What stuns me every time I hear George's playing is his unbelievable sense of taste. George was someone who could play anything on guitar but in the Beatles he chose to focus on complimenting each song with subtle little licks that went on to define the song.
George actually wasn’t super gifted with ability and was even insecure about it, evidenced by how he talked about Eric Clapton in Get Back. He was in awe of the way Clapton could improvise complex solos, even snapping “just get Clapton to do it” to John and Paul at one point. However, his lack of technical prowess made him instead write smaller, more tasty accent-based flourishes that really enhanced a song. Ringo was similar. He couldn’t play anything complicated, so he focused on serving the song instead.
@@pts5217 I wouldn't say George wasn't "technically skilled". I think he could play anything anyone else could play. I think he deliberately chose not to play anything flashy or "technically advanced" because he knew that that isn't what music is about. Same with Ringo. The same could be said about all the Beatles, thats what made them the beatles. Musicality and "technical skills" are killing music and decimate originality. The Beatles knew that. But i feel you.
@@pts5217everyone talked about Clapton like that though. Just listening to George on Abbey Road, he was a really good lead guitarist. He just wasn’t a show off. He also said once he felt he had the ability to be great, just didn’t put in the time for practice. Also with slide he’s well above average
@@pts5217also ringo most certainly could play complicated when he wanted to. He just wasn’t a show off type of player Songs like “She Said She Said, you can hear what ringo is capable of.
Two perfectly contrasted guitar tones: Casino and Telecaster. George's fills once again are just fabulous. But I also love John's tone and drone on this.
Thank's Sam! I've waited for this for one year, you're awesome and this cover proves it, it's like listening to John and George on the rooftop concert. The outfits, the guitars, wow, keep it up, your covers are the best on RUclips.
Our tickets (my son and I) also included Paul's and his band sound check session, while they also played 15 songs during it and more 37 songs during the show. It was an amazing experience! Thanks God for that!
George's accompaniment is beyond simple explanation by now - he's really got this whole other voice going on e.g from 2:30 or so onward well beyond any formulaic attempt at lead.
Thumbs up for all the effort and detail put into those covers, sourcing matching guitars, replicating effects and even breaking down every event of the original recording down to wrong notes played and pickup changes.
Прекрасно,как всегда ! Кроме того,что техника исполнения великолепна,каждый ролик превращается ещё и в небольшое костюмированное шоу ! Сыграно с чувством ! Снимаю шляпу !
Nice. My favorite track on the album. Listened to it a million times and I know it note for note. I appreciate all the detail and work you did here. Shows real respect for the original. Great job.
This has got to be THE definitive cover! Love it, man. Wish all of the rehearsal footage of this song had been included in the “Get Back” documentary. Some of the footage they cut was really great.
I continually get new insights from your videos. I'd never noticed that John's breakdown riff is sloppy, but I see now that it clearly is. It always sounded great to me. It makes me wonder if the ear just makes sense of it all and kind of fools the listener into thinking that it sounds perfect because you've heard it played perfectly every other time. The sloppy playing actually kind of makes the breakdown sound a bit wilder and more distorted in some way and it all seems to make sense. The same thing in the Polythene Pam video where George is clearly hitting some E flat chords instead of E chords in places, but for some reason it sounds okay. Really interesting.
Took me 7 seconds to hit that like button. The tone he got from the Casino was nasty. Makes me want to give the Casino a 3rd try but this time into a tube amp.
Georgia's parts at 2:22 and 2:45 get me every time for some reasons lol. I just love em. Funny that they're both fingerpicked, I don't have the ear for stuff like that.
Besides the amazing music effort you put into this cover, I love that you put the same effort in the appearence. The exact same clothes they wore at the rooftop ♥
2:34 and 3:09 are sheer chaos, almost like the interlude/outro in A Day In the Life. I've never had the slightest clue what they were playing for that bit. Congrats on nailing it!
