The stolen Höfner bass update
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- It wasn't stolen either at Twickenham or Abbey Road Studios .... It was Notting Hill, according to the Höfner LostBass media campaign.
Tags: Paul McCartney, The Beatles
Ian Horne's article source: www.telegraph....
UPDATE: it seems the bass has been found.
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Most likely what you are about to comment is already in the video .... just wait and watch ... or watch and wait.
I don’t know why it’s such a big deal they were a lot better bases on the market I mean a huge amount of better bases OK sentimentally it’s not the same but it really isn’t such a big deal for a man who is so famous and I am a sentimental person and it’s a terrible feeling to have something of yours stolen
Didn't see the part where it was obviously George's hangers-on who stole the guitars.
I'd like to know more about that eBay advert.
FOUND???
Bass was found and returned to Paul a few weeks ago. It was in the attic of a pug for 50 years
Wherever Paul's missing Hofner bass is these days, I hope that the person who has it is taking good care of it. Please do the right thing and get it back to Paul where it belongs.
Get back get back get back to where it once belonged
I wonder if they even realise it’s Paul’s (assuming it was stolen and sold on)
😅😅😅
Paul has it back in his possession now!!!
And it's a wreck! But they say it's fixable.
I heard the bass was destroyed in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced by a imposter bass
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@@nickday3541 🤦
Yep, William Campbass
They say it's head looked like spaghetti.
Sounds like the bass stolen from the truck might have been a second one that was stolen because Paul himself said a couple were "nicked".
I believe George Harrison’s Gretsch Tennessean was also stolen around the same time
@@stangorarr His Hofner and another guitar were stolen from the truck. I guess he meant "couple" in this regard.
@@SeltaebEht Paul always had his Rivoli* bass as back up for the back up (the Cavern bass) and if Paul kept on using the Cavern violin bass as back up as in the 60s, it possible that the Rivoli was used as well and was also the other guitar to get stolen.
*The Rivoli is the semiacoustic bass. It was a back up bass during the 1966 would tour and it also appears in Get Back.
@@areamusicale Source? No Rivolis appear in backstage photos from the 1966 tour where you can see all of their gear, as far as I know. It doesn’t seem like he personally owned one, otherwise there would be more photos of it, and the one in Get Back was probably a borrowed bass for experimentation?
There was one photo of him playing a Gibson EB-2 in 1964, but that was a righty and he was probably just borrowing it to noodle on.
He stopped using Hofner basses during Wings so it’s unlikely he had any transported around
I think Johnny Cash had the right idea. He never trusted his guitar to anyone else. He even bought a second plane ticket and strapped it in beside him when he travelled by air. At least, that's what I heard.
BB King always had Lucille sitting next to him on every flight.
In later years, BB King said on Letteman once that the original Lucille got stolen a long time ago, and he was down to the 16th Lucille, but Gibson Guitars provided him for free whenever he needed another one.
That's because he used to hide his medicines in his guitar...
@@avanti6058 This is a joke? I didn't find a source online that says that BB King hid medicines in his guitar.
@@Ariel-T-FriesnerJohnny Cash, Dumb**s
Bill Wyman had a bass stolen during a Stones tour of New Zealand, I believe during the early eighties (EDIT: it was 1966). The bass was sold on repeatedly, a large number of bass players had owned it for a period of time by the early 90's, just in one town alone. It almost became a rite of passage, if you were worth your salt as a bass player in NZ you had owned Wyman's bass for a period of time. I don't know what happened to the trail, I suspect someone has held on to it.
I can confirm it wasn’t me
I just had a look. A man by the name of Nick Sceats was the last owner of the Wyman Bass, he managed to get in contact with Bill himself and returned it to him in 2004.
@@wiremuwifebash How amazing, nice research!
What bass was it ?
@@Thomas.harding It was a Vox.
Paul may be heart broken, but he’s put the instruments value in perspective. It’s a precious thing and he did much of his greatest music using it. In the end, it was his genius and talent that made the bass historically precious.
