never sleep on gear there and everywhere. you guys make every topic so fun to learn and hear about. there has never been a episode where i have not learned anything
Really enjoying your show - fantastic research with a nice helping of conjecture. My personal Beatles 'rabbit-hole' was and still is in their fashion(s). For myself, the Hey Bulldog video will always be about George's fantastic burgundy corduroy shoes! Keep up the great work. Milford Derbyshire, UK.
One of my Favorite Beatles tracks, and it almost never happened (it was a film session for Lady Madonna). Thanks for the deep dive guys! So glad I found your channel- you might be more obsessed with The Beatles than I am- that’s sayin’ something! I grew up with these songs, contemporaneously. The soundtrack of my youth is now yours! 🤗👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
On Paul’s 4001: I read in the early 90’s (I think in Bassplayer Magazine) that only the neck of the 4001 started out as a righty before the bass was built. They used to make these neck through necks totally separate from the two body wings and kept them in stock. They weren’t going to built Paul a lefty neck: too much hustle. To get him two lefty body wings was fairly easy, because the raw cuts out of the wood used would be 100% identical for left and right handed instruments on the 4001 when they start building a bass. It’s just the final curves and finishing the details that would be different. They would do that by hand on all basses anyway. The raw necks were machined, and only finished by hand. They had to make a custom (mirrored) pickguard and find some left hand pots, though. But, I do remember it was only the raw neck that was stock/right handed when they started building Paul’s bass. Chris Squire used exactly the same model Rick throughout his career.
I wonder if Pink Floyd’s Lucifer Sam had an influence on Hey Bulldog. Piper was being made at the same time as Pepper. So it wouldn’t surprise me if Sam was an inspiration. They do have similar riffs. 🤔
I don’t think Pauls Rickenbacker was originally a righty, the one he was offered that he turned down was a right handed model, but I believe the one he ended up getting and using was a left handed body that was built with a righty neck which would make more sense
Incredible episode lads! Really enjoyed the deep dive on Hey Bulldog. Really enjoyed learning about how both the Vox conqueror and fender showman were used and how Paul’s dick bass was recorded through DI. Probably wrong on this but for the longest time I believed that both John and George could’ve played the solo together with George on the SG and John on the casino although I reckon yall on the money on the song just having an SGs. On the topic of SGs personally not a fan of them due to the lighter weight and neck dive but definitely dig their sound. Can’t wait for the next one!
I thought the same thing about John and George playing the solos at the same time, similar to Paul and George's harmonised guitars on "And Your Bird Can Sing"
I don’t think Paul’s Ric was originally right handed. As far as the headstock, all left handed Rics had an upside down headstock up until a certain year, in the 80s I think
Hey Bulldog as always been a favorite of mine. Really enjoyed this one, gents! Check my channel (which most of you guys here have done), you'll find my SG Standard '61 with Maestro in a couple of videos. One of my favorite guitars. When I need something right away, I almost always reach for it. I almost always play it for hard and heavier rock.
It’s my understanding that Paul’s 4001 has (had) a harness that was a factory pre wired harness for a righty. When you spin the harness 180 degrees to work in a lefty bass, it renders the switch to be upside down to conventional layout.
Replying to Sam: the "Yellow submarine" LP came out in the UK in mono and stereo. But for some reason, at the time of making the album, the mono master of all the songs was lost. In January 1969, the mono album was a simple fold down of the stereo mixes. Shortly after the album was released, the mono master (with the original mono mixes of all the songs) was found, but it was not used until 2009 (on CD) and 2014 (on vinyl) for the incredible set "The Beatles In Mono". The original mono version is my favorite mix of the song. 99% of the Beatles catalog sounds better in mono.
The video recorded footage the Beatles made for Hey Bulldog was also used for the Lady Madonna single video 📹 📹. Nice you mentioned this habit the Beatles did for their American TV 📺 market/audience. It's a shame Lady Madonna didn't get It's own proper performance on film 🙄
So the Vox Conqueror amp is total solid state…I heard they used this on a few songs on Sgt. Pepper too is that correct? Thanks. I think the solo is GEORGE, a lot of it is pretty complicated and it does not sound like Paul or John to me at all. The chord based nature of it does not sound like Lennon at all he was too Chuck Berry based…Paul usually was trying to be Hendrix!
