Re: George's "creative license"?
- From: Mackenzie <jade_f45@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:03:25 -0800 (PST)
But with George and the Beatles, I honestly have no idea exactly what
George's role was in crafting these parts. Any thoughts? Links?
Discussion?
I often assumed that Harrison wasn't given much room create his own
pieces. Ringo's situtation was similar. The two would write the songs,
and then say "play it like such-and-such" (insert a legendary
guitarist or song) and go from there. I have a quote from Norman
Smith, engineer from "Love Me Do" to "Michelle" directly from this
newsgroup about Harrison during the "Rubber Soul" period:
"With Rubber Soul, the clash between
John and Paul was becoming obvious. Also, George was
having to put up with an awful lot from Paul. We now had
the luxury of four-track recording, so George would put his
solo on afterward. But as far as Paul was concerned,
George could do no right -- Paul was absolutely finicky.
"So what would happen was that on certain songs Paul
himself played the solos. I would wonder what the hell was
going on, because George would have done two or three
takes, and to me they were really quite okay. But Paul
would be saying, 'No, no, no!' And he'd start quoting
American records, telling him to play exactly as he'd heard
on such-and-such a song. So we'd go back from the top,
and George would really get into it. Then would come Paul's
comment, 'Okay, the first sixteen bars weren't bad, but that
middle...'Then Paul would take over and do it himself -- he
had a left-handed guitar with him."
I, however, believe his solos on his own songs were his own creation,
but this came after Emerick became engineer.
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