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Post subject: The Beatles Strats on "Ticket to Ride"
Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:30 pm
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I wonder where those Sonic Blues are now?


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George's became Rocky and later ended up as a slide guitar Dhani probably has it now
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John's is lost in history

and they paid the equivalent of $3,400 for each!


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Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 4:17 pm
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"The s/n on Harrison's Strat was 83840 with a neck date Dec '61."

Must be in Olivia's possession?

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I had a 65 Sonic Blue that faded to what people thought was a Surf Green.
I wish I still had it....I wouldn't have done what George did to his.


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Rebelsoul wrote:
I had a 65 Sonic Blue that faded to what people thought was a Surf Green.
I wish I still had it....I wouldn't have done what George did to his.


Interesting, also when you google "sonic blue" images you get a variety of colors.

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There was a good interview in Guitar Player last year with Dhani and he has all his fathers guitars and uses them all. The interviewer was just starstruck talking about the gear. Dhani who sounds like a really good guy was saying how at first it was really hard when his father died as they were really close. George even had a studio in the house and when he decided to start recording he was saying he uses all the guitars and that he was glad he had them or they would probably of been auctioned and in some vault in Japan.


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I don't believe that they used Strats on Ticket To Ride in fact all the lead parts were done by Paul with his Epiphone Casino(which is still his favourite guitar)the first song where John and George used their Strats was Nowhere Man the lead break's incredible tone was achieved by John and George gong directly into the board and using tons of compression, they both payed the lead in unison.

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it's been speculated that the maple neck sonic blue strat present at the imagine sessions during 1971 at tittenhurst was at one point the original 61 rosewood neck one that John used in 1965, and can be seen pictured with it at soundcheck


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Miami Mike wrote:
Rebelsoul wrote:
I had a 65 Sonic Blue that faded to what people thought was a Surf Green.
I wish I still had it....I wouldn't have done what George did to his.


Interesting, also when you google "sonic blue" images you get a variety of colors.
Thinking back on it,I think whatever Fender used for the undercoat had something to do with mine fading to a greenish hue.It looked like a classic "Sea Foam Green"....that's what I meant instead of "Surf Green".


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guitslinger wrote:
I don't believe that they used Strats on Ticket To Ride in fact all the lead parts were done by Paul with his Epiphone Casino(which is still his favourite guitar)the first song where John and George used their Strats was Nowhere Man the lead break's incredible tone was achieved by John and George gong directly into the board and using tons of compression, they both payed the lead in unison.


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Post subject: Re: The Beatles Strats on "Ticket to Ride"
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:48 pm
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the strat was used on ticket to ride...it was the fundamental note that played along with the chords..for example, when the A chord was played, the strat would simply play along with an A note, sort of like a bass part, but on guitar


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Rebelsoul wrote:
I had a 65 Sonic Blue that faded to what people thought was a Surf Green.
I wish I still had it....I wouldn't have done what George did to his.


Well you need to realize to George it was not a valuable collectors item but just a guitar...what he did to it made it unique. That guitar is worth so much the way it is it would make your head spin and any collector would give a leg for it. That said yes....if you are I did that to a 60's strat today it would be a bad move. However would it really matter if we did it to a 2007 strat? Not really, and this is what it was like to George at the time...heck if the paint job was cool might increase the value....100 fold that if you actually became famous...heck Fender would probably reproduce it as a artist series and ask thousands for copies.

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guitslinger wrote:
... all the lead parts were done by Paul ...

It is interesting that a lot of Beatles guitar solos were actually Paul or John. Both of them are/were very good lead players.

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Rebelsoul wrote:
Miami Mike wrote:
Rebelsoul wrote:
I had a 65 Sonic Blue that faded to what people thought was a Surf Green.
I wish I still had it....I wouldn't have done what George did to his.


Interesting, also when you google "sonic blue" images you get a variety of colors.
Thinking back on it,I think whatever Fender used for the undercoat had something to do with mine fading to a greenish hue.It looked like a classic "Sea Foam Green"....that's what I meant instead of "Surf Green".


Not just the undercoat but the colors themselves can be controversial since Fender's mix was not always the same and the clear coats yellowed. So one guitar with that color can be a different shade and then take into account how much the clear coat yellowed, or not, you can have a pretty drastic contrast from one guitar to the other that originally had the same paint code.

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01GT eibach wrote:
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... all the lead parts were done by Paul ...

It is interesting that a lot of Beatles guitar solos were actually Paul or John. Both of them are/were very good lead players.


I though they called in Clapton to do all the good ones... 8)

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