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Title: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: on November 30, 2008, 12:22:04 PM
soooooooooo, I have a thread with John's guitars and now I want to make thread with Paul's basses. also IMO greatest bass-guitarist (not technically, but his riffs are the best)

so yeah here some basses and guitars used by legendary James Paul "Macca" McCartney, world's greatest and most influenced bass-guitarist and greatest multi-instrumentalist.

Zenith Model 17 acoustic
(http://www.thecanteen.com/zenith4.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/paulzenith.jpg)

McCartney House Guitar
(http://www.thecanteen.com/mystery1.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/mystery4.jpg)

Rosetti Solid 7
(http://www.thecanteen.com/rosetti4.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/rosetti2.jpg)
(http://www.theguitarcollection.org.uk/gallery4/egmond.jpg)

Hofner Club 40
(http://www.thecanteen.com/club9.jpg)
(http://www.pittsburghguitars.com/Resources/club40_2sm.jpg)

Hofner 500/1 (yeah, the same soul of McCartney's basses)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/coloredhof.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/61hof.jpg)
(http://www.12fret.com/new/Hofner_Contemporary_CT_Beatle_Bass.jpg)
(http://www.12fret.com/new/hofner_Vintage_63_beatle_bass.jpg)

1963s Hofner 500/1
(http://www.thecanteen.com/63hofner.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/hof66.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/63view.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/roofhof.jpg)

1964s Epiphone Texan FT-79 acoustic ("yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away...")
(http://www.thecanteen.com/texan.jpg)
(http://n8ri.org/music/ft-79.jpg)

1962s Epiphone Casino
(http://www.thecanteen.com/casino9.jpg)
(http://www.linusnyc.com/USERIMAGES/casino.JPG)
(http://www.12fret.com/usedSoldGallery/epiphoneCas.jpg)
(http://www.guitarsandeffects.com/guitarimages2006/epiphone_casino_vintage_burst/epi_casino_003.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/epi89.jpg)
John with Paul's casino
(http://www.thecanteen.com/johnwithpaulscasino.jpg)

1964s Rickenbacker 4001S-LH
(http://www.thecanteen.com/2bass3.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/paulsric.gif)
(http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.rickbeat.com/beatles/11085192.jpg&usg=AFQjCNGOKXNV-jz8k8Bmy2rVZYmagHynzA)
(http://www.rickbeat.com/beatles/ricy3.jpg)
(http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4001spmc/red-rosespeed-bass.jpg)
(http://www.thecanteen.com/rickwings.gif)
[img]http://www.thepaintedplayer.co.uk/images/Paul%20McCartney
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Penny Lane on November 30, 2008, 09:03:54 PM
You are sooo awesome for posting all these pics!!  Looking at them was exciting.  Thanks for responding to my request! :)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on December 01, 2008, 02:19:06 PM
Some great info on Paul's basses here as well: http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1136599110/
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: on December 01, 2008, 02:33:03 PM
Quote from: 63
Some great info on Paul's basses here as well: [url]http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1136599110/[/url]


yeah, but why comments were closed? I wanted to post more photos in that thread, but as I see I can't so I made my own thread with his basses and guitars :)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on December 01, 2008, 02:35:56 PM
Quote from: 1458

yeah, but why comments were closed? I wanted to post more photos in that thread, but as I see I can't so I made my own thread with his basses and guitars :)

True, the thread was locked by its creator.  :)  I can merge the threads if you want me to.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on November 11, 2009, 08:54:57 AM
Quote from:  link=topic=8386.msg198468#msg198468 date=1228047724
Zenith Model 17 acoustic
([url]http://www.thecanteen.com/zenith4.jpg[/url])


Hi!! ;)

Is there a pick up on fitted to McCartney's Zenith besides the bridge?? If so..., which kind of pick up is it??