They used mostly Vox Hybrid on the Sgt. Pepper album, except perhaps on Fixing a Hole where George might have used the Conqueror: it has a midrange-y tone that the Vox Hybrid couldn't really produce.
@@elirosen1391if your talkin about that cool, descending set of distorted guitar notes at the end of the verses in FAH, that is probably my fav recorded guitar tone.
@@elirosen1391 @1rwjwith So the Vox Conqueror amp is total solid state…I heard they used this on a few songs on Sgt. Pepper too is that correct? Thanks. I think the solo is GEORGE, a lot of it is pretty complicated and it does not sound like Paul or John to me at all. The chord based nature of it does not sound like Lennon at all he was too Chuck Berry based…***Paul usually was trying to be Hendrix!****
I have a feeling that George recorded his solo first and during the overdubs, he let John borrow his SG to add a second guitar track. I know the internet doesn't always give good info, but I always see different sources saying John was on lead guitar and George was just guitar. Through the verses, George must have done the rhythm guitar and the short blues riffs were played by John. Anyway, it is just a theory in the end
Yeah that definitely seems possible, I don’t think there’s really a way that we could ever definitively say which of them is playing it, there’s a lot of factors at play with that question on this song
@@GearThereEverywhere I don't think so. Both isolated guitar solo tracks reveal cheering voices in the background belonging to John and Paul which points to George being the player on both tracks. Which kind of makes sense. George developed the solo, recorded once and then just double tracked it.
Sorry, the "Lennon became a good guitar player by 1980" quote is ridiculous. He played some amazing stuff in 1963 on 'Please Please Me' and 'With The Beatles' - rhythm wise and with his chord progressions. He new a lot of different chord shapes and types (some of the younger generation songwriters can dream of). Remember you don't have to be on lead guitar to be a good player and John was far from average even in early Beatles years.
Great episode! im so glad everyone else is cringing at Paul's constant string rants, getting a bit insufferable at this point 😅 would love to hear you guys talk about some music theory/song writing analysis in a future episode. Also Michael, fancy round 2 with Britain? ;)
The red/orange drum head was first used for I am the Walrus in the summer of 67 and now hangs on the wall of Paul’s studio. It can be seen in the Now and Then footage.
Thanks to Peter Jackson, that’s what you see. But that head no longer exists in that form. Peter Jackson digitally edited that head in. The actual head hanging there was the “Suzy and the Red Stripes” head belonging to Linda. You can see this in the Real Love video. The Walrus drum head was painted over solid red in 1968.
*More likely Geoff Emerick's idea to use tea towels, or possibly just Ringo's. Martin was the head honcho in the studio, and certainly pulled his weight in terms of creative contributions, especially with his great arrangements and and nice piano-playing, but did scant engineering, as EMI's regulations rather forbid it; producers weren't even permitted to touch the console - only engineers could (and, of course, the Lads themselves - who eventually had enough juice to tell EMI where to put its daft rules).
When I was 14 in 1979 I started getting into The Beatles, I saved up my pocket money and went to the local record shop, I didn't know what album to buy and ended getting Yellow Submarine, I was really disappointed that side 2 wasn't the Beatles. For me the standout was Hey Bulldog, I've always loved this track. I always thought the solo was Lennon, sounds like his style. It's possible John and George worked it out together. Love the channel guys, started binge watching last night.
Yeah Hey Bulldog is definitely the standout on that album, cool to hear that story about it. Hopefully it didn’t take you too long to save up and get another album! Thanks for watching, we appreciate the support!
I was going to say the same thing did they have flat wounds on their piano s. I love mine. They waited until the round rounds broke to switch to a flat round.
*Question about the song "Girl": * Sorry for the off-topic question but can any of you shed light one what's going on in the drums in the tag of Girl? The currently available drum covers all have instrumental tag the same as the middle 8--just straight unsyncopated kick-snare-kick-snare. But if you listen to the isolated drum stem, there's a massive amount of low frequency stuff that must be kick or floor tom or something. It's like "one and two and a three and four and a" with big splashy backbeats on the crash and stomp hihat. Thanks in advance. And this Hey Bulldog episode looks incredibly cool.
