White Album 1968 00:00 Drums, Piano and Flugelhorn 02:58 Bass, Bells and Tambourine 06:22 Lennon's Guitar 10:20 George's Guitar 12:20 Vocals and Acoustic Guitar 15:45 Backing Vocals and Handclaps 18:03 Airplane 18:09 Thanks!!! Personnel Drums (1964 Ludwig Super Classic Black Oyster Pearl): Paul Mccartney Bells: Paul Mccartney Tambourine: John Lennon and Mal evans Bass (1966 Fender Jazz Bass): Paul Mccartney Rhythmic Guitar (1965 Epiphone Casino ES230TD and Gibson 160E plugged in ): John Lennon Lead Guitar (1957 Gibson Les Paul or 1964 Gibson SG): George Harrison Piano (Bechstein #44064 Grand): Paul Mccartney Flugelhorn: Paul Mccartney Lead Vocals: John Lennon Backing Vocals and Handclaps: John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, George Harrison, Mal Evans, Jackie Lomax and John McCartney (Paul's Cousin) _________________________________________________________________________ Patreon: www.patreon.com/dld2music Instagram: instagram.com/dld2.music/ Paypal: www.paypal.com/paypalme/DLD2Music
Somehow the most perfect thing ever, despite so much of it being completely imperfect. It slows down, speeds up, little glitches, coming in slightly wrong, stuff not quite on the beat. If this was recorded today, with the benefit of ProTools etc, it would be so much more polished and tidy. I love how natural and real it is. The isolation really lets you hear it all. Magical!
The final product is so well polished and produced and pristine that you don’t notice how much of a gritty undertone George’s guitar has until you hear it isolated. Such gorgeous texture it adds in a subtle way.
@@patszer8314 It's pitchy at times. People talking in the back ground and strange tape noise. And that all adds up to pure magic... I've known this song all my life and it's been influential on my own playing but hearing this was an eye opener and great experience
What a contrast with today’s music… sterile, made (for the most part) by lonely people on their computers, sequencers, etc. without interaction with another human being, or greedy producers who hire singers and lift samples from other musicians
Travis pick - the only one that persevered with it in India after Donovan demonstrated the technique. He sat under a tree at the Maharishi's Ashram in Rishikesh and nailed it in an afternoon. From that came the genesis of many songs.
I started to cry, when I heard John's guitar. That is the essence of the song, and I always thought it was a blend of overdubs, from both John and George. It's just John!
@@Alloy7 Makes me cry whether it's isolated or part of the whole. Miraculously beautiful. Essence of the song, of concern, of life? "That you are part of everything" 🙏✌️❤️
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@@Alloy7 Amei!
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@@Alloy7 Eu também chorei! Não tem como segurar!😢😢
Not to mention one of the greatest songs ever!!! The instrumentation is outstanding, and Ringo is not even the drummer on this song, having left the band temporarily over an argument with Sir Paul. The Beatles double LP (more famously, or perhaps infamously, know as The White Album) has some throw away songs, but on the other hand, has some songs that are phenomenal - Dear Prudence, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Happiness is a Warm Gun, Blackbird, Julia, Yer Blues, Mother Nature's Son, Sexy Sadie, Revolution No. 1, and Savoy Truffle - awesome songs!!!
@@SnipinG1337 Lol why do I run into you everywhere. Stop stalking me nigga lmao. Kidding though, I mean you obviously must have a similar taste in music. I don't remember where I last found you. I had notifs off at the time, I'd just intended to not get notifs from a certain thread of comments but didn't realize it gets rid of them all
Right? It’s sooooo damn good. And it’s unreal to think that he used that technique on 3 tracks for The White Album: Dear Prudence, Happiness is a Warm Gun, and Julia. Yet the tracks are so well produced, engineered, and balanced that they each feel like a distinct picking style despite being the same one. It’s unreal how much flavor he could put on Travis picking.
I love that they allowed it to be so prominent. Listening to some of the demo songs released recently, notably Old Brown Shoe, Octopus's Garden and Here Comes the Sun, the bass was just like this, but the final recordings, whilst still bass masterpieces, not quite the level of this one as they are so much quieter.
6:22 If this is what I hear whilst on my deathbed fading away into the void, I will die happy. This is the most beautiful thing John ever created besides his two sons.
@@benfoldsfunf4517 there are a few pics of Ringo playing that double kit; check Mark Lewisohn’s Recording Sessions book to find put what song(s) he may have used that set up
You know, just as George Harrison was coming into his own as an improvisor, he became a slide Guitarist! I would have preferred he confirmed playing traditional Guitar! My all-time favorite George Harrison Guitar solo on a Beatles recording was his solo on "Let It Be" Album version which was recorded on January 4,1970.
Amen to the other comment... I think John's acoustic rhythm playing is absolutely beautiful. John was actually a ve y underrated guitarist... He was very innovative and played with excellent technique.
Great to hear to hear John and George's guitars, particularly George's subtle playing which is had to fully hear in the full version. Both John and George's are virtually instrumental songs or compositions in their own right.
Thank you so much for this . Amazing band forever. John's playing is great . Paul's creative playing on drums and bass took the song to another higher level. It's like magic .. Lennon/McCartney will never be matched
Actually Prudence Farrow never heard the song before the actual release. But George told her before departing from India that they wrote a song about her. But a nice thought!
