I Want You (She's So Heavy)- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)

I Want You was the first song recorded for the Abbey Road album on February 22nd, 1969. The backing track was recorded at Trident Studios in London. The Beatles taped 35 takes, and then made a composite from takes 9, 20 and 32

John Lennon played lead guitar on his Epiphone Casino, into a Fender Twin Reverb amp. George Harrison played rhythm guitar on his Gibson 'Lucy' Les Paul, also into a Twin Reverb but making use of an Arbiter Fuzz Face pedal

I was able to revive some hidden guitar parts by isolating Ringo's drum track, which revealed John and George's backing guitars that were later taped over (outro only). Many overdubs were recorded, mostly at the beginning and end of the song. It can get a bit confusing, because there are 8-10 guitars total on the song. So I'll break it down as best I can:

Intro: 5 guitars total
0:00
John's backing track guitar is one of the arpeggio Casinos
George's backing track guitar is doing leads (bottom left on the grid)
1 John arpeggio Casino overdub
2 George lead guitar overdubs (top left and right on the grid)

Main Section: 2 guitars total
0:14
John's backing track guitar
George's backing track guitar

Outro: 8 guitars
4:38
John's backing track guitar (deleted, heard in background of Ringo's iso drums)
George's backing track guitar (deleted, heard in Ringo iso drums- includes a hidden guitar solo)
4 guitars in Drop D tuning- 2 George, 2 John playing same notes
2 John arpeggio Casino guitars- both overdubs

I'm using my 2021 Epiphone USA Casino into an Analogman King of Tone boost pedal, into my 1974 Fender Pro Reverb. Like John, I'm keeping the bridge pickup knobs on full, then turning down my neck pickup tone knob down (to 3-4)

For George, I'm using my 2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard into an Analogman Sunface BC108 (Fuzz Face clone), into the 1974 Fender Pro Reverb. George kept both his volume knobs down, with the fuzz face on the whole time. This was a trick that Jimi Hendrix used with his fuzz faces- turning down the volume knobs with the pedal on cleans up the signal, picking harder or turning the knobs up produces more distortion. My Les Paul knob settings:
Neck Vol: 4.6
Bridge Vol: 4.6
Tone Knobs on 10

MY GEAR:
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard (OX4 Low-Wind PAF pickups)
2021 Epiphone USA Casino Royal Tan
Analogman King of Tone
Analogman Sunface BC-108
1974 Fender Pro Reverb
Neumann TLM-103

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