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Karma: 0 |  | The Let it Be solo
« Thread Started on Mar 24, 2005, 1:22pm » | ![[Quote]](http://s4.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif) |
The album version of Let it Be, I feel, features one of George's best solos. It's such a lovely, soft song and then George comes in with this ballsy, in your face solo that just screams. None of the solos on any other version of Let it Be come close to it in my book. If you close your eyes while you're listening, it'll send chills down your spine. It's brilliant guitar playing, especialy when he reprises in the fade out and does that call and response with McCartney's vocal. Musical genious.
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« Reply #2 on Apr 2, 2005, 10:11pm » | |
The Let it Be album solo is pure genius and makes the single version hardly listenable.
In fact that solo is quite reminiscent to the solo's played in Something, Get Back (John) and Maybe I'm Amazed (Paul) as well as a few others I'm forgetting. It was part of a definite "sound" that wraps the entire 1969-70 period together where the Beatles music went from the strumming instruments as backing sounds White album period to a time when the lead guitar was so tuneful and played with such feeling that the guitar leads were cosingers playing wordless versus that you could feel inside that made every song far more personal for the listener. In essence those solos caused the listeners to write their own versus of their experiences and put the songs in a very first person perspective.
Or perhaps I'm being overly dramatic?
I know that George overdubbed his solo on to the album version in late 69. I'm curious to know at whos request this was done.
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« Reply #4 on Oct 1, 2006, 6:08am » | |
based on what i've read, let it be was agonizingly (for them) devoid of orchestration. paul insisted on a bare-bones product. when you have the genius talent of george martin being kept on the bench, naturally the few basic instruments are going to be pressed to fill that function. your raves for that solo suggests that maybe you might have preferred less of george martin all along and more of the boys' licks "orchestrating" the songs. if you listen to the anthology, you get a sense of how much of the character that we are familiar with would have been lost had that happened. interesting, but different.
i find myself wondering what some of the songs on ATMP would have sounded like had g martin been the producer instead of spector. some of those songs are very beatleseque and upon casual listening i kinda miss the martin treatment on the beatles transition material.
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