Well now its found!! 😁
I hope one day Paul finds the guitars but he is a beautiful soul and made beautiful music during and long after the loss. We arre blessed to have The Beatles🫶.
Hope you get it back Paul it's always been such a great icon !!!.😢😢😢.
I don't think he cares now lmao
It’s like any other valuable object that’s stolen. After a while the thief/collector realizes they can’t do a damn thing with it. Can’t play it, can’t show it, can’t sell it, without someone knowing they have it.
Lennon had his Gibson acoustic stolen in 1963. I think he blamed Mal Evans for not looking after the equipment properly.
Serves him right for at least one guitar he nicked backstage in the early years. 🤷🏻♂️
The Beatles never had their own guitar tech's. Shoot... they had Mal running all over for shoes, ties, strings, cigarettes, food teas etc etc. Too big of a job for one dude. He was probably underpaid as well.
@@jeffreyg4626 and anvils! Don't forget they had him running around fetching an anvil!
@@buddyneher9359 and a bow tie for George in 69, just because.
maybe is bad karma .... after all John's first guitar (the Dallas Tuxedo) was stolen.
(The Sensational) Alex Harvey had his treasured battered Telecaster nicked in the USA in the 70s- he wrote a song about it called 'The Mafia stole my guitar', which also became the title track of his final LP.
Magic Alex stole it. Shortly after the Get Back sessions Alan Klein went on a rampage streamlining Apple, and fired a ton of people including Magic Alex. He had access and a reason too.
Best theory yet!!
That's a good one Sherlock!
A long long time ago I was at a party where the host and hostess had some unique very expensive signed by the world known artist jewelry stolen along with some cash. They knew who did it and couldn't prove it but raised hell with their friend who had invited them. A few days later the jewelry showed back up in their mailbox. I'm pretty sure it was way too unique and identifiable to unload.
There were pictures of the band The Aerovons holding Beatles guitars. Maybe another group at the studio stole them, having access to the storage room.
Could be! They stole the melody of Across the Universe from the Beatles ....
There are pics of The Aerovons playing Beatles guitars at a live gig ( Google )
@@paulweston285 Do you have a link or specific Google search that pulls up the image?
Yeah, I’m also slightly skeptical of this 1972 story. I haven’t seen or heard any evidence of Paul using either of his Hofners at all during the Wings era.
Edit: the 1972 story did end up being true. Still think that it’s odd for Paul to have packed the original Hofner in a van during that time though… 🤔
Paul played his Rick on stage during wings and he had a 68 jazz bass that georg
bought at the same time he got a 5 string from linda on one of his birth day he showed his collection on 60 minutes there where quite a few but it was Elvis Costello who paul was working with got him to pull the 63 500/1 out of mothballs balls they tried to get the intonation fixed but it was just passable so paul sent it to n.y.city. a company called mandolin Brothers and in 1990 he went back on the road playing beetles songs after 20 years he said they did a remarkable job on it and he plays it exclusively now unless he dose a guitare number.
It got back to where it once belonged
Yeah! You're right. And it doesn't seem to be in bad conditions (apart from a broken string).
What are the known features of this particular bass?
If one comes across an old Höfner today what should you check for?
I think there's a good chance whoever's got it today has absolutely no idea, and can't possibly imagine it's The Beatles bass.
nah whoever owns it probably has it locked up in a basement collection
@@dnb9913 Whoever has it certainly knows what it is. Paul owns the bass.
There's a few identifying features but the most obvious is that it has no pick up near the bridge & two near the neck
I'm sorry but this is not an "update". This is all old news. I hope that Beatle Paul gets it back someday. Until he does, there is nothing new to say about it.
4:58 So here we see proof that Paul owned at least 3 of these basses. The two here have the pickups close together in the neck position, while the third, as seen on the rooftop, has a pickup in the neck position and the second one all the way back by the bridge.
I've never seen film of Paul using the one with the pickups jammed together onstage.
At the time he had at least 5 !
