Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

I have, it’s chucking it down in the north east of england! I don’t know if that inspired me to do this song but it’s a hell of a coincidence. I also wanted an excuse to play my Epiphone Jack Casady bass. I love this bass. Best old school precision bass sound I’ve ever heard other than a genuine old school precision bass, and who can afford one of those?

I play a lot of weddings as part of my session work as a full time musician, this one was requested at a gig and I’d never actually heard it before. I loved the simple, for the song bass line and the unison piano/bass fills. The line does develop slightly towards the end, not much but it adds a little extra to the last choruses.

I recorded this using a Dunlop 2mm Delrin pick (the purple one) near the pickup on my Epiphone Jack Casady signature bass, strung with D’addario Chromes(with the pickup set to 500hz). I added compression with my Markbass Compressore and DI’d out of my Tech 21 VT Bass DI with a B15 sound with the drive dialed back.

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