Beatles' guitar solos not performed by George

Yep - Challenge Records, with Bruce Botnick at the controls - picture in the liners for the Sundazed Knicks' comp has a handwritten bill from Bruce - 9 1/2 hours recording for $142.50! Guess I shoulda put Lies in quotes so it'd be more funnier...

 

Not a solo, exactly, but I remember reading an interview with George where he said Paul did the feedback at the beginning of It's All Too Much.

Re: And Your Bird Can Sing, I had a friend back in college days at Berklee who learned to play both lines at once, before he figured out it was two guitars. Pretty cool!

 

That's John's great guitar on Paul's "All My Loving"

 

The three of them were all accomplished guitar players. That's why I like the beatles so much and that is why I started to learn the guitar. Listen to anthology you can hear good guitar work on the demo tapes and pre-production tapes. Makes me want to get out the guitar and start playing.

 

Steve,

"You Can't Do That" is killer...especially at John's solo with Ringo's drums & cowbell going at it, the second guitar and Paul's bass, amazing! That solo part takes the song to another plateau. One of the many high lights on "A Hard Day's Night" album.

Joe

 

I remember reading somewhere that it was George's favorite Beatle song for guitar playing.

 

Who plays the guitar intro to "She Said, She Said"? John praised the track highly in the Playboy interviews--apparently they pushed the treble through about three EQ channels to get that real snarly tone. Great song too--lotsa cool time changes, interesting rhythm arrangement.

Gardo

 

Yes the rhythm guitar is John but that great rockabilly solo is by George - a challenge to nail for even the most accomplished guitar players.

 

Guitar solo

 

For me side two of that album is just about the best Lennon side of all.

 

The problem in your case Steve is to work out, when you run into these people, who says it first!

 

Mister Kite??!!

The google site that Joel referenced perplexed me. It refers to a guitar solo on
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite". As far as I can remember (I don't have the song here at work), there's no guitar solo or, for that matter, no guitar at all evident on that track. Am I missing something? Also, it says that the solo on "I call your name" may be John. But if you listen to it, I believe it's fairly apparent that it's George taking the solo on the 12-string, with John goosing the 2/4 rhythm along nicely with his aggressive chording.
I, too, love John's solo on "I Call Your name". I also love the way he slides into the first chord behind George's intro--it's also very aggressive and it even sounds like the chord isn't even played exactly "correctly"--but it's just got a great feel to it.

 

Another great John guitar contribution: The intro on the 45 version of "Revolution"! George allegedly didn't like it because it was "too distorted" (!!)

 

I'm Down

The plot thickens. I listened to the Anthology version of I'm Down only to find two seperate parts to the solo. The first out of the left channel is much the same as the beginning of the regular version, the second part (out of the middle) cuts in as the first ends and involves a lot of bending. Could the first half be George and the second half be Paul?
Anyone know?

 

Re: Harrison's solo on "I Call Your Name." Absolutely one of my favorites by George. Really, how could you mistake that solo for the work of anyone else? It is quintessentially George. In fact, his work throughout the "Long Tall Sally" EP is absolutely exemplary. He is the one Beatle who doesn't have a vocal on that four-song set and I think in compensation he rips out simply lovely guitar solos on each of the tracks. In fact this EP is, for me, one of the highlights of Harrison's Beatles career which is one reason the EP remains a favorite of mine.

It is odd, over the years, how many Harrison Beatles solos I have memorized. Not intentionally, of course. But some of them are of such a piece with the melodies themselves that I can sing the George solos when they appear. They seem very simple, but at their best his solos have an elegance and a real compositional logic to them. I say this NOT as a musician, which I am not. (The only things I know how to play are records). In fact, if you were to remove his best solos from Beatles records -- just edit them out -- there would remain obvious holes, so a part of the records have those solos become.

Anyone else memorize any George guitar solos?

 

Steve,

Check out the 2 guitar solos on The Beatles' "Long Tall Sally" - first one is John, and it's very much like "You Can't Do That."

The second solo on "LTS" is George.

 

Here's a pet theory of mine: the solo on "Day Tripper" is in two phrases- and it sounds like two different guitars- to me the first phrase sounds like Paul and the second phrase sounds like George. Anyone else think so?....

 

It's already 2002 and I still enjoy reading about The Beatles ... in any form. Be it George's licks (currently), or John's, any time is a good time when it transports me back when I was young and not so innocent.

Keep 'em coming!

George

 

I've Just Seen A Face has two acoustic guitars.I'm wondering if the short solo is Paul's.Great Thread!