2 Höfner violin bass, Rickenbacker, Fender and Rivoli (which can be seen in the clip)
He did use the first original Hofner in the video for the song Revolution.
in the new now and then documentary a bass very similar to pauls old bass is also visible
It almost wouldn’t really even be worth owning at this point cuz no one would believe it’s the real thing.
I’ve heard for years that this bass was stolen from an ABBEY ROAD studios storage closet in January 1969. But during this month the Beatles went from Twickenham to Apple to film and record. The bass has been filmed at Apple.
So, is there any record of the Beatles even going to Abbey Road during this period to record or stage equipment for some reason?
Yes. In the Get Back documentary Paul is playing it in Abby Road Studios. John even comments - Where's your Rickenbacker bass?
The Rickenbacker was used on many later Beatles tracks and is very different than the Hofner.
They swapped to abbey road midway through filming I believe
@@jerry3790not abbey road they switched from Twickenham to APPLE studios! Their home studio
@@jerry3790then went to abbey road for their last album… abbey road
The same time ( 1969 ) US band The Aerovons ( Beatle fanatics ) were recording at Abbey road and pictured ( google ) with The Beatles instruments, drums & amps in the storage room ( how on earth were they even allowed access ? ) even of a pic of them playing live with a Rickenbacker, a Tennessean, and a Hofner.
Definitely take this with a grain of salt, Paul McCartney wanted to distance himself as much as possible from the Beatles when playing with wings, that’s why he started using the Rickenbacker despite its weight , I doubt he would have attempted to do any recording with the Hoffner for wings.
Then appeared very briefly with the Hofner in Coming Up
@@MariusIonescuthat was a fake
It’s quite common for guitarists to ‘retire’ guitars that have some nostalgic value to them, and perhaps keep them at home for inspiration. Might the stolen Bass have been a second ‘61 that Paul bought, leaving his beloved Bass at home?
no cause he'd have both in the studio did you not watch the video?
The one that was stolen is his first one. The one he bought in Hamburg.,
Dude the one paul has now is a replica
@@devlintaylor9520he's had it only 2 years less thsn the one stolen
@@John-pp6xyWhat are you talking about? The cavern bass replica seen in his new music video is a replica
The Peter JAckson film shows it at Apple Studios - not Abbey Road studios.
... I don't understand why you comment has 12 likes.
Do people really watch only the first 20 seconds of a video ????? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But mainly filmed at Twickenham Film Studios from where it was reportedly stolen. As this was prior to them relocating to Apple Studios in the basement of 3 Savile Row it would suggest that it doesn’t make an appearance there. I need to watch it again. 🤔
@@ianmoore4587 But it couldn't have been stolen at Twickenham because it was at Apple Studios well after they left Twickenham.
@@judmcc The plot thickens.
This video shows it at Apple Studios, after 2:40 ua-cam.com/video/d3FtMVdFFNE/v-deo.html
Didn't see the part where it was obviously George's hangers-on who stole the guitars. As a musician who's been around, that's how it happens.
Allen Klein ? first met Beatles January 27, 1969 and George's guitars disappeared in April as well. Just a theory but got to be an inside job.Paul seems fine with it .Obviously Hofner are keen to see it returned .I can see a return happening followed buy a limited edition clone sold to a lot of people $$$£££.let's see how my crystal ball is working over next few years but i think "IT" will be found. They always find ways to keep a Beatles story updated 😆
My theory at this point is it's in somebodies attic somewhere in England. When somebody dies, it'll be "discovered..."
I think that where ever Paul’s bass went it should be returned to him.
bro i miss your other channel, those PiD videos introduced me into the theory
This clearly put the difference between Paul and George on display Big Time George had a red Les Paul that had been gifted to him I want to say through Eric Clapton but the guitar had been around through different people in the music business George really loved this guitar it can be seen on the get back thing cuz he used it in the Beatles career toward the end. Well it had been stolen they tracked it to a pawn shop in Southern California they got their it had been sold to someone that lived in Mexico they got an address George actually hired I want to say either a half dozen or a dozen legitimate Hitman to go retrieve his guitar. I don't think he actually wanted anyone to get hurt I think he just wanted his guitar back and wanted to be ready for any case scenario especially if you're dealing with anyone in mexico. Because it's a lawless land you never know what what happened there. But that guitar has never been found to this day.