Thanks in advance!! ;)

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on November 12, 2009, 09:00:18 AM
Compare Paul's Zenith with Paul's Rossetti Solid 7 (=reverted to a bass with three piano strings): a pick up is clearly seen besides Rossetti's bridge. This picture is taken at The Casbah (=probably before their 1st trip to Hamburg in 1960. But I don't know the precise date... Can anybody helps??)

My hypothesis reads: Zenith's pick up and Rosstti's one on this picture could be the same device. Now the question arises: which pick up is that one??

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: An Apple Beatle on November 12, 2009, 10:58:11 AM
Great stuff guys. :)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: liliom on November 12, 2009, 01:13:18 PM
And do you know the bass on "Junior's farm" video please?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: cubanheel on November 12, 2009, 09:24:41 PM
So Paul was playing bass before their first trip to Hamburg? Never made the connection between the Casbah 3 string pic and the pre-Hamburg fact. I thought he only started playing bass after Stu faded away from the group. Anyone got facts/details, please?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on November 13, 2009, 07:01:05 AM
...Never made the connection between the Casbah 3 string pic and the pre-Hamburg fact...

The question is: when is that Casbah three string pic from?? Does it really predate 1st trip to Hamburg?? (=1960, August the 16th.) Are there more pics from that session??

According to Andy Babiuk, Paul used his Rosetti Solid 7 as a 3 string bass in several gigs in Liverpool in the Spring of 1961, this is after Chas Newby left the band (=his last gig was 1960, December th 31th.) and before their 2nd trip to Hamburg (=1961, March the 29th.)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on November 13, 2009, 08:29:39 AM
The question is: when is that Casbah three string pic from?? Does it really predate 1st trip to Hamburg?? (=1960, August the 16th.) Are there more pics from that session??

According to Andy Babiuk, Paul used his Rosetti Solid 7 as a 3 string bass in several gigs in Liverpool in the Spring of 1961, this is after Chas Newby left the band (=his last gig was 1960, December th 31th.) and before their 2nd trip to Hamburg (=1961, March the 29th.)

Xosé

I don't think Paul played bass on a regular base prior to the first Hamburg trip. Stuart Sutcliffe was on bass then. So I go with Andy Babiuk on this on. I seem to remember that Paul bought his first Hofner somewhere in April 1961, but I could be wrong.

Haven't got a clue about the pick ups.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on November 13, 2009, 03:45:13 PM
Hi Bobber!! ;)

I don't think Paul played bass on a regular base prior to the first Hamburg trip...


No he didn't. His first engagements with the bass were in Hamburg 1st stay there on Stuart absences. He used Stu's Höfner 500/5 (=Brunette 333 in Selmer catalogue) played upside down...

...I seem to remember that Paul bought his first Hofner somewhere in April 1961, but I could be wrong...


No you aren't wrong. He bought it at a music shop in Central Hamburg (=Steinway. Babiuk says that the seller was a certain Günter Hopper...)

But it seems that once upon a time two Beatle bass players performed together in The Casbah in 1961, February the 12th: Paul McCartney with his Rosetti Solid 7 converted to a 3 string bass and Stuart Sutcliffe with his Höfner 500/5...

Best!! ;)

Xosé

(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7050/51153749.th.jpg) (http://img22.imageshack.us/i/51153749.jpg/)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on November 13, 2009, 04:02:35 PM
I'm not sure when Stu officially left the band. He rejoined them after he came back from Hamburg. Or he could have joined them on an on-and-off base for old times sake.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on November 13, 2009, 04:07:35 PM
I'm not sure when Stu officially left the band. He rejoined them after he came back from Hamburg. Or he could have joined them on an on-and-off base for old times sake.

Yeah... But the fact is that in April 1961 Paul bought his Höfner, which means that Stu had left the band forever...

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: cubanheel on November 13, 2009, 11:07:40 PM
Thanks for clarifying that. You guys are great on dates, or do you secretly look themup???!
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 07, 2010, 06:30:08 PM
...No he didn't. His first engagements with the bass were in Hamburg 1st stay there on Stuart absences. He used Stu's Höfner 500/5 (=Brunette 333 in Selmer catalogue) played upside down...

