Deconstructing Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Isolated Tracks)

White Album 1968
00:00 Drums, Firebell and Maracas
02:33 Bass
04:50 Guitars and Handclaps
07:23 Vocals
Personnel
Drums (1964 Ludwig Super Classic Black Oyster Pearl): Ringo Starr
Firebell: Paul Mccartney
Maracas and Handclaps: George Harrison
Bass (1964 Rickenbacker 4001 S): Paul Mccartney
Guitar (1965 Epiphone Casino ES230TD): John Lennon
Lead Guitar (1964 Gibson SG): George Harrison
Vocals: John Lennon and Paul Mccartney

[@mr.blue7357]

This song is super Underrated

[@mario486waluigi2]

No beatles song is underrated

[@rad11123]

@@mario486waluigi2 a lot of them are

[@mario486waluigi2]

@@rad11123 Not

[@rad11123]

@@mario486waluigi2 imo they are

[@onelapmaster5634]

Agree. I've always loved this song. Only problem it's too short.

[@polcommwatcher]

Perhaps the group's rawest, loudest song. (They didn't record many.) George carries it superbly, just like "She Said She Said." Gliding from the running melody riff to sharp lead lick and back. And for all the "more cow bell" comments on half the songs I've seen on YT, here's the Holy Grail. Though apparently it's a fire bell, but so what. Always wondered if Ringo played it; it's Paul--you really hear how exacting he is. Not just clanging the thing, but playing it like an instrument to support the song. These four guys made magic.

[@redactedband8288]

Mal Evans on bell

[@mrblue99999]

@@redactedband8288 Hell no. Paul.

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

Raw is not what I'd call it. Not unless you mean raw energy. A better rocker than Helter Skelter. I don't know why it isn't more highly regarded. To me, the best track on the White Album. But then, I'm also partial to the Savoy Truffle. Another song that nobody but me seems to get.

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

@The Jakob Hallett Nerve Centre I've always been partial to saxophones. I don't get why more bands don't take advantage of them. Big sound. High energy.

[@Two_But_Not_Two]

John's unique, mind-blowing creativity on display once again.

[@e.s.domino]

Bass is hypnotic

[@davidfoster5906]

The bass and the kick drum

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

Yes, it is hypnotic. If one note is hypnotic. Why does EVERY Beatles clip have to have one thread of McCartney fans going going ga ga?

[@e.s.domino]

@@Kermit_T_Frog de gustibus non desputandum

[@robbiepeterh]

Phenomenal. They were so far out and so completely genius 😎 they’ll never be anything as good as the Beatles again.

[@wesleycolemanmusic]

If you like this then I recommend listening to Frank Zappa's debut album.

[@Maxwell1181]

@@wesleycolemanmusic I like Zappa...but NO COMPARISON !!!!

[@TheCliffandPhilShow]

@@Maxwell1181 Really!!:)

[@tjcint]

Couldn't agree more.

[@connorowens9057]

That snare sound is one of ringos best in my opinion

[@DLD2Music]

for the tea towels hahhaha

[@owenklein1917]

@@DLD2Music it has a super trebly sound which I dig

[@leonidyevseyev888]

@@owenklein1917 - yes, I also love the higher tone "smack" sound that they were able to achieve --- I like it very much and do not find such pitch anywhere else, but maybe for some Pink Floyd recordings...

[@JohnWhite-xc3md]

Pure Rocknroll spirit. Love how reckless it all sounds. Again, John had the best voice for rock music ever.❤

[@thomquickmusic]

Guitars are GENIUS as usual....and currently in 2022 still ahead of our time

[@elirosen1391]

I love the groovy syncopation John and Ringo had going in the intro.

[@gura_dura]

when I first listened to this song. the Bell hooked my ears up (with guitars and vocals too). It's amazing that its properly played and well fitted in this song. MORE FIREBELL!!

[@TSO101]

THIS IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BEATLES SONGS!!!

[@mr80s81]

6:55 I absolutely love this part!

[@tjcint]

An incredible part of the song.

[@thecolourofspring3642]

The firebell is my favorite part of this song, it works so well

[@aaronreeves8376]

Great tune, and what a funky bass break!!!!

[@boblupton583]

i heard it as a kid I still use it. :) :)

[@thomquickmusic]

I appreciate this song Soooo much more as time goes on

[@sallykohorst8803]

I really love this song. I love all their music. Doing things separate with pictures great. I really love the boys singing together paul and John.

[@ilovemusic7748]

George does vocals in the song he shouts with John and Paul in the end. According to every source including the 50th book Paul and George provide backing vocals.

