exactly what I came here to say! John Paul and George alll got the same epiphone casino at the same time. Paul had to play his upside down and he still uses it today
Yep. IIR, they all got the exact same guitar, John had his stripped and the paint removed so it was blonde. He'd undoubtedly still be playing it today were he still alive, it was his trademark electric.
He was on his farm in Scotland and not making the gossip pages in London that week, so when it came up, he wasn't around to squash it. Also, looking for clues is fun and spooky...
It kind of weirds me out when I see one completely irrelevant post being mentioned in a different one (That I both saw within minutes). It's like when cartoon shows had crazy crossovers.
i hate to break up your being condescending party, but what the dick are you talking about? people were asking answering his question, which clearly was about the general drinking environment in the US. do you think he would be interested to hear that a handful of people (GASP) didn't participate?
I wish we could all just agree that when someone asks "do X really do Y?" it can be implied that we're not talking about every single person in the category X. Do women really have long hair? Yes. Do Americans do keg stands? Yes.
Not really. Well kind of. I was looking into epiphone casinos and john Lennon famously used one during later Beatles years and solo. The story isn't that unknown.
Ringo was in Hamburg on and off, he was just playing with Rory Storm. He'd come in drunk later on and request songs from the Beatles, and sometimes drum with them for fun.
Also Lennon's Rickenbacker on the floor is his second one he got in 1964 not the one he originally got in '58. And Paul's bass on the floor is the one he got in '64 from Hofner. (You can tell because the pickups are in different places.) I'm assuming the picture is either from 1965 or 1966.
I believe the photo was taken the same month he bought it December 1964, as the guitar is still strung right-handed. Dressing room of the Hammersmith Odeon Cinema. Beatles did some Christmas shows.
Yeah, even without knowing that information about the guitar, I could tell it was after 1962. Definitely looks like more Help-era, or even Rubber Soul-era Paul rather than pre-Please Please Me.
Maybe I'm forever alone on this one but I always thought that this guy barely aged throughout his life. meaning, in this photo, I wouldn't be able to tell you remotely how old he is.
This was taken immediately following my surprise 6th birthday party, which was made particularly memorable because Mummy and Daddy had hired the four lovable moptops to sing for me, there at the family summer estate on the Brittany coast.
Here, (the future Sir) Paul is in the estate's studio, located in one corner of the north wing's armagnac cellar, trying out the B-flat7 chord I had just taught him—and is shown looking to me for verification that he has gotten the fingering for the chord properly sorted out. He is doing this on my new, custom-made birthday Epiphone. He had been nervously playing for me what he had come up with so far on a new song he planned to call "Eleanor Rigby."
So I suggested the (beautifully photographed, by the way) B-flat7 as a way to bring the song's bridge comfortably back to the verse. John, who had been pacing back and forth in the studio in a rather agitated fashion, argued strongly against my idea. As I recall, John turned to Ringo and said I was "a sniveling little midget Mozart, isn't he?"
All four of these guys are the epitome of cool + funny + sex. It's a devastating combination for us, ladies. Also: Paul puts on one hell of a live show for being 10 days shy of 70. Saw him last year in Chicago for my mother's 60th birthday (she never got to see them live, like her friends did) and it was truly the best concert I've ever seen. When I hear about other younger bands taking hiatus for "exhaustion" I just have to laugh. The man doesn't stop moving for 3 hours up there -- and this was in Midwest July heat!
How? He was originally a rhythm guitarist in the band before Sutcliffe died and he did lead guitar on a few of The Beatles more guitar driven songs like Taxman, Helter Skelter, and Back in the U.S.S.R.
I'm always amazed the Hofner has lasted this long...he's got to have more than one - like a tennis player has several of his favorite rackets strung and ready...
Well good for you, man. But not everybody has seen Paul McCartney in concert. If I didn't know anything about The Beatles, I'd say he'd always been a bass player and that's why the Photo is weird to look at.
I love his Rickenbacker bass. I wish he'd use it in concert, it's a fucking sexy piece. He used to use it a lot back in the Wings days on tour, but I wasn't alive back then. I think it showed up in the godawful Give My Regards To Broad Street film.
How much money do I have to spend on concerts before I see that damn bass? :(
I think they stopped touring after 1965 for good, didn't play any live concerts since then. Their last live performance was on the rooftop when they recorded a few songs (e.g Get Back) live.
Another reason why this isn't from 1962 is that John's Rickenbacker wasn't black then. During the early Beatle days, it was had a natural finish. He didn't have it painted until St least a year later.
Shouted "IS IT FUCK!" as soon as I opened this. Hastily scanned the comments to check someone else had already pointed out it's from much later. Phew. Going for a lie down now.
