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 ...

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

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 ...

Multi-award-winning photographer Kane Hibberd will bring his intimate exploration of artists and their instruments of choice to London next week. Featuring over 100 life-size images of guitars steeped ...

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.