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Hi Kiddwad57 I really have no idea whether Paul used his Bassman amp for bass anyway. Best source for these amp-questions, to me, is the "Vox amplifiers" book by Jim Elea, but, no wonder, the book is focused on Vox amps. Through the "Stratocaster year" (1965), I guess, Paul uses ...

Conclusion: luckily the world wide Beatlemania started with the "two Rickenbacker-guitars song" "I want to hold your hand". Furthermore they came back from the "Ed Sullivan-U.S-tour" with two new Rickenbackers: the electic 12-string 360/12 for George and the 325-Miami f...

Last but not least And your bird can sing: we all know, it was Peter Fonda's wailing what John Lennon caused to write "She said, she said". But at the same L.A.-party David Crosby of "The Byrds" was present. After the release of the "giggling 12-string" version of "...

Drive my car: now we come to my own personal taste: this song, although the lyrics are a bit silly, is pure "Swinging London". A pure modern rocker of the time. To me, the best versions of the Rubber Soul songs are the original right/left- stereo mixes. In "Drive my car" I especi...

I call your name: there are at least three mixes of the song: 1) mono mix, possibly used since the English "Long Tall Sally"-EP. Available on the 2009-mono-CDs (disk 15, track 11). A not so perfect edit piece from the start to "but you're not there" with cowbell from the start on...

The "A Hard Day's Night "- movie mixes: special mixes were made for the film If I fell: the intro was mixed w/o reverberation and not with double tracked vocals (like in the stereo record mix). And I love her: Pauls vocals were mixed w/o reverberation and not double tracked. Only in the mi...

Something: I have mentioned it here years ago: at the end of the middle 8 Paul should have played (as bridge to the song's Cmaj chord) a descending line C B A (3rd str.) G E (4th str.) D (2nd str.) and finally C (3rd str.). But he played C B A (3rd str.) G F E (4th str.) and finally C (3rd str.). Al...

Good Morning, Good Morning: a) the cockcrow crackles at 992 msec after starting. Maybe it was recorded on shellac disc for the sound archive many years ago b) in the first line of the song the words "to do to save his life" were dubbed. As we can hear on the Anthology track (disk 4, track ...

Addendum to I want to hold your hand / Komm, gib mir deine Hand: the separate tracks mentioned above seems to be an 5.1 Dolby mix: lead guitar, rhythm track, vocals and ambience track (in stereo: reverb out of phase, handclaps and additional vocals in the center (plus an additional take by John &quo...

I want to hold your hand: the Beatles were fond of using new features immediately. As far as we know nowadays, two guitars were new on I want to hold your hand. George Harrison's Rickenbacker 425 guitar with only one center-p.u. and Paul McCartney's new 2nd Hofner Violin Bass, where the treble p.u. ...

Hi iiipopes, thanks for your comments. Well, I've tried the varitone on my "Lucille", it's quite the sound. If I'm not mistaken it is varitone position 2, bridge pu. Certainly you are righ in the case of Nowere Man. But, dispite all the minor chords they have used additionally, Paul played...

Got to get you into my life:
if you listen carefully to the left channel of the Revolver stereo CD, you can hear a distorted guitar playing some sort of melody. No chords. For me, this is the only time they've used the WEM Rush Pep on Revolver

Wolfgang

hello, after a long, long while I would like to share some of my findings from listening to some Beatles records with you. Rain: I recently watched the youtube video "The Radical Innovations of the Perfect Beatles Song" about the song Rain. What was forgotten here: in the fade out of the s...

What guitars on "Komm gib mir deine Hand"? Well, "I want to hold your hand" was the first Beatles' song to be recorded on a 4-track tape machine. There was track 1 "background track": bass, drums, John's guitar track 2: George's guitar, track 3: (separate take) vocals t...

yes, but I want to hold your hand and This boy were recorded Oct 17
Wolfgang