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Macca's Yamaha Bass
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2000 7:22 pm
by Marco
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2000 5:52 am
by Agnes
Does anybody do have some more information on this Model?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 1:42 am
by tom
didnt he use that bass on Back to the egg?
Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2001 5:35 am
by agnes
Yes I thought he used it in the79/80 period.
Bach to the egg and also live performances.
I did see it in the Take it Away clip and that's the last of it...
Wonder if he still uses it...
I think it's a great guitar!
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2001 10:14 am
by simer4001
I believe Paul went back to his Rickenbacker 4001S after the Tug of War and Pipes of Peace sessions. In 1983/84 when he began work on his film Give My Regards to Broadstreet, he was, again, using his RIC. He used his Ric during his 1987 live performances in Europe to promote All the Best. It was after this period that he went back to his Hofner and the WAL 5 string for Flowers in the Dirt and the World Tour
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2001 12:40 pm
by Mark_Harrison
I think you will find that this bass is a Yamaha BB1200 with just one split pickup. You are right about the "Back to the Egg" use. He also used it live when he did the "Concerts for Kampuchea".If you ever get a copy of "MUSICIAN" player & listener No.26 from Aug. 1980, Paul talks about the Yamaha bass and how he started playing it only because it was given to him for free. There was also a Record(LP)put out in 1980 called "The McCartney Interview" which is the full version of this conversation! I have some old "ClubSandwich" issues with lots of pictures of the Yamaha B1200.
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2001 5:23 pm
by Rob_Ashford
For me though, Paul McCartney will only ever be associated with Hofner and Rickenbacker. All these other basses look like Fenders. Rob Ashford.