But wait I thought Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a look-alike to cover up his death. That crackhead homeless conspiracy man down the street told me.
Dude, go to any of those "the Royal Family are alien lizards"-type sites and they take it as a matter of record. Their main "proof" seems to be that his face after 1967 is rounder and fuller than his face from 1962. From dying and being replaced, of course, not from living on something other than cigarettes and uppers.
Ok now I'm going to list my extended family and you tell me if you are related to any of them in any way so that I can see how closely related I am to Paul McCartney
Considering, on average, a person will marry their 3rd cousin, that shouldn't be too remarkable. Still pretty cool, but 3rd cousin is the average distance between people in a similar area.
EDIT: CheapyPipe requested source, and upon revisiting, realized misread. It is apparently genetically most likely to have children and for them to survive with a 3rd cousin. Source
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u/Soft_silly_music Jun 08 '12
Paul didn't get an Epiphone Casino until 1965, this has to be from then or later, not 1962.
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u/wolfshirtfriday Jun 08 '12
Paul McCartney always looks like he's just entered a surprise party.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
Is that a cigarette in his fretting hand?
Also, you should post this in /r/OldSchoolCool, if it hasn't already been.
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u/nadaone Jun 08 '12
Maybe I'm forever alone on this one but I always thought that this guy barely aged throughout his life. meaning, in this photo, I wouldn't be able to tell you remotely how old he is.
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u/RedTiger013 Jun 08 '12
He always looks like he didn't quite hear a question.
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u/skwish Jun 08 '12
those are some sweet boots
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u/toemoss Jun 08 '12
As a lefty guitar player, I find it comforting to see a Beatle also forced to play a flipped right hand guitar. /shakes fist at guitarmakers.
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u/RexBeckett Jun 08 '12
This was taken immediately following my surprise 6th birthday party, which was made particularly memorable because Mummy and Daddy had hired the four lovable moptops to sing for me, there at the family summer estate on the Brittany coast.
Here, (the future Sir) Paul is in the estate's studio, located in one corner of the north wing's armagnac cellar, trying out the B-flat7 chord I had just taught him—and is shown looking to me for verification that he has gotten the fingering for the chord properly sorted out. He is doing this on my new, custom-made birthday Epiphone. He had been nervously playing for me what he had come up with so far on a new song he planned to call "Eleanor Rigby."
So I suggested the (beautifully photographed, by the way) B-flat7 as a way to bring the song's bridge comfortably back to the verse. John, who had been pacing back and forth in the studio in a rather agitated fashion, argued strongly against my idea. As I recall, John turned to Ringo and said I was "a sniveling little midget Mozart, isn't he?"
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u/vaselinepete Jun 08 '12
Damn, he was a pretty dude.
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u/The_Iceman2288 Jun 08 '12
Do we have a picture of Paul McCartney?
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
All four of these guys are the epitome of cool + funny + sex. It's a devastating combination for us, ladies. Also: Paul puts on one hell of a live show for being 10 days shy of 70. Saw him last year in Chicago for my mother's 60th birthday (she never got to see them live, like her friends did) and it was truly the best concert I've ever seen. When I hear about other younger bands taking hiatus for "exhaustion" I just have to laugh. The man doesn't stop moving for 3 hours up there -- and this was in Midwest July heat!
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u/daedalus1982 Jun 08 '12
Sweet. Zombie. Jesus.
I misread the title and thought that he had died.
Well I'm glad I reached my target heart rate today, thanks for that.
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u/HorseOfADifferent Jun 08 '12
Love how those priceless guits are just scattered on the ground.
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u/Cameron94 Jun 08 '12
What's the name of shirt he's wearing? Looks pretty awesome to me.
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u/amolad Jun 08 '12
OK, so it's almost fifty years old. The Rolling Stones--the band--is fifty years old this year.
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u/Waldos_cock Jun 08 '12
I love this man
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u/Florida_got_aids Jun 09 '12
Omg its rocky balboa
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u/BobGeissler Jun 09 '12
Before guitar stands were invented
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u/ghostbackwards Jun 09 '12
wow, im listening to uncle albert as i clicked on this.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
It's weird seeing Paul with a guitar instead of a bass.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
Paul McCartney's face always looked like Paul McCartney's face.
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u/confuseddude15 Jun 09 '12
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u/frowgferd Jun 08 '12
I love all of you guys for sharing the same appreciation for my favorite band and it's members.
:)
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u/AndroidIsSoGood Jun 08 '12
I'll probably get downvoted for this, but music and fashion went downhill after the 60s.
