{"id":10456,"date":"2017-01-24T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2017-01-24T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T17:40:35","slug":"deep-purple-highway-star-isolated-bass-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/deep-purple-highway-star-isolated-bass-track.html","title":{"rendered":"Deep Purple &quot;Highway Star&quot; Isolated Bass Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most surprising thing about <em>Highway Star<\/em> by Deep Purple is the <strong>lack<\/strong> of lower notes on the bass.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Glover stuck to the higher notes when playing this track, and it&#8217;s a good thing he did because on the original studio release the bass cuts right through and is heard loud and proud.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing about this track is that its earthy feel is the fact the song was recorded as a band in studio. Yes, it&#8217;s true there was some overlaid instrumentation and vocals recorded later, but the foundation of the song was recorded as a band, and what a sound it was (and still is).<\/p>\n<p>Roger did use his Rickenbacker 4001 on the Machine Head album &#8211; however it&#8217;s unknown if the 4001 was specifically used on <em>Highway Star<\/em>. <\/p>\n<h3>Isolated bass track for <em>Highway Star<\/em><\/h3>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1mLryrT1ZMc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Note that although Roger did modify his 4001 quite extensively, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/catalogsearch\/result\/?cat=0&amp;q=Rickenbacker+4001\">we have parts you can use for your Rick<\/a> that won&#8217;t require you to cut any new holes in your pick guard. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably the most surprising thing about Highway Star by Deep Purple is the lack of lower notes on the bass. Roger Glover stuck to the higher notes when playing this track, and it&#8217;s a good thing he did because on the original studio release the bass cuts right through and is heard loud and proud. &#8230; <a title=\"Deep Purple &quot;Highway Star&quot; Isolated Bass Track\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/ideas\/deep-purple-highway-star-isolated-bass-track.html\" aria-label=\"More on Deep Purple &quot;Highway Star&quot; Isolated Bass Track\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}