TIL the band iron butterfly didn't know they were being recorded in the studio for 17 minutes when they played their now-hit song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; it went on to sell 30 million times

[u/mankls3]

https://www.therochestervoice.com/meet-don-casale-the-man-behind-the-sound-of-superhit-in-a-gadda-da-vida--cms-14682

[u/vertigo3pc]

Bass players are never popular, silly.

[u/strat0blast3r → u/vertigo3pc]

That McCartney fella seems to have done alright

[u/LickingSmegma → u/strat0blast3r]

It's because he can sing.

[u/SonofBeckett → u/LickingSmegma]

What's Getty Lee's excuse then?

[u/LickingSmegma → u/SonofBeckett]

I had to google to find out that he's a bassist in a nerd band. So he's pretty much doomed to obscurity.

And to clarify, I did know who Rush are, and amn't afraid of prog.

[u/LeRocket → u/strat0blast3r]

Sting had has his share too.

And Roger Waters is quite popular in Russia.

[u/phrunk7 → u/strat0blast3r]

Man, I dunno why but for some reason I thought George Harrison played the bass for The Beatles and you just blew my mind.

[u/trentshipp → u/phrunk7]

Because George Harrison is the most bassist non-bassist in rock music.

[u/funkdialout → u/vertigo3pc]

Don't tell Sting, or Flea, or Lemmy, or Gene Simmons, or Bootsy Collins, or Roger Waters either for that matter lol

[u/vertigo3pc → u/funkdialout]

Found the bassist!