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1 May 2010
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Some solos just sound so right, even if they aren't technically fantastic solos or whatever. Nowhere Man comes to mind. But I think that's why I like the Beatles so much, they could all play guitar pretty well, but they didn't allow it to override their music like a lot of bands from that era.
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22 September 2009
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1 December 2009
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DoctorRobert said:
vonbontee said:
Not to mention “Paperback Writer ” and “Rain ” – which appear on the 16-track version of “Revolver ” in my fantasies. (“The best album in the world just got better!”)
Out of curiousity, where would you place them on the album?
Haha, I'm glad you asked that – I've given it some thought in the past! It's not an easy thing to decide, because of a few self-imposed restrictions:
1. Revolver is the only Beatles album in which no two consecutive songs have the same lead singer. I'd like to keep it that way.
2. Similarly, none of the really guitar-heavy tracks appear consecutively. To follow that rule means even fewer possible spots for the two guitar-drenched additions.
3. I could NEVER bring myself to rearrange the first four tracks in any way, just because.
So, keeping all that in mind, the best possibly solution I can think of (which I'm not entirely satisfied with) would be to place “Rain ” either before or after “Here, There And Everywhere “; and to put “Paperback Rider” in between “Doctor Robert ” and “I Want To Tell You “. But like I said, that's still not completely satisfactory to me. If I wanted to do better, I'd have to rearrange some of the existing Revolver tracks into a whole new improved sequence, and that's not a bad idea, but I haven't got time for that now.
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11.32pm
4 April 2010
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DoctorRobert said:
vonbontee said:
Not to mention “Paperback Writer ” and “Rain ” – which appear on the 16-track version of “Revolver ” in my fantasies. (“The best album in the world just got better!”)
Out of curiousity, where would you place them on the album?
1. Revolver is the only Beatles album in which no two consecutive songs have the same lead singer. I'd like to keep it that way.
And Abbey Road if you count the medley as one song (which I do [You Never Give Me Your Money counts])
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4.09am
1 May 2010
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Joe said:
mithveaen said:
My first answer is Something or While My Guitar Gently Weeps , but I love Paul's Taxman . I also love Dig A Pony a lot.
WMGGW's solo wasn't played by a Beatle, but I presume you know that.
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1 December 2009
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1. Revolver is the only Beatles album in which no two consecutive songs have the same lead singer. I'd like to keep it that way.
And Abbey Road if you count the medley as one song (which I do [You Never Give Me Your Money counts])
You're obviously a “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” hater! 😉
(Comes right before “Oh! Darling “)
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
9.58pm
4 April 2010
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1. Revolver is the only Beatles album in which no two consecutive songs have the same lead singer. I'd like to keep it that way.
And Abbey Road if you count the medley as one song (which I do [You Never Give Me Your Money counts])
You're obviously a “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” hater! 😉
(Comes right before “Oh! Darling “)
Ah, that's right. Nevermind.
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6.37pm
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14 April 2010
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I love guitar the solo on Taxman . 
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10.47pm
1 December 2009
Offline Zig, that's not actually the exact same guitar solo used in both “Taxman ” and “Tomorrow Never Knows “, no matter what Ian MacDonald or anyone tells you! (I give a full analysis – emphasis on the “anal” – on the “Tomorrow Never Knows ” page on this site.) Most likely, an alternate take (or takes) of the “Taxman ” solo was slowed down, reversed and cut into pieces, and that's what was used. Or if not a whole take, possibly just Paul noodling around or warming up before recording the actual solo.
GEORGE: In fact, The Detroit Sound. JOHN: In fact, yes. GEORGE: In fact, yeah. Tamla-Motown artists are our favorites. The Miracles. JOHN: We like Marvin Gaye. GEORGE: The Impressions PAUL & GEORGE: Mary Wells. GEORGE: The Exciters. RINGO: Chuck Jackson. JOHN: To name but eighty.
12.26pm
13 September 2010
Offline I've always loved the guitar solo in “Hey Bulldog ” It can get stuck in my almost all the time.
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3.51pm
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14 April 2010
Offline vonbontee said:
Zig, that's not actually the exact same guitar solo used in both “Taxman ” and “Tomorrow Never Knows “, no matter what Ian MacDonald or anyone tells you! (I give a full analysis – emphasis on the “anal” – on the “Tomorrow Never Knows ” page on this site.) Most likely, an alternate take (or takes) of the “Taxman ” solo was slowed down, reversed and cut into pieces, and that's what was used. Or if not a whole take, possibly just Paul noodling around or warming up before recording the actual solo.
Yeah – I wasn't going for accuracy here, just a chuckle. Guess I need to try harder.
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4.21pm
4 September 2010
Offline I just listened to Revolver back-to-back again, and the guitar is just PHENOMENAL.
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8.05pm
1 May 2010
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I love guitar the solo on Taxman .
.sdrawkcab ylno – swonK reveN worromoT no ffir ratiug emas eht eb ot sneppah os stuj hcihW
LOL!!!!! that's quite hard to read!!! 
Here comes the sun….. Scoobie-doobie……
Something in the way she moves…..attracts me like a cauliflower…
Bop. Bop, cat bop. Go, Johnny, Go.
Beware of Darkness…
9.41pm
14 December 2009
Offline And even harder to type, presumably
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12.55pm
21 February 2011
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and also “Let It Be ” and “Dig A Pony “
1.07pm
13 November 2009
Offline Hi lorry! Welcome to the forum. Let It Be ? Not one that I'd think of first. *goes off to listen it again*
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1.23pm
23 January 2011
Offline Yeah, I love Let it Be too. It fits right where it should in that song.
1.24pm
21 February 2011
Offline Hi! Well, the solo on “Let It Be ” is definitely not one of the best but it's always touched a chord in me :D… and I don't even know why but I always “sing along” to that guitar solo.
1.54pm
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14 April 2010
Offline yellowlorryslow said:
Hi! Well, the solo on “Let It Be ” is definitely not one of the best but it's always touched a chord in me :D… and I don't even know why but I always “sing along” to that guitar solo.
It doesn't have to be the best – as long as it's your favorite, that's all that counts.
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2.04pm
31 March 2008
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There were two LIB solos, for the single and album versions. The backing track was otherwise the same, although mixed differently.
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