John Lennon - who played lead guitar on Let It Be was it Lennon????????
Gordon McPherson
the Jan31st recording but Lennon overdubbed his guitar solo on after.
I know of three versions of Let It Be but the question is did Lennon
play the lead guitar solo on any of them? - please can someone provide
the definitive answer even if it means I lose the bet!!!!!!!
regards and thanks
Gordon McPherson
KavisD
the released versions (single mix and album mix - two different solos
recorded at different times by the same guy - George).
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HoundOfHell666
too sure if John played lead at all but I will have to check my Complete
Recordings book when I can find it.
BTW George plays so goddamn emotionally that no one who's played with Paul
could do that lead justice.
I get the chills every time I hear either record.
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KavisD
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> On both released versions, the great George Harrison played the lead. I'm
not
> too sure if John played lead at all but I will have to check my Complete
> Recordings book when I can find it.
John did play lead on a number of Beatle recordings over the years, but
during Get Back, it was pretty much all Harrison (except on For You Blue).
>
> BTW George plays so goddamn emotionally that no one who's played with Paul
> could do that lead justice.
> I get the chills every time I hear either record.
>
He certainly did improve in those later years. The early Beatle stuff had
him sticking to simpler solos because he'd be mucking them up a few times
(if you listen to alternate takes of Can't Buy Me Love and A Hard Day's
Night for instance, you'll see what I mean).
HoundOfHell666
John played the lead on the song Get Back
Donz5
John plays Paul's bass on "Let It Be." No further contribution from him on this
track.
KavisD
> >during Get Back, it was pretty much all Harrison (except on For You
Blue).
>
> John played the lead on the song Get Back
>
My bad - he sure did.
KavisD
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Hey - don't forget his 'ooohs' on that track too... ;>)
revolver
.It's very cool to watch him on his Epiphone Casino during the rooftop
performance cranking out that bit during the song.
Andy
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Gordon McPherson
For me the rougher sounding solo sounds more like Lennon in style or
dare I say even more like Macartney - I also vaguely remember Lennon
being asked whether he prefers Harrisons playing to his own - to which
he replied that he prefered his own I also think he mentioned solos on
Let It Be - this might have been a dream but I'm interested to hear if
anyone remembers such a quote .
Donz5
>For me the rougher sounding solo sounds more like Lennon in style or
>dare I say even more like Macartney
To repeat yet again -- George plays all of the lead (both "live" and
overdubbed) on the song "Let It Be."
Multicolored Mirror
I'm sorry but I once read a book, I can't remember the title, author,
publisher or year, but I remember seeing it, I think. It unequivocably
states in no uncertain terms that Andy White played ONE of the three, with
Pete Best and Allen Klein playing the other two leads.
There is a boot called "Fab-rication" ('78 vinyl only) that features a
workup of LIB with all three leads at once.
The effect is, to be sure, mind-blowing.
;--)
Donz5
>I'm sorry but I once read a book, I can't remember the title, author,
>publisher or year, but I remember seeing it, I think. It unequivocably
>states in no uncertain terms that Andy White played ONE of the three, with
>Pete Best and Allen Klein playing the other two leads.
It was Betty White, you ignorant fool.
:)
Multicolored Mirror
You're right, shame on me.
It was produced by Sonny Bono by the way.
Donz5
>It was produced by Sonny Bono by the way.
Where do you get your "facts?" It was Sonny Liston.
Multicolored Mirror
> "Multicolored Mirror" odor...@bolt.com wrote:
>
> >It was produced by Sonny Bono by the way.
>
> Where do you get your "facts?" It was Sonny Liston.
I happen to have the world renowned "16" magazine right here (a contemporary
account even!) and Gloria Stavers told me that it was Sonny BONO. Sonny
Liston only engineered, but Bono was the Producer.
I am sorry I have to spank you in public like this but I cannot stand to see
true facts go unreported.
I'm almost afraid to ask who designed the sleeve for it?
Donz5
>I'm almost afraid to ask who designed the sleeve for it?
He's credited on the bottom right -- the Beatles' old Hamburg buddy Klaus
Santa.
Multicolored Mirror
Ahhh...he is pretty avant garde....but why in the world would he have
thought we'd ever want to gaze at a picture of a nude Ethel Merman in
1966...<shudder> ...???
Donz5
>> He's credited on the bottom right -- the Beatles' old Hamburg buddy Klaus
>> Santa.
>Ahhh...he is pretty avant garde....but why in the world would he have
>thought we'd ever want to gaze at a picture of a nude Ethel Merman in
>1966...<shudder> ...???
You're referring to that cover shot on "Two Versions?"
KavisD
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And I read in another book (I think it was by a Cunter Rabies) that Pretty
Purdie played the album mix's solo as well as a violin solo that has yet to
surface from the January 3, 1970 sessions. They even had him play with his
organ part overtop of Billy Preston's. ;>)
KavisD
Ah yes - Jean Lemon's first experimental piece. He would then go on to
record the equally avant garde track 'Renovation Number 9' for the Fright
Album in 1968 and a half. Ethel and Beatle Jorje Harisantos also helped
with the recording of that track.
Donz5
>They even had him play with his
>organ part overtop of Billy Preston's. ;>)
Considering that little legal problem Billy got himself into in the mid-90s, I
think Purdie should have kept his organ part far away from him. :)
KavisD
I think they were doing an early version of 'Duelling Banjos' entitled
'Duelling Organs'.