No you aren't wrong. He bought it at a music shop in Central Hamburg (=Steinway. Babiuk says that the seller was a certain Günter Hopper...)

But it seems that once upon a time two Beatle bass players performed together in The Casbah in 1961, February the 12th: Paul McCartney with his Rosetti Solid 7 converted to a 3 string bass and Stuart Sutcliffe with his Höfner 500/5...

([url]http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7050/51153749.th.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://img22.imageshack.us/i/51153749.jpg/[/url])


Let's go back to the Rosetti's subject.

- Paul purchased his Rosetti in 1960, June the 30th. at Frank Hessy's music shop in Liverpool for £21. There is a reproduction of the HP book for this purchase at Andy Babiuk's book, page 33.

- He used it for the first time in July the 2nd., for their performance at the Corporation's Grosvenor Ballroom, Grosvenor Road, Liscard, Wallasey, Cheshire, and until mid-April 1961 (=date unknown??) when he purchased his 1st Höfner 500/1 bass at the small shop in Hamburg city center for 267 DM. It was told that sometimes he played it unplugged (=for example at the famous Litherland Town Hall performance in December the 27th., according to -at least- one witness: Faron Ruffley, from The Faron's Flamingos).

- During those 10 months they had more than 200 (=am I right??) gigs in Merseyside and Hamburg (=Indra, Kaiserkeller and Top Ten). This points to an ample use of the Rosetti.

- Besides John, Paul and George, other group members at those 10 months were Pete Best (=from mid August onwards), Stuart Sutcliffe (=with several absences in December 1960, and January-March 1961), and others like the drummer Norman Chapman or Chas Newby, former guitarist with The Blackjacks and engaged to play the bass with The Beatles. Curiously enough he was also left-handed as Paul (=which bass used Chas Newby to play these gigs??).

- Three photographic sessions with Paul playing his Rosetti have surfaced: 17th. August 1960 at Indra, in its original look with the Royal scratchplate/2 pick ups system. 12th. February 1961 at The Casbah, with the guitar converted to a three strings bass with some piano strings, no Royal scratchplate/2 pick ups system and a Höfner 503 K pick up instead. And finally at the beginning of April 1961 at Top Ten, with the guitar re-strung as a standard six strings guitar and a DeArmond pick up.

Now, several questions arise:

- It has been stated that Paul borrowed Stu's bass for some gigs..., when and where??

- When did he stop to use his Rosetti??

- Was he using his Elpico amp all the time until he got his Höfner bass??

- There is only (=really only one??) one picture with Paul posing with John's Höfner Club 40 guitar. When is it from?? Why is he holding John's guitar and not the Rosetti??

I would love to know your opinnion about this topic...

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 09, 2010, 11:29:25 PM
No thoughts??  ???

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Penny Lane on January 10, 2010, 06:45:06 AM
I can't help, sorry. :(

But thank you for reviving this thread, I've been searching for it. :)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 10, 2010, 09:32:54 AM
I can't help, sorry...

It doesn't matter. Maybe some other members can help...

...But thank you for reviving this thread, I've been searching for it. :)

You are welcome... ;)

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 10, 2010, 10:15:19 PM
I would have to do some research on your question, Xose. Give me some time.

I've been searching for it. :)
It's been a sticky topic for a long time...
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Penny Lane on January 10, 2010, 11:16:01 PM
It's been a sticky topic for a long time...

I realize there's a sticky topic on Paul's bass, but this thread hasn't been sticky-ed or merged with the other topic. I was just remembering this old thread when Xose started writing in it again.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 10, 2010, 11:25:53 PM
I would have to do some research on your question, Xose. Give me some time...

Brilliant!! ;) Thank you VERY much!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 11, 2010, 08:21:40 AM
Brilliant!! ;) Thank you VERY much!! ;)

Xosé

I haven't done anything yet. lol
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 12, 2010, 06:21:40 PM
...Paul purchased his Rosetti in 1960, June the 30th. at Frank Hessy's music shop in Liverpool for £21. There is a reproduction of the HP book for this purchase at Andy Babiuk's book, page 33...


