“I bought it from this bloke our drummer knew. I think it was the first fretless electric bass ever”: Bill Wyman on the origins of his famous “homemade” fretless bass

RBR.Music on Instagram: "On Bill Wyman’s 89th birthday, it’s worth revisiting one of the purest distillations of Bill Wyman’s genius the isolated bass and drum track from “Start Me Up.” No guitars, no Jagger. Just Bill and Charlie. Two men who never needed to shout to be heard. What you hear is not flash it’s feel. Charlie Watts lays down that lean, unfussy backbeat, loose but laser sharp. And underneath him, Wyman’s bass moves like an underground current, steady, minimal, absolutely magnetic. T

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