I watched this just for the solo discussion. I've always wanted a definitive answer to this, as I've read it's George but it sounds like John's gritty style to me and not at all like George. Incidentally, John did like to do solos from time to time. He's on record as saying he got bored with just doing rhythm.
Hey, the lads grew up in low middle class society so many of their habits (eating, drinking, and smoking) stuck with them during The Beatles era. You can take them out of Liverpool, but you can't take Liverpool out of them.
Baked beans on toast with a fried egg on top. They liked their ciggies too but surprisingly no beer. Wine, although I think that was Dylan's influence (cheap red) and something else that Bob introduced.
Good call, I’ve since forgotten the difference between them, the U47 has Cardioid and Omni and the U48 has Cardioid and Figure-8, is that right? Are there any other differences?
@@GearThereEverywhereCorrect. Sonic wise, the same other than the capsule design and choice. As the 48 is figure 8, It allowed the Beatles to sing into both sides giving a very different sound than it would with it being in Omni, Normal Smith spoke in great lengths about how he set the room up and got the Fig 8 just right for rejection of the gtrs and drums. A big part of the sound!
Great work as ever. One question though, from the isolated stems is it possible to tell who shouts "Yeah" after the "Big man" line, as it always seems to be attributed to Ringo, but why would he have a vocal mic?
There is that mic over the drums and Ringo was maybe overdubbing the extra snare hits while vocals were being recorded? Definitely a possibility for him to have been captured by that mic
You can't just 'take the cover' off an original Ric Horseshoe Magnet pickup. Those 'covers' are the actual horseshoe magnets that power the pickups. The bobbin is bolted inside them, and the strings actually travel through the magnets and magnetic field. Later, in the 60s, they changed the entire design of those bridge pickups, and they did use some kind of chromed cover (maybe plastic?), to replicate the look. Those horseshoe magnet pickups go all the way back to Ric's original "Frying Pan" lap steel, which was I believe the first true commercially sold electric guitar; and they made similarly designed pickups to amplify fiddles and various other experimental instruments in the 1930s. I routed out a Tele bridge position to fit an original 40s/50s Ric horseshoe magnet pickup, (they are huge), when I made my "CooderCaster"; similar to what Ry Cooder did with his Strats in the late 60s/early 70s; though he used a Supro/Valco lapsteel pickup, which gave him his signature slide guitar sound. His most recent (2020's) version is now using a Ric horseshoe magnet pickup. They sound amazing, especially on a Tele, as the original design concept of the Tele was using Fender's unique one-piece 'pickup mounted directly into the bridge plate assembly' that their very popular lap steels of the 40s used.
Yeah I don’t know if you saw my (Ryan) Gear, There & Everywhere hoodie that I had on in a couple episodes, but we had asked around if hoodies or shirts with the logo are something people would be interested in. Have you got any other ideas for merch you’d like to see? Also make sure to follow the Instagram page where we’ll likely do some polling on this eventually
@@GearThereEverywhere I follow the insta so I will be waiting for that poll! Honestly, T-shirts and hoodies would be cool I think, I would like to buy one. Some people may even like hats…
I completely agree the 2023 remix is very disappointing in so many of the songs. The yellow submarine song track has the best mixes of all of the all the songs on that album. They just blew me away from the first time I heard those mixes.
the Beatles actually recorded quite a bit in Studio Three. lots of Revolver, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Lady Madonna and more. (i’m a bit of a Studio Three fan, since i got to record a song of mine there a few years back. th-cam.com/video/odo2PpiQ8to/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4p2DkFoWt3fUyxtC)
Blows my mind rickenbacker couldn’t just make a proper left handed bass for macca. They didn’t even bother to flip the nut round so the low E kept popping out of the nut slot. What a bunch of arseholes 😂
@@Toobzillaas far as I know. Thats why you see a capo on it during the RS sessions. In the Get Back doc you see it as well before and after he has it stripped and properly setup
isnt it safe to presume that if theres an isolated guitar track & its distorted that its most lkely John. im under the knowledge that george hated anything distorted & that john wanted to distort everything..
