Did he use a distortion pedal like the rest of us? Not likely, as he told Bass Guitar magazine a few years back. “I’ll tell you the controls, left to right. Presence is at three o’clock. Bass is off.

“I got my Violin Bass at the Steinway shop in the town center,” he recalled in a 1993 interview with Guitar Magazine. It cost the equivalent of 30 pounds — cheap enough for him to afford.

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It went on to inspire other singularly-focused magazines like Bass Player ... Premier Guitar, Guitarist and Guitar for the Practicing Musician (RIP). The magazine is owned by Future US, an NYC ...

I remember going along and there was this bass which was quite cheap,” he said in a 1993 interview with Guitar Magazine, adding that he had not wanted to go into debt and could only afford the ...

These, along with his 1998 release The Book of Flame on the Alchemy record label earned him an international reputation as "a master of the fretless bass without rival." (Guitar Club Magazine, Italy).

of devoted Beatles fans, Paul McCartney has been reunited with his bass guitar that was stolen decades ago. On Wednesday, an official statement was shared on the music legend's website to announce ...

McCartney purchased the instrument—a violin-shaped Höfner 500/1 bass guitar—for just £30 in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. The guitar played a central role in the burgeoning Beatlemania ...