Resultado de búsqueda
31 de ene. de 2024 · Received as a gift from Hofner in 1963, this updated model of his previous Cavern bass featured slight body and pickup modifications and a rounded, responsive bass tone, quickly becoming Paul’s long standing number one instrument. The prominent flat-wound tone of the ’63 characteristic Paul McCartney Hofner can be heard on many of the major ...
16 de feb. de 2024 · “Paul McCartney bought his Hofner bass from me,” Höper told Andy Babiuk for his 2001 book Beatles Gear. “We offered a ten-payment deal, and so we had to set up a contract, for which we needed his passport number. However, Paul had left his passport at the Top Ten club, so I went with him to the club to get the passport and do the deal.”
8 de jul. de 2023 · McCartney didn't set out to become a bassist, somewhat reluctantly taking up the low-end in 1961, when The Beatles' first "real" bass player, Stu Sutcliffe, John Lennon's art school friend, decided to quit the band to stay in Hamburg, Germany where the group had been playing a now-legendary slew of residency gigs.
15 de feb. de 2024 · McCartney originally bought the bass for £30 in Germany during the Beatles' infamous Hamburg era. “I found a nice little shop in the centre of Hamburg, near a big department store called Karstadt," McCartney recalled in an interview with Tony Bacon in 1994. "And I saw this bass in the window, this violin-shaped Höfner.
14 de mar. de 2024 · The Iconic Bass Is Lost. It was on October 10th, 1972, that the 1961 bass was stolen. The bass was in a van with presumably other gear for Paul’s new band, Wings, in the Notting Hill area of London. During the night, someone absconded with the famous bass and sold it to Ronald Guest, the landlord of the Admiral Blake pub in Ladbroke Grove ...
Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.One of the most successful composers and performers of all time, McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile and wide tenor ...
Paul McCartney ist als Bassist der Beatles in die Geschichte eingegangen. Zahlreiche Grammys und Ehrentitel würdigen seine Musik und sein musikalische Gesamtwerk hat ganze Generationen beeinflusst. Erfahre hier mehr über Paul McCartney, sein Leben, die Beatles, den Höfner Violin Bass und seine melodiöse Basslines!
