Dig A Pony- The Beatles (Guitar Cover)

Thanks Eric Mason (and ‪@wmvansise8797‬) for lending me the Rosewood Tele!

This cover is based on the full unedited version from the Rooftop Concert, before Phil Spector cut it down. You can hear it on the 2022 release: Get Back – The Rooftop Performance

Specifically, Phil Spector cut the 'All I Want is You's' at 0:19 and 3:42
And cut John's guitar mistake at 3:30

Dig A Pony was recorded live on Jan 30th 1969. You can see the rooftop footage in the Let It Be and Get Back movies. The song begins with a false start because Ringo was smoking a cigarette and shouts 'hold it!' 0:02

John Lennon played his Epiphone Casino, and George played his Fender Rosewood Telecaster. They were both plugged into Fender Twin Reverb amps. George's guitar solo is my favorite Beatles solo, I love the energy of this whole performance

Let's talk about the guitar tone on the recording. Their Twin Reverbs were rated at 100 watts, making them very clean and loud and difficult to distort. This has puzzled Beatles gear nerds for years, and I don't have an answer as to why the tones are so crunchy. One explanation was that they had to play much louder on the rooftop outdoors, driving the Twin's preamps. Another theory is that their amps were early UK imported prototypes of the Silverface line of Fender amps, which had a different circuit

I'm achieving this crunch by using boost pedals into my 1974 Fender Pro Reverb, a very similar amp to their Twin Reverbs. I'm plugged into the vibrato channel, set clean on volume 3

John used the bridge pickup of his Casino, but rolled the tone knob down almost all the way
For my cover I also am on the bridge pickup. My volume knob is on 9.5 and my tone knob at 1
I'm using an Analogman Bad Bob boost pedal into a Klon KTR

George used the middle position of his Telecaster. He is seen turning up the volume and tone knobs at various points of this song (see timestamps below)
For George's Tele, I'm using my Analogman King of Tone (boost side) into the Bad Bob Boost

Interesting notes:
0:02 George plays the false start Low G note, but John does not
0:44 George is seen turning up his vol knob
0:54 Check out this scene in Let it Be- George kneels below John, and John reacts by turning his Casino up and away. He pauses strumming briefly
1:13 George is seen turning up his tone knob
1:29 George switches to fingerpicking, hiding his pick between his index and middle finger
1:39 George switches back to a pick, and turns up his tone knob again
1:43 George moves his left hand up the neck, but doesn't play much
2:09 Before the solo, George turns up his tone knob
2:13 For the beginning of the solo, George uses his thumb instead of pick
2:19 George switches to a pick, while John plays a cool double stop
3:27 George messes with tone knob, while John accidentally plays riff too early

MY GEAR:
2021 Epiiphone Casino USA Royal Tan
2010's Fender MIJ Rosewood Telecaster
1974 Fender Pro Reverb (Weber 12" speakers)
Analogman King of Tone
Analogman Bad Bob Boost
Klon KTR Overdrive
Neumann TLM-103

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