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Sgt. Pepper Featured In Guitar World

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:02 pm
by johnallg
June Issue.

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

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:56 pm
by seabass
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.......

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:54 am
by ken_j
This is worth reading. A co-worker loaned me his copy a week ago.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:31 am
by rickfan63
Why photoshop the bass when the real 4001S was plainly visable? They didn't do that to the other instruments.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:58 am
by ken_j
"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.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:21 am
by johnhall
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.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:34 pm
by mgrendel2
Im not really up on the Beatles, shouldn't John's epi have knobs, because it has a pup. I could be wrong.

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:35 pm
by ken_j
That is actually John's Martin D-28. Here is the original with cropped edges in order to fit the forum posting requirements.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:59 pm
by jaymi
looks like the photoshop deal to me....That's like a 74 bass that was reversed for the picture...LAME!!

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:15 pm
by bobcat
Why on earth would they do that? It seems like unnecessary extra work to me . . .

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:17 am
by atomic_punk
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...?

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:44 am
by teeder
I don't get it! Why would they do that?

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 9:31 am
by mgrendel2
See, I told ya I wasnt up on the Beatles!!! LOL, Peace.