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There's an interesting but short article by and about Geoff in Guitar Player magazine. He's talking about recording backward guitar and how John wanted his guitar on "Revolution" to sound big. Geoff talks about how he accomplished some of the sounds.

Reading the book now. Straight away George comes off as dour but I'm only on chapt 3

Jeffrey, I believe that Peter can amend the heading if it bugs you.

I have not read the book in question, but like other skeptics I wonder how a person can recall conversations from the distant past with any degree of accuracy. Does he preface the conversations with some sort of caveat or disclaimer with respect to accuracy? Or does he present them as being factual and accurate?

Maybe Geoff took offense to George disliking the guitar sound on Revolution (fast version.) I know he loathed it.

To me, many of Geoff's "remembered" conversations sound suspiciously like he had read about them elsewhere and "remembered" them a little too much like others had "remembered" them. How often do you find two people having nearly identical versions of the same, unrecorded conversation after a month, let alone after nearly 40 years? I read somewhere that Geoff's co-author had gone around interviewing EMI staff and telling them that Geoff's memory was fuzzy, so they needed to refresh it. I enjoyed the book, but I would have liked to see more technical details about the recordings. Of course that would have made it less easy to sell to the general public. But I will credit Geoff for resisting the urge to make up seamy things about John & George just because they can't refute the charges.

"Jeffrey, I believe that Peter can amend the heading if it bugs you."

I'll leave that up to Peter, it was a goof, actually I blame it on these Microsoft keyboards, I just know I hit the right key ,but, oh well!

This would never happen with a Mac keyboard.

I thought the book was interesting. It is just his memories, so it's not like he is saying it's gospel fact or anything. On another message board that many from this site also read, some people's reactions have been so strongly negative in an oddly strident way. It's just a little book after all!