Beautiful job! This song wakes me up every day and gives my day some variety. Thanks a bunch, Sam! I'm looking forward to your other beautiful, on point covers!
@@sampopkin If it's worth anything, the same distortion effect is there (albeit of course a little distant) on the "D cam" audio, which was the audio recorded for the wide shot of the Beatles filmed across the street.
This doesn't fully answer the amp question - I've been wondering about that for years too - but the early silverface Twins the Beatles would've been given weren't actually different amps from the blackpanel versions. At first, and I believe for something like a year and a half, the silverface era was just a cosmetic update, and most of Fender's amps didn't get circuit revisions until ’69-’70. This isn't a foolproof method, but the earliest silverfaces with unaltered circuits had this small piece of ornamental metal piping in a horizontal line where the chassis and grillecloth met, what they call a "drip-edge" because painters use a similar thing when they're painting an upper surface and want the drying paint to drip foward and OFF the edge, instead of down onto the lower surface. So if the GET BACK + ABBEY ROAD amps were still blackpanel Twins in all but cosmetics, it makes a bit more sense - people think of the Twin as the world's cleanest amp, and it really isn't!, it's just that it's SO LOUD by the time you get it distorting that most people have never heard one firsthand. A black Twin with the volume on 7 or 8 is a great sound, though, if you can do something about the volume; most of Steve Howe's tones in the classic Yes period, c. 1971-1975, were a humbucker Gibson (nearly always a hollowbody ES-175 or semihollow ES-345) into an absolutely roaring Twin. And though he very occasionally used a fuzz pedal early on, he really didn''t rely on anything but guitar >> amp until he switched to a Les Paul Jr. and a Maestro FRB-1 boost/overdrive for his incredible solo tones on TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS. (Those FRB-1s are incredible and very weird. I'm actually paying a guy right now to try to rebuild it in pedal form, because the original was a box the size of a wall plaque, but Howe and Bill Connors of Return to Forever got just phenomenal sounds with them.) Now that we have the GET BACK footage, too, we know the Beatles' guitar tones were basically the same in rehearsal as they were on the rooftop, maybe just a touch cleaner, so they must've been loud as all hell in that film studio. You're doing great stuff here, by the way!, in case my enthusiasm wasn't obvious from my running string of moronic comments. I've watched like 40 of your videos in the last 24 hours. (Isn't it amazing how often the best guitar part turns out to be Paul?)
I’ve played real blackface twins (loudly) and there’s no way they get that breakup even on volume 7-8. It’s possible the early drip edge silverface a they received were special prototypes because fender gave them directly. It’s a mystery that haunts me every day, so strange
@@sampopkin I wonder about the same thing with John & George allegedly using a non-Reverb black Deluxe and a Deluxe Reverb, respectively, for a lot of The White Album, because that record is like an anthology of nasty-ass guitar tones, and a Deluxe Reverb will crunch up nicely when you're gunning it, but not like THAT. Total guess here, but I wonder if perhaps they were removing a pair of 6L6s from the Twins? I do that a lot when I have to use a 100-watt amp, and even more than bringing the volume down, it really brings UP the overdrive saturation, because now 2 tubes have to handle a preamp output designed for 4. I'm not big into Marshalls, but any time I encounter a 100-watt Marshally amp, the first thing I do is pull the outer pair of power tubes.
@@corpse-in-orbit could even be a voltage thing in US vs U.K. in get back you can see Paul is running his Bassman amp at volume 8 on the rooftop. Insanely loud
Nice cover of I’ve Got a Feeling, Sam. Ever since I saw the Get Back documentary, I’ve been looking for a rosewood Tele, but I can never find one, because none of the guitar shops I went to have one.
Nice! I feel like John did the tone knob low a fair amount, and I wonder if that was his idea or what. I feel like he wasnt super nuanced when it camecto gear. Isn't his part on I Wanna Hold Your Hand sort of muffled like that too, even more so?