[@JesperSalama]

I don't hear George

[@ilovemusic7748]

@@JesperSalama read the book

[@mrblue99999]

If you listen to the drum track sounds like there’s shouting in the background throughout.

[@JesperSalama]

Kevin Howlett may have stated that George is singing in this song, but to this day I can only hear Paul and John's vocals (though John has also clearly overdubbed several vocal parts.)

[@areelian1]

This is my favorite Beatles song.

[@tjcint]

Such an exciting song that has an irresistible intensity ...

[@nedmarc]

So funky and groovy!

[@stevenvassalli2408]

I was 7 yrs old when my brother bought the White Album. Already being a Beatle fan for 3 yrs I sat down, the album on our high-end stereo and listened away. Some songs, such as this one, got played numerous times. So did Helter Skelter.

[@wilhelmhagberg8854]

How did you guys react to the album? Took me some time to warm up to it, quite different from their previous efforts.

[@7Korat]

Every track is like gospel by music apostle for future generations

[@topicaz]

I love this song because of the firebell

[@Starbeamers]

Listening closely to the firebell throughout the song, you can clearly hear that McCartney has a real sense of rhythm!!

[@MrJJackFLASH]

Starr and MacCartney made a great job of this.

[@Kermit_T_Frog]

I don't see how either of them stood out other than that they are the only ones still alive.

[@elavefenix7466]

Ese sonido que logran en la batería es fenomenal... Absolutamente

[@elizabethingram9784]

The bass and guitar part at 9:40 are awesome. :)

[@DLD2Music]

Lol?

[@DLD2Music]

White Album 1968 00:00 Drums, Firebell and Maracas 02:33 Bass 04:50 Guitars and Handclaps 07:23 Vocals Personnel Drums (1964 Ludwig Super Classic Black Oyster Pearl): Ringo Starr Firebell: Paul Mccartney Maracas and Handclaps: George Harrison Bass (1964 Rickenbacker 4001 S): Paul Mccartney Guitar (1965 Epiphone Casino ES230TD): John Lennon Lead Guitar (1964 Gibson SG): George Harrison Vocals: John Lennon and Paul Mccartney

[@keithmoon3190]

9:22 Power of christ compels you!

[@agent7.722]

Drums are gnarly

[@johnnyangel-wendell6442]

The "firebell" thing is great--nicked from "Grazing In The Grass" but what an idea!

[@yernotthebossofme1062]

I love George's nasty fierce and blistering tone throughout the song. George, Paul and Ringo made this tune cook... not bad for "session" players on this John Song. John's guitar is fantastic in this too. I referred to the other 3 as session musicians because I've often heard that he sessions from the white Album seemed more like 4 solo artists using the other 3 as session musicians when it was time to record their tune. Frankly I don't think any of the combinations of very good or great session players that the 4 individual Beatles worked with during their solo careers, ever equaled the chemistry, quality or sound that the Bestles provided to one another with their musicianship and shared musical vocabulary.

[@christopher.walken01]

Despite what Wikipedia says, Paul played the fire bells in the basic track. John and George played their guitars so loud, that Paul couldn't record his bass alongside them so he went over to a fire bell and started hitting it. It was during the overdubs he played his bass.

[@waldornprime5567]

6:57 GOOD LORD imagine his hands after like the 20th take of that bit

[@PikachuYoshiPines164]

9:22 They sound like they’re being tortured in hell

[@DLD2Music]

hahahah

[@muzengarocker3184]

Mental exorcism!

[@thesilvershining]

I think the White Album sessions were hell for them tbh 💀

[@PikachuYoshiPines164]

@@thesilvershining I sadly wouldn’t doubt it

[@caseyeisenman]

That bell is amazing!!!

[@owenmartin3307]

Needs more Firebell!!

[@TheSanityInspector]

If this wasn't where punk got some of its inspiration, it should have been.

[@DLD2Music]

finally someone with my thoughts, I also think that John Lennon created grunge in songs like Happines Is A Warm Gun

[@jacobgutierrez864]

I can hear how Television’s “Friction” might have been inspired by this

[@jacobgutierrez864]

@@DLD2Music Soundgarden definitely took inspiration from “Happiness”

[@saltylemon2752]

helter skelter 🤪

[@thehunter3387]

lol . QUIT YOUR MESSING AROUND by the beatles is punk rock

[@marlonennes1206]

This one, Revolution and Helter Skelter are the heaviest Beatles songs.