Your story is partly true. George’s estate still has that cherry refinished ‘57 Goldtop Les Paul that Slowhand gave him as a gift. The same guitar that he used to record the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps at George’s request. George bought the Mexican guy who had it a new Les Paul so as to get it back and he did. The guitar belonged to Rick Derringer before. He had sent it to Gibson to get refinished in the more trendy cherry red from the ‘60’s and didn’t like the sound after the refinish so he unloaded it at some store in New York where Slowhand found it.
This bass is in a private collectors home in Japan
Now, what Japanese woman could have stolen it? I wonder!
Paul had a music video in the 80's about that very same concept. there's a brief snippit of it at the end of the video.
Probably, mounted on a wall for a Japanese collector.
so where is the update? oh you don't have one? typical?
Didn’t Paul use his Rickenbacker during the 1970’s?
Yes, but he switched over to a Yamaha by late 1978 when he signed with CBS/Columbia Records.
Right on; no sign if a Hofner until 1989 when Elvis Costello asked him to put it back in service for Flowers in the Dirt.
This is very interesting, Supposedly my dad had this bass for a little while around 25-30 years ago before he gave it to his buddy to “borrow” for a little while, as far as I know that buddy still has it to this day.
Bad joke dude.
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you can also find the bass in the background of the now and then video at 1:12
That one is probably a replica of the first original one.
It was stolen from somewhere near or in Ladbroke Grove in 1972, around about the same area and same time as one Mr Stephen P Jones of the Sex Pistols was rather active in acquiring musical merchandise from the back of vans. Not saying he did nick it but it wouldn't be a surprise if it turned out to be him! At least it has now found its way back to Sir Paul.
Looking forward to Paul getting it back sooner or later just like Peter Frampton with his guitar.
Frampton's guitar is without a doubt the single greatest story about the return of a seemingly lost forever guitar that will ever exist, even if Paul gets his bass back it's not like it was lost due to a plane crash, who would ever believe that after losing a guitar that was in a plane crash they'd get it back 32 years later, it's the most incredible story.
mine is pot code 393 (sep63) selmer head number 399 (sold early 64) close enough for me..playing bass in my 1st band opened my left hand. now my main, both were twisted and didant open( genectic disorder,shorter tendons)..the beatles saved my hands
Ok,,, who's got the bass,,,jokes over
It has been found and returned to Paul today
Macca has a replica of it in his studio...
Hofner did a small run of the refinished/repaired version. They probably gave him one.
And you can see it in the Now and Then video in the background.
I don't buy the Notting Hill story for a second. Where was the bass between 1969 and 1972? There are zero photos of it. And by the time of recording his first solo album in early 1970, he had more or less retired the Hofner until Elvis Costello got him to pull it out again in 1989. I think it's obvious that Twickenham is the most likely location for the theft, but since then it's probably been stored in an attic or under a bed somewhere in London. Whoever it was might have tried to sell it, but wouldn't get much for it without revealing its provenance.
And as it was now more than half a century ago, the thief might be in their 70's or 80's. My gut feeling is that when they kick the bucket, their family will discover the bass and try to sell it. Then any decent guitar dealer _should_ recognize it.
So what is your explanation for why Paul McCartney's employee, Ian Horne, would be telling a false story?
Often people tells false stories just to have a bit of attention or being in the spotlight for a while. I have a book written by Alf Bicknell (one of the Beatles drivers) and that book is filled with fake stories.
... or let's just consider how Tony Wilson claimed all his life to be among the 50 people in the audience at the Sex Pistols first concert in Manchester .... everybody knows he has always lied about it just to have some sort of appreciation.
@@SeltaebEht At the discovery of the theft, Ian Horne had been with his cousin, a co-employee, so we need him to comment. Also, we could easily verify the story by checking the police report. One would expect a journalist to ask Paul McCartney for comment.
