What if we could alter history... (comic)

yohan · Post by **yohan** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:04 am

Hi fellas,

I guess most of you have already seen this, but when I searched the forum I couldn't find it posted here.

/Johan

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:39 am

I particularly like the left-handed sousaphone in the Beatles pic.

Rick "Chuck who?" Denney

fpoon · Post by **fpoon** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:43 am

Awesomeness. Paul playing a left handed sousaphone with his right hand = homage to him playing the right handed Hofner upside down with his left hand?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:32 pm

Yes, except Paul's Hofner bass, (nor his Rickenbacker 4001S -albeit with a right handed headstock) IS NOT a right handed instrument turned upside down. It is a true left-handed instrument made fully mirror style, with the controls on the bottom where they belong and the strings from "top down" EADG as they should be.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:33 pm

I want to hear In-a-gadda-da-vida.

fpoon · Post by **fpoon** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:51 pm

His original Hofner 500/1 (purchased from original Beatles bassist Stu Sutcliffe) was indeed a right handed instrument that he played upside down. However, in 1963 he bought a 500/5 that was left handed.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:22 pm

Why can't tuba players be rock God's? We got an instrument with the horsepower to get it done. Alls you youngsters have to do is play some music that yanks people's cranks.

SRanney · Post by **SRanney** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:11 pm

tubatooter1940 wrote:Why can't tuba players be rock God's? We got an instrument with the horsepower to get it done.

Hmm. When I lived in M'boro, TN, I played tuba (in lieu of bass) in a few speed metal bands that gigged out in local bars. Definitely not rock god material, but tuba in a rock/speed metal band nonetheless. Playing with those bands was a trip.

It really blew people's minds to see a tuba in a rock band.

SR

fpoon · Post by **fpoon** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:29 pm

His original Hofner 500/1 (purchased from original Beatles bassist Stu Sutcliffe) was indeed a right handed instrument that he played upside down. However, in 1963 he bought a 500/5 that was left handed.

Let me take that back. Paul used Stu's Hofner 333 upside down initially, and when he ORDERED his first 500/1, they didn't have a left handed one in stock in Hamburg (where the Beatles were playing at the time in 1961) so he played a right handed one upside down for a couple of weeks, then got a left handed one.

Whew. Had to break out my "Gear of the Beatles" book for that one.