Yea! I think Paul might have even done it on his Casino leads on Help. John used his volume and tone knobs a ton. For dirty mac it was middle position. One after 909 neck position, tone down a bit Don’t let me down bridge tone down Those p90’s are so dynamic. Pete Townshend also used that combo of the 4 knobsfor live at leeds era stuff on his SG
Hey Sam The Casino Intro sounds absolutely amazing. You sure are starting the New Year off right. Please keep it up.and please don"t forget about my sitar Tutorial Thanks
Great covers. Well done. I especially have always loved Lennon's drone pattern from A to D. The Beatles were a great guitar outfit. There are two versions or performances of "I've Got a Feeling" on the Roof. Could you show George fills and ornamentations on both? I think his licks are little different during John's vocal in the two performances.
Thanks, I do intend on doing take two rooftop version but I was borrowing the rosewood tele. I’ll have to use my blond tele or wait till I can borrow a rosewood again
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George comes up with the perfect stuff when bossy Paul gives him breathing space.
What stuns me every time I hear George's playing is his unbelievable sense of taste. George was someone who could play anything on guitar but in the Beatles he chose to focus on complimenting each song with subtle little licks that went on to define the song.
George actually wasn’t super gifted with ability and was even insecure about it, evidenced by how he talked about Eric Clapton in Get Back. He was in awe of the way Clapton could improvise complex solos, even snapping “just get Clapton to do it” to John and Paul at one point. However, his lack of technical prowess made him instead write smaller, more tasty accent-based flourishes that really enhanced a song. Ringo was similar. He couldn’t play anything complicated, so he focused on serving the song instead.
@@pts5217 I wouldn't say George wasn't "technically skilled". I think he could play anything anyone else could play. I think he deliberately chose not to play anything flashy or "technically advanced" because he knew that that isn't what music is about. Same with Ringo. The same could be said about all the Beatles, thats what made them the beatles. Musicality and "technical skills" are killing music and decimate originality. The Beatles knew that. But i feel you.
@@pts5217everyone talked about Clapton like that though.
Just listening to George on Abbey Road, he was a really good lead guitarist. He just wasn’t a show off.
He also said once he felt he had the ability to be great, just didn’t put in the time for practice.
Also with slide he’s well above average
@@pts5217also ringo most certainly could play complicated when he wanted to. He just wasn’t a show off type of player
Songs like “She Said She Said, you can hear what ringo is capable of.
@@RZDN_musicyeah George probably could play anything. He just wasn’t able to improvise like Clapton did. He’d have to work it all out before hand
I love how John royally fks up the riff in the breakdown before the final verse, but yet in true Beatle fashion, it still somehow works!
so true! it's beautiful and complete flub at the same time
John is such an underrated guitar player. He's not flashy at all but has great time and feel!
He’s an artist when it comes to guitar which is why his parts are so memorable but not flashy
Loved how he even captured John's picking mistake.
I believe even Paul would be satisfied with the way you play George's part! 😉
Paul wasn't even satisfied with the way George plays George's parts.
@@RobSmith-rn3ie thats the joke
He’ll play whatever he wants him to play, or he won’t play at all
Nailed that Casino tone.
Thanks 😊
WOW!!!! The attention to detail is outstanding! I can't believe you even included George just touching his volume knob. Crazy stuff, man
Thanks😁
When john does that a hammer to d [idk what its called] around 2:40 it sounds so badass and i think it was a mistake but i love it. Sounds fierce.
Two perfectly contrasted guitar tones: Casino and Telecaster. George's fills once again are just fabulous. But I also love John's tone and drone on this.
Your attention to detail is incredible!! George's rushed hit at 1:32!!
5 seconds in, haven't read a single word in the description: I'm astounded at how PERFECT John's tone is!
John & George were "Ying & yang" together ...forever iconic ❤😊
You add a whole new dimension to Beatle music........almost like actually watching the actual players....love your work
1:15 this part is a banger
Everything about this video is great!!
