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Topic: lap steel on strawberry fields? |
John Rosett
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Missoula, MT
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 7:22 am |
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| my wife recently got that new beatles "love" cd set, with remixes of alot of the beatles stuff. it really sounds like lap steel on "strawberry fields forever". i know that george harrison was a great slide guitarist, but i've never heard any mention of lap steel on any beatles records. anybody know? |
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Rick Batey
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 7:46 am
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John played a Hofner on For You Blue. Here's the YouTube video...
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Stu Schulman
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Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 8:53 am
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| John there are a few older Beatles songs with lap steel om them.That's one of my to do projects...I'm gonna make a list of all of them,but first I have to find the time to sit down and listen.My guess is that it's George...But you never know Paul plays everything? |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 9:08 am
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The only Beatles song that I know of where a lap steel was used was "For You Blue" as mentioned above.
By the way, Pete Grant has some great arrangements of Beatles tunes on resophonic guitar in open D tuning. I don't believe he has anything tabbed out or transcribed, but he does very nice versions of "Here Comes The Sun" and "Blackbird" among others.
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Brad's Page of Steel
A web site devoted to acoustic & electric lap steel guitars
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John Bushouse
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 4:18 pm
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| On Anthology vol. 2, it has three versions (I think) of Strawberry Fields. On the second version, the slide is very prominent. I think it's bottleneck, though (something George was incredibly good at). Just chords being played, no single or two string playing, which in my opinion would be the easiest way to distinguish between bottleneck and lap. |
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Richard Shatz
From:
St. Louis
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Posted 29 Nov 2006 4:34 pm
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 7:01 am
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I always find them interesting, the sounds that come out of a steel guitar, when played by someone who has not yet learned to play very well!  |
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John McGann
From:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 7:20 pm
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| Yeah, dem bums ain't never gonna make it |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 7:32 pm
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| What is John using for a bar? It looks like a AA battery. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 9:04 pm
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| I have been reading the book by Geoff Emerick who engineered Pepper. That is George on the lap steel/slide guitar. Emerick says that he had just started to experiment with it. He does not go into detail as to what make of instrument it was. |
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 9:05 pm
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| John was using a cig lighter I think. |
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