Listen to the recordings from the 1966 tour (Budokan, Candlestick, etc.) and note that George is unable to produce this effect on stage as you can always hear the attack on the last harmonic note. ![]() It is not possible, using the techniques the Beatles were using in 1965, to play the solo and produce the described harmonic sound in a single track unless two guitarists are playing in unison. The attack is not audible, so it was played by adjusting the volume knob on the guitar (or, less likely, using a volume pedal) from silent to maximum volume while the note rang. We hear a slide from the B (7th fret of the E string) to the open E followed by the swell of a decay from a harmonic. The second piece of evidence comes from the end of the guitar solo. This is what they did on the first chord of “A Hard Day’s Night,” but in that case the difference was definitely intentional. The first electric guitar chord, for example, has more notes than there are strings, supporting the notion that they either deliberately or accidentally (and I believe the latter) played slightly different chords. ![]() There are at least two pieces of auditory evidence suggesting they did in fact both play lead. Lewisohn would not have detected John and George playing in unison on a single track when he listened to the tapes twenty years after the fact.
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