Whole Lotta Love - Isolated Bass Track

[@amosnews]

2:12 Little tapping on strings or pickup during the long break. Kind of neat to hear in the isolation.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

most of the sounds were mixed out-most of it was a Theremin....and there was a part where it was defnititally NOT bongo drums

[@arinisuavy]

ASMR

[@Sasketchejuana_man]

Notice the bass playing speeds up just slightly when the drums come in. It's apart of playing with a band and why quantized midi music will never compare.

[@asciicatface]

says you lol

[@extremeteatime8663]

@@asciicatface smartass

[@asciicatface]

@@extremeteatime8663 Im just saying that that "quantized midi" music has on the whole made me feel way more than any "organic" music has.

[@kenduffy5397]

fawbak. Absolutely 💯% correct! Wow, hear the string bending just before the main riff picks up again?? Unreal

[@leeontos]

Yeah, cranking the amp and just playing around, if the take is good, thats it! You can't quantize the playability of a live Jam. Thats it

[@MrDudeguitar0]

0:09 ; commence head bobbing.

[@Braglemaster123]

MrDudeguitar0 yes

[@turq1824]

Always

[@mgway4661]

Automatic

[@maximumoccupancy]

0:08 *

[@wanpynhun1757]

You can't help it 😂😂

[@marendenison3550]

Each band member is so good that even isolated Zeppelin tracks are pretty much their own songs

[@brianrushford4057]

Page pretty much said that’s why he started the band in the first place

[@jbooks888]

This is the song that made me wanna play bass back in 1974! WOW - If I had this track back then it would have blown my mind - such an excellent groove - superb!

[@vonnierandall238]

The fret buzz adds to it enough that I wonder if he did it intentionally. The tapping of his strings while he waits, had never heard that before. Brilliant. 👏❤️🇺🇦

[@ryanstrohman7429]

Notice the tempo speed up around 3:50 - it really has the sense of driving through the song right to the end. For whatever reason, modern day producers see this as an “error”, not a meaningful addition to a piece of music. Perhaps it was a means to cut costs, because it’s simpler to use drum machines and quantize lines to reduce the need for studio time and experienced musicians, but I don’t know.

[@gamechanger3396]

Modern music sucks anyway

[@howler9171]

Quantization and gridlines in DAW's completely kill the human element of music. That's why bands from the 20th century are so much more relatable and emotional than most bands that have come out in the last 20 years. People rely on click tracks too much these days, any tempo change or slight deviation in BPM is seen as a mistake and not a fundamental feature of the song. Also people think too hard about compression and EQ adjustments and a bunch of editing crap that only waters down the music. When bands like zeppelin, rush, and sabbath were breaking down genre boundaries and pushing the limits of what music can be, do you think they were worried about what their guitar tone sounded like? No, they were recording using tape so they didn't have any quick or easy way to edit songs. What they played was what you heard, period, no embellishments or alterations. Just raw and honest music. When you listen to those classic records, it feels like real human beings are in the room with you playing real instruments. Unlike modern rock that sounds like it was automatically generated by an algorithm on a computer

[@nkmcfrln]

Notice a nerd copying another nerds comments for likes.

[@ranjmaan]

JPJ...Most underrated bassist and all-around musician out there!

[@reganpearce528]

How is he underrated? I'm pretty sure hes well recognised for being one of the best

[@Ron4885]

Not sure he's 'underrated'. He *is* respected by all my friend.

[@Braglemaster123]

Underrated My Ass “ ?????????

[@Braglemaster123]

@@reganpearce528 That’s guy’s an Asswipe’s “

[@RK_peace]

Not underrated at all. Real musicians know he’s the man!!

[@Sasketchejuana_man]

Not until now did I realize JPJ was tapping on his bass strings. It almost sounds like a tape echo on his bass during the middle break, but I think its just him tapping at different velocities and creating that dynamic.

[@eddiek132]

I love the minor third he adds at :36 right as the drums come in. That little "g" 's one and only appearance in the entire song. Brilliant.

[@PicklePaint]

Bum bamppp bubum badaa baddadda baddadda

[@kewkabe]

He hit the wrong note

[@Rich6Brew]

Page plays it as well on the outro.

[@RutherfordBcrazy]

@@Rich6Brew hey by minor third does he mean flat third?

