what are the best guitar solos from harrison or mccartney?

At the end of the day, I bet Ringo was the most fun to hang out with.

― Darin, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He seems like the only one, to be fair.

Who does the gnarly little one in "Happiness is a Warm gun" that gives a preview of the "I need a fix..." vocal? I like that.

I think my favorite George solo might actually be "Old Brown Shoe."

Crippled Inside solo is great altho technically I guess that's not a guitar...?

wait who played guitar on blackbird, it wasn't paul, was it? i confess i have no idea when paul is playing guitar! i never even think of him playing guitar.

cuz if paul did play the guitar on blackbird he must be one of my favorite guitarists and i didn't even know it.

Who does the gnarly little one in "Happiness is a Warm gun" that gives a preview of the "I need a fix..." vocal? I like that.

+1

wait who played guitar on blackbird, it wasn't paul, was it? i confess i have no idea when paul is playing guitar! i never even think of him playing guitar.

Pretty sure that's Paul.

i mean i had no idea he did the solo in taxman. that's like one of the best rock solos ever.

it's funny when you hear people try to play blackbird and they never really get it just right? it's the coolest guitar part to me. would be in any top ten beatles guitar moments that i had.

yeah, that's def paul

Yeah, he tells the story of him and George basing it on ... Bach? Something like that.

"Helter Skelter" is a weird division of labor song, with I think Paul and George on guitar and John on bass, or at least one of those Fender VI guitar-y basses.

Gnarly guitar in "Happiness" is George, guitar on "Blackbird" is Paul.

I think that's George on "And I Love Her." According to Paul in the Scorsese doc, George also came up with the four-note figure that he plays throughout (which you'd think would warrant cowriting credit, but apparently not).

there are many songs for which you (and george) could make the same argument.

the politics and business of assigning songwriting credits in bands in general would make for a great book. someone should write that.

well, you're our fact checking cuz!

Paul even said in the doc, after singing the "And I Love Her" figure, "That's the song!"

(fwiw, I think McCartney should be co-credited on "Taxman" for the bassline and guitar solo)

Well, that's just it: the give and take of the process

I always thought R.E.M. got the credits thing right: credit everyone equally, regardless of who contributed what (or how much).

FWIW, some prominent bands that share(d) credits include U2, Coldplay, Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Keeps a band together. Obv. REM did it this way, too, which is another reason Berry leaving messed the balance up.

Harrison and Ringo both indicated over the years that they would play in a band again w/Lennon - not so much w/McCartney. Also, all those accounts on how the guys in Wings were treated are pretty atrocious.

― Darin, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 5:34 PM (6 hours ago)

yeah, and paul's pretty conspicuous by his absence from most of the post-breakup collaborations, at least through the '80s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborations_between_ex-Beatles

i think the "lennon is a dick" stories mostly date from the early days, which are also the most-covered in the books. by most accounts lennon wasn't a bad dude to hang out with by the '70s.

cept when he put tampons on his head

and I speak as a guy charmed and, who knows, hoodwinked by those last 1980 interviews. The guy was so ebullient and forthright about his music and opinions that I would've loved to have had him poking fun at "Ebony and Ivory."

yeah, he's quite charming and engaging in those interviews, even though i've never known how seriously to take the hagiographic perfect-husband-and-dad stuff. i guess only yoko knows for sure.

um, I believe there are indications that that stuff was not in fact quite so simple.

I've read the stories that she was back on smack, which sound true.

yeah, and paul's pretty conspicuous by his absence from most of the post-breakup collaborations, at least through the '80s:

I think this has as much to do with Paul's dickishness during the breakup (although history proved Paul right in terms of who they should've hired as their lawyer/manager) as with his dickishness in the studio.