The Who - I Can See For Miles - Bass Version (Pete Townshend) 

If Pete wanted to create the heaviest track ever, he might achieved his goal with this version: it sounds MENACING AS F***!

THUNDERFINGERS!!!!!!!!!

This version was on the US single release.

This is just one of a TON of mixes being done on the track getting it ready for single release, It's John on bass, Pete remixing it. Listen to the SELL OUT album stereo version and then the single mix. I don't know how many drum tracks there are being mixed in and out of it. They fussed with this and "Magic Bus" the most.

Gotta admit, this may be better than it was originally.

I'm baffled as I have this UK Track single and it does not have that JAE bass over dub. It's from a BBC broadcast and to comply with musicans union band on miming. Also on The Singles CD.

I think the extra bass was added during the making of The Kid's Are Alright soundtrack

Recorded in several separate sessions in studios across two continents, the recording of "I Can See for Miles" exemplifies the increasingly sophisticated studio techniques of rock bands in the late 1960s, such as those used for the Beatles and the Beach Boys. The backing tracks were recorded in London, the vocals and overdubbing were performed in New York at Talentmasters Studios, and the album was mastered in Los Angeles at the Gold Star Studios.[8] The initial UK mono pressing (Track Records) and the US Decca single has an overdubbed second bass line mixed upfront, whilst the drums are mixed slightly lower.-wiki

@howlinrock(be it 2 years ago now) - I heard this enhanced bass track back in the '80's!

Pete play the bass WoW John play the guitar WoW(x2)

Tina Tuner covered it, so I put this and that in my Tina playlist. Thanks for the upload!

Everyone seems to only be commenting on how much louder the bass is in this version. This isn’t the most important difference. This bass-following-the-chords mix loses like 80% of the song’s power! You gotta have the E-G-A chord progression over that drone E! Then John is finally let out of his cage in the second chorus. MUCH better that way: more dramatic, suspenseful, and eventually cathartic. This version does enable you to hear John’s occasional tricky parts more clearly. But they’re still getting the job done in the original mix, muddy as the bass tone may be…

OX

This is the BBC version with overdubbed bass, not to be confused with the mono single version which has the bass mixed loud enough to be heard and not just felt as on the regular stereo mix. The mono single version was released worldwide in 1967. This version contains an additional overdub, and it sounds terrible to me. Try to find the superior single version, this one is the worst.

Yep. It sounds like someone tacked some extra bass on top. Yawn. I'll take the mono version.

I think john is a better bass player than paul mccartney.