@@thomaspappalardo7589 interesting, i thought i had a pretty good handle on who was who in/on the recordings. what examples can you give me, if youd be so kind.
@@Toobzilla Happiness is a Warm Gun, the album version of Let It Be, She Said She Said, Dear Prudence, One After 909 are all instances of George using fuzz/distortion.
@@Toobzilla If the guitar solo of Happiness is a Warm Gun or the album version of Let It Be isn’t considered fuzz, idk what could be lol. For the latter, he was using the Arbiter Fuzz Face, which Hendrix also used.
john handing guitar to george.. well, paul already emasculated the poor bastard by nailing solos in 2 takes that he'd been wrestlin with on his own songs to boot.. mights well be Johns turn now.. its gonna get ugly when ringo starts playin his solo's.. its probably why he didnt work at it for so long.. mid 60'sguitar hero's, non lead guitar players going to bat for his inabilities.. it may have put him in a serious position of self-doubt all magnified by his very own job title...
In Harrisons defense. George had been only been playing guitar for the Beatles in studio, for 3.5 years which included 1966. George had been all to intrenched in learning the sitar. When George picked up the guitar in later 68 he was in back, not to mention that he was totally silky smooth by Abbey Road hate to bust your bubble. Sounds like you are a mundane assclown who only picked coild best pick up dogs life and are totally balless wuss😂
I’m actually not sure what you’re talking about, I don’t think we erased anything. I checked the “held for review” section where TH-cam sometimes puts comments that it deems questionable for whatever reason and didn’t see anything there. What was the comment?
@@MichaelSokil talk about something actual beatles autists wanna hear like a guitar John used once on stage in 1962, not this "yeah that song is good man" shit.
56:38 it was a left handed body with a right handed neck. Check out the head stock.
They also wired the switch backwards
never sleep on gear there and everywhere. you guys make every topic so fun to learn and hear about. there has never been a episode where i have not learned anything
Thanks Isaiah, we appreciate the support!
Love your channel so much!!
Thanks!
Beans on toast - the ultimate comfort chow!
My favorite beatles podcast talks about my favorite beatles song, this is awesome.
Thanks, we appreciate the kind words! Definitely a great song
Really enjoying your show - fantastic research with a nice helping of conjecture. My personal Beatles 'rabbit-hole' was and still is in their fashion(s). For myself, the Hey Bulldog video will always be about George's fantastic burgundy corduroy shoes! Keep up the great work. Milford Derbyshire, UK.
thank you! one of my favorites, one I recommend to first time listeners!
One of my Favorite Beatles tracks, and it almost never happened (it was a film session for Lady Madonna). Thanks for the deep dive guys! So glad I found your channel- you might be more obsessed with The Beatles than I am- that’s sayin’ something!
I grew up with these songs, contemporaneously. The soundtrack of my youth is now yours! 🤗👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
On Paul’s 4001: I read in the early 90’s (I think in Bassplayer Magazine) that only the neck of the 4001 started out as a righty before the bass was built.
They used to make these neck through necks totally separate from the two body wings and kept them in stock.
They weren’t going to built Paul a lefty neck: too much hustle.
To get him two lefty body wings was fairly easy, because the raw cuts out of the wood used would be 100% identical for left and right handed instruments on the 4001 when they start building a bass. It’s just the final curves and finishing the details that would be different. They would do that by hand on all basses anyway.
The raw necks were machined, and only finished by hand.
They had to make a custom (mirrored) pickguard and find some left hand pots, though.
But, I do remember it was only the raw neck that was stock/right handed when they started building Paul’s bass.
Chris Squire used exactly the same model Rick throughout his career.
I wonder if Pink Floyd’s Lucifer Sam had an influence on Hey Bulldog.
Piper was being made at the same time as Pepper. So it wouldn’t
surprise me if Sam was an inspiration. They do have similar riffs.
🤔
I don’t think Pauls Rickenbacker was originally a righty, the one he was offered that he turned down was a right handed model, but I believe the one he ended up getting and using was a left handed body that was built with a righty neck which would make more sense
You guys are just amazing!!
