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‘ I Feel Good ‘ featured a few seconds of feedback at the start
6/6.610 6/6.610 Figure 1 John Lennon is playing guitar during a Velodromo Vigorelli concert. 24th June 1965 in Milan. | Sergio del Grande/Mondadori via Getty Images It might not be obvious to listen to the track in the 21st century why John found that moment so important. But the guitar players who were popular for using feedback as a tool only got started in ’64. “I think everyone was playing on stage with input,” John explained in ‘ 80. “And long before, the Jimi Hendrix stuff was going on. So that’s what I say for The Beatles. Before Hendrix, before someone else before The Who. The first feedback on any record.” But may not have meant the momentary buzz as much as John believed. Hendrix did not even form his Experience party until ‘ 66, after all. The Who Pete Townshend in ’64 was playing with on-stage feedback.
During their American tour of August 1965, Eric Clapton and others used a lot of feedback in this time 6/6.611 6/6.611 Figure 2 Paul McCartney and John Lennon perform with The Beatles. Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty Images Feedback never became a major weapon in the arsenal of Fab Four, but it did so for other Beatles contemporaries. For example, Townshend made it a key element of his guitar attack at Who records of the period (including “Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” released in April 1965). Eric Clapton, a good friend of George Harrison who used it while performing in The Yardbirds, took the solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” His music also included Jeff Beck another London guitar star who joined Clapton in The Yardbirds. The Beatles played a gig with Townshend and an early version of The Who in summer ‘ 64, as Ian MacDonald pointed out, and John might have had the idea then. (Jimmy Page once said that Townshend had made too much criticism ‘because he didn’t play single notes.’) How The Beatles Knocked George Harrison’s Guitar Solo Off
‘ I Feel Good ‘ featured a few seconds of feedback at the start
6/6.610 6/6.610 Figure 1 John Lennon is playing guitar during a Velodromo Vigorelli concert. 24th June 1965 in Milan. | Sergio del Grande/Mondadori via Getty Images It might not be obvious to listen to the track in the 21st century why John found that moment so important. But the guitar players who were popular for using feedback as a tool only got started in ’64. “I think everyone was playing on stage with input,” John explained in ‘ 80. “And long before, the Jimi Hendrix stuff was going on. So that’s what I say for The Beatles. Before Hendrix, before someone else before The Who. The first feedback on any record.” But may not have meant the momentary buzz as much as John believed. Hendrix did not even form his Experience party until ‘ 66, after all. The Who Pete Townshend in ’64 was playing with on-stage feedback.