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[65] [nb 6] Harrison also overdubbed fuzz-tone electric guitar, [68] controlling the output via a volume pedal. [66] Producer Tony Visconti has marvelled at the guitar sounds the Beatles introduced on Revolver, particularly Harrison's part on "Love You To", which he says "sounds like a chainsaw cutting down a tree in Vermont". [69]
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for ...
Originally a "gold top" model, the guitar was refinished with a dark red stain before it got to Harrison and was nicknamed "Lucy". The guitar can be seen in the "Revolution" promotional video and the Let It Be film. Also seen in that film is a rosewood Fender Telecaster, given to him by Fender, used on Let It Be and Abbey Road (1969). [2] [3] [4]
[7] [8] Author Ian MacDonald speculates that the guitar arpeggios at the end of the track were influenced by "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and the middle section of "Here Comes the Sun", and that the overall structure was inspired by Lennon's "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" from the previous year's album The Beatles, which also joined unrelated song ...
Over the 1960s as a whole, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. [14] " She Loves You", the band's second number-one single on the Record Retailer chart (subsequently adopted as the UK Singles Chart), [15] became the best-selling single in UK chart history, a position it retained until 1978. [16]
[34] [nb 4] Harrison's adoption of the pedal typified his search for new sounds for the Beatles, and for colouring that was empathetic with the group's material. [36] [37] He played the part on his Rickenbacker 12-string electric guitar [38] and soon used the effect again on "Yes It Is", a similarly emotive Lennon composition. [39]
Harrison dubbed the guitar "Lucy", after redhead comedian Lucille Ball. Harrison and the Beatles were at the time recording their self-titled double album (also known as "the White Album"), and had been working for several weeks on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Harrison had been unable to record a lead guitar part that he was satisfied with ...
At age seven, students can begin weekly lessons in the instrument of their choice in "Rock 101" classes. Once a student has basic competence in an instrument, they can move to the "Performance Program" where they have a weekly one-on-one private lesson and three hours weekly of group band rehearsal that culminates in a concert before an audience.