[@User-jk8wq]

B K Yeah, basically the same thing

[@ingwevanyarin3839]

Nastiest bass guitar tone ever. Makes metal and grunge feel light.

[@elvergalarga3908]

A nasty good tone for this kind of genre 👌

[@adityamittal1134]

Grunge was never heavy in the first place.

I liked Entwistle's sound better

[@jbooks888]

He's playing octaves

[@josi8569]

@@adityamittal1134 what about anorexorcist?

[@JU5TINPDX]

What a great photo! Jonesy with his fender jazz bass… Bonham going ham on the drums… Page sitting back in the shadows with his dragon telecaster 🐉 …and on the right edge of the frame, Robert’s blond locks…

[@Paul-f7q]

Bless you Captain ObserveCommento!

[@AmeliaHubbard-rb6hz]

Fr

[@joseaquino8773]

Real simple riff but amazing sound, it rocks!

[@LuzMaria95]

Need more JPJ isolated bass tracks for my life

[@davidoglesby6771]

Great sound, So simple, but effective

[@claimguy]

I believe I just became pregnant.....

[@patriot1685]

..again??

[@Braglemaster123]

claimguy Who's the father ????

[@Ed9870]

Jonesey.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

@@Braglemaster123 this bassline

[@verginithe]

we need Achilles last stand isolated bass track

[@valfera10]

I love the sound of a bass being slaped or picked!

[@valfera10]

+Valena Gewehr, are Rick you favourite too?

[@kennet7837]

+Augusto de Moraes Valente In this case it's picked.

[@valfera10]

GameDirectorHD Yep, I know. I love the fingering of Geddy Lee and JP Jones, but this case is special...

[@GeorgeMeetsFritzTV]

+Augusto de Moraes Valente i love the fingering of Steve harris

[@punman5392]

+GeorgeMeetsFritzTV Steve Harris uses flats too. They have a higher tension and let you play faster. They also can be positioned much closer to the fretboard making for a unique tone. He basically bounces the strings off the frets

[@BassicVIC]

You can hear JPJ tapping his strings during the middle bit... And playing some other phrases here and there!!! Thanks for posting this!!! (Endless vow of respect to JPJ and Led Zeppelin)

[@tangogrrl]

that totally shocked me... I was like, what was that in the middle??

[@GGGG-si3jr]

Its not the recording thats on the album

[@mattyp3400]

most bad ass riff of all time

[@PutItAway101]

3 notes + JPJ = BADASS

[@mikemarkowski7609]

As a bass player of over 40 years I have always been hard on myself for any neck/string noise, wanting every note clean and to sing. Hearing these isolated tracks by the greats tells me I have not been fair to myself!

[@lucasgarrido6129]

I love rock n roll, but I don't have good ears, so sometimes I can't easily distinguish the bass line in some songs. That's why I started to search for isolated bass tracks, and it's just so magnificent!! Very underrated instrument unfortunately!

[@anthonyglennmollicasr.425]

I never realized he played all that stuff in the middle, very cool!!!!! Thanks for uploading :)

[@markd.holloman5187]

What I love is the fact that you can tell the band members are in the booth(s) listening with headphones for their parts during tracking.

[@wizzardclown24]

THIS SEDUCES WAY TOO HARD

[@seanoconnor5730]

raccoonpunk that's Led Zeppelin for you.

[@johnmclaughlin2392]

It's reassuring to hear your hero's have a little fret rattle.

[@vonnierandall238]

The fret buzz adds to it which makes me wonder if he's so confident & good that he's doing it intentionally?

[@anonymusum]

He plays octaves at the accents - just to mention it ...

[@XTL_prime]

+anonymusum He said in some interview that the free E/D strings are so conveniently there he could play those.

[@allrequiredfields]

He's doubling the fretted D with the open D - doubling, rather than octaves.

[@Misternoname100]

@@allrequiredfields Correct. But he is also playing octaves when he plays the open E along with the 7th fret of the A string.

[@nonotherthananother]

Even like this it sounds excellent !!! One of the best rock riffs and songs !!!

[@mehdiknight]

What a whole lotta love for this bassline

[@Brmlk]

Only Led Zeppelin can top Led Zeppelin... by amazing you in a different way.

[@lucioetchamendi6362]

All Zeppelin dudes are masters... few bands are this good on isolated

[@luvbasses5487]

He was great with a plectrum on this track- doubling the E and D with fretted and open strings as he plucked the main riff. Sounds like flats on the ‘62 Jazz Bass. Interesting to hear the random pickings he does during Jimmy’s theramin bit. The surfacing of this isolated track explains to me what I was hearing for all these years but couldn’t clearly identify.