So..., could we listen to Paul McCartney's Rosetti?? I mean: The Silver Beatles recordings at 20, Forthlin Road...,* (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/60.06-07%20forthlin/60.06-07forthlin.html) date June or July 1960??  ???

Any thoughts?? ???

Xosé

* How could I download them?? ???
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: emmi_luvs_beatles on January 12, 2010, 06:37:18 PM
Quote from:  link=topic=8386.msg198468#msg198468 date=1228047724
Hofner Club 40
([url]http://www.thecanteen.com/club9.jpg[/url])
([url]http://www.pittsburghguitars.com/Resources/club40_2sm.jpg[/url])



I have this same guitar!!! Exept mines sunburst, they don't have that colour anymore. And my pick guard is in the right spot ;) But I saw this at the guitar store and I just died over it ha2ha
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 13, 2010, 08:20:03 AM
So..., could we listen to Paul McCartney's Rosetti?? I mean: The Silver Beatles recordings at 20, Forthlin Road...,* ([url]http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/60.06-07%20forthlin/60.06-07forthlin.html[/url]) date June or July 1960??  ???

Any thoughts?? ???

Xosé

* How could I download them?? ???


There is the Braun-Kirchherr Tapes. It was uploaded here: http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=6596.msg152361#msg152361 (http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=6596.msg152361#msg152361)
Not sure if the links are still valid, but I can re-upload them for you if you want me to.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 13, 2010, 08:34:43 AM
Curiously enough he was also left-handed as Paul (=which bass used Chas Newby to play these gigs??).


This is a pic of Chas, I guess from around that time. Pity he's obviously playing a six string guitar here. I'll dig deeper.

Chas Newby. Found it on Chazz Avery's site:

([url]http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/chas.jpg[/url])
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 13, 2010, 09:16:46 AM
Hi Bobber!! ;)

There is the Braun-Kirchherr Tapes. It was uploaded here: [url]http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=6596.msg152361#msg152361[/url] ([url]http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=6596.msg152361#msg152361[/url])
Not sure if the links are still valid, but I can re-upload them for you if you want me to.


Thank you very much!! ;) It seems the links are still valid...

But I'm not sure if those recierdings were made after 31 June. Walter Everett, who has made the thorough research about them, place them in April...

This is a pic of Chas, I guess from around that time. Pity he's obviously playing a six string guitar here. I'll dig deeper...


Yes: I knew that pic. Thanks A LOT!! ;)

BTW: its said that "...In April 1960 during the school vacation Paul borrowed a neighbour's tape recorder to record the then-called 'Beatals' in his family home at No.20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool..."

The tape recorder was a Gründig TK 12 or TK 20 as the ones seen here, (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/60.06-07%20forthlin/60.06-07forthlin.html) and used at some Cavern recordings as well... (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1963/63.01.30%20cavern%20reh/03.jpg)

But..., which is that device behind Paul & John here?? (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1962/62.09.zz%20frothlin%20reh/04.jpg) Is it not the same tape recorder?? ???

Best!! ;)

Xosé

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 13, 2010, 09:27:51 AM
Those recordings are indeed dated Spring 1960.

From Beatlology Magazine, September/October 2007. Interview with Chas Newby by Peter Stone:
[...]
PS: To play with The Beatles, did you really have to borrow a leather jacket and a bass guitar?
CN: That's right. I borrowed a bass and a leather jacket from a guy called Tom McGuirk [The Comets, The Pete Best Four]. Tom, I'd known earlier. He was playing with a band that was one of the regulars at the Casbah Club, at the time. So, I borrowed his right-handed Höfner bass and a leather jacket, because at that stage that's what The Beatles wore on stage - all leather stuff. They had leather trousers, cowboy boots, leather jackets, whatever. I managed to get the leather jacket and stood in the background.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 13, 2010, 09:37:54 AM
Those recordings are indeed dated Spring 1960.

