"The Fool" is a state of mind. If you paint your gear on an acid trip, you can say your gear was painted by The Fool. So I think a lot of gear (famous or not) was painted by The Fool
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Paul's Ric: psycadelic paint job?
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This is from an interview with Paul in The Bass Player Book:
Around the time the group recorded Magical Mystery Tour (April-December 1967), Paul's Rickenbacker got a psychedelic paint job; you can see the hippy-dippy colors in the film. "Yep, I got out the old aerosols," Paul confirms. "We were all doing that: George did his guitar, and we did the cars. If you did the cars, you might as well do your guitars. It looked great. It was just 'cause we were tripping -- that's what it was, man. Look at your guitar and you'd trip even more. I sort of grew out of that, like most people did. But you know, I'm a bit of a visual man. I paint a lot, and we were always involved in album covers and fashions. John went to art school, Stuart was a painter..." And Ringo? "Ringo was a drummer," he laughs, "but he could paint a nice apartment -- two coats, one afternoon."
Around the time the group recorded Magical Mystery Tour (April-December 1967), Paul's Rickenbacker got a psychedelic paint job; you can see the hippy-dippy colors in the film. "Yep, I got out the old aerosols," Paul confirms. "We were all doing that: George did his guitar, and we did the cars. If you did the cars, you might as well do your guitars. It looked great. It was just 'cause we were tripping -- that's what it was, man. Look at your guitar and you'd trip even more. I sort of grew out of that, like most people did. But you know, I'm a bit of a visual man. I paint a lot, and we were always involved in album covers and fashions. John went to art school, Stuart was a painter..." And Ringo? "Ringo was a drummer," he laughs, "but he could paint a nice apartment -- two coats, one afternoon."
Love the acoustic.
I think the worst paint job was probably John's Casino but luckily it was only on the back.
Paul talking about Ringo being a painter-then aluding to being a house painter-reminds when asked was Ringo the best drummer in the world, Paul said he wasn't even the best drummer in The Beatles. Gotta love Ringo. Right guy for the job at the right time-perfect piece of the perfect jigsaw puzzle.
And he's cool with Paul ripping on him LOL.
Looks like I found the right place to ask about Paul's paintjob. Iamthebassman your Ric is awesome-looking. After the 80s kind of ruined wild paint schemes for a while it's nice to see some again.
I also like that blue acoustic paint job.
