got invited to sit in a Beatles tribute band for a few months while lead guitar player is recovering from surgery

[70 Mach 1]

do you think i can pull this off with a Tele/Strat and a Pro Rev

i really hate to go buying new shit for this. its only temporary but we will be gigging

 

[Matt300ZXT]

Isn't most music from the 60s done on a Fender (or a Gibson or Rick) and some variant of a Fender amp? I don't see why you couldn't play those types of songs with that gear. Now, if for their encore they play Pantera, you may have problems.

 

[griff10672]

I build a Dr.Robert clone .......

 

[Floyd Eye]

Depends on which era.

Either way if you ain’t dressing up like them I wouldn’t sweat it. Since you’re the George guy you can use a Tele and a strat. A Ric 12 string would be nice but…….

 

[Rick Lee]

Can you borrow the gear from the guy you're filling in for?

There was a British Invasion band here a while ago and a few of the guys worked at Fender. They just about all played Fender guitars and amps and sounded fantastic.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Can you borrow the gear from the guy you're filling in for?

There was a British Invasion band here a while ago and a few of the guys worked at Fender. They just about all played Fender guitars and amps and sounded fantastic.

Only hardcore Beatle fanatics would even hear the difference. As long as the music's good the punters will be happy. I could tell the difference, but I probably know more about Beatle gear and The Beatles than 99.9% of the population.

 

[70 Mach 1]

Can you borrow the gear from the guy you're filling in for?

There was a British Invasion band here a while ago and a few of the guys worked at Fender. They just about all played Fender guitars and amps and sounded fantastic.

Noooo.
Not borrowing anyone elses gear.
To me that's like borrowing his wife.
I sure wouldn't lend my shit out

 

[Floyd Eye]

Noooo.
Not borrowing anyone elses gear.
To me that's like borrowing his wife.
I sure wouldn't lend my shit out

Tele, guitar with humbuckers, you'll be fine.

 

[Geo]

Noooo.
Not borrowing anyone elses gear.
To me that's like borrowing his wife.
I sure wouldn't lend my shit out

That's an odd analogy.

 

[311boogieman]

Only hardcore Beatle fanatics would even hear the difference. As long as the music's good the punters will be happy. I could tell the difference, but I probably know more about Beatle gear and The Beatles than 99.9% of the population.

That's what I was going to say. That, and most of their earlier guitar tones were not especially 'noteworthy' meaning they should be easy to cop

 

[stephen sawall]

Vox and Fender. Tone Bender, Phase, Flange.

Beatles did about 126 songs. I was in a band 20 years ago that covered over 80 of them. I never tried to get the sounds when with the band. I just used whatever gear I was using.

Paul actually played a lot of the harder stuff in the band. Try playing the lead and rhythm parts in Get Back. If you can do that with the right feel you can probably play most of what they do.

Some of my favorite sounds is the Vox. Tax Man, Paper Back Writer, etc. I'm actually using these types of sounds in my current band.
Early stuff like Ticket to Ride, Help is fairly clean. But not really.

It's actually a huge catalog of great guitar sounds if you cover stuff from 64 to 70. I recommend ball park a few of them and just work with that.

 

[Floyd Eye]

That's what I was going to say. That, and most of their earlier guitar tones were not especially 'noteworthy' meaning they should be easy to cop

The early stuff was AC30s and Rickenbacker 325s