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

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.
 
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.
 
Rick Lee said:
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.
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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.
 
Floyd Eye said:
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.
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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
 
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.





 
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The Rocky Racoon guitar is a 65' Strat i believe and a Tele will obviously cop that tons well. The Les Paul was used on later stuff. I guess it depends on what songs you are doing.
 
romanianreaper said:
The Rocky Racoon guitar is a 65' Strat i believe and a Tele will obviously cop that tons well. The Les Paul was used on later stuff. I guess it depends on what songs you are doing.
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It's just Rocky. Rocky Raccoon is a Paul McCartney song off The White Album. Mal Evans found a pair of Sonic Blue Strats, one for George and one for John. George later painted his at his house while tripping on acid and named it Rocky. His son Dhani now owns it.

And it was an SG not a Les Paul. That one was painted by The Fool for Eric Clapton when he was in Cream. George gave it to Jackie Lomax from The Undertakers and it's next owner was Todd Rundgren. I think that Football player dude who just died had it in his extensive collection.
 
Being that I'm a guitar and amp nut, I might be able to tell a small visual or aural diffrence if I really zeroed in on things. However speaking only for myself, life's too short for splitting hairs. I'd prefer to just enjoy the music. As long as the songs were done well, I wouldn't care if the instruments and amps don't match exactly. Go for it.
 
Matt300ZXT said:
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.
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"Now, if for their encore they play Pantera, you may have problems."

Just be sure to have something like this on your pedalboard if that happens LOL!!!

ENGL Amplifiers Powerball Distortion Pedal
 
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