Incredible episode lads! Really enjoyed the deep dive on Hey Bulldog. Really enjoyed learning about how both the Vox conqueror and fender showman were used and how Paul’s dick bass was recorded through DI. Probably wrong on this but for the longest time I believed that both John and George could’ve played the solo together with George on the SG and John on the casino although I reckon yall on the money on the song just having an SGs. On the topic of SGs personally not a fan of them due to the lighter weight and neck dive but definitely dig their sound. Can’t wait for the next one!
I thought the same thing about John and George playing the solos at the same time, similar to Paul and George's harmonised guitars on "And Your Bird Can Sing"
I think you meant Paul's *Rick* bass haha
@@mr_bassman6685 yeah was wondering when someone would notice that lol.
I need that "stamp out the beatles" shirt
As a Clapton fan I own a replica of his 1964 "Fool" SG
I don’t think Paul’s Ric was originally right handed. As far as the headstock, all left handed Rics had an upside down headstock up until a certain year, in the 80s I think
I’ve been running a wound G on SG’s for decades. Helps so much with intonation
One of my all time Beatle faves...love it!
Really great podcast ! Waiting for a revolver guitar sound episode !
Cheers form France
Thanks!
On the horseshoe cover thing, you can’t take it off on the original 4001s. Those are the magnets for the pickup.
"Hey Bulldog" was the song that got me into the Beatles! Heard it in music class when we watched Yellow Submarine.
Hey Bulldog as always been a favorite of mine. Really enjoyed this one, gents! Check my channel (which most of you guys here have done), you'll find my SG Standard '61 with Maestro in a couple of videos. One of my favorite guitars. When I need something right away, I almost always reach for it. I almost always play it for hard and heavier rock.
It’s my understanding that Paul’s 4001 has (had) a harness that was a factory pre wired harness for a righty. When you spin the harness 180 degrees to work in a lefty bass, it renders the switch to be upside down to conventional layout.
Replying to Sam: the "Yellow submarine" LP came out in the UK in mono and stereo. But for some reason, at the time of making the album, the mono master of all the songs was lost. In January 1969, the mono album was a simple fold down of the stereo mixes. Shortly after the album was released, the mono master (with the original mono mixes of all the songs) was found, but it was not used until 2009 (on CD) and 2014 (on vinyl) for the incredible set "The Beatles In Mono". The original mono version is my favorite mix of the song. 99% of the Beatles catalog sounds better in mono.
The video recorded footage the Beatles made for Hey Bulldog was also used for the Lady Madonna single video 📹 📹. Nice you mentioned this habit the Beatles did for their American TV 📺 market/audience. It's a shame Lady Madonna didn't get It's own proper performance on film 🙄
Recording the beatles book suggests Paul did use amp for bass mic'd with an AKG C12
If you listen to the isolated bass track you can listen to the drums leaking into the mic clearly...
I can't see John or George being able to come up with this solo, and then play it the same a second time. Paul's style is pretty distinctive to me.
So the Vox Conqueror amp is total solid state…I heard they used this on a few songs on Sgt. Pepper too is that correct? Thanks.
I think the solo is GEORGE, a lot of it is pretty complicated and it does not sound like Paul or John to me at all. The chord based nature of it does not sound like Lennon at all he was too Chuck Berry based…Paul usually was trying to be Hendrix!
They used mostly Vox Hybrid on the Sgt. Pepper album, except perhaps on Fixing a Hole where George might have used the Conqueror: it has a midrange-y tone that the Vox Hybrid couldn't really produce.
@@elirosen1391if your talkin about that cool, descending set of distorted guitar notes at the end of the verses in FAH, that is probably my fav recorded guitar tone.
he was exactly like Hendrix, left-handed. lol
@@Toobzilla No George was right hand. Paul was the lefty.
@@elirosen1391
@1rwjwith
So the Vox Conqueror amp is total solid state…I heard they used this on a few songs on Sgt. Pepper too is that correct? Thanks.
