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The genius of Lennon and Harrison


jaxson50

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Ok here it goes

Without a Gibson they would have never gotten out on stage

 

I am not sure what you mean when you say that. They were playing Rickenbackers, Gretschs, and a Höfner (a "Club 40", while Paul was still officially on guitar) when they were cutting their teeth on the stage.

 

Anyway... as a life-long Beatle fanatic, I could add an endless diatribe to this thread. But, instead, I'll keep with the main theme and post one of my favorite guitar solos of all-time. George and John "dueting" on their sonic blue Stratocasters. Simple yet effective.... both rhythmic and melodic... iconic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-KAv6zghRQ

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I am not sure what you mean when you say that. They were playing Rickenbackers, Gretschs, and a Höfner (a "Club 40", while Paul was still officially on guitar) when they were cutting their teeth on the stage.

 

Anyway... as a life-long Beatle fanatic, I could add an endless diatribe to this thread. But, instead, I'll keep with the main theme and post one of my favorite guitar solos of all-time. George and John "dueting" on their sonic blue Stratocasters. Simple yet effective.... both rhythmic and melodic... iconic.

You left out John's Epiphone Casino.

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After some attempts to duplicate the sound of the Beatles’ songs I came to the conclusion that it is not necessary to repeat strictly the manner or style of Lennon or Harrison. With a glance to their genius, however, each guitar player has his own signature manner and even own sound and these personal properties are needed to be in progress.

 

When we were learning the above I Feel Fine, we also encountered difficulties in guitar sound of this song. Finally we with our guitar player represented Lennon’s riff by the two our guitars in convenient manner for us . If you are interesting I can show our video with the cover-version I Feel Fine, there is also a film crew of BBS channel in this video, which was in Russia and shooting our performance on the camera. :rolleyes: Then they used their record in one of their films.

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Probably slide technique was the best and suitable for George as his own manner.

 

By the way, here is Twist and Shout, here the Beatles for the first time ventured to start with this risky song when they came to America. Usually Lennon put it at the end of the performance.

 

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