Sgt. Pepper Featured In Guitar World

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:02 pm

June Issue.

Look at Paul's bass - what's with the binding??!!

seabass · Post by **seabass** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:56 pm

Must be photoshop but why would they bother? Look at the headstock. No walnut wings when every bass in the 60's had 'em. And I have seen photos from that session when he clearly has the psychedelic Rick. Weird.......

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:54 am

This is worth reading. A co-worker loaned me his copy a week ago.

rickfan63 · Post by **rickfan63** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:31 am

Why photoshop the bass when the real 4001S was plainly visable? They didn't do that to the other instruments.

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:58 am

"No walnut wings ..."

Also it is a left handed head stock not an inverted right handed one. Page 211 of the Beatles Gear book shows the original photo.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:21 am

I've been meaning to call their publisher and ask him about this, as I don't understand it either. But my guess is that the other instruments in the photo look pretty normal, whereas Paul's is highly painted in the original photo and Guitar World thought it might offend us or that it would "equalize" the photo out a bit.

mgrendel2 · Post by **mgrendel2** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:34 pm

Im not really up on the Beatles, shouldn't John's epi have knobs, because it has a pup. I could be wrong.

ken_j · Post by **ken_j** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:35 pm

That is actually John's Martin D-28. Here is the original with cropped edges in order to fit the forum posting requirements.

jaymi · Post by **jaymi** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:59 pm

looks like the photoshop deal to me....That's like a 74 bass that was reversed for the picture...LAME!!

bobcat · Post by **bobcat** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:15 pm

Why on earth would they do that? It seems like unnecessary extra work to me . . .

atomic_punk · Post by **atomic_punk** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:17 am

That is BIZARRE...why wouldn't they just use the original photo? Surely they didn't think they could just sneak that one by everyone...?

teeder · Post by **teeder** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:44 am

I don't get it! Why would they do that?

mgrendel2 · Post by **mgrendel2** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:31 am

See, I told ya I wasnt up on the Beatles!!! LOL, Peace.