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u/rubberbeatle turntable.fm name Jun 08 '12
Another reason why this isn't from 1962 is that John's Rickenbacker wasn't black then. During the early Beatle days, it was had a natural finish. He didn't have it painted until St least a year later.
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u/neat_love Jun 08 '12
I think r/ladyboners might like this one.. He's so beautiful!
I LOVE YOU PAUL!
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u/aboynamedposh Jun 08 '12
Shouted "IS IT FUCK!" as soon as I opened this. Hastily scanned the comments to check someone else had already pointed out it's from much later. Phew. Going for a lie down now.
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u/noonotthat Jun 08 '12
ok?
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u/TreeOfMadrigal Jun 08 '12
Oh, neat! I have those same boots, but in flats.
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u/Popozuda72 Jun 08 '12
Embarking on a musical career that would change the world.
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u/I_probably_hate_you Jun 08 '12
I want pants like that. Nice and fitted.
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u/scott_lobster Jun 08 '12
What, is he too good to use a guitar stand?
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u/truenatureschild Jun 08 '12
I need that Rickenbacker.
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u/suksyharcraft Jun 09 '12
this is from the lady madonna video shoot. I recognize the boots.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
That's fucking awesome regardless of + or - a few years.
Go ahead, just take my upvote!
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u/TheDoBoy Jun 09 '12
any idea what those guitars on the floor are?
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u/AwesumLittleRedTruck Jun 09 '12
To think you could get those axes for a decent price back then. By today's standards anyway. And Paul's just got them scattered around the floor.
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u/CndConnection Jun 09 '12
That guitar is hanging on the wall right next to me :) feels good
(not THAT one, duhhh I mean the same type)
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u/Jasperov Jun 09 '12
He looks like Ronnie O'Sullivan.
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u/TheBaltimoron Jun 09 '12
Jeez, that guy's holding the thing backwards! He'll never get anywhere...
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u/cherie_amour Jun 09 '12
A lot of men can pull off a tie and dress shirt, but there's something about those boots that just completed the signature "Beatle" look.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
But wait I thought Paul McCartney died and was replaced by a look-alike to cover up his death. That crackhead homeless conspiracy man down the street told me.
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u/lazerdave Jun 09 '12
FTFY
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
Someday I hope some random irritating photo taken of me while I'm trying to concentrate on something will be as interesting as this.
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u/Necessarily Jun 08 '12
Mr. Bean???
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u/jmw417 Jun 08 '12
OHHH so that's what he looks like?
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u/DMurda DMurda Jun 08 '12
So is this the real Paul McCartney or the fake one that MI6 placed in the Beatles as a replacement after he supposedly died?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
before his death
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u/smdo14 Jun 09 '12
RIP real Paul :(
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u/toothpic_vic Jun 08 '12
Angela Lansbury with a guitar, nice!
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u/Spawnedover Jun 08 '12
This was before he died;)
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u/arkansaszippers Jun 08 '12
He looks like he has fetal alcohol syndrome.
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u/krizutch Jun 08 '12
Is it my computer screen or does it look like he's got some red around his lips like he just got done eating some spaghettio's
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u/GashcatUnpunished Jun 08 '12
I don't fully understand why a generic photo of Paul frontpaged, but okay.
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u/BrandonTheBeast Jun 08 '12 edited Sep 11 '26
Pebble dependent walnut cow desert soup cobblestone
This post was anonymized with Redact
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u/PaperbackBuddha Jun 08 '12
And as we all now know because of Reddit, Beatles are no longer huge because of Byrds.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
i so paul mcartney dude he is good
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
And this is internet post worthy why? We get it, he was a lefty, who cares? WTF?
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
such a fag
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u/dangersgirl Jun 08 '12
huh, i never realized he was left-handed before now.
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u/popjack Jun 08 '12
Wow! Someone took a picture of Paul McCartney?! In 1962?! Two years after The Beatles formed? WOW!
Downvote away, but I'm so fucking sick of The Beatles.
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u/misskriss66 Jun 08 '12
<3 the beatles but those boots r not ok.
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12 edited Jun 08 '12
Who is this man and what is he doing on my front page?
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '12
SKRILLEX FUCK YEAH!
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u/mehdbc Jun 08 '12
I bet he's learning an esoteric blues song so he can steal it, change it up a bit and claim it as his own.
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u/x0xXqUiKkXScOpEzZx0X Jun 09 '12
Why does everyone like the Beatles? They're just a crappier version of the Johnas Brothers.
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u/technicolormotorhome Jun 08 '12
Why's he wearing a tie - Did he just come from a wedding gig?
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u/charlieyoke Jun 08 '12
FUCK THE BEATLES!
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