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Let It Be footage of Paul playing Ric
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:45 pm
by byu
The thread here titled George's "This is Love" Video has a link to fastfocus.tv and a "Get Back" video. First footage I've seen of Paul playing his Ric at the sessions. About 2:16 in.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:28 pm
by bosco64
Holy ****! I thought that Paul stripped off the Fireglo/MMT paint job off his bass sometime in 1968. Guess not! Great find Bill!
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:56 pm
by apollo11
What a find! Great shot, and one could put a real cog in the wheel.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:20 pm
by beatlefan
INCREDIBLE!! I thought I'd seen 'em all.....
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:26 pm
by revolver323
The "Get Back" video appears to be made up of several different takes -- probably on different days by the fact that they're wearing different clothes -- synced at times to the soundtrack. There's at least one place where Paul is strumming his Hofner like a guitar rather than playing the bass line. Cool nonetheless! Interesting that Paul chose to use the Hofner on the roof even though the 4001 clearly was handy.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:34 pm
by byu
It's possible he only stripped the front at first. There are shots of the bass during the White Album sessions where it's stripped but you never see the back. It may be possible to spot other Ric shots based on what John & George are wearing in the above shot. Appears to be what they're wearing at the opening of the video - and also the most sync'd to the lips vocals in the video. Hmmmmm.
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:18 pm
by kennyhowes
This is very cool.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:21 am
by oreca
I think I'll have to watch Let It Be again to see if I can't see more of it...
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:49 am
by revolver323
Speaking of clothes, check out the closeup of George's "booties" in the Get Back video.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:51 am
by teeder
"There are shots of the bass during the White Album sessions where it's stripped"
Bill, Do you know where I could see these at?
Other than the picture above, which I've seen before, I haven't seen any "Beatles era" shots of the Rick after Hey Bull Dog / Lady Madonna. It still is painted in these.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:08 am
by byu
There are shots of it leaning up against a chair or on the floor taken from the control room at Abbey Road. They're either in The Beatles Recording Sessions or Beatles Gear books. I forget which & I'm at work so I can't check.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:24 am
by leftybass
The B&W photo above dates from(I think) Jan.-Feb. 1968...
The LIB photo in the 1st post is really cool.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:38 am
by jamie
There's also a shot that shows George's "Rocky" Strat leaning against a wall in the studio. Additional LIB footage would be very interesting to see.
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:14 am
by wints
No....surely it's his Shaftesbury copy....
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:39 am
by roadrunners
ah, but maybe this is a second rickenbacker bass one that none of us know of