McCartney’s Missing Hofner Found…

chrisj1602

See link below…

Scroll down, there’s a few posts.

https://x.com/rassilonp?s=21

ICBM

The bridge is in an ‘interesting’ position!

chrisj1602

ICBM said:

The bridge is in an ‘interesting’ position!

Yeah, safe to say he’s not been playing it!

Great that it has been found though.

Stuckfast

I'm confused, after the first pic of him holding a bass all I can see is endless posts about Doctor Who. Was time travel involved?

springhead

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68312355

tony99

51 years later:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68312355.amp

LionAquaLooper

For the record...it wasn't me. 

icu81b4

Excellent, it’ll be worth a bit more than the £30 it cost him now.

Kittyfrisk

It's also acquired quantum properties over the years, being simultaneously here as well as in the bass forum too 
https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/261956/mccartney-s-missing-hofner-apparently-found#latest

Supportact

It's nice they've solved that one. I don't reckon that it was 'the greatest mystery in the history of rock n roll' though. I mean, it was nicked out of the back of a van. I can think of four or five more mysterious things that have happened to me since lunchtime today. 

stufisher

Always good to get closure methinks ... it would always niggle me if my fave guitar was lost or nicked and I never saw it again ... and I'm much famouser than Macca!

richardhomer

Glad it’s got back to where it once belonged…

BigPaulie

tone1

Oh bloody hell…..that’s all we need….another 2nd wind for Macca’s musical output 

fretmeister

https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/261956/mccartney-s-missing-hofner-apparently-found#latest

impmann

It’s a good news story. I hope Macca gigs it again once it’s been restored, like he has done with his other Hofner bass. 

It’s ironic that it was in Sussex - bearing in mind where Paul lives (just outside Rye). 

Penn

In an attic… that will need some work I guess. 

Musicwolf

I hadn't realised that it was stolen as late as 1972.  I'd always assumed that it was nicked in the early 60's and that's why he switched to the one with the wider spaced pickups.

lustycourtier

impmann said:

It’s a good news story. I hope Macca gigs it again once it’s been restored, like he has done with his other Hofner bass. 

It’s ironic that it was in Sussex - bearing in mind where Paul lives (just outside Rye). 

Does he? Hes at his house (Rembrandt) on Wirral quite a bit. Assumed it was his UK base.

  

Stuckfast

He has a studio in a converted windmill somewhere between Rye and Hastings.

CaseOfAce

 "...a family living in a terraced house in Sussex contacted the team remembering they had an old bass guitar in their attic."