I think the solo is GEORGE, a lot of it is pretty complicated and it does not sound like Paul or John to me at all. The chord based nature of it does not sound like Lennon at all he was too Chuck Berry based…***Paul usually was trying to be Hendrix!****
I have a feeling that George recorded his solo first and during the overdubs, he let John borrow his SG to add a second guitar track.
I know the internet doesn't always give good info, but I always see different sources saying John was on lead guitar and George was just guitar. Through the verses, George must have done the rhythm guitar and the short blues riffs were played by John.
Anyway, it is just a theory in the end
Yeah that definitely seems possible, I don’t think there’s really a way that we could ever definitively say which of them is playing it, there’s a lot of factors at play with that question on this song
@@GearThereEverywhere I don't think so. Both isolated guitar solo tracks reveal cheering voices in the background belonging to John and Paul which points to George being the player on both tracks. Which kind of makes sense. George developed the solo, recorded once and then just double tracked it.
Glad you guys found my video useful! :) Great analysis
Yeah, thanks for putting that together, love your channel!
your video is incredible!
Sorry, the "Lennon became a good guitar player by 1980" quote is ridiculous. He played some amazing stuff in 1963 on 'Please Please Me' and 'With The Beatles' - rhythm wise and with his chord progressions. He new a lot of different chord shapes and types (some of the younger generation songwriters can dream of). Remember you don't have to be on lead guitar to be a good player and John was far from average even in early Beatles years.
His rhythm playing on all my loving is amazing too.
Even I Feel Fine is an amazing rhythmic lead, and is not considered particularly easy
In whose book?
Well said
“All My Lovin’” is a workout for any guitarist. It’s non-stop.
Great episode! im so glad everyone else is cringing at Paul's constant string rants, getting a bit insufferable at this point 😅 would love to hear you guys talk about some music theory/song writing analysis in a future episode. Also Michael, fancy round 2 with Britain? ;)
There is also a true mono mix on 2009 mono masters that sounds great!!
I wonder if they used Studio 3 because they might have thought it'd be better for the music video.
The red/orange drum head was first used for I am the Walrus in the summer of 67 and now hangs on the wall of Paul’s studio. It can be seen in the Now and Then footage.
Thanks to Peter Jackson, that’s what you see. But that head no longer exists in that form. Peter Jackson digitally edited that head in. The actual head hanging there was the “Suzy and the Red Stripes” head belonging to Linda. You can see this in the Real Love video.
The Walrus drum head was painted over solid red in 1968.
@@bobbelloff4588 And the head has apparently been missing since 1968, believed lost.
What a great video have a wonderful day also have you enjoyed playing guitar ❤😊
Thanks!
*More likely Geoff Emerick's idea to use tea towels, or possibly just Ringo's.
Martin was the head honcho in the studio, and certainly pulled his weight in terms of creative contributions, especially with his great arrangements and and nice piano-playing, but did scant engineering, as EMI's regulations rather forbid it; producers weren't even permitted to touch the console - only engineers could (and, of course, the Lads themselves - who eventually had enough juice to tell EMI where to put its daft rules).
When I was 14 in 1979 I started getting into The Beatles, I saved up my pocket money and went to the local record shop, I didn't know what album to buy and ended getting Yellow Submarine, I was really disappointed that side 2 wasn't the Beatles. For me the standout was Hey Bulldog, I've always loved this track. I always thought the solo was Lennon, sounds like his style. It's possible John and George worked it out together. Love the channel guys, started binge watching last night.
Yeah Hey Bulldog is definitely the standout on that album, cool to hear that story about it. Hopefully it didn’t take you too long to save up and get another album! Thanks for watching, we appreciate the support!
I was going to say the same thing did they have flat wounds on their piano s.
I love mine.
They waited until the round rounds broke to switch to a flat round.
*Question about the song "Girl": * Sorry for the off-topic question but can any of you shed light one what's going on in the drums in the tag of Girl? The currently available drum covers all have instrumental tag the same as the middle 8--just straight unsyncopated kick-snare-kick-snare. But if you listen to the isolated drum stem, there's a massive amount of low frequency stuff that must be kick or floor tom or something. It's like "one and two and a three and four and a" with big splashy backbeats on the crash and stomp hihat. Thanks in advance. And this Hey Bulldog episode looks incredibly cool.
