Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Bass cover with tabs)

#basstranscription #basscoverwithtabs
Session musician Joe Osborne played the bass on this song from 1967.

It is one of the very first songs in popular music industry (most probably the first major hit) to use vi–IV–I–V chord progression, a variant of I–V–vi–IV progression, which has seen enormous popularity in recent years, in pop music as well as in orchestral music.
Australian comedy group 'Axis Of Awesome' performed a sketch on the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival about the massive use of the I-V-vi-IV progression in pop songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

Joe Osborn (August 28, 1937 – December 14, 2018) was an American bass guitar player known for his work as a session musician in Los Angeles with the Wrecking Crew and Nashville with the A-Team of studio musicians during the 1960s through the 1980s.

His playing can be heard on records by such well-known groups as The Mamas & the Papas, The Association, The Grass Roots and The 5th Dimension. Osborn can be heard on Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water" and the 5th Dimension's version of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In". A song featuring prominently mixed bass in melodic counterpoint to acoustic guitars is the 1972 hit single "Ventura Highway" by the group America. He also played on several Johnny Rivers records.

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