MoeFOHs Album Of The Week... Week #4

[JohnS]

@Chas.Alpha, no need to correct at all, well done. I just wanted to add that when one listens to the track 'The End' you are in fact hearing George, Paul and John (in that order) trade licks on lead guitar in the break!

[Chas.Alpha]

Oops! Correct. I shall edit... 😀 Paul is using a strat I can presume?

[JohnS]

10 minutes ago, Chas.Alpha said:

Oops! Correct. I shall edit... 😀 Paul is using a strat I can presume?

I would presume that he would have been using his favourite guitar of all time...a 1962 Epiphone 230TD Casino.

[Chas.Alpha]

3 minutes ago, JohnS said:

I would presume that he would have been using his favourite guitar of all time...a 1962 Epiphone 230TD Casino.

The sad part is that the kid in the photo is barely half my age, and he is already a God! 😀 They couldn’t even make one left-handed for him???

[JohnS]

13 minutes ago, Chas.Alpha said:

The sad part is that the kid in the photo is barely half my age, and he is already a God! 😀 They couldn’t even make one left-handed for him???

You would think that it would be logical to make a left-handed guitar but in the sixties this wasn't done. The most famous example is Jimi Hendrix's Fender Stratocaster which he played upside-down. Both Jimi and Paul had their guitars altered with the bridge and nut turned around.

Paul still uses this guitar in live concerts to this day (Without the pickguard. The Beatles had a thing for removing their pickguards in the latter half of the 1960s. Paul's famous Hofner bass also has had the pickguard removed). The sad truth is that Epiphone couldn't capitalise on the Beatles using their product and the Epiphone Casino went out of production around 1969. It was only later that interest in the guitar made Epiphone bring it back.

[Çnote]

10/10, my 2nd favorite Beatles album after Revolver, which isn't as 'good' but whatever. 

[Doctorossi]

More than 10 albums worth of material of such a high level in a 6/7-year recording career- talk about prolific output.

I'd have to give this album a 10.

[Chas.Alpha]

16 hours ago, Çnote said:

10/10, my 2nd favorite Beatles album after Revolver, which isn't as 'good' but whatever. 

Revolver was a masterpiece!