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Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 4:16 pm**

Hey people, finaly got a computer back, just a quick question, does anyone know who played the solo to good morning and was it with a casino?

cheers

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 5:01 pm**

It was Paul, apparently, righty RW board Fender esquire strung lefty through an Selmer amp. One of my favorite solo's

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 5:02 pm**

Harry: To my ear, this solo is a Paul effort. It is in his style and reminiscent to his parts on Taxman and The End. It is a second position A chord groove and hence similar to a good many lead riffs played by Paul.

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 5:08 pm**

I agree with Peter, but would add that it represents a progression of his technique. For one, it doesn't have that certain "angular" quality some earlier Paul solo's do - "Drive my car" for example

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 5:48 pm**

Yup..... Paul was likely using a Fender Esquire guitar thru Selmer Zodiac Twin 50 Mark II amp (two 12 inch speakers) for the solos on Good Morning, Good Morning..... although he was also using an Epiphone Casino in the same session. From the sound though, its likely that it is the Fender that was used for Good Morning.

Se "Beatles Gear" page 203

Posted: **Mon May 30, 2005 6:31 pm**

Thanks Guys, i had a feeling it would be paul, like peter said it has that taxman quality, i would never had guessed its a fender though....thats a shame, i also love ringos drumming on the anthology version.

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 8:27 am**

Andrew, "angular"-- very synesthetically put!

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 12:35 pm**

To use one of your expressions, Paul:

"Huh?"

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 12:51 pm**

Paul, putting some 'angularity' on his Fender

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 1:49 pm**

"Andrew, "angular"-- very synesthetically put!"

Cheers Paul! Very synaesthetic indeed

synaesthesia is the production or use of a sense impression from one part of the body and relating it to another. It's a literary convention

Think "The red of George's SG screamed against the tasty sunburst of his casino"

So..red=vision, scream=hearing, tasty=well...taste/smell

Pick the English major (... commonly referred to as a "******" by many

Oh...I mean ME, by the way, no Paul

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 2:28 pm**

Thelonious Monk's music is referred to by many as being angular.

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 2:33 pm**

Absolutely! Particularly his later work

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 3:03 pm**

The Selmer amp Paul is seen with in the Beatles Gear book did not have distortion.

Paul had to have either used a OD box or one of the Vox amps with the distortion built in.

Good Morning has the same distortion/tone as Sgt. Pepper.

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 3:08 pm**

I'd assume he's "dimed" it - I've played through one a few years back, and it did dirty up nicely

Posted: **Tue May 31, 2005 3:27 pm**

Who knows?

My early JMI Conqueror amp nails that tone also.

I would say it's probably a Vox amp with the MRB boost distortion on.

The Selmer Fifty that Paul used would have had to have been cranked up pretty loud to get that sound.

The recording is fuzzy but does not sound like an amp that is turned up real loud.

I have a dozen close up pics of the Selmer Fifty if anyone wants to see.

The Selmer Fifty only has one volume and no distortion.

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