Stuart Sutcliffe Bass Guitar
Hofner 5005 stuart sutcliffe president bass this is the first year reissue 2011 for the hofner 5005 president bass inspired by the models of the 1950s and 60s as played by stuart sutcliffe in the early days of the beatles.
Stuart sutcliffe bass guitar. Stuart sutcliffes hofner president bass guitar. With a fully hollow 165 wide body and fitted with close spaced original hard to find hofner black bar pick ups. Sutcliffe and john lennon are credited with inventing the name beetles as they both liked buddy hollys band the crickets. Sutcliffe returned in late january in order to attend an interview for a teacher training course at the liverpool college of art but he was unsuccessful.
Moores exhibition at liverpools walker art gallery. Not entirely as made famous by except through confusion. Not that im suggesting that every bass player should learn on an ordinary guitar. If that is stuart sutcliffe had lived to see the meteoric rise of the beatles.
Stuart sutcliffe certainly didnt and he was a great bass man stuart was clear eyed and candid about his musicianship. He turned his rosetti solid 7 electric guitar into a bass using three piano strings and he played it like this on at least twenty shows. In january 1960 stuart sutcliffe exhibited a painting in the. The band used this name for a while until lennon decided to change the name to the beatles from the wo.
In 1964 much closer to when hed actually been playing with sutcliffe paul said in a beat instrumental interview.