Liverpool Lad
Paul McCartney’s influence has been cited by countless bassists over the years, from Lemmy to Geddy Lee to Gene Simmons, who recently said in these hallowed pages that the Liverpudlian inspired him to understand that the bass could be an instrument in its own right, rather than just locking the low-end down.
But history could have been very different. The Beatles’ original four-stringer Stuart Sutcliffe, seduced by a
