The Beatles Bible - Topic: I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Holsety on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/page-2/#p61667 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/page-2/#p61667 Considering I'm still talking about this song, I thought I'd contribute something I found. I never realized this song was inexplicably sped up, or at least it sounds like it.

I feel like they might have overdubbed the electric guitar after they sped it up or something, but the rest of it sounds normal at that speed.

]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 21:07:45 +0000 dotwalrus on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p61581 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p61581 hello forum. definitely george. fast, tight and country western flavored. what a wonderful discovery. i hear some nasty talk from john towards the beginning.

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DrBeatle said

I had read for many years that the backwards solo in TMK was just the solo from Taxman sped up and played backward, but recently I've been reading this wasn't true. Is it a leftover from I'm Only Sleeping?

I suspect the TNK solo is outtakes from alternate attempts at the "Taxman" solo. A six-note phrase that recurs three times (with slight variations) in TNK is almost the same as one in the "Taxman" solo.

]]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:38:40 +0000 Joe on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p61261 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p61261 By coincidence, last night I reversed (ie made forwards) the backwards vocals in Rain, the solo in Tomorrow Never Knows and the main solo in I'm Only Sleeping. If you click through and listen to them you'll be able to hear how they were originally recorded.

The one for I'm Only Sleeping is particularly interesting. It sounds pretty awful forwards (though the TNK one isn't much better), so I'm inclined to believe George really did prepare and rehearse how he wanted it to sound backwards before reversing the notation.

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unknown said

Inner Light said

mithveaen said
Thanks for sharing this! It is really interesting to hear. So, what we know is that George recorded the guitar and then they played it backwards? Sorry for my ignorance. a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7

Yes and it was George who was innovative and came up with the idea for the backwards guitar solos and not Paul though some have thought it was him.

Calm down, nobody was taking anything from George. I don't know how innovative that really was, though, wasn't it John's idea to have ...]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:55:47 +0000 DrBeatle on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60980 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60980 I had read for many years that the backwards solo in TMK was just the solo from Taxman sped up and played backward, but recently I've been reading this wasn't true. Is it a leftover from I'm Only Sleeping?

]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:06:32 +0000 meanmistermustard on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60976 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60976 Can we not go back down the well worn path of Paul v George v John v Ringo v Pete. Not saying we are there yet but for some reason a lot of threads end up with debates over whether Paul thought up the triangle and that made the song or if it was George or whoever.

 

And isnt there a backwards guitar in Tomorrow Never Knows albeit a tape loop? Actually wiki has it as a backwards guitar solo. Cant remember the session date however so it may have been after the other sessions.

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Inner Light said

mithveaen said
Thanks for sharing this! It is really interesting to hear. So, what we know is that George recorded the guitar and then they played it backwards? Sorry for my ignorance. a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7

Yes and it was George who was innovative and came up with the idea for the backwards guitar solos and not Paul though some have thought it was him.

Calm down, nobody was taking anything from George. I don't know how innovative that really was, though, wasn't it John's idea to have the backwards ...]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:33:37 +0000 Long John Silver on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60964 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60964 They did every song backwards so solo guitar was going to happen for sure :) .

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Long John Silver said

Inner Light said

mithveaen said
Thanks for sharing this! It is really interesting to hear. So, what we know is that George recorded the guitar and then they played it backwards? Sorry for my ignorance. a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7

Yes and it was George who was innovative and came up with the idea for the backwards guitar solos and not Paul though some have thought it was him.

Wasn't it Johns Rain first song who had backwards? And they did backwards thing with every song after that?

Rain's vocal track ...]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:06:07 +0000 Long John Silver on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60955 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60955

Inner Light said

mithveaen said
Thanks for sharing this! It is really interesting to hear. So, what we know is that George recorded the guitar and then they played it backwards? Sorry for my ignorance. a-hard-days-night-paul-7a-hard-days-night-paul-7

Yes and it was George who was innovative and came up with the idea for the backwards guitar solos and not Paul though some have thought it was him.

Wasn't it Johns Rain first song who had backwards? And they did backwards thing with every song after that?

]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:16:30 +0000 meanmistermustard on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60953 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60953 There are 4 mixes out there (UK and us stereo and mono) that have different guitar parts in different places and from what the books say it was due to where the guitar track was faded up and down.

Dont remember hearing what George said before. I thought John went home with a Rain early mix, got it all muddled up because he was stoned and thats how the end of that came about. Never heard it also happened with Im Only Sleeping. Maybe it happened with both.

 

A site called Beatle Books has an article on the song and goes into the solo and ...]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:22:43 +0000 Holsety on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60949 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60949 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....2J9zIuredY

at about 5:50; I would embed it but it's disabled.

He may be mistaken, but I thought that's where the other random notes came from.

]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:01:39 +0000 DrBeatle on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60948 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60948 I thought the rest of the backward notes in the song were just them randomly fading in and out the loop the solo was on?

]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:56:46 +0000 Holsety on I'm Only Sleeping (in reverse) http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60944 The songs http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/im-only-sleeping-in-reverse/#p60944 I was talking about the rest of the song, where you hear random notes. George said he and Paul played random notes for the rest of the guitar parts on Anthology, in that segment where they listen to Golden Slumbers and Tomorrow Never Knows. I know he spent 5 hours or so in a night session writing the solo. 

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