On Apr 24, 9:18=A0am, eviltimeban <r_cros...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> One thing I've noticed having listened to quite a lot of Get Back
> tapes and outtakes etc, is that the instruments generally sound pretty
> bad. Paul's bass, because its the old Hofner, is light and thuddy with
> no real bass end. John's guitar has the same muffled tone throughout
> the whole sessions, Ringo's drums are flat and dead sounding, and
> George just will not get off his wah wah pedal.
>
> I wonder how they could've thought what they were playing sounded
> good. Or maybe they didn't. If the live concert had gone ahead, would
> it have been a mess? Or would they have pulled it together like on the
> rooftop?
>
> For musicians with multiple guitars etc, its a wonder they didn't try
> out different sounds for different songs. Or at least tell George to
> give the wah wah a rest for about five minutes! Its only when they get
> on the pianos and acoustic do things start to sound nice, certainly in
> Twickenham; at Apple the electric stuff didn't sound too bad.
>
> Just my random thoughts this morning...!
It was not George on the Wah-wah pedal, it was John. In George's Book
"I Me Mine" he wrote that his irritation with it was akin to a
headache! ...'You're giving me a wah-wah'. But there was a nostalgic
line it sung about John as well...'And I am thinking of you, and all
the things that we used to do.'
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