McCartney’s Missing Hofner Found…

chrisj1602 · February 15

See link below…

Scroll down, there’s a few posts.

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

ICBM · February 15

The bridge is in an ‘interesting’ position!

chrisj1602 · February 15

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 · February 15

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 · February 15

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

tony99 · February 15

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

LionAquaLooper · February 15

For the record...it wasn't me.

icu81b4 · February 15

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

Kittyfrisk · February 15

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 · February 15

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 · February 15

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 · February 15

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

BigPaulie · February 15

tone1 · February 15

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

fretmeister · February 15

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

impmann · February 16

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 · February 16

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

Musicwolf · February 16

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 · February 16

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 · February 16

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

CaseOfAce · February 16

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

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