No further preamble on this one (here it is): KILL or KEEP is back in full swing, and to celebrate our return with maximum hubris, we decided to sidestep our usual brief for bloated opuses in need of a butcher’s trim. – Rivers Cuomo on his on-off relationship with Jennifer Chiba (later Elliott Smith’s girlfriend) The image of McCartney with the violin-shaped Hofner 500/1 bass is one that will forever be burned into the minds of music lovers everywhere - in fact, the Hofner is commonly referred to as the "Beatle bass."Ĭhops-wise, Macca's in a class of his own - he can play guitar, piano, drums, fiddle, sax, spoons, washboard, electric fence, tire iron, light bulb, red pepper and probably anything else you put in his hands.īut it's the Beatles bass exploits of Sir James Paul McCartney CH MBE we're celebrating today, and here we'll tell you why he's really Fab.I had benefitted greatly from her care and yet I had always kept my heart hard to her, believing that if Weezer did make it, I would want to be free for the many superior options I imagined would be available to me. Once you realised the control you had over the band, you were in control. I did get quite proud to be a bass player, quite proud of the idea. He once told Bass Magazine, "From the word go, once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with the bass. I did get quite proud to be a bass player Paul McCartneyĪlmost immediately, McCartney proved to be a natural on the instrument, transforming himself and The Beatles into innovators and trend-setters.
McCartney didn't set out to become a bassist, somewhat reluctantly taking up the low-end in 1961, when The Beatles' first "real" bass player, Stu Sutcliffe, John Lennon's art school friend, decided to quit the band to stay in Hamburg, Germany where the group had been playing a now-legendary slew of residency gigs.įrom the word go, once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with the bass.
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