From Beatlology Magazine, September/October 2007. Interview with Chas Newby by Peter Stone:
[...]
PS: To play with The Beatles, did you really have to borrow a leather jacket and a bass guitar?
CN: That's right. I borrowed a bass and a leather jacket from a guy called Tom McGuirk [The Comets, The Pete Best Four]. Tom, I'd known earlier. He was playing with a band that was one of the regulars at the Casbah Club, at the time. So, I borrowed his right-handed Höfner bass and a leather jacket, because at that stage that's what The Beatles wore on stage - all leather stuff. They had leather trousers, cowboy boots, leather jackets, whatever. I managed to get the leather jacket and stood in the background.

Brilliant!! ;)

Any pic of Tom McGuirk and/or The Comets?? ???

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 13, 2010, 10:08:19 AM
(http://platenkast.web-log.nl/platenkast/images/the_pete_best_four.jpg)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 13, 2010, 10:13:10 AM
([url]http://platenkast.web-log.nl/platenkast/images/the_pete_best_four.jpg[/url])


Thanks!! ;)

Now I have to find which Höfner model was the one used by Tom McGuirk in 1960 and there are two possibilities: a 500/5 like Sutcliffe's one or a 500/1 like McCartney's one...

Thanks!! ;)

Xosé

P.S.: I have ordered a copy of SEP/OCT 2007 Beatlology Magazine, but I can't see Peter Stone's interview to Chas Newby in the list of contents... ???
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 13, 2010, 10:27:16 AM
From the same interview:
PS: Considering your short association with The Beatles, your impact was career altering for The Beatles. You took over bass. You were a witness and a participant in the birth of Beatlemania. When you left the group after four shows, your departure changed the group forever. At their next gig, on January 5, 1961 at the Litherland Town Hall, Paul switched to bass [Solid 7] and the band became a quartet.
CN: I wasn't aware of that. I'm fishing in my memory here. But, Stuart was back sometime in [late February, 1961]. The first time I recall them being a quartet was when they got back from Germany the second time which would be in the middle of '61, when they'd done their stint. That was the time when Paul bought his left-handed Höfner. And, from then on, I remember then as being a quartet. From the four dates I played, I think Stuart came back and he must have played some dates [Stuart may have played with The Beatles on occasion, but The Beatles were a quartet, starting January 5, 1961], then they went out to Germany again, and then the next time they came back, Paul's playing bass and Stuart's decided to become an Art student again.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 13, 2010, 12:10:58 PM
Hi!! ;)

From the same interview:
PS: Considering your short association with The Beatles, your impact was career altering for The Beatles. You took over bass. You were a witness and a participant in the birth of Beatlemania. When you left the group after four shows, your departure changed the group forever. At their next gig, on January 5, 1961 at the Litherland Town Hall, Paul switched to bass [Solid 7] and the band became a quartet.
CN: I wasn't aware of that. I'm fishing in my memory here. But, Stuart was back sometime in [late February, 1961]. The first time I recall them being a quartet was when they got back from Germany the second time which would be in the middle of '61, when they'd done their stint. That was the time when Paul bought his left-handed Höfner. And, from then on, I remember then as being a quartet. From the four dates I played, I think Stuart came back and he must have played some dates [Stuart may have played with The Beatles on occasion, but The Beatles were a quartet, starting January 5, 1961], then they went out to Germany again, and then the next time they came back, Paul's playing bass and Stuart's decided to become an Art student again.



Thanks again!! ;)

The fact is that there are only two pictures of Paul playing his Solid 7 in Liverpool, (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.02.12%20casbah/61.02.12casbah.html) both at The Casbah, and presumably from the same day: 1961, February the 12th. Stu is there as well, so..., how many gigs did they as a quartet at those days??

