Bass players often find themselves at the butt-end of tongue-in-cheek jokes about “those who can’t play guitar, play bass,” and as it turns out, not even Beatles bassist Paul McCartney was ...
On Thursday, Paul McCartney ... Hofner 500/1 bass guitar for the first time in more than 50 years. McCartney used the instrument to record hits like “Twist and Shout,” “All My Loving ...
and the violin Höfner bass that Paul McCartney was playing all the way back in the band’s seedy Hamburg days. McCartney’s bass guitar was as signature to the band as, say, John Lennon’s ...