From performance to recording and arranging, McCartney said the group found ways to make themselves a little different from ...

Taking to his 1964 Rickenbacker 4001S, which had a fuller tone compared to the Höfner VIolin Bass, Paul McCartney is in peak form on Hey Bulldog. After four bars of John Lennon's bluesy piano ...

Masterminded by Australian photographer Kane Hibberd, Scale invites attendees to see some of the most famous guitars in the world up close and personal like never before ...

Paul likely used his Rickenbacker 4001 with flatwound ... Step (later covered by the Spencer Davis Group). McCartney waits to make his bass entrance as the second instrument in the build up ...

Paul McCartney had already started experimenting with different guitar styles. He traded his violin Höfner bass for a Rickenbacker 4001S that John Rickenbacker had personally gifted Macca at the ...

When Brian Ray joined Paul McCartney’s band in 2002 ... Because Ray also handles bass duties in the group when McCartney is playing guitar or piano, he has some unique insights to playing ...

For more on Macca’s relationship with the violin bass, check out our history of Paul McCartney and the Höfner 500/1 bass guitar.

All images are 1:1 scale, meaning shots of everything from Paul McCartney’s iconic Höfner bass to Dave Grohl ... A psychedelic Rickenbacker that has forged a reputation as big the man who ...