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 13, 2010, 11:59:06 PM
Andy Babiuk, page 47:

"...Several Liverpudlian bands of the era interviewed for this book went to see The Beatles while Sutcliffe was in the group and remember McCartney with his three-string bass plugged in, but with the other end of the lead (cord) stuffed into his jacket pocket and not plugged into an amp at all. This may explain how the group overcame the sonic problem of two bass players. McCartney himself confirmed the practice when asked about his falling-apart Rosetti. 'I used to...piece it together and plug it but not plug it in, [that is to say I would] just play it not plugged in'..."

This could mean that in this picture (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.02.12%20casbah/5.jpg) the Rosetti could not be sounding through an amp, and the same could be happening here (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.02.12%20casbah/1.jpg)...

At these pictures (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.03.27%2007.02%20top%20ten/01%20Jergen%20Vollmer1/01vollmer.html) the Rosetti has been re-strung with six strings and another pick up (=possibly a DeArmond one). But..., what about Paul McCartney's chords with his right hand?? They seem to be the same all the time... ???

Here (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.03.27%2007.02%20top%20ten/02%20Jergen%20Vollmer2/vollmer2.html) we see four guitars (=Stu's Höfner bass, John's Rick, Paul's Rosetti and George's Futurama) and only three amps (=George's Selmer Truvoice, Stu's Gibson GA-40 Les Paul and John's Fender Deluxe...) ???

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: The Swine on January 15, 2010, 10:40:05 PM

Here ([url]http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.03.27%2007.02%20top%20ten/02%20Jergen%20Vollmer2/vollmer2.html[/url]) we see four guitars (=Stu's Höfner bass, John's Rick, Paul's Rosetti and George's Futurama) and only three amps (=George's Selmer Truvoice, Stu's Gibson GA-40 Les Paul and John's Fender Deluxe...) ???

Xosé


isnt this the time that paul played the piano and playbacked with his guitar when he had to sing up front?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 16, 2010, 12:28:24 PM
isnt this the time that paul played the piano and playbacked with his guitar when he had to sing up front?


Not exactly. IMHO at those Top Ten season (=April 1961) he didn't playbacked with his guitar (=although he did it earlier in Liverpool in January-March), because a new pick up was attached to the Rosetti: a DeArmond one. At these photos (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1961/61.03.27%2007.02%20top%20ten/02%20Jergen%20Vollmer2/vollmer2.html) the new pick up is seen with all the cable/wire stuff, and a lead is plugged into the amp...

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 19, 2010, 06:52:19 PM
And finally Sir Paul McCartney's sound in 1961, February the 12th., at The Casbah:

A copy of his 1st bass (=Rosetti guitar + three piano strings + a made by Fuma pick up) and a microphone like the one he sang to...

Best!! ;)

Xosé

(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4697/1strosettipickup.jpg) (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/1strosettipickup.jpg/)

(http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9708/enproceso.jpg) (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/enproceso.jpg/)

(http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6699/selmerrl2.jpg) (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/selmerrl2.jpg/)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 28, 2010, 08:50:07 AM
So..., could we listen to Paul McCartney's Rosetti?? I mean: The Silver Beatles recordings at 20, Forthlin Road...,* ([url]http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/60.06-07%20forthlin/60.06-07forthlin.html[/url]) date June or July 1960??  ???

Any thoughts?? ???



Unfortunately there's no such thing known. Although we once had a member here who told us he had recordings of The Beatles playing in the Indra Club in Hamburg, recordings like that are believed to be non-existing. There's the recording now known as the Braun-Kirchherr Tapes, Spring 1960. I believe that the next recording are the songs with Tony Sheridan.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 28, 2010, 08:51:41 AM
Hello,

In case somebody can be interested...

I should say that it was VERY difficult to find a Solid 7 like Macca's one, but not impossible...

