THE BEATLES SIGNATURE LICKS
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Click on a guitar and you'll hear a cool audio track
demonstrating a particular Beatle guitar tone.
Please don't drool on your computer!
L to R: Rickenbacker
12-string, Epiphone Casino, Gretsch Country Gentleman
and Gretsch Nashville, Rickenbacker 325, and Fender
Stratocaster.
Back row: Vox 50 watt head with
MRB! Two Vox AC-30's.
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There are several auspicious historical and sonic points about "You Can't Do That." Recorded on February 25, 1964, it was the first time George Harrison played his brand new Rickenbacker 12-string on a Beatle song. It was a focal point and signature guitar of many future Beatle classics as "A Hard Day's Night'" "If I Needed Someone," "Ticket To Ride," and countless others.George Harrison's brief, song-oriented guitar solo in "All My Loving" is a mini-masterpiece of early Beatle guitarwork. In it he adopted a Chet Atkins-inspired country guitar approach, exploiting his familiar pick-and-finger articulation and parallel double stops as a deliberate theme. He also employed the twangy tone of his familiar Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman guitar for a bonafide rockabilly/country result.
When the Beatles were in the studio recording Help!, Fender sent both John Lennon and George Harrison matching Sonic Blue Stratocasters. George first played his on "You're Going To Lose That Girl." On "Nowhere Man," both John and George played their Strats together. The bright, sparkling tone made it an ideal Beatle guitar, as evidenced by Harrison's memorable, ringing chord-melody solo.
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