[@Kupcho58]

Damn those guys were good! I always took this song as being Johns response to Helter Skelter. Ya want LOUD n RAW? Try this on for size... ... DAMN those guys were good!

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

This was actually recorded first though.

[@jacoblarkin5987]

Always thought this one rocked harder than HS...better musical design as well.

[@agent7.722]

Well done dude. You can kinda hear the guitar behind the drums but you isolated everything really really well

[@scuffedcovers]

very good

[@Lalocarrito]

ooooo al fin, llevaba tiempo esperando esto, muchas graciassss

[@DLD2Music]

Gracias :sunglasses:

[@aequusagricola9542]

I think John Lennon was inspired by the verse of Manfred Manns song 'Mighty Quinn' (...'Everybody's building ships... etc) when he wrote the verse of this song. The chord transition and melody are quite similar. The Beatles recorded "Monkey" less than a year after Manfred Mann recorded their song. No offense btw, I love this song, and the similarity is subtle

[@jandroelfenomeno]

i think originally it was a bob dylan song

[@wilhelmhagberg8854]

Funny I though of that for the first time listening to the song today. It’s very possible, had a few ”mighty quinn” knockoffs during Let it be sessions too.

[@wilhelmhagberg8854]

Yes, but he kind of licenced it to M,M . and never made a studio version as far ad I know. He did this with several tracks from ”basement tapes” sessions.

[@williambault2469]

dig the bass drum pound pound .

[@onesavedvoice]

Hey these guys are good. Any other songs?

[@NotQuiteFirst]

MORE FIREBELL

[@Good9tTo9t]

George Harrison did backing volcals too

[@DLD2Music]

yes at the end

[@DLD2Music]

@@Good9tTo9t sorry

[@ricardopavez5932]

awesome

[@magraretsbane6274]

I’m still split over whether Paul is on the Jazz Bass or Rick for this one, one day I’ll get a 4001 and settle it I suppose

[@nurknanker6105]

Best Lennon lyric.🐒

[@sunj9444]

Rick Beato didn’t include John in his list of rock vocalist, probably he didn’t listen to this track.

[@dannymoulton4829]

He forgot the greatest? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@tjcint]

Rick Beato is overrated. He is, in truth, not a particularly cultured man.

[@McDoinky]

Was McCartney on the list?

[@thesilvershining]

Rick Beato is kind of a douchebag tbh

[@donjohn2695]

As a rock singer Lennon was the best

[@jawoody9745]

Wait a minute....... The bass track was actually recorded like that? It sounds like bleed-through from another track! This is one of John's best songs on "The Beatles."

[@osbezouros1]

Great

[@elirosen1391]

Is George playing his guitar through a Vox Conqueror?

[@DLD2Music]

I'm not so sure

[@elirosen1391]

@@DLD2Music actually it sounds like he's using the Bassman for both of his tracks. He loved that amp.

[@elirosen1391]

It sounds like George used the Conqueror for the basic track, with the MRB and distortion engaged. As for the lead, probably the 1962 Bassman.

[@elirosen1391]

I tried George's part with my Magical Mystery Box, and managed to get a similar tone. So I'm going to assume he used the Conqueror on this and other heavily distorted tunes.

[@allergeist]

@@elirosen1391someone is using a different fuzz than usual, and it seems like they have it 1/2 volume during verses and then it’s just like all the way up for the single note part and the other kinda double up on the bass and guitar. After the drum break. This is all started with Lennon writing down all the things that Maharishi had said that were just double speech to sound like he had an idea of what he had supposed to be talking about. Dude was a real creep to girls boys and Ringo left the first night because he was told that he couldn’t smoke. I think I’d be pretty mad too. You are paying for the whole trip to learn how Transcendental Meditation works, but you are not getting the nicotine from your British habit of smoking cigarettes wherever you’re at and you can tell the guru to get fucked.

[@TSO101]

C’mon C’mon, C’mon C’mon!

[@dawalt009]

This is the first song ever to have a reference to foreskin? When your outside is in your inside is out. Lennon, poking fun at the establishment.

[@charliestubbs6151]

Is that really what it’s about?

[@donjohn2695]

The songs about spirituality

[@sitvisjes]

Check out the Soundgarden cover, they did a great job with this awesome song!

[@CoryFinnegan]

I had a 45 of this cover. The B side was a Sly and The Family Stone song. A John Peel session.

[@thequarrymen58]

No salen los gritos, que creo que son de Paul McCartney

[@evanwho11]

Are the vocals slightly sped up on this song? Doesn’t sound like Lennon.