I agree.
I agree 100% and was exactly the first thing I thought. By the time of Wings the first Hofner was long gone (since ‘69) and the ‘63 had been put in mothballs. The story of the Vox AC30’s don’t make much sense either. The guitar gear used by Wings live were Marshall cabs and Fender amp heads. Unless they were used in the recording studio.
Pauls mild emotional stutter thinking about his hopes of recovering his lost stolen ❤violin bass, shows that he neads that missing jigsaw piece of mind. 🎸🎸❤❤🎸🎸🎸❤
I'm sure the monetary value doesn't matter that much to a billionaire but the 61 will bring back alot of memories i hope he gets it into shape plays it at his next concert then builds a beetles museum in liver pool and display all of there memorabilia I'm sure ringo and georges wife and even yoko would want to be in on that.
I once seen an ad in Ontario Canada for the exact same one .
Great video, super interesting, would have liked to know what that Höffner in the Now and Then video is, is it the original maybe perhaps?? However I would work a bit on the intro side on the video, the clips of people talking about his bass could have been shorter in my opinion, the clips where a good use just maybe trim them down a bit to add a bit more structure! Nonetheless I really enjoyed watching this video and am curious to check out your other videos too!! Good job!!
The bass Paul uses on Now and Then is the bass the Höfner gave him as replacement when the Beatles went in America.
... now he probably owns 7 or 8 different models of that violin bass.
Paul used a Rickenbacker bass at the time of Red Rose Speedway so there’s no reason for him to have been transporting his Hofner at that time
Yeah but rickenbackers don’t sound as good
@@Thedog-1-Rickenbackers have a completely different sound, you can't compare them to Hofners and say one sounds better than the other. Both Rickenbackers and Hofners have unique sounds. Same with Thunderbirds. It would be a different story if you were comparing a P Bass to a Jazz Bass.
@@bezoekers how?
Bizarre fact... all pre 63 pictures show a bass in two tone sunburst; the one on the get back sessions is a three tone sunburst. Nobody ever mentionned a refinish...
it was refinished for two reasons: it was old and the pick ups were falling apart. it also had an annoying clip attached to the guitar strap that was scratching near the bridge.
It’s pretty well documented.
I believe that the pickups got pushed into the body as they are close together and that custom made black piece was to repair the top and remount the Pickups.
@@ricknorris1466 Yes, that's obvious. I was more intrigued by the paintjob.
@@SeltaebEht Clips like from an accordion or something. Germans are weird.
Maybe george got pissed at paul and threw it in the sea?
Well I’ve been re-watching Get Back to see when I can spot the missing bass, and I noticed something hilarious. Late in ep 1 George says to Paul (who is wearing the newer version of the lost bass) “you’re playing that bass again”. Then in ep 3 George is playing a guitar with the same strap as the lost bass.
What do you mean by "newer version of the lost bass"? Do you mean the '61?
i guess he had another one
@@mcarp555
It would float and wash up maybe in Liverpool
who really knows@@kevanbodsworth9868
@@mcarp555 I think he meant that Paul was playing his '63 after the '61 went missing. They look very similar, with a few differences.
And Let It Be wasn't recorded at Abbey Road.
Billy Campbass
It's like a stolen Harpsichord played by Bach. What will the thief do with it? He couldn't tell the name of the previous owner without blaming himself. If he wouldn't, the instrument would be just another regular Hofner Bass.
US secret service took the bass to Warehouse 13. The bass was too powerful, rendering any female hypnotized, or making her scream uncontrollably. The bass had seen too much hand holding and love me doing, that it couldn't be allowed to be in the wild. If that bass ever fell into the hands of the wrong Paul, that Paul wouldn't be happy, 'till he sees you cry {eye eye}.
Is this the bass on early recordings like I SAW HER STANDING THERE and I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND and SHE LOVES YOU ?
