Listen to Paul McCartney's incredible isolated bass track on The Beatles' 'Come Together'

There aren’t many instruments the incredibly talented Sir Paul McCartney can’t play. And, in truth, there aren’t many he didn’t play on The Beatles records. But one instrument will always be attached to the iconography of Macca, his bass guitar.

The singer/songwriter has been famed for his voice, for his exceptional ear for music and his uncanny pop sensibilities. But atop of all that he is a fantastic bass player too. The isolated bass track on ‘Come Together’ is a shining example.

McCartney’s landmark guitar, bought when Paul was only 18, had humble origins, “Eventually, I found a little shop in the center of town, and I saw this violin-shaped bass guitar in the window,” he told Tony Bacon for a Bass Player cover story back in the summer of 1995.

The original guitar McCartney bought was Höfner 500/1 violin bass, a right-handed model that he turned upside down, for the equivalent of around £40. While the guitar was stolen during the late sixties he did have a spare which was given to him by Höfner in 1963, was seen and heard starting as early as that year’s ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’. Macca played the guitar from then all the way until the final ‘Let It Be’ rooftop concert in 1969. Some say Paul still has the setlist from the last Beatles, from 1966, taped to its side.

Source: faroutmagazine.co.uk

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