Macca’s Stolen Bass Found

[AndyTravis]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/25966581/mystery-paul-mccartney-mising-guitar-solved/amp/
 

Bass of Doom found, Macca’s Hofner…

 

now the funk machine has to be found?!

[Guest]

So not stolen from Abbey Road on or around 21st January 1969, along with one of George's guitars?  It's all a bit confusing. Fair play, if it is the one he must be pretty chuffed.

[Piers_Williamson]

looks like it had been strung right handed

[AndyTravis]

31 minutes ago, Bassfinger said:

So not stolen from Abbey Road on or around 21st January 1969, along with one of George's guitars?  It's all a bit confusing. Fair play, if it is the one he must be pretty chuffed.

Apparently given to someone in a will…now back with macca.

[Downunderwonder]

I wonder how many dropkicks had it before it was forgotten to be the Beatle one? Maybe none and the whole "collection" is some now dead thief's stash. 

[tauzero]

That intonation looks a bit out...

[paul_5]

1 hour ago, Piers_Williamson said:

looks like it had been strung right handed

That should narrow it down a bit!!

[jezzaboy]

Thank God that further down the article The Sun tells us who Paul McCartney is. I had no idea...

[Lozz196]

Yeah, with a bit more publicity he might become famous…

[Burns-bass]

The family did the right thing and retired it. Lovely story!

[Geek99]

20 minutes ago, Lozz196 said:

Yeah, with a bit more publicity he might become famous…

Pah 

he will never amount to anything… loser

[snorkie635]

But what about the one I stole from him then. I still have it. The Sun is publishing 'fake news'. 🫨

[Dad3353]

42 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

But what about the one I stole from him then. I still have it. The Sun is publishing 'fake news'. 🫨

 

I am Spartacus..! 

[tauzero]

13 hours ago, snorkie635 said:

But what about the one I stole from him then. I still have it. The Sun is publishing 'fake news'. 🫨

 

There's an entire production line at Hofner turning out stolen Macca basses. It's like the fragments of the true cross - Jesus would have needed a low-loader to have carried a cross weighing 65 tonnes.

[bass_dinger]

There was an interview this morning on the Radio 4 Today programme, with the journalist who tracked it down.

 

In brief, in 1972, the Wings roadie parked the van outside his house on Ladbroke Grove. Local squatter broke into the van, stole a bass.  

 

A few days later, he realised that it belonged to McCartney, and asked his friend (a local pub landlord) to look after it for him.

 

50 years later, the bass was inherited by a decendant of the same landlord, having spent the intervening period in the loft. 

 

The benefactor heard the story of the missing bass in the news, made contact with the McCartney estate, and it is now back with its rightful owner. 

 

The investigation was helped when a relative of the thief contacted the journalist, and was able to identify the pub.

Edited February 16, 2024 by bass_dinger

[bass_dinger]

https://www.paulmccartney.com/news/statement-on-hofner-bass

 

 

[TimR]

17 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Bass of Doom found, Macca’s Hofner…

 

Isn't the Bass of Doom Jaco's bass held in trust by Trullio?

[TimR]

Wonder if it's playable. 50 years in a loft, going to need a bit of truss rod love. 

[snorkie635]

28 minutes ago, TimR said:

Wonder if it's playable. 50 years in a loft, going to need a bit of truss rod love. 

That reminds me - must let Mrs S out of the hut soon. It's nearly spring. 👀

[Dankology]

https://www.debassist.nl/muzieknieuws/artikel/2-29077/paul-mccartneys-first-hfner-is-back?fbclid=IwAR1VFDoe-MdDDfPc-FhPFOuwmDQ87PkwRzG2mlQXU_4G14Gb9D4EA-7TkVA

[AndyTravis]

3 hours ago, TimR said:

 

Isn't the Bass of Doom Jaco's bass held in trust by Trullio?

Yeah - it’s wheeled out occasionally 

Edited February 16, 2024 by AndyTravis

[Piers_Williamson]

 

[PaulThePlug]

Frog Chorus Reprise...

[msb]

It was a flat back.

[Piers_Williamson]

1 hour ago, msb said:

It was a flat back.

That went straight over my head.  Having laboured to the end of the slightly nerdy history of the bass I thought they said it's uniqueness was the domed back.