In this extended episode, Richard and Robert discuss the Beatles’ instruments. Andy Babiuk, bassist with The Empty Hearts (formerly of the Chesterfield Kings) and author of Beatles Gear and the newly-published Rolling Stones Gear, joins the panel to talk about how the Beatles acquired and used various guitars and effects to create magic.
Songs excerpts heard include “I Feel Fine,” “And I Love Her,” “She Said She Said,” “Paperback Writer,” “Back in the USSR” and “I Me Mine.”
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Mr. Lite actually do have harmonica, a bass harmonica on the intro, so you were on the right track!
I meant Mr Kite. 🙂
Always a good day when there’s a new episode of SATB to listen to. 🙂 LOVED this so much, and eagerly await the next installment with Thomas.
I had never heard of the ‘Ring shout’ before and now I hear it all over R n B music and beyond.
Welcome back! I missed you.
Blimey, the coda in Hey Jude is a ring shout !
I thought this episode was about Paul’s Granny Shit Songs 😀
Another Great Show!
Hey what happened to episode 165!
Was episode 165 released and then withdrawn, or never released?
In an interminable holding pattern. Maybe it’ll slip out someday when we’ve all stopped caring.
Luved this, learned a lot.
Sorry but Lennon was a fantastic melodist.
I have to agree with Dr Brothers about Hey Jude though. As many zillions of times as I’ve heard it it’s still a transcendent listening experience. …until the coda. 🙂 I think that one of the main reasons it stays so fresh is because of the relative rawness of the performance.
It’s good to have you back!
Another very interesting program, mate. Hey what happened to 165?
Good show, nice to hear Coltrane and Bubber Miley mentions alongside “Shimmy Like Kate”
Jimi Hendrix never went to art school!
Very enjoyable. Gonna order the book.
Forgot to mention that “I Saw Her Standing There” ‘borrowed’ from “When The Saint Go Marching In”…