[@rameshhansaravendra]

. I want to use this as my ring tone but the problem is I might get lost in the music and forget to answer

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

It would also sound shit on phone speakers. Alas.

[@sauerkrautjr]

Best bass tone I can think of. Nobody lays it down quite like John Paul Jones in this track.

[@davedecker1725]

I'm a guitarist and I LOVE THIS!! JPJ CRUSHES THE GROOVE!!! Does the same thing on heartbreaker too!

[@david1955layne]

What a great bass line to follow along to if your in this band.

[@bishlap]

The bass that began ROCK music...

[@nerkoids]

He's also playing two strings at the same time, fretting to double some of the notes, then octaving others further up on the fretboard, adding fundamental tension to the notes. That's what gives the bass its thick sound. Also, this is the raw track, before equalization.

[@cgravier]

wow I didnt know he was doing all those thumping noises during the middle/theramin section... (hes literally muting the strings while tapping his fingers over the pickups) for some reason I didnt think Page would given him such freedom/leeway to mess around like that. Interesting....

[@thecourierNCR]

Jones was probably the only person in the band that could do that live and in the studio and page wasn't on his about it. It's cause when he would mess around, it's not really noticeable, or it sounds so good, it adds to the song.

[@modularmuse]

Yeah, I didn't know what he did over those parts either, particularly the 'cymbal solo' where he does those low, bendy things which sound like weird low rumbles on the finished track. I think Page, as the engineer, selected the sounds that he wanted on the mix; Jonesy was in the band because he was such an obvious talent, Jimmy knew it, and he fit in personality-wise. Page probably let him roam free and recorded everything, picked out the parts best needed that he knew would be there. I'm a Jimmy Page fan, but Jones was a very strong and indispensable talent in that band. Some of the best mandolin stuff was done by Jones in my opinion, and who would do keyboards?

[@jennyritterbeck]

Page was not a dictator. Good lord, how do you think that chemistry happened?! It can't be forced. They all knew the had lightning in a bottle and didn't mess with it.

[@ShiningTrapezoid]

Just to be pedantic, Page wasn't the engineer. He was producer. Those are two very different things.

[@staceymcpeek1345]

Duncan Mcdonald according to the book Hammer of the Gods, page would sit around mixing, mixing, and we mixing all Zeppelin songs until he lost all confidence. He truly was an engineer. But he also is the main reason that a lot of times musicians shouldn't delve into the engineering to deeply. the way a song is played is the realm of the musician. The way the song sounds, should be in the ears of a top-notch engineer. some of our best rock and roll only sounds as good as it does because it was mixed properly. And no matter how good a piece of music is if it's not mixed properly, it can sound like junk

[@leesweather9894]

John's intellect on/with music and climate change has been and always will be epic.

[@marciashiraishi5891]

John Paul Jones - this guy is from another planet! (in fact all of them I think...) 😍😍😍

[@yellowbelly7863]

John Paul is so underrated, the man could play some sweet rhythm

[@Braglemaster123]

Excellent

[@ingsterjohansen2]

This is a bass line to make the giney tingle...

[@michaeltelesca8597]

Ingrid Johansen That's one of the reasons I play da bass!

[@JannekeGoossens]

Ingrid Johansen John Paul Jones ALWAYS does.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

WAAAAAYYYYY doOOOOOWWWWWWN inSIIIiIiIIiiIDE

[@zeppelin8019]

that ending sounds so sick with the theremin at the end

[@laurieguenther5898]

awesome bass riff

[@dannepohl62]

Incredible groove.

[@akshayk669]

Holy bass!

[@Jeffwalleye]

Nothing like it since! JPJ is always so on spot!

[@ultrakool]

peter cetera gets the same percussive effect with the pick on "i'm a man". and of course, the man who rewrote the art of playing bass with a pick...chris squire. all great

[@JustK009]

Cetera's a damn beast! So many ppl sleep on that guy..I'm constantly telling folks the need to go back and listen

[@davidmorris3062]

booby vega is the best pick bassist

[@bws1971]

Cetera gets a bad rap because of his penchant for the sappy, poppy tripe that is the majority of his contribution to the bastardization of Chicago following Terry Kath's death. But I'll check out his bass playing again, sure.

