Proper stringing!

[jps]

Here is how it should be done, follow this example!

[cjj]

Ummm... Just what is that picture supposed to be showing???


Maybe I've got too much resolution to make it out...

[coolingitdown]

Oh my!

[rickenbrother]

Ummm... Just what is that picture supposed to be showing???

Too blurry to me as well. I can't make out much detail.

[MaplegloMatt]

Unless I miss my guess....I'd say that looks like the not so neatly strung bass of Paul McCartney laying on the floor of Abbey Road studios. I was always amazed at how he used to do that and no one ever stepped on the neck!

[coolingitdown]

Unless I miss my guess....I'd say that looks like the not so neatly strung bass of Paul McCartney laying on the floor of Abbey Road studios. I was always amazed at how he used to do that and no one ever stepped on the neck!

I concur. The lettering on the TRC gives it away. I love the loose string ends and the 2 strings wrapped on the wrong side of the posts.

That's a dirty picture!

[cjj]

Some people just have NO business playing bass...

[s4001]

Drugs r bad, m'kay?

[jps]

Some people just have NO business playing bass...

If Macca only knew back then what he should have.........

This is where the screen capture came from:

[bassduke49]

Oh, yeah. Mile marker :47

[teeder]

Ah, the Hey Bulldog footage!

[bassduke49]

Yeah, I was thinking that the Bulldog "film" was similar.

[teeder]

The film footage was used for both videos, but they are actually recording Bulldog. Somewhere I've seen a cleaner version where you can read the lyrics to Bulldog on the paper. It's been a while since I've seen it, but IIRC, it was on the Anthology disc. Also, when they are showing Paul and John doing the vocals, the footage matches up with what they were doing on BD.

[rickenbrother]

Some people just have NO business playing bass...

Or at least kept from changing the look of it with paint and or sand paper!

[JakeK]

Or at least kept from changing the look of it with paint and or sand paper!

Thanks for that, Joey. That just about made my day!

In all honesty, I don't think Paul cared about his instruments in 1967, that was where the bad stringing/MMT paint job came into play.


And as early as 1966, the 4001S' pickguard sustained a crack after what looked like it fell on its face.