Introducing: The Fender 400 Beatle Band

Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

Hi all,

Back in 2016 when I bought a Fender 400 my first project was to add a couple knee levers and develop my own copedent. After too many hours to count, I came up with what I call "Stacked 7ths". b0b liked it so much he decided to feature it on our Steel Guitar Forum's "Pedal Steel Pages" under the "Unusual Copedents" category at:

https://b0b.com/wp/copedents/dennis-montgomerys-stacked-7ths/

After getting that done, my next project was to record an album of Beatle covers. As far as which Beatles songs to cover...I love the Beatles from the first album to the last so chose songs that spanned their whole career. The format was simple, I played the bass parts with my Rickenbacker 4001 and the drum parts with my Roland TD7 drum kit. All the rest of the parts: from the rhythm guitar to guitar solos to vocal melodies and vocal harmonies were all recorded on my Fender 400 run through a Line6 XT Live Pro FX processor.

After all these years I've decided it's time to release these songs! I created a playlist called, "The Fender 400 Beatle Band". My plan is to release and add a new song to the playlist every Friday until I complete the album. Being as this is the first Friday I decided to get the project going by releasing two songs.

Hope you like them and look for my post next Friday announcing The Fender 400 Beatle Band's Beatle song #3 Winking

Maxwell's Silver Hammer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3uY-cLilww&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz1BlqAtFL_H3cpYXvpsYYXH

Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA3ujGL0vPM&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz1BlqAtFL_H3cpYXvpsYYXH&index=2 [/i]
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Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK

Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW

Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA

Larry Dering · From: Missouri, USA

Thats cool and some interesting tones. Good job.

Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

Thanks Larry!

It was a fun project and I found doing Beatle covers was a great way to wrap my head around that tuning Winking

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Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK

Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW

Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA

Doug Taylor · From: Shelbyville, Kentucky, USA

What a fantastic idea! I enjoyed it very much

Roger Rettig · From: Naples, FL

Very well done! I can only imagine how much work went into that.
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Roger Rettig: Emmons D10, B-bender Teles, Martins, and a Gibson Super 400!
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Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

Thanks Doug and Roger! I'll keep those Beatles covers coming for the next few weeks every Friday Winking

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Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK

Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW

Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA

Bob Carlucci · From: Candor, New York, USA

Interesting concept. I applaud the talent and effort it took to put that together. Beatles music is not really "user friendly"-melodies are complex and not always "intuitive" to replicate. Must have taken some serious time to record and mix. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the songs over the coming weeks... bob
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Dennis Montgomery · From: Western Washington

Thanks Bob. Ya, the full album took 5 months to record but The Beatles are my Elvis so it was all good fun Winking

I'm very excited to share more in the upcoming weeks!
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Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK

Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW

Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA

Marshall Woodall · From: New York, USA

Nice work Dennis! as was mentioned this could not have been a simple task. It brings home the "malleability" of the steel.

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