That’s actually Bill Black’s bass.” Paul McCartney played the Elvis Presley bass on this ‘McCartney III’ track and more McCartney named one of the tracks from McCartney III that features ...

When Sutcliffe left the Beatles, he left behind his Höfner President bass guitar for Paul McCartney to use. His one stipulation was that McCartney not change the strings, so McCartney was forced ...

Paul McCartney‘s signature, violin-shaped Höfner bass guitar is back in his hands, decades after it was stolen in the 1970s. The Beatles rocker confirmed on Thursday that the instrument had ...

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of Paul ... bass players used gut strings and no amplification. One listen to the album's previous track, the soft-shoe When I’m Sixty-Four, confirms ...

Taking to his 1964 Rickenbacker 4001S, which had a fuller tone compared to the Höfner VIolin Bass, Paul McCartney is in peak ...

Years later, none other than Sir Paul McCartney would single out the bass ... James always used heavy gauge La Bella strings (the older the better) so it's not surprising that the bass developed a ...

The early days of the Beatles boasted some distinct iconography: the Fab Four’s mop-top haircuts, fit leather boots, and the violin Höfner bass that Paul McCartney ... s black and white ...

Höfner bass expert Nick Wass has teamed up with two investigative journalists in an effort to reunite Paul McCartney with his ... has two pickups mounted on a black wood block, a three-part ...

Brian Ray has spent the last 23 years as a member of Paul McCartney’s band, playing bass and guitar — so who better to assess Macca’s musicianship? In the new issue of Guitar World magazine ...

Paul McCartney entered the '70s ... to the dancing interchanges between horns and strings. Then there's a pushed-forward, endlessly entertaining bass line that bears a passing resemblance to ...

The rising storm of strings from “A Day in the Life” reach their skull-burst crescendo, the Hofner bass on the stage-back screen explodes into fireworks and Paul McCartney steps onto the Co-Op ...