[@claudio130]

Just mentioned Chris Squire so we are in God’s territory!

[@nerkoids]

Yes. That or Fender flats. They were the only decent flats available in the UK at the time. Although this song was recorded mostly in NYC.

[@PicklePaint]

When you just throw that amp on 11 and chug away at this for an hour straight

[@blackdog5186]

now that's a nice bass sound right there

[@user-eb8mi3xi5f]

So much concentration on his playing. Great.

[@manny4552]

This is awesome shit!!!!!He is the man!!1

[@gtamodman122]

oh my dats a heavy bass

[@wendy.darling]

gotta love JPJ

[@N2F1]

Never heard that isolated bass track before. That is what gives this track that mystery percussion. To this old school bassist, those two parts make the song what it is. Am I hearing a fretless on the octave part? And I love the hanging open D in the middle of the riff. Such good stuff. Goofs and all.

[@robertdowney413]

I've been thinking about this, too, and I think we're hearing a subtle harmonic pinch, but I don't think it's fretless.

[@MrWahooknows]

I agree w/you.

[@baberoot1998]

Awesome. Totally awesome.

[@edvedd19]

absoliute best rock bassist...responses wiill b ignored.

[@woodsinme]

Nice. Thanks for sharing.

[@lemuellachica4991]

Simple but powerful

[@rodmac8358]

JPJ, the secret BEAST in Led Zeppelin.

[@claudio130]

Not so secret I would say

[@jed4340]

That bass better be 18 or older

[@jeffreyjohn2037]

That bass was 7 at that time. 1962 Fender Jazz Bass

[@turq1824]

I can feel the head bobbing through the screen

[@TheZombieJC]

Holy fuck, Robert Plant hits an E5 instead of the released version's B4 in the background at 4:31. That's amazing.

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Absolute beast

[@jimbragg474]

Yep, saw a video interview of him where he told the interviewer the people who transcribed what he does when he plays the song have it all wrong, then he showed how he played the first few bars. Still wish I could play like that. Suppose it would help if I had the gear he used, my 5 string just does not cut it.

[@warrenginmartini]

1:21 Have a cigarette Mr. Jones

[@goovialisticprofunks]

His accidental harmonics sound like a bell 🛎 or is that Bonham in the background harmonizing with his harmonics low action buzz?

[@ianstevenson6426]

Interesting how tinny the bass tone is compared to the finished product. Cool

[@ConnorArchibald]

dat power chord before the trippy part

[@nadurtha8536]

Fun fact, he's actually playing doubled Es (i.e Open E and the E at the 4th position A string).

[@kenduffy5397]

Cool, hear the string bending just before he starts playing the main riff again? Unreal

[@superblue2983]

I'm bassist since 1983. I own two fender precissions, John is playing a Gibson Les Paul Bass.

[@sebastianschofield859]

Nope, fender jazz but with a pick

[@seanoconnor5730]

Sebastian Schofield you sure? I've only seen him play with his fingers.

[@rssadlier]

There's an old video of him explaining how he plays this song and the pick is the key to it.

[@Braglemaster123]

SeanO Covers1999 He’s using a pick 👍👍👍

[@Braglemaster123]

Rick Sadlier Yes

[@kenduffy5397]

Love ❤️ Octaves!

[@magicmike6961]

love that analogue bass sound.

[@princereznor1]

I'm a Zeppelin fan because of Jones and Bonham

[@mcleanartists]

For the neighbours.

[@kendrickbritto8556]

So that’s the guy who isn’t page plant or bonham

[@mikeb2085]

JPJ is the Best Bass Player in the Rock world... I know there are allot of grate bassists out there and I respect all of them... But only one John Paul Jones He Makes my Favorite Drummer play Better than Everyone Else...

[@thomassegaert]

+Mike Bakalian no he's not, he might be the best bass riff maker of the merceybeat era tho, i'll give you that

[@angusdoyle1155]

+Mike Bakalian hes even better than paul mccartney? have you actually ever listen to his bass lines....check em out

[@mattbingham2856]

+Angus Doyle Nikki Sixx and Leland Sklar run circles around jones and mccartney. Flea from RHCP is better than Jones.

[@rm25088]

+Matt Bingham Nikki Sixx... Really??

