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Re: Paul's electric guitar playing

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Subject: Re: Paul's electric guitar playing
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by: RJKe...@yahoo.com - Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:58 UTC

On Monday, January 9, 2023 at 8:08:50 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 2:21:28 PM UTC-4, Alex wrote:
> > As far as I know, Paul played solo electric guitar on the following
> > songs:
> > Another Girl
> > Ticket To Ride
> > Drive My Car
> > Taxman
> > Got To Get You Into My Life
> > Sgt. Pepper's
> > Good Morning Good Morning
> > Back In The USSR
> > The End
> > I'm sure I've missed some. But my point is this: what a marvelous
> > muscular style of playing! The way he yanks and tugs those strings is
> > uncanny. And also, his vibrato is to die for! No one else ever played
> > lead guitar like that.
> > My theory is that, after playing the bass guitar for so many years
> > eight hours a day (his Hamburg engagement and the rest), Paul had
> > developed this incredible strength and versatility in his fretting
> > hand, which enabled him to play those superhuman licks (just listen to
> > his breathtaking bravado on "Good Morning Good Morning"; can anyone in
> > the world approximate, let alone replicate that?)
> > Jimi Hendrix, eat your heart out!
> > Alex
> Any of my guitar players could easily hold their own against Paul. I'd say they are way better but I am biased, of course.
> Check them out and leave a positive comment.
> https://youtu.be/X2XfA8Zg3Lw

Are any of them primarily bassists, songwriters and vocalists too? It's not so much that Paul was a ggreat lead guitarist aa that could come up with good leads in addition to doing so much else, with lead guitar not even his primary role.

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