The Clothes, The Guitar, The Sounds and You❤
Thank's Sam! I've waited for this for one year, you're awesome and this cover proves it, it's like listening to John and George on the rooftop concert. The outfits, the guitars, wow, keep it up, your covers are the best on RUclips.
for me it's not just the perfect playing but the coordinated historically accurate outfits you wear
Both guitar parts sound perfect to my ears. Brilliant work Sam.😊🎸
Casino intro sounds just like the record - nailed it.
Just saw Paul's concert last 7th Dec, when he played this song having John's on a duet. Outstanding job Sam!
Incredible! I wish I could see him live
Our tickets (my son and I) also included Paul's and his band sound check session, while they also played 15 songs during it and more 37 songs during the show. It was an amazing experience! Thanks God for that!
George's accompaniment is beyond simple explanation by now - he's really got this whole other voice going on e.g from 2:30 or so onward well beyond any formulaic attempt at lead.
Great job again Sam! Fun to play John’s part on this!
The warm tones of casino are always like warm sea waves washing over your shoulders.
Can we have some appreciation for the collection of coats!!! Each time they are bang on! They deserve an instagram story of their own.
😎
That epiphone casino tone, so good 🤩Also nice Lennon strap and outfits.
Thumbs up for all the effort and detail put into those covers, sourcing matching guitars, replicating effects and even breaking down every event of the original recording down to wrong notes played and pickup changes.
1:26 “I’ll play whatever you want me to play or you know, I won’t play at all if you don’t want me to play”😅
So very good together.
Прекрасно,как всегда ! Кроме того,что техника исполнения великолепна,каждый ролик превращается ещё и в небольшое костюмированное шоу ! Сыграно с чувством ! Снимаю шляпу !
Nice. My favorite track on the album. Listened to it a million times and I know it note for note. I appreciate all the detail and work you did here. Shows real respect for the original. Great job.
This has got to be THE definitive cover! Love it, man. Wish all of the rehearsal footage of this song had been included in the “Get Back” documentary. Some of the footage they cut was really great.
my god these are so impressive. happy new year!
Nice ! The tone is so accurate !
Fantastic job as always. Tone on each guitar is perfect. Well played Sir.
Wonderful! the blues style ending is from another world!
Masterful!!! Well done!!! Great insight to George's parts... trying my best to learn this stuff,so much fun to play. Keep up the great work!
I continually get new insights from your videos. I'd never noticed that John's breakdown riff is sloppy, but I see now that it clearly is. It always sounded great to me. It makes me wonder if the ear just makes sense of it all and kind of fools the listener into thinking that it sounds perfect because you've heard it played perfectly every other time. The sloppy playing actually kind of makes the breakdown sound a bit wilder and more distorted in some way and it all seems to make sense. The same thing in the Polythene Pam video where George is clearly hitting some E flat chords instead of E chords in places, but for some reason it sounds okay. Really interesting.
Exactly I love those slight errors that become a part of its charm. Music nowadays is too polished and refined and you miss the human element of it
Took me 7 seconds to hit that like button. The tone he got from the Casino was nasty. Makes me want to give the Casino a 3rd try but this time into a tube amp.
Once again, you nail a beatles song. Keep it up
Es mi tema favorito!!!
A greaaaaat cover!! I love Paul’s voice on this song and I think the guitar amplifies it.
Georgia's parts at 2:22 and 2:45 get me every time for some reasons lol. I just love em. Funny that they're both fingerpicked, I don't have the ear for stuff like that.
I actually only new that from watching the movie carefully
Besides the amazing music effort you put into this cover, I love that you put the same effort in the appearence. The exact same clothes they wore at the rooftop ♥
2:34 and 3:09 are sheer chaos, almost like the interlude/outro in A Day In the Life. I've never had the slightest clue what they were playing for that bit. Congrats on nailing it!
He’s even got their same clothes from the rooftop concert, cool detail 👍
Very cool colors of clothes Lennon and Harrison wore n the rooftop!
