Re: OT While my guitar gently weeps

[Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>]

Title: Re: OT While my guitar gently weeps

The Leslie cabinet is a fact, not a guess, Per.  As for the guitar used, this is also well documented, it was a Les Paul....

Here it is on "Beatles Songfacts"

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=153

"The guitar Clapton used on this was a Les Paul."

> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Charles
> Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Per,
> >
> >  The Solo on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" is
> played through a Leslie
> > cabinet, unlike any other Beatles guitar solo.
> > This also contributes to the 'wide vibrato' you mention.
>
> No, I meant the playing - not the sound with which Eric/George (I
> believe it was Eric playing George gear) was playing. There is also
> an
> organ mixed at the same side as that lead guitar and the organ has
> a
> lot of tonal sway to it and you can easily take one for the other.
> It
> might even be that the guitar was played through the same Leslie
> cabinet but with the speaker rotation stopped (on a different tape
> bounce than the one they laid down the organ on).
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>
> wrote:
> > Clapton did, in fact, play George's guitar on that tune. I read
> an interview
> > where Harrison pointed out that it was, in fact, HIS guitar
> gently weeping,
> > though Slowhand was the one playing it.
>
> Yay!!! Got you guys! I scored this listening test! ;-))
> You can tell by ear it is a Telecaster too, BTW.
>
> per

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