Melbourne is MUCH nicer for layout, culture and general cleanliness, as is pretty much every other major town in Australia.
Many Australians from other places canāt understand why Sydney gets so much press and why everyone seems to want to go there when they visit Australiaā¦
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