I've been waiting for the day.. the guitars are beautiful
Beautiful job! This song wakes me up every day and gives my day some variety. Thanks a bunch, Sam! I'm looking forward to your other beautiful, on point covers!
Wonderful, Wonderful.
great playing! that tele is absolutely gorgeous too!
Love the Beatles, Love your playing as always. Thank you so much!!! 😊
Wow! Speechless! You are the best🎉
You even got the crash and burn perfectly. 2:44
So perfect Sam. I think you did George solo spot on too. Dunno how you do it mate.
Thank you! I can now see all the lead fretwork to learn this. Tabs are always incomplete
最高にかっこい良い曲。
最高のボーカル、別々の歌詞を同時に歌い、最高の場所で演奏。
全てが最高だ。
Awesome ...!!
Happy new year !! Best Wishes for 2024 !!
Good Job ..! Sounds great !!
2:22 to 2:32 is some of my favourite of George's playing.
Awesome job on this! I don't think the distortion was added in post, since the mono Nagra tapes have the same tone coming from both guitars.
Possible the nagra tapes distorted them a bit?
@@sampopkin I don't think so. The distortion tone is the exact same as the 8 track recordings.
@@ledzepfilm I mean from the very start the amps were overloading the recording gear? I don’t actually believe this but it’s a weird theory
@@sampopkin If it's worth anything, the same distortion effect is there (albeit of course a little distant) on the "D cam" audio, which was the audio recorded for the wide shot of the Beatles filmed across the street.
@@ledzepfilm good call
Wow! Those guitars are beautiful!
One of my favourite song ❤
Great job : really sound the same !
I love the outfits 🥰
This doesn't fully answer the amp question - I've been wondering about that for years too - but the early silverface Twins the Beatles would've been given weren't actually different amps from the blackpanel versions. At first, and I believe for something like a year and a half, the silverface era was just a cosmetic update, and most of Fender's amps didn't get circuit revisions until ’69-’70. This isn't a foolproof method, but the earliest silverfaces with unaltered circuits had this small piece of ornamental metal piping in a horizontal line where the chassis and grillecloth met, what they call a "drip-edge" because painters use a similar thing when they're painting an upper surface and want the drying paint to drip foward and OFF the edge, instead of down onto the lower surface.
So if the GET BACK + ABBEY ROAD amps were still blackpanel Twins in all but cosmetics, it makes a bit more sense - people think of the Twin as the world's cleanest amp, and it really isn't!, it's just that it's SO LOUD by the time you get it distorting that most people have never heard one firsthand. A black Twin with the volume on 7 or 8 is a great sound, though, if you can do something about the volume; most of Steve Howe's tones in the classic Yes period, c. 1971-1975, were a humbucker Gibson (nearly always a hollowbody ES-175 or semihollow ES-345) into an absolutely roaring Twin. And though he very occasionally used a fuzz pedal early on, he really didn''t rely on anything but guitar >> amp until he switched to a Les Paul Jr. and a Maestro FRB-1 boost/overdrive for his incredible solo tones on TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS. (Those FRB-1s are incredible and very weird. I'm actually paying a guy right now to try to rebuild it in pedal form, because the original was a box the size of a wall plaque, but Howe and Bill Connors of Return to Forever got just phenomenal sounds with them.)
Now that we have the GET BACK footage, too, we know the Beatles' guitar tones were basically the same in rehearsal as they were on the rooftop, maybe just a touch cleaner, so they must've been loud as all hell in that film studio.
You're doing great stuff here, by the way!, in case my enthusiasm wasn't obvious from my running string of moronic comments. I've watched like 40 of your videos in the last 24 hours. (Isn't it amazing how often the best guitar part turns out to be Paul?)
I’ve played real blackface twins (loudly) and there’s no way they get that breakup even on volume 7-8. It’s possible the early drip edge silverface a they received were special prototypes because fender gave them directly. It’s a mystery that haunts me every day, so strange
@@sampopkin I wonder about the same thing with John & George allegedly using a non-Reverb black Deluxe and a Deluxe Reverb, respectively, for a lot of The White Album, because that record is like an anthology of nasty-ass guitar tones, and a Deluxe Reverb will crunch up nicely when you're gunning it, but not like THAT.
