the Beatles - 12 Bar Original Jam (1965 Mono Mix)

[DazedConfused1969]

Wow it's rare to hear Beatles doing the blues, reminds me of Bluesbreakers, stuff like that

[tomthefunky]

They are doing a Booker T and the MG's style jam. The lead guitar is in the style of Steve Cropper.

[mclovin1876]

word

[Mikelan082]

We know that it is none of the Beatles playing the Harmonium on this track,even though John is Playing the Harmonium on "We can Work it out".It could be Mal Evan or Neil Aspinelli he was in the studio alot back then.Then the Beatle's recorded this to pass time by.The Beatles recorded instrumental Jams on June 1-2 1967 to pass time by according to Mark Lewisohns book.The were tapes full of instrumental jams.

[RonaldVaughan]

Just heard this on Les Perry's "Meet The Beatles" (KCSN) and I couldn't believe

my ears....think he also has a George Harrison station I.D. for his show,too!

[RockandRollFan1991]

John Lennon - rhythm guitar (1961 Fender Stratocaster)

George Harrison - slide pedal steel guitar (1961 Fender Stratocaster with fuzz)

Paul McCartney - bass guitar (1964 Rickenbacker 4001S or 1962 Hofner Beatle Bass)

Ringo Starr - drums

George Martin - harmonium

[ywba]

@RockandRollFan1991 the Hofner Beatle Bass you're talking about must be from 1963. The first Hofner, used in the Cavern, was purchased in 1961 at Hamburg's Steinway Musichaus. The second, which Paul still uses to this day, was given from Hofner to Paul in 1963, and it was first used for Ready, Steady, Go! broadcast on October 4. This song was recorded on November 4; but the Rick was first used for Think For Yourself, November 8. Oh, and John was also playing lead here, not rhythm.

[RockandRollFan1991]

@ywba A recurring riff as rhythm

[HempForPresident]

I love these obscure musical treasures! Great upload, thanks!

[RingoDude66]

This is a nice blues song! It's amazing!!

It sounds like a piece of "The Blues Brothers"

[Mikelan082]

Geoge Martin is playing the Harmonium,John and George is playing lead.George is playing the guitar through a tone and volume pedal.This is the first song with John and George exchanging solo's.The first in history with the exception of Mike Bloomfiend and Stephen Bishop in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

[awaggenspack]

Ah, makes sense that it would be George Martin. It still sounds a bit rough for him though, but I'll take your word. It is definitely definitely definitely not the first example of solo trading in history though. Any blues or jazz band worth their salt would do the same thing at this time. In fact, it used to be called 'trading fours' because bluesmen always played in 4/4.

[lakefloor]

@awaggenspack The recording sheets do state that it is George Martin playing harmonium. However, the harmonium sounds terrible and very amaturish and George Martin is an awesome keyboard player which always made me suspect that it was Mal Evans playing and that the documentation was incorrect. I can't picture Martin sounding like this, it doesn't make sense. Mal Evans did play on Rubber Soul which was recorded around this period.

[awaggenspack]

@lakefloor Nice. That would make far more sense to me too.

[MrGeorgecave]

@lakefloor wow, you

 guys are so cool

[kidcalabria]

@awaggenspack In 1966 The Yardbirds had twin lead guitars (Jeff Beck & Jimmy Page) but they recorded very little with that line-up: the Happenings 10 Years Time Ago/Psycho Daisies single, Stroll On in the classic Antonioni film Blow Up, and a bootleg recording of their cover of The Velvet Undeground's I'm Waiting For The Man. The MC5's Wayne Kramer & Fred 'Sonic' Smith had a similar twin guitar thing going, later on, round 1967/68/69... just for the record. Thanks for posting this

[Lefthandbadass]

Great to finally hear the full version instead of the butchered Anthology one. This is so much better as you can hear it buliding up, The soul of it has disappeared on the Anthology version.

[beatlesuploader13000]

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