Beatles guitar solos by John Lennon

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  1. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    Lennon does play the riff part of the solo at live shows, then George. On the record, there are pedal swells and rhythm guitar on the 'live' track and the solo riff and 'twiddly' parts are overdubbed.
     
  2. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    Both Paul and George play lead on the track.
     
  3. DrBeatle

    DrBeatle The Rock and Roll Chemist

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    Agreed, I always thought that one just ended way to abruptly and sloppily.
     
  4. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    The actual real live solo doesn't peter out so quickly, George plays some bad notes before giving up. It's faded on the released versions, but the live broadcast here at 4.02-6 reveals a couple of bad notes mixed out or down on the single and album(s).

     
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  5. Gersh

    Gersh Forum Resident


    This is just from memory but isn't he playing chords in the break mentioned, is it really a solo?
     
  6. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    Sounds like a solo.

     
  7. ralph7109

    ralph7109 Forum Resident

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    Please and thank-you.
     
  8. Kim Olesen

    Kim Olesen Gently weeping guitarist.

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    You cant always trust what is locked on the same tracks on the MOGGS. They were created with the purpose of "guitar gaming" so sometimes things that had seperate tracks were put on the same tracks in the MOGGS. The MOGGS are revealing as to what is played but not as to how the 4 and 8 tracks were. They are NOT straight transfers. Case in point is Taxman where parts shifts tracks to make the gameplay interesting.
     
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  9. Kim Olesen

    Kim Olesen Gently weeping guitarist.

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    Re slide. Don't know who is playing it but at least one of the versions of Lucille has a slide lead on it. If not both (can't remember right now).
     
  10. slane

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    Isn't that just the wild use of the tremelo bar? I'm fairly sure it is.
     
  11. AudiophilePhil

    AudiophilePhil Senior Member

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    Did George play the "stinging" guitar solo on the album version of the song "Let It Be" in addition to the mellower solo on the single version?
    I was thinking it was John who played the solo on the album version and George played the solo on the single version but it seems like it was George who played both versions based on an online source.
     
  12. slane

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    All George. There's actually 3 solos. You can hear the original wiped solo (but leaked onto other mics), complete with bum note.
     
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  13. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

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    Recording the Beatles specifically says a mellotron was used for the slide parts. A mellotron could and can be loaded with tapes of anything - the Spanish guitar riff at the beginning of "Bunaglow Bill," for example
     
  14. Onder

    Onder Senior Member

    Did you read my post?
    Lewisohn says specifically that the Paul's stinging part was played by George. That's where his mistake is.

    Ondra
     
  15. I didn't know that. I was aware of B. Bill using the Spanish guitar tape of the mellotron. Those tapes usually sounded "old". That slide part sure sounds clean.

    Notes taken!
     
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  16. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

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    I wasn't there, i'm just repeating what I read!
     
  17. And it begs another question. A rock group like The Beatles needing an "instant" concert flute, oboe or virtuoso Spanish guitar part and relying for this on the mellotron is one thing, but a couple of metal slide moves along a guitar neck...

    Maybe it was for the heck of it!
     
  18. Onder

    Onder Senior Member

    Yes, I know how they were created and what they represent. In case of Run For Your Life they actually tried to separate the acoustic guitar which IS locked with the drums on the same track.

    Ondra
     
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  19. Hall Cat

    Hall Cat Senior Member

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    a new toy sort of thing perhaps
     
  20. Gersh

    Gersh Forum Resident

    You're right, it's pretty short but it's not a fill. I can honestly say though I never thought that was guitar! I always assumed it was a flute or recorder or piccolo, so I was thinking of the downstrokes on guitar in the song (more prominent in certain parts) as a solo.

    In terms of the notes themselves, it sounds a little tentative to me, hardly Reinhardt Django. :) But it's a great song, I so love The White Album. It proves it's crazy the band broke up when it did.
     
  21. seacliffe301

    seacliffe301 Forum Resident

    That was George.
     
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  22. Gersh

    Gersh Forum Resident


    Sorry, I meant Django Reinhardt.
     
  23. nikh33

    nikh33 Senior Member

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    Yet George does play lead guitar also which your initial post denied. Did you not read that?
     
  24. elvissinatra

    elvissinatra Forum Resident

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    Friday 3 March: "... After the musicians had secured Beatles autographs (a common practice) and gone home, George Harrison became the focus of attention with the overdubbing of a stinging -- and much distorted -- lead guitar solo onto the same song, now complete except for one final overdub on 6 March." (The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, 1989 paperback edition, p. 101)

    Friday 3 March: "... After the horn players had secured Beatles' autographs (a common practice) and gone home, George Harrison became the focus of attention, overdubbing a much distorted lead guitar solo onto the same track." (The Complete Beatles Chronicle, 1992 paperback edition, p. 247)

    Clearly, the man is human (if indeed Paul played the overdubbed guitar solo).
     
  25. Onder

    Onder Senior Member

    Sorry, I should have made it clear that in the book he is specifically talking about the stinging guitar overdub and says it was played by George which is incorrect. Sure, George played lead also but not this one.

    Ondra
     
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