Best, ;)

Xosé

(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/1347/maccassolid7elpico.jpg) (http://img402.imageshack.us/i/maccassolid7elpico.jpg/)

(http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/8046/solid7elpicoii.jpg) (http://img718.imageshack.us/i/solid7elpicoii.jpg/)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 28, 2010, 09:00:19 AM
Unfortunately there's no such thing known. Although we once had a member here who told us he had recordings of The Beatles playing in the Indra Club in Hamburg, recordings like that are believed to be non-existing. There's the recording now known as the Braun-Kirchherr Tapes, Spring 1960. I believe that the next recording are the songs with Tony Sheridan.

Aha...

Thank you!!  ;)

BTW: a couple of weeks ago I ordered a copy of SEP/OCT 2007 Beatlology Magazine, but at their website I couldn't see Peter Stone's interview to Chas Newby in the list of contents for this issue. Could you, please, check for me the list of contents at your own issue??

Thanks in advance and best wishes!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 28, 2010, 09:08:24 AM
- During those 10 months they had more than 200 (=am I right??) gigs in Merseyside and Hamburg (=Indra, Kaiserkeller and Top Ten). This points to an ample use of the Rosetti.

That could be correct. I have not counted them.
Quote from: Xose
- Besides John, Paul and George, other group members at those 10 months were Pete Best (=from mid August onwards), Stuart Sutcliffe (=with several absences in December 1960, and January-March 1961), and others like the drummer Norman Chapman or Chas Newby, former guitarist with The Blackjacks and engaged to play the bass with The Beatles. Curiously enough he was also left-handed as Paul (=which bass used Chas Newby to play these gigs??).

Norman Chapman only played a handful of gigs in, I think, June or July 1960. There's a separate thread on him on this forums.
Quote from: Xose
- It has been stated that Paul borrowed Stu's bass for some gigs..., when and where??

It's true this has been stated, but so far I haven't found any proof for this. Maybe Eric Krasker can be of any help solving this?
Quote from: Xose
- When did he stop to use his Rosetti??

I haven't got an exact date, but from the pictures taken in the Top Ten we can learn that Paul obviously spent some time at the piano as well. The Rosetti was not as solid as the name suggested.
Quote from: Xose
- Was he using his Elpico amp all the time until he got his Höfner bass??

I really can't tell...
Quote from: Xose
- There is only (=really only one??) one picture with Paul posing with John's Höfner Club 40 guitar. When is it from?? Why is he holding John's guitar and not the Rosetti??

Is it this one?
(http://www.thecanteen.com/club9.jpg)
From here (thanks to Chazz Avery's wonderful site. It remains a source in its own right!): (http://www.beatlesource.com/savage/1960/60.11.00%20astrid%20pics/07.jpg)
Dated October or November 1960, Hamburg Germany.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 28, 2010, 09:10:17 AM
It looks as if the Hofner Club 40 IS restrung for a lefthanded guitarist.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on January 28, 2010, 09:11:13 AM
Hello,

In case somebody can be interested...

I should say that it was VERY difficult to find a Solid 7 like Macca's one, but not impossible...


You mean you own it? That's wonderful! Congratulations. Is it really as bad as McCartney describes it?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on January 28, 2010, 09:14:31 AM
It looks as if the Hofner Club 40 IS restrung for a lefthanded guitarist.

Yes... Correct... But soon after (=when??) John sold it out...

You mean you own it? That's wonderful! Congratulations. Is it really as bad as McCartney describes it?

Yes I do... Thank you!! ;)

Best!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on March 06, 2010, 10:56:05 AM
...BTW: a couple of weeks ago I ordered a copy of SEP/OCT 2007 Beatlology Magazine, but at their website I couldn't see Peter Stone's interview to Chas Newby in the list of contents for this issue. Could you, please, check for me the list of contents at your own issue??...

They never sent the magazine although I paid for it... ???

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on March 06, 2010, 01:59:39 PM
They never sent the magazine although I paid for it... ???

Xosé
You should complain! Otherwise I'll send you my copy.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on March 06, 2010, 10:34:45 PM
You should complain! Otherwise I'll send you my copy.

