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23 de dic. de 2023 · And I saw this bass in the window, this violin-shaped Höfner. Paul McCartney. Your first basses in the Beatles were the famous Höfners. How did you come to play those? “I found a nice little shop in the centre of Hamburg, near a big department store called Karstadt. And I saw this bass in the window, this violin-shaped Höfner.
8 de ago. de 2018 · How Paul McCartney began playing bass is a rather common story among bassists. Initially a guitar player, he switched to the four-stringed instrument to fill a spot in his band. And with the Hofner 500/1 Violin Bass he made famous in hand, McCartney elevated the role of the bassist in traditional rock groups with his innovations in both ...
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.”
In exciting news, Paul McCartney’s original 1961 Hofner 500/1 bass that was stolen in 1972 has been found and returned to the legendary Beatle. After 51 years, the bass, which was used by Sir Paul throughout much of his playing in the Beatles, turned up thanks to efforts from The Lost Bass Project and Hofner Guitars.
11 de ene. de 2018 · I met Paul McCartney at his studio for this interview as part of my research for the first edition of The Bass Book. In November 1994, my co-author Barry Moorhouse and I found ourselves motoring a few hours out of London to the converted mill in East Sussex that houses Macca HQ. There was no doubt where we were: an old map of Liverpool there on ...
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 ...
5 de ene. de 2016 · Paul McCartney played bass with the Beatles for the first time on Jan. 5, 1962. ... "None of us wanted to be the bass player," McCartney explained in a 1995 interview with Bass Player.