Barb Atkinson
Gordon McPherson
Please forgive me!!!!!
mmon...@lausd.net
Kaili
> What, in any of the previous Beatles recordings, would lead you to believe that John COULD have played that lead?
RichL
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was George, but about it being way beyond John's ability. It's not that
difficult.
BlackMonk
wanted to sound like, not what he had to sound like.
RichL
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the first solo on "Long Tall Sally".
zippl...@gmail.com
who played lead on the single, and John who played it on the album version.
I can't remember where I read it. Don't believe John wasn't capable of
playing it. As you said, it's not that difficult.
IBen Getiner
> I have a £20 bet resting on this - I beleive that Harrison played on
> the Jan31st recording but Lennon overdubbed his guitar solo on after.
> I know of three versions of Let It Be but the question is did Lennon
> play the lead guitar solo on any of them? - please can someone provide
> the definitive answer even if it means I lose the bet!!!!!!!
> regards and thanks
> Gordon McPherson
IBen Getiner
abeslaney
> Lennon played the 6-string fender bass guitar on this song. A baritone guitar, actually. He never played a lick of lead in his life except on For You Blue. And on the tail-end of The End, some would say...
Can't Do That", he doubled the lead on the "Nowhere Man" solo, he played
lead on "Get Back", and it's arguable that he also played the lead
guitar on "Honey Pie" and "Hey, Bulldog". And I'm probably forgetting
others.
Nil
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> He also played the first lead on "Long Tall Sally", the solo on
> "You Can't Do That", he doubled the lead on the "Nowhere Man"
> solo, he played lead on "Get Back", and it's arguable that he also
> played the lead guitar on "Honey Pie" and "Hey, Bulldog". And I'm
> probably forgetting others.
John.
I've always thought "Bulldog" was John, and I still do. I admit that
it's fancier pickin' for than usual for him, but it reminds me more of
his style than George's.
dracul...@gmail.com
> I have a £20 bet resting on this - I beleive that Harrison played on
> the Jan31st recording but Lennon overdubbed his guitar solo on after.
> I know of three versions of Let It Be but the question is did Lennon
> play the lead guitar solo on any of them? - please can someone provide
> the definitive answer even if it means I lose the bet!!!!!!!
> regards and thanks
> Gordon McPherson
zippl...@gmail.com
and Lennon played the solo on the album version.
BlackMonk
Lennon played the solo on "Get Back."
zippl...@gmail.com
album version was to please John. I don't remember where I read it though.
BlackMonk
sent that post. It's not true, though. George played both.
zippl...@gmail.com
the guitar solo on the album version of Let it Be? Does anyone have that book?
M C hammered
I bleave your tung of slipped.
Do you think you want to rephrase that, laddie?
Cuz John, JOHN freakin LEBBINS, our blovered genius, our Two Virgins, Life wid da Lions, Sometime in New Yoke, Starterin Ova John, aint zackerly been knowed ta make mistakes.
Lets not fergit, he was WIFE (mmmMMmm, marriage, so sakerit an mistercle) ta Yoko Ono. Baked bread, kneadered da doe, an out ploppered lispy high pitched Sean da macho man.
Nuff said
PS - John made no mistakes. Ebba.
Nuff said
PCP - karmas watcherin. So be cayafulls whatcha say.
Nuff said
Marcus
> I think it was Peter Brown's book "The Love You Make" where I read that John played
> the guitar solo on the album version of Let it Be? Does anyone have that book?
"Peter Brown, who is not an established writer, did not want his story to be ghost-written, therefore the more experienced Steven Gaines helped him produce a rather slick and professional package which ranges from hitherto unrevealed facts about the Fab four to irresponsible gossip, both of which are hard to distinguish from the other throughout most of the book."
zippl...@gmail.com
> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 12:42:34 PM UTC-4, zippl...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I think it was Peter Brown's book "The Love You Make" where I read that John played
> > the guitar solo on the album version of Let it Be? Does anyone have that book?
>
> I have that book, Jeff, and I've given it a look over. I can't find anything about the "Get Back" song at all.
However, I made a discovery. Folded inside the front jacket of the book was a piece of paper with a typewritten partial review of the book. At first, I couldn't tell who had typed it, but it was me. I no longer write in that style any more with fifty-plus word long descriptive sentences. I'm much more concise today. Anyway, it looks like I was typing the review for a newspaper or magazine(I have absolutely no memory of doing it), but I don't think it ever appeared in print. This was 1983. Apparently, I wasn't too fond of the book. Here's an excerpt from the would be review:
>
> "Peter Brown, who is not an established writer, did not want his story to be ghost-written, therefore the more experienced Steven Gaines helped him produce a rather slick and professional package which ranges from hitherto unrevealed facts about the Fab four to irresponsible gossip, both of which are hard to distinguish from the other throughout most of the book."
about him. Have since heard that most of what was written in both books weren't
true. I remember enjoying both books but can't remember much about either of them.
Marcus
Marcus
I've been browsing through the book today. It is truly terrible, just full of gossips and half-truths. This illustrates what I've said here many times. That there are many people who have formed their opinions about the individual Beatles based on shit books like that one.
zippl...@gmail.com
M C hammered
Nuff said
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