Thnka you Bober!! ;) Yiu are extremely kind... ;)

It seems that eBay is going to recover my money. But, of course, what I wanted was the magazine. Would be very difficult for you to scan for me the pages with Chas Newby interview??  ::)

Best regards!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on March 07, 2010, 02:31:33 PM
If that is of any help. I can do it tomorrow.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Xose on March 07, 2010, 03:40:18 PM
If that is of any help. I can do it tomorrow.

Of course it is!!

Sent a PM with my email address...

Thank you!! ;)

Xosé
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on March 08, 2010, 11:59:10 AM
Xose, I sent it by PM. You might start a thread on the Egmond guitars. Maybe others can help as well.
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: peterbell1 on March 09, 2010, 04:42:14 PM
Does Paul still own both of his original Hofner violin basses?
I know one of them still has the 1966 set list taped to the edge - I assume that is the 1963 model, yes?
Is it one of these two guitars that he uses on stage now, or does he use a replacement when he plays live?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Bobber on March 10, 2010, 08:25:02 AM
Some more info on the Hofner in here: http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=4074.0 (http://www.dmbeatles.com/forums/index.php?topic=4074.0)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: nimrod on February 23, 2012, 11:58:37 PM
Can anyone answer the following questions;

1) Did Paul use his Ric bass on Rubber Soul and if so what songs?

2) Did Paul use the Ric for the whole of Revolver & Pepper ?

3) Did he use the Fender Jazz for the whole of the White Album ?

4) who did the right handed Jazz bass belong too ?

5) Who painted the Ric bass ?

6) is the brown Ric bass the same one but stripped (like Johns Epiphone) ?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Hello Goodbye on February 24, 2012, 12:14:59 AM
Kevin, your questions regarding his Rickenbacker 4001S are answered here:  http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4001spmc/4001spmc.htm (http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/4001spmc/4001spmc.htm)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: nimrod on February 24, 2012, 12:55:07 AM
thanks barry  :)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Hello Goodbye on February 24, 2012, 01:41:01 AM
You're welcome, Kev. 

Here's an article quoting Mark Arnquist who was in charge of special repairs at the Rickenbacker factory from July 1972 to October 1976.  He describes the repairs to Paul's 4001S just prior to the Wings Over America Tour:  http://www.thecanteen.com/arnquist.html (http://www.thecanteen.com/arnquist.html)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Hello Goodbye on February 24, 2012, 02:10:17 AM
That Ric was...


(http://i56.tinypic.com/2cxzuhj.jpg)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: Hello Goodbye on February 24, 2012, 04:18:44 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Gc_-2Yg_U0s/TGMyYB_X_8I/AAAAAAAAAF0/_d3UjHd9yh8/s1600/bass3.jpg)


(http://tb-positec.com/101basses/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ricPaul.jpg)


(http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o42/bsimer/519200683424PM33142.jpg)


(http://www.rickbeat.com/beatles/11085192.jpg)
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: nimrod on March 01, 2012, 12:17:54 PM
You're welcome, Kev. 

Here's an article quoting Mark Arnquist who was in charge of special repairs at the Rickenbacker factory from July 1972 to October 1976.  He describes the repairs to Paul's 4001S just prior to the Wings Over America Tour:  [url]http://www.thecanteen.com/arnquist.html[/url] ([url]http://www.thecanteen.com/arnquist.html[/url])


wow sounds like it was in a right mess and in need of plenty of TLC

wonder why Paul didnt ask them to seal it while it was in there ?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: glass onion on March 01, 2012, 08:46:55 PM
wasn't pauls first violin bass (the one he had a refurb on and used for the 'revolution' promo)pinched/stolen at some point and never retrieved?anyone have any info on this?
Title: Re: McCartney's basses/guitars
Post by: nimrod on March 01, 2012, 10:47:40 PM
wasn't pauls first violin bass (the one he had a refurb on and used for the 'revolution' promo)pinched/stolen at some point and never retrieved?anyone have any info on this?

yes it was stolen during or after the let It be sessions

whoever has it should give it him back