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06-17-2007, 07:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Germany | | | Paul McCartney on DB...
...playing on Bill Blacks (Elvisī Bassplayer) Bass 'Heartbreak Hotel'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uzC5KC_260
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06-17-2007, 11:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Not a bad vocal Elvis impression.
I wonder if Paul owns the bass. It appears that it had been re-strung left handed.
Thanks for the link.
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06-17-2007, 12:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Eugene, Oregon | | | From an interview with Macca
"Within seconds he has picked up the upright, which I now notice is painted gold, and announces that 'my wife, Linda' bought it as a present, and that it used to belong to Elvis Presley's original bassman, Bill Black." http://www.macca-central.com/macca-a...bassplayer.htm
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06-17-2007, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Oooh boy...sorry, I love Paul McCartney, but that was hard to watch. I'm not a real stickler for perfect technique and hand position, but that made my whole body hurt just looking at it. He makes Charlie Haden look flawless. |
06-17-2007, 01:16 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Bend, Oregon | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TroyK  Not a bad vocal Elvis impression.
I wonder if Paul owns the bass. It appears that it had been re-strung left handed. | Looks to me like it's strung traditionally. He's playing high notes closer to his body and low notes away. Backwards.
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06-18-2007, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Georgia | | | Before he got his Hofner, he used Stu Sutclife's bass. It was a right handed instrument, and he had to play it strung right handed as Stu didn't want it restrung.
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06-18-2007, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson Oooh boy...sorry, I love Paul McCartney, but that was hard to watch. I'm not a real stickler for perfect technique and hand position, but that made my whole body hurt just looking at it. He makes Charlie Haden look flawless. |
Yeah but he ain't on the gig with Paul Bley or Metheny......and he wrote all 'dem great tunes.........so I gives Macca a pass.  |
06-18-2007, 07:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Tru dat. Besides, it's just one tune, and if he does more, he can afford the finest physical therapists in the business. |
06-18-2007, 07:49 PM
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True dat. |
06-18-2007, 10:18 PM
| | ...Bluesin' and Funkin' | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson Oooh boy...sorry, I love Paul McCartney, but that was hard to watch. I'm not a real stickler for perfect technique and hand position, but that made my whole body hurt just looking at it. He makes Charlie Haden look flawless. | And I thought I sucked at DB. He makes me look flawless too.
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