There are pictures of journalist who snuck in to the abbey road closet in 1969. In one picture you can see one of them holding Johns rickenbacker. Why has no one talked about those photos they’re online
post the link of that photo
But the theft happened at Apple not Abbey Road
Its not worth anything as its stolen property ,if it turns up it has to be returned 😮😢
Unlike everything else from the British colonial era.
Hahahaha … this is not how it works!!
There's no way to prove who stole it. If given the opportunity, Paul would probably just buy it off whoever has it now.
Paul's answering is strange and weirdly non-committal in that 1997 Flaming Pie interview @4:00. It's like he's being evasive--why would that have been?
I reckon it’s because he didn’t want to emphasise that the Hofner he still had (and still has) was not the one that he had pre-Beatles fame.
I wonder if it is the missing Höfner in the bottom right corner of the screen in the official Now and Then video at 1:12 (the shot of Paul playing the 1963 Höfner he always uses nowadays).
Are you the Sgt Pepper channel guy? If its really you, what happened?
Yoko Ono shut my channel down
What's the deal with 2 different basses? and I don't mean the '63. One we see has a very brightly colored burst and large pickup rings that touch. But then in the Cavern photos we see a subdued burst with pickups that don't touch. Those are different basses.
The Cavern Club needed some fixing, especially on the pick-ups as they were falling apart; that's why since 1966 that bass has a pad joining together. He gave it a paint job at the same time.
Professional musicians always has a back up guitar; Paul had two back-up basses (the Cavern bass, and the Rivoli).
There is a lot to learn about the Beatles instruments.
@@SeltaebEhtand I believe the repair and refinish work on that bass was done by Selmers.
Once again a 10 minute video that could have been summed up in 1…
I play an Epiphone Viola bass which is the poor man's Hofner bass. But at least I have something in common with Paul because mine also got stolen and I replaced it with the same model.
Thanks to you i just discovered this bass , unit now the only cheap version i knew was the Harley Benton's copy.
What do you think about that Epiphone? It's a similar sound?
It's the poor man's Höfner bass along with the Ignition and Contemporary series that Höfner makes
Wouldn't it be nice if the 1961 Hoffner was anonymously donated to the MUSIC Hall of Fame in Cleveland for The Beatles display in the Rock n Roll wing. They could give Sir Paul the honor of placing it into a high tech security display case.
It’s a backup in the pic. You really think McCartney doesn’t have a huge arsenal of basses?
I just thought it was a funny thing to add to this video
Don't Höffner guitars have a unique registration number like you see on the heads of most US manufactured guitars? I'm sure Paul's stolen guitar is still around somewhere, maybe sold over the years to some unsuspecting guitar enthusiast, and could be standing in the corner of someone's loft, bedroom or cellar waiting to be discovered. That can only happen if the number, if there is one, is known.
All musical instruments have serial numbers. This Hofner bass is pretty unique, there aren't too many in this world like that, let alone one that is left-handed. Someone out there has to know its' whereabouts.
@@stratplayr6997 Thanks for the info. I'm not sure though that the guitar is purely left handed. As far as I understand, the headstock is designed to be strung in either way.
A lot of people wonder why this particular Höffner model has such a distinctly shaped body, quite different than other guitars. Well, in the 1970s I used to live near where the Höffner company is situated and knew the family of the owner of the company.
This part of Germany used to have a lot of small businesses specialising in the manufacture of classic stringed musical instruments such as violins. Höffner used to be one of them.
Because the market for stringed instruments was too small Höffner decided in the 1950s to try making guitars. But all their templates, jigs and tools were designed for making classic instruments and it would have been expensive to change them. So they decided to stay with the classic shape for their new guitar.
I was told that the guitar didn't sell well at first, possibly because of its unusual shape. Until 1963 that is, when the Beatles appeared for the first time on TV with Paul playing his Höffner. The company has never looked back since.
I had read yesterday that in those days they didn't have serial numbers.
@@stratplayr6997 the bass could have been restrung righty and also had the nut changed. It's not an unusual repair and few would pick up on that.
