12-bar original

[JakeK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rm0a2OnNOk

Great instrumental...and for those of you who've wanted to hear it in full, here's your chance.

Guitars sounds like:
John - Fender Strat through Vox AC-30
George - Fender Strat with Vox Tone Bender and volume pedal through Vox AC-30
Paul - Ric 4001S with compressor through Fender Bassman

There are a couple of pick scrapes in this song, too. Could George/John have been listening to The Who?

[paologregorio]

Reminds me more of "Green Onions", or something with a bit of an early Yardbirds feel.

Thanks for posting this one Jake; it was the first time I'd heard it.

[brammy]

In all honesty???? .... that is a VERY weak blues jam.

[deaconblues]

In all honesty???? .... that is a VERY weak blues jam.

+1...not up to their usual standard, to put it lightly.

[tennis_nick]

Not exactly A+ material.

Terribly uninteresting outside of the fact that it's the Beatles and slightly rare.

[JakeK]

Had The Stones, The Yardbirds, The Kinks or even The Who had done their own version of this (in the late '65/'66 era), would it have been better?

[tennis_nick]

Had The Stones, The Yardbirds, The Kinks or even The Who had done their own version of this (in the late '65/'66 era), would it have been better?

Well, the thing is, if I want to hear a 12 bar blues, I tend to look for actual Blues Bands.



OR maybe John Mayall and the Blues Breakers

The Beatles are great musicians for sure, but blues artists they were not.

[deaconblues]

I'm sure The Beatles could pull off a decent blues number - see Yer Blues for one example - blues music isn't rocket science.

However, they were probably blazed out of their minds when they recorded 12-bar.

[tennis_nick]

It's not rocket science, but Yer Blues doesn't exactly nail it either.

It's a pretty rocking number though.

[JakeK]

That it is. At the Stones' Rock and Roll Circus, Clapton did an amazing solo, better than George did:



The band:
John Lennon - with 1965 Epiphone Casino
Eric Clapton - with 1959 Gibson ES-335
Keith Richards - with 1962 Fender Precision bass (as used on "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Let's Spend the Night Together")
Mitch Mitchell (from Jimi Hendrix)

[peewee]

The 335 that Clapton plays in the RRC vid is his '64 AKA "The Crossroads Guitar" as it was the guitar he recorded "Crossroads" with while with Cream. Same guitar used in Blind Faith and the same guitar he used briefly in The Yardbirds. As for the original posted track; meh.

[tennis_nick]

The 335 that Clapton plays in the RRC vid is his '64 AKA "The Crossroads Guitar" as it was the guitar he recorded "Crossroads" with while with Cream. Same guitar used in Blind Faith and the same guitar he used briefly in The Yardbirds. As for the original posted track; meh.

It's called the Crossroads guitar because of it's prominence in the Royal ALbert Hall footage, but the album version comes from a concert at Winterland, where old Slowhand was playing a Gibson SG (the fool). (The 335 wasn't in America at the time)

[brammy]

I'm sure The Beatles could pull off a decent blues number - see Yer Blues for one example - blues music isn't rocket science.

However, they were probably blazed out of their minds when they recorded 12-bar.

yup, I think that about sums it up.

[paologregorio]

Their roots in classical, folk, and dance hall were at odds with their more recent exposure to American blues, and it was probably clashing in their heads as they were playing the "12 bar blues".

[winston]

As much as some musicians would have you believe that any old fool could play the blues it is actually a lot harder genre to master than you might think. Just my two cents.

I have been playing blues since I was 15 and I would not list my abilities as being on par with some of the greats.......even though I can play a few tasty licks myself.

The Beatles attempt is just that (an attempt) and they did not pull it off IMO.