Clapton's Guitar - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

[jsilence418]

Awesome really, E.C. playing Harrisons Les Paul standard !!

[theo9028]

WOW!!!!!

[23zoid]

Awesome as hell !!

[misterdirtyknees]

Well...That was tasty.

[nathanspyro]

i lkove the beatles song S2

[dutchgoing]

I can't hear a Leslie there at all, slight phasing as you would get with ADT. I did read a story about the assistant being told to 'wobble the oscillator' on playback to give the lead part a more Bealtes sound. If you used flanging with tape machines it would sound a great deal more golden and jangly than this does.

[ZumMeme]

Que obra de arte caray

[davi2011]

I don't understand why you guys are so toughtful about which guitar, amp and whatever he was using. Gear is 1% of a guitar player's sound, the rest is on his hands.

[gnossticc]

@davi2011 Well, there are some guitar and gear that can produce a special unique sound and in the hands of an expert it's a plus. That's why.

[DeFreezeMePlease]

@davi2011 Yes very true, but still It's interesting to know what exactly was done on the technical side? These are some of the greatest songs of all time... You don't think hardcore Beatles fans, like myself, would be interested in such a gem as this? It really shows you what went on in the studio. I know there have been countless times I would be listening to a Beatles song, and I would hear something happening that I couldn't explain. This is just a window into what was happening!!

[Porchduck]

Woah! That track immensley simplifies the learning of that lead!

Golden indeed!

[MonkeySeeism]

These old analog 4 & 8 track master recordings are like a gift now. Thank god they didn't have all the tools artists have now to "fix" things. This stuff is golden.

[pica1dilly]

Amazing ! How did you do it ?

Actually, the Les Paul EC played was not a Standard but a 57 Gold Top refinished by Rick Derringer - who gave it to Clapton.

The capital mystery because it doesn't show up in any studio log and both EC and George said they didn't remember..

What amp is EC playing through ?

Did the beatles have any amp in the studio that day (Fender and Vox) that could match what we hear ?

Or is it safe to assume that he played through his Marshall Bluesbreaker ?

[jroc924]

@pica1dilly you can here the leslie open up at 3:04 that tremolo sound is a leslie (probably a 122 or 147) on slow through most of the song, and at 3:04 it opens up. They may have run a couple effects, but odds are back then they just run the guitar through a preamp into the leslie and let the 6550's scream.

[bloeddorstigbeest]

@jroc924 Mark Lewisohn, who did the Beatles session book has the engineers say they manually handled the oscillators when mixing the record. this means that there is no leslie in the original recording but that the sound we have today was created at the mixing console.

[jroc924]

@bloeddorstigbeest , "But listening to the playback, the ex-Yardbird decided the result "wasn't Beatle-y enough," so the solo was run through the Leslie rotating speaker of the Hammond B-3 organ cabinet, an effect the lads had been using at least as far back as "Tomorrow Never Knows." That same day, the remaining vocal and instrumental tracks were laid down."

[jroc924]

They ran the the tape back into the ADT (automatic double track) and then ran that through the leslie, so yes it was post mix, however they still used a leslie to get that effect.

[bloeddorstigbeest]

@jroc924 you're right. I wrote it down as I remembered but you're right.

[DavidRavenMoon]

@bloeddorstigbeest Right, they were doing like manual flanging with a second machine, and he grabbed the tape reel and wobbled it to get the guitar extra shaky.

[bsleeman7]

Found the multitrack recording online, and then it was just a matter of splitting them up. Do a little searching and you can find a bunch of them...

[MrDanteTube]

@bsleeman7 How do you split them up?? Do you use a specific program?? Please answer we all want to know how to do this!!

[bsleeman7]

@MrDanteTube Google search for "Beatles MOGG Files" and open the files you get with Audacity or CoolEdit Pro. Remix, isolate, do whatever you like. It's a blast.

[jomaco1989]

This is just great, how did you get it if you don't mind me asking?

[kjasperdjavid]

can someone do this for mick taylor's guitar in the stones' sway? that would be great.

[fallug2501]

@kjasperdjavid yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhh pleaseeeee

[bobgure]

@kjasperdjavid Oh Yeah!!

[McGregorSamsa]

@kjasperdjavid

try tokabilitor's Sway in the youtube

this is the closest you can get to the original



[madcowga]

they shared women and guitar duties!

[moeblues247]

Great! thanks for sharing.

[westfield90]

Brilliant

[MrSluggo666]

Clapton would have been playing Georges cherry red Lespaul standard i think, according to george in " I ME MINE " . this is one hell of a great post !

[MADCHALKER]

@MrSluggo666 He's playing the co-owned Harrison/Lennon Gibson SG with Maestro Vibrola. George used it on Revolver and John used it on the White Album. It was just sold for $570,000.

[DjVinceALot]

@MADCHALKER No, he's playing the 1957 Les Paul Standard that Clapton gave to Harrison.

[pica1dilly]

@DjVinceALot

Read all about it at wikipedia under 'Lucy_(guitar)'.

[RivetteTv]

@DjVinceALot he traded it for his wife,lol

[Slipjac]

Found your link on GCA, thanks for posting! This is hot