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[quote name='daz' post='1004804' date='Oct 29 2010, 09:33 AM']Any speaker can act as a mike and vise versa. ps. Id crawl over broken glass to get away from Paul McCartney and his stupid shakey face going wooooooo all the time AGhhh!! Man I l[b]oathe [/b]the Beatles. There ive said it. whos with me?[/quote] And what was it that attracted you to this thread?

[quote name='Low End Bee' post='1004774' date='Oct 29 2010, 09:08 AM']How else am I going to find out about dole scrounging lesbian gysies eating the Queen's swans?[/quote] Read the Express?

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1004148' date='Oct 28 2010, 06:01 PM']... There are also persistent rumours of his "other" 500/1 (you know, the one he kept secret) which he lost his temper with while touring Tito-era Yugoslavia, smashed up on stage, and hurled into the audience ...[/quote] That must have been some time between McCartney's death and the loss of the [i]Hot As Sun[/i] album.

Definitely not coming. Never mind, there's always next year.

[quote name='silddx' post='1004019' date='Oct 28 2010, 04:41 PM']... What on earth do you want the chord names for? ...[/quote] For communication. The song ends... Me to guitarist: 'That final chord you play, the G chord, try playing a G6 it would sound much better I think.' Guitarist: 'Which chord?' Me: 'The final chord, you're playing a G major, try playing G6.' Guitarist: 'What is G6? Me: 'Put the sixth note of the scale into the chord, it's an E note.' Guitarist stares at me. Me: 'You see your ring finger on the high E string? Just take it off the G note at the third fret and let the open E sound.' Guitarist: 'OK' ... 'That sounds great.'

[quote name='MB1' post='1003959' date='Oct 28 2010, 04:07 PM']MB1. Seem to remember reading somewhere... Hofner presented him with another violin bass (one off) with gold hardware? which as the story goes was stolen?... and to this day has never been found?... [/quote] There was a story about it being found by Music Ground in Leeds some years ago. I can't find a link for it though.

[quote name='Zach' post='1003500' date='Oct 28 2010, 11:01 AM']sounds like it's time to go get my coat...[/quote] Get mine as well because I'm going to revise my estimate upwards too.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1003461' date='Oct 28 2010, 10:30 AM']A subject much discussed in the days when I used to frequent various Beatles forums and Hofner Hounds. If you put it in the context of other desirable instruments (as you did, above) then you come out with an answer in six figures ... somewhere between £100k and £900k. On principle, I'd guess about £250k. BUT That's not really the context, is it? Some may find this contentious (especially if they're under 40) but Macca's bass is, quite simply, the most valuable single instrument on the planet. Whoah there, boy! Going over the top a bit, aren't we? Nope. The Beatles are the biggest thing ever to happen in popular music, and yes, I do remember Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and the Bay City Rollers. If you're aged 45-65 then you grew up listening to The Beatles, to bands copying The Beatles, and to bands heavily influenced by The Beatles. They weren't a pop group, they were the environment. If you're aged under 45, then you grew up listening to your parents listening to The Beatles, and all your favourite bands have a massive debt to The Beatles. And all of that applies not just in Britain, or the States, but worldwide. There is NO other band or artist about whom that statement applies. Lennon and Harrison were filmed and recorded playing loads of different guitars. Their early-60's Rickenbackers are probably the most iconic, but it's not particularly clear cut and most people have little idea which guitars were played on which tracks. Macca is indelibly associated with just two basses, the Hofner and the Rickenbacker, both unique, both easily identified, both utterly iconic. If either of them were put up for auction by Macca, you'd be attracting people like Bill Gates, Roman Abramovich, Sheikh Makhtoub, the Sultan of Brunei. The auction would become a big swinging dick contest, and the bass would sell for well over £1m. Just to make a point. I'm richer than they are. It would end up in a bullet-proof glass case mounted on the wall of the main Reception at the Burg al'Arab in Dubai. Just another status symbol. Hey ... you asked me![/quote] ... and thank you, I thought you'd have something to say on this subject.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1003322' date='Oct 28 2010, 08:27 AM']Burned? Call that [i][b]burned[/b][/i]? Huh! That barely qualifies as relic'd these days. [/quote] True, but how much would the Beatle bass fetch at auction? - IYHO.

