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Topic: "The End" by the Beatles. Who played the solos? |
Joachim Kettner
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 4:22 am |
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0:54 until 1:30:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a_8F6gflxQ
There are three guitar players in the three run- throughs. One commenter said: "First one's McCartney, second is Harrison, and the last Is Lennon". A friend of mine is convinced that the second solo is played by Eric Clapton, I have to agree.
What do you think?
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John Booth
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 5:57 am
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By listening to it to me it sounds a lot like Clapton, like the stuff he did in Cream
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Will Houston
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 10:17 am
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| Hey Joachim, anything I just read on the internet about the song doesn't mention anything about Clapton, its all the boys according to everything I saw. We will have to ask George Martin. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 10:53 am
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My friend's opinion is that Clapton won't take credit for it because of George. If it's George (and not Paul) playing the solo on "Drive My Car" and "Taxman", I certainly hear hints of it it in the first solo phrasings.
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Doug Beaumier
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 12:12 pm
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In a 1970 Rolling Stone interview John Lennon said Paul, George, and John shared the solos on "The End". No mention of Clapton.
Lennon: "There's a nice little bit I played on Abbey Road. Paul gave us each a piece, a little break where Paul plays, George plays and I play."
A agree that the solo in question sounds a lot like Clapton from the Cream era. Soaring, with a beautiful string bend. Evidently it was Paul. When I first heard it back in 1969, I immediately though it was Clapton, but I guess not... unless it's one of those Beatles conspiracy theories. You know, play the song backwards and it says "Paul is dead"  
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Dave Hopping
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Posted 1 Feb 2015 10:33 pm
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| Geoff Emmerick's superb book "Here,There,and Everywhere" has a section about that set of solos,which he was present for during the tracking.Said it was Paul,George,and John in that order. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 11:53 am
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Dave did the author say anything about the "Drive my Car" solo and if it was Paul? It sounds very similar to the very first part of "The End".
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Alan Brookes
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 11:59 am
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| I believe it was George's solo, not Eric's. |
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Will Houston
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 1:58 pm
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| According to Wiki and the Beatles Bible, Paulie played lead on Car and Geo. played guitar which doubles the bass throughout the song.Something about Geo. had been listening to Otis Redding,"Respect" and liked the bass heavy sound of that song and tried to approximate that sound in Car. |
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Brint Hannay
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 2:33 pm
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| A agree that the solo in question sounds a lot like Clapton from the Cream era. Soaring, with a beautiful string bend. Evidently it was Paul. |
If the sequence stated here a couple of times (Paul, George, John) is correct, it would seem the "soaring, with a beautiful string bend" bit was George.
Till now I have always tended to think the order was George, Paul, John, as I thought Paul was more inclined to the bluesier, more distortion-and-bending style than George.
On that note, I wonder who played the two different solos on "Let It Be"? The one on the single version, IMO much better than the replacement solo on the album, I would take to be George. But the album one? |
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Will Houston
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 4:44 pm
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| Brint, once again according to the Beatle Bible, George played the solo on every released version of Let It Be. I just discovered that Beatle Bible today and will use that as one of my beatle info sources |
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scott murray
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 5:19 pm
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interesting that some think it's Clapton... another Beatles conspiracy theory of sorts. I've always heard it was Paul, George, and John in that order and it was all played live, just as we hear it on the record. I'd like to believe that.
It was definitely Paul playing the solo on "Taxman"
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Doug Beaumier
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John Scanlon
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Posted 2 Feb 2015 10:45 pm
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| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| You know, play the song backwards and it says "Paul is dead" |
It actually is supposed to say, "I buried Paul." Having done this with friends, it actually does sound like that. Pretty creepy, but yeah, silly Rock 'n' Roll stories.
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John Scanlon
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Doug Beaumier
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Jack Stanton
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Somewhere in the swamps of Jersey
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Posted 3 Feb 2015 4:15 am
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| I always thought it was George, Paul, John. It was Paul who played the lead guitar on Drive My Car, Taxman and Ticket To Ride. He almost never starts his solos on the root. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 3 Feb 2015 9:31 am
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| John Scanlon wrote: |
| Doug Beaumier wrote: |
| You know, play the song backwards and it says "Paul is dead" |
It actually is supposed to say, "I buried Paul." Having done this with friends, it actually does sound like that. Pretty creepy, but yeah, silly Rock 'n' Roll stories. |
I don't remember any of the above. I do recall the the part where Lennon says: "Turn me on dead man" after the two minute mark, brought back memories of playing it backwards in my bedroom on my Sharp brand stereo setup.
I wouldn't have the patience to get one of my vinyl copies (I have two) of the white album now and spin the almost nine minute piece backwards on my turntable as I did at age 15, but since one can find almost anything on the internet these days, if you're game, I have provided a link below to an MP3 played backwards.
I got through the "turn me on dead man" part but quit at four minutes because I really couldn't take any more. If he says something like "I buried Paul" later then I missed it.
http://beatlesnumber9.com/number9mp3.mp3
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scott murray
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Posted 3 Feb 2015 6:07 pm
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"I buried Paul/cranberry sauce" can be heard toward the end of Strawberry Fields Forever, forward not backward.
there's also the bit toward the end of I Am the Walrus where it repeats "everybody smoke pot" over and over. Years later John claimed it was actually "everybody's got one," and he also swore that Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was based on a drawing his young son did, and the LSD initials were complete coincidence 
there was a concerted effort to have Lennon deported in the 7os, so it's understandable why he denied any possible drug references in his lyrics.
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Jack Hanson
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Posted 11 Feb 2015 6:11 pm
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At risk of veering off on a tangent, here's a great cover of "The End." No Paul, no George, no John, and no Clapton. But wholeheartedly endorsed by the Beatles themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=363yGVjcu0k
Guitars by Booker T. Jones & Steve Cropper.
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John Scanlon
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Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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Posted 11 Feb 2015 10:18 pm
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| scott murray wrote: |
| "I buried Paul/cranberry sauce" can be heard toward the end of Strawberry Fields Forever, forward not backward. |
yep, that's it. I guess I was remembering backmasking with Stairway.
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