I have an SG Classic (the one with the P90s). It's great, but it does sound quite a bit different from a standard.
This video is incomplete. What brand of tea towels was Ringo draping over his drums?
That was a good take. Especially all by yourself.
I watched this just for the solo discussion. I've always wanted a definitive answer to this, as I've read it's George but it sounds like John's gritty style to me and not at all like George. Incidentally, John did like to do solos from time to time. He's on record as saying he got bored with just doing rhythm.
Hey, the lads grew up in low middle class society so many of their habits (eating, drinking, and smoking) stuck with them during The Beatles era. You can take them out of Liverpool, but you can't take Liverpool out of them.
Baked beans on toast with a fried egg on top. They liked their ciggies too but surprisingly no beer. Wine, although I think that was Dylan's influence (cheap red) and something else that Bob introduced.
Wikipedia has a source that claims Lennon played the solo on the SG 🤷♂️
I always assumed it was Harrison, and frankly, still do
Do you guys ever plan to dedicate an episode to the Vox Conqueror?
Man, thats a deeep dive...
Love the show.. Just a note, Abbey Road used at the time U48s not U47s.
Good call, I’ve since forgotten the difference between them, the U47 has Cardioid and Omni and the U48 has Cardioid and Figure-8, is that right? Are there any other differences?
@@GearThereEverywhereCorrect. Sonic wise, the same other than the capsule design and choice. As the 48 is figure 8, It allowed the Beatles to sing into both sides giving a very different sound than it would with it being in Omni, Normal Smith spoke in great lengths about how he set the room up and got the Fig 8 just right for rejection of the gtrs and drums. A big part of the sound!
Great work as ever. One question though, from the isolated stems is it possible to tell who shouts "Yeah" after the "Big man" line, as it always seems to be attributed to Ringo, but why would he have a vocal mic?
There is that mic over the drums and Ringo was maybe overdubbing the extra snare hits while vocals were being recorded? Definitely a possibility for him to have been captured by that mic
@@GearThereEverywhere that would make sense, thanks
It's definitely Paul.
You can't just 'take the cover' off an original Ric Horseshoe Magnet pickup. Those 'covers' are the actual horseshoe magnets that power the pickups. The bobbin is bolted inside them, and the strings actually travel through the magnets and magnetic field. Later, in the 60s, they changed the entire design of those bridge pickups, and they did use some kind of chromed cover (maybe plastic?), to replicate the look. Those horseshoe magnet pickups go all the way back to Ric's original "Frying Pan" lap steel, which was I believe the first true commercially sold electric guitar; and they made similarly designed pickups to amplify fiddles and various other experimental instruments in the 1930s.
I routed out a Tele bridge position to fit an original 40s/50s Ric horseshoe magnet pickup, (they are huge), when I made my "CooderCaster"; similar to what Ry Cooder did with his Strats in the late 60s/early 70s; though he used a Supro/Valco lapsteel pickup, which gave him his signature slide guitar sound. His most recent (2020's) version is now using a Ric horseshoe magnet pickup. They sound amazing, especially on a Tele, as the original design concept of the Tele was using Fender's unique one-piece 'pickup mounted directly into the bridge plate assembly' that their very popular lap steels of the 40s used.
We hope your friend feels better soon, Mike.
Great episode! You guys ever thought about doing merch?
Yeah I don’t know if you saw my (Ryan) Gear, There & Everywhere hoodie that I had on in a couple episodes, but we had asked around if hoodies or shirts with the logo are something people would be interested in. Have you got any other ideas for merch you’d like to see?
Also make sure to follow the Instagram page where we’ll likely do some polling on this eventually
@@GearThereEverywhere I follow the insta so I will be waiting for that poll! Honestly, T-shirts and hoodies would be cool I think, I would like to buy one. Some people may even like hats…
I know they had there own rand of strings. I do notremember who made them.
I liked the 69 version! Peace and Love!
Wow you guys really nerd out on this stuff huh ? I like it
Was Paul’s chomping meant to sound like a dog eating?
Maybe? Who knows, we were joking that it was a callback to Paul chomping celery on the Beach Boys song Vegetables
Not chomping. It's something scraping on wood. No one can chomp that consistently.
