Just curious for future (and I'm sure more expensive) GAS attacks. Are there other guitars that give that classic Beatles jangly sound besides the obvious Rickenbacker?
Thanks in advance,
KC
Before I read your post, the first thing that jumped into my mind was a Telecaster. When I think "jangly", I think Tele.
Jason
"Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution"
I've always thought most 12 strings had that sound, atleast the electrics. But I would also have to say a tele, I couldn't stand that sound on mine so I sold it a month after I bought it.
Just curious for future (and I'm sure more expensive) GAS attacks. Are there other guitars that give that classic Beatles jangly sound besides the obvious Rickenbacker?
Thanks in advance,
KC
Try an Epiphone Casino.
For later Beatles stuff (post '67) George frequently used a Fender or a Les Paul.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- HST
You heared it, you'll need either a tele, strat, LP, rickenbacker or (semi-)hollow-body. :P
I have a Daisy Rock 12 string that sounds pretty jangly. I don't know if it's Beatles jangly but it's jangly.
P90s sound janglier or twangier than humbuckers do. But I don't generally think of semihollowbodies with P90s (one of which is my main electric guitar) as sounding jangly or twangy. You'll have to turn the treble way up and the bass and mids way down on the EQ to get that.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine."
p90's are pretty meaty, although it does have a twang tone on the bridge pup.
Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders played a lot of jangly chords on their earlier songs, she used to play a Telecaster - whereas the Byrds got their distinctive sound on songs like Tambourine Man and Turn Turn Turn from a Rickenbacker 12-string.
Plenty of treble, like the man said, and fast arpeggios rather than strumming - try playng close to the bridge, too.
:D :D :D
Vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
You heared it, you'll need either a tele, strat, LP, rickenbacker or (semi-)hollow-body. :P
LOL - I guess that just about narrows it down. :wink:
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Honestly, the Beatles used a lot of different guitars.
Maybe if you were to talk about a specific album, song, or best yet -- a particular part on a particular track .. we could offer more help!
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." -- HST
Gretsch too.
Gretsch too.
Never thought of that...... but here's something to drool over while you're gassing....
Those are in the Cavern Pub in Liverpool, across the road from the re-built Cavern Club......I call in there sometimes for a couple of beers, and wish there was no glass between me and the guitars - and the barman would go and change a barrel in the cellar.....
5 seconds, that's all I'd need......
:D :D :D
vic
"Sometimes the beauty of music can help us all find strength to deal with all the curves life can throw us." (D. Hodge.)
Honestly, the Beatles used a lot of different guitars.
Maybe if you were to talk about a specific album, song, or best yet -- a particular part on a particular track .. we could offer more help!
You're right, I should have been more specific. I don't know if you have heard the Beatles "Love" CD. In the last few seconds of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" they are tuning up for "A Day in the Life." That is where I have heard it the most clearly.
So does the "jangly" sound come from the length of the neck??? Longer necks more jangly, shorter neck not jangly????