[quote name='spinynorman' post='1003220' date='Oct 28 2010, 12:04 AM']I can't believe this hasn't been discussed before, but I can't find anything. The question is - what are the easily visible differences between the different eras of Fender basses? Things like headstock logos, position of serial number, shape of neck plate. If the easy answer is buy a book, which one?[/quote] You could start here: [url="http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html"]http://home.provide.net/~cfh/fender.html[/url]

[quote name='Zach' post='1003020' date='Oct 27 2010, 09:12 PM']well i'd be extremely suprised if it went for more than hendrix's guitar. considering how many people would say 'what? mccarney played bass?' I'd be shocked if it's worth over £100k[/quote] Well, I've no idea really what it would fetch at auction - it was merely a rough guess and there'd only be one way to find out exactly how much - but whether people know McCartney played bass is of no relevance here; it's not really even relevant that it is a bass. All that matters is that it is the most iconic of all Beatles instruments with absolutely clear and straightforward provenance. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the real thing is in a vault somewhere and what we see him playing is one of several 'copies' for touring. Here's a [url="http://www.skinnerinc.com/asp/fullCatalogue.asp?salelot=2333++++++31+&refno=++669887"]1958/1963 Gibson Explorer which sold at Skinner's auction house in New York for $611,000 in October 2006[/url] - it didn't even belong to anyone famous: Here's [url="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2684648/Scorched-Jimi-Hendrix-guitar-sells-for-280000.html"]one of several Stratocasters burned by Hendrix[/url] - it sold for £280,000 in 2008: I can't see that £500,000 for McCartney's Hofner is so unlikely.

In the US but possibly what you're looking for: [url="http://www.guitarcentro.com/search.php?orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=decal&submit_search=Search"]http://www.guitarcentro.com/search.php?ord...t_search=Search[/url]

I was in the workshop of a well known UK luthier a while back. There was a can of Pledge sitting around.

[quote name='stevie' post='1002224' date='Oct 27 2010, 11:31 AM']I've only used two brands of flats. I had Ernie Balls on first - a used set supplied by a kind Basschat member. I then bought myself a set of TIs. When I had fitted two of the TI strings, I compared them. I have to say, they sounded identical. I couldn't tell that I had two different brands of string fitted. Just one observation FWIW.[/quote] Fair enough, but, in my experience, a brand new TI Jazz Flat does not sound like, for example, a six month or twelve month old TI Jazz Flat. EDIT: I've never tried Ernie Balls so I have no comment on them.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' post='1001906' date='Oct 26 2010, 11:47 PM']If anyone did try to swipe it I guess there would be a band on the run....[/quote] Not if they left by jet .... I'll get our coats.

No problem, I used to play with a guitarist who used a Les Paul through an old tan Fender Bassman combo. It sounded magnificent.

[quote name='Jigster' post='1001812' date='Oct 26 2010, 10:11 PM']wondering how much it's worth, if it's the original one he used, and if any one in the audience is daft enough to make a swipe for it!![/quote] McCartney's Hofners (there were two of them) have got to be the most famous basses in the world, easily beating the Funk Machine and the Bass of Doom because he's so much better known than Jamerson or Pastorius. Half a million easily, probably more.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' post='1001473' date='Oct 26 2010, 06:12 PM']If you like that you'll love this: And would be willing to pay 200,000 quid for a reissue! [/quote] Nice.

[quote name='lowdown' post='1001269' date='Oct 26 2010, 04:06 PM']And you are two years older... Garry[/quote] We're all two years older but this song is timeless.

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='997153' date='Oct 22 2010, 03:02 PM']Yeah totally. Look how cool gaffer tape makes this Mondeo. [/quote] That tow bar is never original.

[quote name='rOB' post='999363' date='Oct 24 2010, 08:55 PM']I really like basses with corners, not sure what the right word is. Erm when the body has been cut out but not sanded down round the edges. Think the edges of a Les Paul rather than a Strat?[/quote] It's called a slab body - or at least it is on a Precision bass.

How about this one: I'd say it easily beats SMV (is that what they are called?) but doesn't beat Bottesini.

[quote name='silddx' post='999057' date='Oct 24 2010, 05:27 PM']Fack me, Stanley, Victor and Marcus, in a "bass battle"?. Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Shall I? Shan't I? Oh Bollocks! I pressed play. And was visited upon by a display of worthless, unmusical, miserable rubbish that does every bassist with a heart a disservice of biblical proportion. The utterly bovine yelps of appreciation from the audience makes me feel like the pursuit of a life in music to be a worthless endeavour. I feel angry about that video, something music rarely makes me feel. All that BULLSHIT these f***ers say in interviews about studying, learning to be a perfectionist, learning to connect with life and humanity to better communicate your art and emotions, distilled into a pathetic display of par-boiled Dan Brown mechanical excrement that surely must excite only the most supine of intellects. I'm appalled. Thanks for posting it ET, I have learned why I trust my ears, and why I ignore those who implore me to learn to sight read and learn theory.[/quote] I shouldn't myself like to deny the possible value of reading and theory but I would like to ask 'Did you like Furtok and Stähle playing the Bottesini piece?'