I completely agree the 2023 remix is very disappointing in so many of the songs. The yellow submarine song track has the best mixes of all of the all the songs on that album. They just blew me away from the first time I heard those mixes.
Agree 100%
This was the last session *without* Yoko.
the Beatles actually recorded quite a bit in Studio Three. lots of Revolver, Yellow Submarine, Magical Mystery Tour, Lady Madonna and more. (i’m a bit of a Studio Three fan, since i got to record a song of mine there a few years back. th-cam.com/video/odo2PpiQ8to/w-d-xo.htmlsi=4p2DkFoWt3fUyxtC)
Blackface Showman was 85 watts, not 40
Dom you said you are born in 2001?
You couldn’t call out for pizza in the U.K. in 1968.
George's guitar solos always loop back and resolve. Paul's solos are spastic or discordant.
Not to mention that George's note choices and tonics, especially the end of phases
Blows my mind rickenbacker couldn’t just make a proper left handed bass for macca. They didn’t even bother to flip the nut round so the low E kept popping out of the nut slot. What a bunch of arseholes 😂
@@blairhatton3066 for real?
@@Toobzillaas far as I know. Thats why you see a capo on it during the RS sessions. In the Get Back doc you see it as well before and after he has it stripped and properly setup
isnt it safe to presume that if theres an isolated guitar track & its distorted that its most lkely John. im under the knowledge that george hated anything distorted & that john wanted to distort everything..
That’s demonstrably false. There’s plenty of George guitar work with fuzz.
@@thomaspappalardo7589 interesting, i thought i had a pretty good handle on who was who in/on the recordings. what examples can you give me, if youd be so kind.
@@Toobzilla Happiness is a Warm Gun, the album version of Let It Be, She Said She Said, Dear Prudence, One After 909 are all instances of George using fuzz/distortion.
@@thomaspappalardo7589 i see. we have very differing ideas on the description of "FUZZ". no harm, no foul. thanks for the input.
@@Toobzilla If the guitar solo of Happiness is a Warm Gun or the album version of Let It Be isn’t considered fuzz, idk what could be lol. For the latter, he was using the Arbiter Fuzz Face, which Hendrix also used.
lol who’s on the couch???
Someone very comfortable
Michael is bouta put our country in another war with Britain after him insulting their horrible cuisine
they know what they did
@@MichaelSokil 😳
john handing guitar to george.. well, paul already emasculated the poor bastard by nailing solos in 2 takes that he'd been wrestlin with on his own songs to boot.. mights well be Johns turn now.. its gonna get ugly when ringo starts playin his solo's.. its probably why he didnt work at it for so long.. mid 60'sguitar hero's, non lead guitar players going to bat for his inabilities.. it may have put him in a serious position of self-doubt all magnified by his very own job title...
In Harrisons defense. George had been only been playing guitar for the Beatles in studio, for 3.5 years which included 1966. George had been all to intrenched in learning the sitar. When George picked up the guitar in later 68 he was in back, not to mention that he was totally silky smooth by Abbey Road hate to bust your bubble. Sounds like you are a mundane assclown who only picked coild best pick up dogs life and are totally balless wuss😂
You erased my Stamp Out sweatshirt comment? Are you that sensitive?
I’m actually not sure what you’re talking about, I don’t think we erased anything. I checked the “held for review” section where TH-cam sometimes puts comments that it deems questionable for whatever reason and didn’t see anything there. What was the comment?
I am that sensitive yes
@@GearThereEverywhere I mentioned I made that sweatshirt and thanked him. It was made from scanning Brian Epstein’s sweatshirt.
Anybody else remember when this show was about gear
We spend 90% of the episode talking about guitars, basses, amplifiers and mics. Did you disassociate or something
@MichaelSokil I love it. Keep up the good work. Oh, and by the way, don't you guys eat beans on toast?
for most of the video they talk about strings guitars microphones and amps😭💀
@@MichaelSokil talk about something actual beatles autists wanna hear like a guitar John used once on stage in 1962, not this "yeah that song is good man" shit.
Missed your nap?@@cameronphlodge1293