Total guess here, but I wonder if perhaps they were removing a pair of 6L6s from the Twins? I do that a lot when I have to use a 100-watt amp, and even more than bringing the volume down, it really brings UP the overdrive saturation, because now 2 tubes have to handle a preamp output designed for 4. I'm not big into Marshalls, but any time I encounter a 100-watt Marshally amp, the first thing I do is pull the outer pair of power tubes.
@@corpse-in-orbit could even be a voltage thing in US vs U.K.
in get back you can see Paul is running his Bassman amp at volume 8 on the rooftop. Insanely loud
Wow, great and clear. The Favorite, every time I hear you playing , I think it‘s not so hard to play
Well done! And nice touches wearing similar coats to what George and John wore.
This will do serious numbers. Great job as usual dude!
Nice cover of I’ve Got a Feeling, Sam. Ever since I saw the Get Back documentary, I’ve been looking for a rosewood Tele, but I can never find one, because none of the guitar shops I went to have one.
It’s rare you see them. Unfortunately I was just borrowing this one
Fantastic
I’ve always loved seeing the Rosewood Telecaster. I’ve heard that George wasn’t too much of a fan of it.
I think George liked it, but he gave it away to Delaney in late 1969 as a gift. By then he was totally into strats
I waited this for such a long time! Good job!
If you watch John on the rooftop concert, when he makes a mistake at about. 2 minutes 41 seconds, He looks at Paul and laughs.
That telecaster was sent to George from Fender to Abbey Studios without him asking.
Really great Sam. I love it. Thank you so much from Spain.
Great work!
I got it right! Guess you could say I had a feeling. Great cover as always Sam :)
This isn't a cover it's a faithful reproduction...well done,sir!
brilliant! I especially love that dirty casino tone
Excellent as always!
I had that feeling
Nice! I feel like John did the tone knob low a fair amount, and I wonder if that was his idea or what. I feel like he wasnt super nuanced when it camecto gear. Isn't his part on I Wanna Hold Your Hand sort of muffled like that too, even more so?
Yea! I think Paul might have even done it on his Casino leads on Help. John used his volume and tone knobs a ton. For dirty mac it was middle position. One after 909 neck position, tone down a bit
Don’t let me down bridge tone down
Those p90’s are so dynamic. Pete Townshend also used that combo of the 4 knobsfor live at leeds era stuff on his SG
I don't know if someone else already commented on that detail, but great choice of outfits!
“Ohh my soul….so hard”
A identificação é incrível!!!
Muito bom cara!!
Enjoy the " I'm So Ashamed!...I Goofed Again" version !
Even the clothes, Jesus, thank you for this video Sam!!
True to the original ! Congrats !
Wow good play back.
Impeccable!!!!
Hey Sam The Casino Intro sounds absolutely amazing. You sure are starting the New Year off right. Please keep it up.and please don"t forget about my sitar Tutorial Thanks
Great covers. Well done. I especially have always loved Lennon's drone pattern from A to D. The Beatles were a great guitar outfit. There are two versions or performances of "I've Got a Feeling" on the Roof. Could you show George fills and ornamentations on both? I think his licks are little different during John's vocal in the two performances.
Thanks, I do intend on doing take two rooftop version but I was borrowing the rosewood tele. I’ll have to use my blond tele or wait till I can borrow a rosewood again
My favorite song on Let It Be
That’s got to be the coolest song ever
Hell yea, knockin it out of da park with style!
Dude this is sick! Thanks!
Finally!
Thank you so much for covering this song!
Love how you replicated the clothes
I would’ve been so down to do a bass cover with you but had no idea!!
Oh yeah! ❤
I'm re-enjoying The Beatles with your videos, you play good. Can we have "You're gonna lose that girl"? Thank you.