Hesitate to bandy the word 'genius' about. Let's say, supremely talented but at times a very naughty boy. Let's never lose track of the fact that they are all, 'just' magical troubadours and poets - artists - blessed with a gift that enrich our lives. I always think of the gangster Harry Flower's line in 'Performance': "I like that. Turn it up." Is there really anything more?
Love every singe track of this song, the drum fills, the melodic bass, the backing guitar of Lennon, the sound of George's tone and playing, the magic vocals.... the airplane as well
Everybody is on top of his art on that one... John playin a beautiful and sweat acoustic finger picking guitar part...in a contrast way Paul put a groovy slidy bass line giving a nice suportive rythm presence and what's about George...who clearly put his indian musical influence on the electric guitar which sound really unsual when you listen it on a isolated track but it's soo original and meticulous...It just fitt perfectly to the final mix...That's one of a million reason why the Beatles are so great !
These comments put each musisian in a unmatchable class ! I'm running out of time waiting for a group or person,artist to make a simular effect on music an or culture as these 4 boys from England ? Its like time stopped and their isn't going to be anymore improvement on Rock n Roll NOMORE ! And yes that is GREAT and SAD at the same time .
Quien dijo que The Beatles era el centro y punto de partida de la música, tiene toda la razon.... Eran una obra maestra, unos genios adelantados a su época
@@nathanrobledo7855 Some people say the later part is actually ringo drumming, the other is paul, coz ringo kinda left the band when this song was recorded so paul had to play drums initially, even this video shows ringo's face for that ending part 😂😂
@@gutgolf74 I’m pretty sure the whole reason people think that (besides the drums sounding the way they do) is cause he was there in the final day or two of the song being made.
I had not made that connection before. An interesting take to be sure. As we might well know by now, Led Zep wasn't above "borrowing" stuff from others.
I think Dear Prudence is the best studio performance the Beatles ever recorded. It is just odd that Ringo wasn't there. But around 2:10, Paul imitates him pretty well!
That's not Paul on the outro drum fills... When Ringo returned they punched him in at the end to add that amazing drum solo/fills... you can hear from the isolated tapes above that it was punched in, hence why it was Ringo. Everything before that was Paul on drums as we all have come to know
White album was cut after SPLHCB and MMT which was sort of extension of Sgt Pepper’s. Then the Beatles came up with the white album to remind the fans that Sgt Pepper’s band was fictitious and this was the real band which is why the official title of the white album is The Beatles. Thanks for posting this to understand the Beatles to great extent.
Such a masterpiece of a song! It’s always been my favorite. I’m very thankful you shared this video so that we could hear all the parts. So incredible.
Thank you for sharing your talent and expertise with the world. Love your work and this song is a major favorite of mine. Like pointillism, the isolated imperfections heard that blend into a perfect song is amazing to hear...thanks!
Listening to these tracks isolated makes me even more certain that the drum overdubs starting at 2:03 panned right, are actually Paul. I never notice before that there are clearly 2 drum overdubs there panned right making it sound like impressive playing. Pehaps this is the reason why people assumed that part was Ringo, even when all the evidence points to it being Paul. When listening to it in isolation with the knowledge there are clearly 2 overdubs being played simultaniously, it sounds very much like Paul's style. The playing in this part is quite similar to Momma MIss America in sections. As others have said, at 2:20 ish when the snare drum sound changes sounds like the tea towel on the snare fell off, which sounds good in the context of the playing. I also always wondered why there was that other short drum part panned left at 2:09, but it sounds to me like a small part of the original drum track which was faded up for a couple of seconds. This seems to match the drums leaking in though other mics at 14:55 ish. It then sounds like the dual drum overdub ends at 2:35, returning to the original drum track panned right again.
I don’t understand this new NEXT LEVEL of informing (the tracks AND the description of exact instruments and ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND VOCALISTS, like whaaaaaa?), but it’s beyond amazing. I really have to say, and I don’t want to say, but what you are providing is *almost* a religious experience for me. The actual BEATLES AND Sir George Martin (for REAL the “fifth Beatle”) piece by piece (not to mention as a producer myself) is just a profound experience for me ….. I don’t know who you are or how you make this possible but sincerely, Thank You. 😑🙏
Some of George’s lines are so psychedelic. Love the stinging tone he manages to get out of his guitar. Nice counterpoint to the dreaminess of the song.
This is right up there with Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da, Good Night, Revolution 1, Helter Skelter, Yer Blues, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, I Will, Mother Nature's Son, and Blackbird
I know this has more than likely been asked, but how are you doing this? After growing up with these songs and listening them for the better part of 40 some-odd years, it is refreshing to really ~hear~ them for the first time. Wow, so many things that I'm hearing for the first time and I thought I knew The White Album. Thank you for opening up a new window in which to view this wonderful album.
John is actually one of my favorite rhythm guitarist. He doesn't get enough credit for it I think. A lot of his guitar playing from 1968 to 1970, from The White Album to his solo album Plastic Ono Band was just Superb!!! Really just shows that at the end of the day, the most important thing about guitar playing is simply what sound you can make come out of it.
