Macca on a Kay....Junior's Farm

[rockinrayduke]

I know it's mimed but still cool.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO0aURDiuPo&feature=related

[eb2]

And a Medallion 'bird too!  I always liked that song.

[Hornisse]

Jimmy McCulloch was another guitarist taken too soon.  Only 26 when he died.  I always liked this song.

[Pilgrim]

Another reason to just chuckle when people criticize "cheap" basses.

[Dave W]

Another reason to just chuckle when people criticize "cheap" basses.

Except they're not cheap anymore because enough people realized they don't sound cheap.

[Pilgrim]

 

Except they're not cheap anymore because enough people realized they don't sound cheap.

True!  But they were budget basses new. Not all cheap basses sound cheap.

[nofi]

on a semi related note, ex wings drummer joe english is now a fundamentalist preacher and no longer plays.

[ilan]

A Fender Musicmaster doesn't sound cheaper than a P bass. My Gibson LP Jr doesn't sound cheaper than a LP Custom.

[Pilgrim]

A Fender Musicmaster doesn't sound cheaper than a P bass. My Gibson LP Jr doesn't sound cheaper than a LP Custom.

And my Gretsch 2202 doesn't sound cheaper than my Casady or '63 P.

[Highlander]

I saw Joe English in an Allmans spin-off - Sea Level...

My sister saw that line up, iirc - just wasn't my cup of char...

[nofi]

i love the first sea level record. the others not at all.

[uwe]

Did Sir Paul ever play an expensive bass? Höfner, Ric, Yamaha, I've never seen him with something really exclusive. He is very much an "as long as it dooes the job" player. He'd still be Paul McCartney on an Alembic, but you could hear him better in the live mix than with his Höfner.

[ilan]

Did Sir Paul ever play an expensive bass? Höfner, Ric, Yamaha, I've never seen him with something really exclusive. He is very much an "as long as it dooes the job" player. He'd still be Paul McCartney on an Alembic, but you could hear him better in the live mix than with his Höfner.

His 5-string Wal wasn't a cheapo. Although less expensive than his '59 Les Paul Standard (one of only 3 lefties made that year).

Did I mention that I actually held that '59? (What's the guitar equivalent of name dropping?)

[uwe]

I forgot the Wal, you're right. And Höfner, Ric and Yamaha weren't throwaway instruments, just nuthin' fancy. When asked why he played the Yamaha (at a time when you still had to explain yourself for playing one) in the late seventies and early eighties he said "Because they gave it to me for free. Hey, anybody who gives me a free bass is my man!" I always wonder if that kind of naivete is just one of Paul's masks or whether there is actually a naive core in him. Some of the music he writes (and I don't mean that negatively, I find happy songs harder to write than sad ones) seems to indicate the latter.

BTW, Linda looks like Ziggy Stardust in that vid Ray posted.  Blondes should use make up sparingly ...

[gearHed289]

Kind of like his response to "what kind of strings do you use?"

"Long shiny ones!"

Someday maybe someone will give me a 4001C64S.