The Beatles - Birthday Cover - Paul’s Lead Guitar (Vintage VSA 500P) (Read description)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- So today is my birthday! For my birthday I even got a new guitar, it’s an Epiphone J-45 Acoustic Guitar in a sunburst finish which looks like Johns Gibson J160e Electric acoustic.
“Birthday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). Written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, mainly by McCartney, it is the opening track on the third side of the LP (or the second disc in CD versions of the record). Surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr performed it for Starr's 70th birthday at Radio City Music Hall on 7 July 2010.[3]
The song was largely written during a recording session at EMI Studios on 18 September 1968 by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. McCartney: "We thought, 'Why not make something up?' So we got a riff going and arranged it around this riff. So that is 50-50 John and me, made up on the spot and recorded all in the same evening."[4] During the session, the Beatles and the recording crew made a short trip around the corner to McCartney's house to watch the 1956 rock & roll movie The Girl Can't Help It which was being shown for the first time on British television.[5] After the movie they returned to record "Birthday".
George Martin was away so his assistant Chris Thomas produced the session. His memory is that the song was mostly McCartney's: "Paul was the first one in, and he was playing the 'Birthday' riff. Eventually the others arrived, by which time Paul had literally written the song, right there in the studio." Everyone in the studio sang in the chorus and it was 5 am by the time the final mono mix was completed.[6]
Lennon said in his Playboy interview in 1980: "'Birthday' was written in the studio. Just made up on the spot. I think Paul wanted to write a song like 'Happy Birthday Baby', the old fifties hit. But it was sort of made up in the studio. It was a piece of garbage."[7]
"Birthday" begins with an intro drum fill, then moves directly into a blues progression in A (in the form of a guitar riff doubled by the bass) with McCartney singing at the top of his chest voice with Lennon on a lower harmony. After this section, a drum break lasting eight measures brings the song into the middle section, which rests entirely on the dominant. A repeat of the blues progression/guitar riff instrumental section, augmented by piano brings the song into a bridge before returning to a repeat of the first vocal section, this time with the piano accompaniment.
Paul used his Epiphone Casino
John used His Sanded Epiphone Casino
George used His or Johns Fender VI Bass
Ringo used his Ludwig Drums
Note: There’s a debate if either Paul Did The Lead or George Did The Lead, if George did do the lead, he would have done it on his Gibson “Lucy” Les Paul that Eric Clapton Gave him, but in my own opinion it was Paul.
Debate 2: There is another debate on who played Bass on this Track, some say it was George, some say it was Paul, but if Paul did it, he would have used his Fender Jazz Bass or His Rickenbacker 4001 Bass
I do consider my timing on this cover was a bit off which I’m sorry about, I was really anxious, I’m deciding whether to keep the comments off or on, it just depends on if people are going to put up toxic comments, but we will see how it goes :D
It’s George playing this part