@@rupe53 but then you still have the control knobs and would have to patch and finish a hole if that got moved. Not an easy repair.
Let’s put it this way - if someone knowingly stole Paul’s Horner bass, why would you change it around?
I don't think he gives a shit, nor did George about his stolen guitars. The Beatles were not gear heads and usually only got what they could get their hands on. If it could play well, then it was good enough. The bass does have historical relevancy, but Paul ain't gonna break his neck chasing it.
different color init his first one
dont like them a bought a second hand one in 1969 advertised in musical express, you could tell it had been used well but not dents just wear, a didnt check it out just bought it, had to play it upside down a think someone had a bad day the control knobs were on the top of the body, a just swopped it for a lambretta scooter, hold on just a minute was paul left handed
i also had an old violin a bought from an flea market, it belonged to some one call strad something couldnt make out the name properly must of been greek or something, a was drunk and stood on it snapped the neck so a just used it for firewood the wood had a smell khandvis wood when it was burning
ugh this is still upsetting.
I was surprised at McCartney throwing his Hofner bass to a roadie on stage. Imagine how nervous you'd be catching it.
FOUND??
It's with Beano.
Paul knows exactly where it is - Doncaster.
Certainly a likely place for it to turn up... most stolen guitars seem to ;-)
Paul's bass was replaced by a lookalike bass
In 1969 it seemed repainted
He was refinished and added a pick-up guard in 1966. There are photos where he uses in concert as it looked on LIT/GB
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4:40 what u came for
They were never at EMI/Abbey Road during Let It Be/Get Back - they went from Twickingham over to Apple. How would the bass get over to EMI into a closet ?
They* recorded I Me Mine at Abbey Road in Feb. 1970.
*minus John
So it wasn’t an update at all.
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I heard Chuck Norris has is and dares Paul to come get it..
Paul's pretty sharp. How would he not remember the incident?
In the interview, he says "A couple of them got nicked." So, the original ('61 "Cavern") was probably nicked from Apple (not Abbey Road) studio, and the one stolen from the truck, was a later purchase.
@@CineSoar Paul misremembers things quite often. For example, him saying recently that John told him that "Here There and Everywhere" was his favorite track on "Revolver"...while they were sharing a room in Austria filming "Help". The dates simply don't add up.
@@sebastianmaharg Citations? Dates?
@@Ariel-T-Friesner 2018, CBS “60 Minutes” interview
Simple, because thats not Paul, it's Billy.
I’m sure Paul has enough money to buy a new one.
is it just me that noticed the beatles rockband prize menu music in the background ?
It’s in Lindsay Hoggs secret bondage closet . So secret nobody knows where that closet is and hence the Paul Hofner
There's one hanging in the Hard Rock Cafe Universal Studios LA 🤣
so it ends up that all of these reports are false 🙂 Not stolen during Let It Be, Get Back in 1969 but from a Paul and Wings van in 1972
0:44 Paul "McCarthey"
WTF?
Follow up video please 🙂
I had a violin Hofner Bass just like PM. Sadly it was a heap of crap. Upgraded to a Jazz Bass, never looked back.
It’s a matter of taste; I have Hofners, Fenders and Gibsons and like them all.
@@vayabroder729 taste,,, yes it is..
Congrats on having loved instruments.
Keep playing amigo...
He gave one to the guy in Badfinger …I saw it at the widows house in Germany.
George gave his SG to Pete Ham around that time...
Paul McCartney's bass was stolen by RINGO STARR!😁
8:02 what's that from?
One of Paul's music videos. "My Brave Face", if I recall correctly.
Is there a reward for the person who rightfully owns it today?
No one rightfully owns stolen property.
Here’s an opportunity for Apple to market its GPS trackers by giving some to Paul for his vintage touring instruments. 😎🎸🍏 (especially that Kay he used for “Junior’s Farm”) OTOH there’s 🧬 DNA tracking.
Maybe the person who stole it got nervous, broke the bass into tinder, and lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood?
Yoko has it
If I had it, you'd know.