McCartney's Strings

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 11:09 am

Nigel,
SR5-Is that the model number, I am curious myself.

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 5:18 pm

Sorry, SR5 is short for StingRay 5. AFAIK, it's the only MM 5er available.

Here are the specs: http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/specs/instruments_stingray5.html

Here's a pic: http://www.ernieball.com/mmonline/specs/inst_stingray5_big.html

anonymous · Post by **anonymous** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:25 pm

Nigel,
That appears to be the model. Imagine it Lefty in red and with a rosewood fingerboard. Thanks for the pictures.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 5:58 pm

The best tone Mac ever had is (to me) Yer Blues, and Helter Skelter, I love his flatwound sound.

simer4001 · Post by **simer4001** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:13 pm

I think Paul played a Fender Jazz bass on those two songs.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:58 am

Sounds like Rics to me. both of them, I have never heard a jazz bass sound that dirty. I can get those exact sounds out of my Rics with Fender stainless flats on them with a pick.

marc67 · Post by **marc67** » Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:24 pm

I was also in shock when I found out it was not a Ric. From what I had read it was a '66 lefty Jazz(not the right handed one that George used) This was probably the bass on these songs.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:10 pm

Why? Do you guys know that for a fact?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:21 pm

That is the same sound as "Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey" And I nailed that sound with my Ric and handmuting and a pick for a band I used to play with, that little solo part of about 5 notes that ends up on a D. The guitar player was flabbergasted. He became a Ric lover that night.
I trust my own ears more than peoples recollections of what happened in the studio anyway.
The only way I would believe that those songs were Fender Jazzes would be to have an actual studio movie of them recording that song with live audio. (a finished take, haha!)