[@colinhess5742]

Eh, John Entwistle was better

[@jimbraggjr]

No he is using a pick for a heavy percussive sound then deadening the strings with his fretting hand to emphasize the percussive sound. That is making it sound like he has dead strings. It is purely intentional.

[@derrik-bosse]

JPJ for sure. NOBODY I have heard does the two string hit. See...he hits the fifth fret D as well as the open D. He also hits the low E and E on the A string...

[@thecourierNCR]

So he does the octaves to beef it up cause he's not using his fingers!

[@qdaveq6597]

Very common for bass players in 3 piece bands. Andy Fraser, Billy Sheehan, Glenn Cornick, Geddy Lee, Lemmy, McCartney can all be heard doing this.

[@jakep1178]

It really isn't a big deal. Lots of bass players do it. Calm down Yeah?

[@derrik-bosse]

I meant particularly this cover, not in general

[@PicklePaint]

You gotta do the octaves. It sounds so much fuckin better. Gives it that chuggin vibe

[@michaelgreco1175]

That tone ^^^

[@nerkoids]

He's using flatwound strings on this song. He had at the time a foam muting system to slightly deaden the strings further.

[@Matthew_Eitzman]

1:48 pushing string down until it hits the pole piece of the pickup.

[@yogiblair22]

Shlamazing. Though he is playing many octaves it sounds like he has a little bit of a harmonizer or octaver of sorts

[@yogiblair22]

Perhaps he layered another track on top of it as you can hear almost a little like slap back delay or something that's not perfectly on. What ever it is sounds cool

[@BecaSchmitt]

No he plays octaves, he said on an interview, i made a cover of this song using his technique here: soundcloud.com/vin-cius-schmitt/bass-cover-led-zeppelin-whole-lotta-love-drum

[@yogiblair22]

Cool, that's what I originally thought. Thanx for the link

[@BecaSchmitt]

I used a phaser with it, leslie amp to give more of a percussive sound, John used leslies on many songs on his bass, and well, sounds about right, so i guess he used a bit for this one as well, as soon as you turn the leslie on the tone just fits right into it.

[@yogiblair22]

Sweet going bro. What leslie plugin are you using? Logic use to have one and now it seems to be gone.

[@zaparamat]

JPJ♥

[@overdriven77]

I would't say he used it on this one, but for sure he did it on Heartbreaker :)

[@Trey-jl9ru]

John paul jones has this dead, thuddy kind of tone that ive always wanted but cant for some reason

[@timothydavis877]

Jonesy has said in interviews that he kept a way lower action than most bassists, and also rarely changed his strings.

[@allrequiredfields]

Flatwound strings, my friend - it's that simple. Try a set of GHS Precision Wound strings.

[@kriglum0760]

That’s a jazz bass he’s playing if that helps

[@angusdoyle1155]

you should do one for ms vanderbuilt by wings that bass line is amazing

[@LZHindenburg]

Jonesy the magician!

[@ChaseAECHS]

I wouldn't let Flea lick JPJ's boots.

[@mikeb2085]

+Ridgid Glo As much as I love JPJ and Led Zeppelin, Flea is one of my fav rock/fusion/funk/whatever... bassist out there....

[@Bob-gd4uu]

+Ridgid Glo That is cause you're not JPJ

[@Bob-gd4uu]

If you're a bassist you're dumb as hell, Flea and JPJ don't really have much separating them. I think Flea is better. On pure technique he's miles ahead of JPJ. His tone is far better, he created a next level sound and style and is a virtuoso. JPJ is also but be honest, do you know anything? Properly educate yourself

[@Bob-gd4uu]

Are you a bassist of any real ability or another jackass of no education on the internet? I know what I'm talking about. If your opinion is one is better than the other, cool beans. If you think what you said is the case, the only idiot is you. Fuck off

[@Bob-gd4uu]

24, but since you didn't answer my question ......... the only bassist in the conversation?

[@pigsfood27]

What software was used to do this? I want to remaster an album with an enhanced bass guitar track.

[@Braglemaster123]

Very cool

[@norebooberon1122]

J-P Jones this rocks and blues my sense.

[@wavehorsee81]

OMG, fascinating:)

[@cafeales6]

Can you please give me information about the software used to isolate instruments?

[@glenwhiteheart458]

Playing with a pick ?

[@anagimenez9113]

😩❤ tan puto amo en el bajo es John paul Jones y la canción 😩❤