Recorded at Abbey Road Studios in February 1968, Hey Bulldog was one of the last Beatles sessions tracked as a band ...

"McCartney could not have been more generous ... once we got to America we were quite famous - and Mr Rickenbacker said ‘Paul, we have a bass’. Oh, great! Freebie! Thank you very much.

Paul likely used his Rickenbacker 4001 with flatwound strings ... Watch Your Step (later covered by the Spencer Davis Group). McCartney waits to make his bass entrance as the second instrument ...

and the entire time I was transfixed on the rather odd looking piece of 4 stringed furniture Paul McCartney held in his mitts. Of course, I know now, that it was a Rickenbacker 4001S Bass ...