My story of giving Paul McCartney my Rickenbacker Bass at Junior's Farm

[BurnOut]

He's on tour right now...just played Boston last week.

I should of remembered it was Jimmy, cause Paul tells Jimmy to take to lead break on Junior's Farm.

 

[Skokiaan]

To add: Macca, with only one or two exceptions of his earliest instruments, keeps all of his instruments, including his 1966 lefty Jazz Bass (apparently, he didn't take his to Lagos during the Band on the Run sessions because he didn't want to have his stolen. Need to confirm that anecdote, though)

Paul still owns his very first guitar, a Zenith Model 17, right handed but restrung lefty.

Here are three pictures of the same guitar: 1958, 1994, 2013.

 

[dealey]

I’m pretty sure he has the strings reversed in all those pictures. Certainly the Jazz. So he’s not just playing a flipped righty in the simplest sense.

There are several images of him playing right handed strung instruments on google, one good example would be in the Rockestra video rehearsal. Paul takes the right handed bass players guitar from him and plays it upside down to show him his part, left handed guitar players in the early days had to adjust this way as there were not many left handed options.