[@Snandra66]

I think the entire track was Varispeed-ed up slightly, I think it was only shifted up by like a semitone?

[@patrickalloyssius9138]

Evan YOU are correct george Martin DID speed up the tape during mixing ,43 hz to 50 hz ,raising the key from D to E

[@joakokoos]

C'mon C'mon C'mon C'mon C'monC'mon C'mon C'mon C'mon C'mon

[@ced95570]

Could you deconstruct the song Da Ya Think i'm Sexy by Rod Stewart please?

[@billshank6266]

………….why?????……………

[@ced95570]

@@billshank6266 why not????

[@sunj9444]

Hard Rock

[@carloscerdan2782]

Hard funk

[@baritony8763]

Those bass strings sound prehistoric.Great song,great album ,though.

[@OliverTrueman]

Does John double track his rhythm guitar in this track? Ive seen a few covers where his guitar part is double tracked

[@DLD2Music]

Yea

[@TerryLDaniels]

The term "isolated tracks" is used very loosely on KZbin

[@DLD2Music]

Wdym???

[@lancelot771]

They are literal isolated tracks tf do you even want to achieve with this one?

[@TerryLDaniels]

@@lancelot771 They are not. The elements are somewhat isolated through audio software processing, but they are not the actual isolated tracks and suffer severe digital artifacts. There's tons of this stuff all over KZbin, and I guess it doesn't matter much and I don't mean to pick on this one in particular, I just think it's weird how much of this awful sounding stuff is being posted as "isolated tracks".

[@mario486waluigi2]

@ticcy toccy 2.0 It's mostly because four track master tape recorders and 2 track recorders were used and the bass track was recorded in the same track as the others with electric or acoustic guitars and drums, Rock band tried their best to isolate them. It wasn't until around 1968 when they started using eight track recorders. and the Bass tracks were clearer. For this song, however, We don't have access to the tapes quite yet. It would sound a lot clearer if we did. Rock band/Guitar hero games had access to the Master tapes and isolated each of the instruments and put it to the game.

[@trueornot-o5p]

Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except "For" Me And My Monkey

[@Dante-nn2zm]

There aren't maracas in this one. I think you mean the Chocalho

[@derekcastillo8549]

6:56 Guitar Solo? John or George?

[@DLD2Music]

no a guitar solo

[@hectorchavez2506]

George!

[@Vincentlpp08]

not really a guitar solo imo. and it's both george and john

[@robertozani1285]

what's happened to the part of bass ?

[@DLD2Music]

Use headphones

[@JesperSalama]

Drum track

[@stellapolanco6860]

Not McCartney vocals in this song, is all Lennon with ADT (Automatic Double Tracked). Paul only shout in the outro !

[@DLD2Music]

i know, there are some screams throughout the song

[@thomaspappalardo7589]

Paul shouts throughout the song. It’s also Paul with John on the “Come on, come on, come on” part.

[@elirosen1391]

When I first heard it, I thought it was John and Paul in unison, like in the old days.

[@davidfoster5906]

I can hear a backward track

[@robertozani1285]

👍

[@PeterNash99]

Vocals Paul McCartney???

[@DLD2Music]

Yes

[@scottamichie]

Noooo. Lennon!

[@nadzirah8132]

@@scottamichie Yes the main vocal was Lennon but you can hear the occasional shouts was definitely Paul, and George join in at the end. In case you forgot they were a band? Nothing weird about Paul or George adding back up vocals in Lennon songs.

[@moe9196]

From decades of listening to John and Paul's voices it seems the vocals were almost totally lennon's in this recording . maybe Paul was singing the high pitched falsetto ooooos and wooos in the background , but i wonder if he had anything to do with the manic and scrambled tracks of c'mons . of course in all probability Paul played the bass part

[@thomas79marshall]

more firebell

[@billinglumbalumba]

So they want to compare Beatles and BTS ?

[@DLD2Music]

No Way!!

[@mickavellian]

Before anyone shits their pants . NOT Ringo's best work and I blame a bad take. Of course you will read from the nonmusicians that Ringo was FAB. In fact this can NOT be the takes used, there's an enormous amount of shit here. Who the fuck knows who was playing what. The ONLY sure thing is that Paul DID shine even though he cracked twice

[@DLD2Music]

? WDYM

[@danmillward8595]

Wow that bass is garbage...in the best way

[@mars7934]

One of the weakest songs on the album. Would never have made it on to the album had it been a single disc. Pish.

[@thesilvershining]

Nah, this song is awesome!