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Paul McCartney and his Basses

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The only other pic I have ever seen of Paul on stage with a Jazz Bass besides the one posted from the Wings concert in Tucson.
Paul playing a Fender Jazz bass at the Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary after-party at the Plaza Hotel on February 15, 2015. Whether it's actually his bass or not, I don't know. I suspect not.
 

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digmeout said:
The only other pic I have ever seen of Paul on stage with a Jazz Bass besides the one posted from the Wings concert in Tucson.
Paul playing a Fender Jazz bass at the Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary after-party at the Plaza Hotel on February 15, 2015. Whether it's actually his bass or not, I don't know. I suspect not.
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Apparently this was a rental. I think it was one of the older American Deluxe Jazz Basses, with the downsized body and gold pickguard.

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No, I'm almost positive that FAAB was just the Wal. Real Love was a combination of the Fender and the upright.
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Funny how what were to be the final Beatles recordings were done on instruments Paul never owned during his Beatles years. While Now and Then flipped that back the other way, I kinda miss Paul of the 80's/90's who experimented with different gear.
 
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I remembered hearing that he had two of the Yamaha BBs, and it seems that might be true. The one he gave to auction that fetched nearly half a million dollars has a Yamaha logo more toward the nut...

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However, this other photo's BB has what looks like the Yamaha logo near the G tuner, and what appears to be more branding toward the nut. It could be the "BroadBass" logo that came on some of the basses at the time.

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I guess you can't have just one! I can't either.
 
#554
Watching the new Anthology and find it interesting in those early years now I have seen Macca play with a pick, strum with his fingers and do the old thumb plucking method. I wonder if he was searching for his comfort zone in those early years? Either way it shows a mastery of the bass that many of us strive for after a lifetime of playing. Heck, if you give me a pick I’ll sound like a blundering rookie!
 
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#556
Episode four opens with the Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl. Paul his playing his infamous 500/1, but there is another Höfner on a stand at the ready but I couldn’t make out the model. These days it is the norm to find a player with several basses on stands at the ready but not so much in 1965.
 

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