Happiness is A Warm Gun - The Beatles (Isolated Tracks)

[@jayclarke5466]

Whenever ya forget how creative the Beatles were…stuff like this quickly reminds ya

[@Mo_Taser]

I've said for a very long time that the guitar solo on this song is one of the greatest ever. Yeah, it's short, but it's as dirty as it gets. It is genius.

[@Walrus1701D]

Agreed!

[@alanrich8697]

Yeah!

[@rdekemper]

Who played the solo?

[@Walrus1701D]

@@rdekemper I think conventional wisdom is George plays it. No evidence to the contrary.

[@Mo_Taser]

@@rdekemper George.

[@juancarlosromobejar3795]

Esta pequeña canción es una joya, una verdadera obra de arte, te lleva a un laberinto de estructuras musicales y cada estructura es sensacional, toda la pieza es perfectamente proporcional y es una canción muy diferente al todo el catálogo Beatle. Lo interesante es que es una canción en la que intervinieron magistralmente los cuatro Beatles sin rivalidad alguna y de ser una pieza simple la terminaron haciéndola brillante. Escuchándola instrumento por instrumento no cabe duda alguna que cada integrante se esmeró a lo máximo en un momento en que la banda estaba en su peor momento de disputas personales y musicales. Lo que más me llama la atención es que Happiness Is a Warm Gun es una de las pocas canciones que jamás se ha incluido como tal en un álbum recopilatorio y que esté tan infravalorada.

[@yaretplay7749]

John lennon era un genio, sin duda alguna fue el mejor beatle

[@philipbrackpool-bk1bm]

It’s when you hear the individual parts you realise how fantastic they all were.

[@smartenuphumans]

Dhem guitars really stand out - terrific.

[@mikeames1427]

Genius!

[@MarioSeriakov]

The most genial song ever made the Beatles

[@baselinesweb]

Nice hearing those great weird time signature changes in the drum part by itself.

[@alainraux5075]

Fabuleux !

[@maximobenatti6110]

Grande brano

[@letisia1908]

How I love them...What a great voice John had... I often hear that his voice was no longer as raspy and raw as in the early years, from 67-68 until the end of his life. That's not true. He often sang in a softer way, but John always kept his magnificent voice. Just listen to his "Woman" (Stripped Mix)

[@bulmaromontoya4864]

Y pensar que odiaba su voz

[@BassistPaul]

Rare pics of Macca with a Fender Jazz!

[@Lynd8]

very cool - thanks

[@ralphdekemper3055]

Thanks

[@kitrichardson5573]

Very impressed with the tone and sharpness of Ringo’s drumming. McCArtney’s base sounds muddy, however which is a very common problem with basses.

[@karma4553]

Refreshing hear about fix in 68

[@ivannio8519]

Top! Period ;)

[@philwillett9102]

I always thought Ringo's foot-pedal work was so highly underrated.... perhaps because it sounds almost like a tom-tom, not a lot of "boom"...very muted

[@nigelcass8972]

Isnt this exquisite and a pointer to the Elizabethan sensiblities of TB

[@grinsko6741]

Elizabeth I or II?

[@hugosanchez7599]

13:58

[@dogmcmoose]

Tuba!

[@PeterPrism]

This is crazy bro….

[@RRCCTexas]

Tuba??

[@michelottaviani3296]

Who sang the backvocals ''happiness bang bang...''?

[@kitrichardson5573]

It’s almost certainly all of the Beatles, but you really hear Paul McCartney on the highest notes because he had the highest range of the band and George Harrison always had a very nice tone and rounded out there background vocals. One of the absolute strong suits of this band.

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@kitrichardson5573 many thanks for your reply !

[@michelottaviani3296]

Who plays the guitar solo when John sang ''I need a fix...''

[@Isotrax]

George!

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@Isotrax thanks and you have an idea on the background vocals (chorus), a girls team or the Beatles themself?

[@Isotrax]

@@michelottaviani3296 during the “bang bang, shoot shoot” lines George, Paul and John are singing

[@mikeames1427]

John. only his big white Gibson has that crunch.

[@michelottaviani3296]

@@mikeames1427 thanks for your reply!

[@GrahamJohnStevens]

No man what's this? Spoiler of a good song

[@psychicgirll]

did you not read the title

[@grinsko6741]

I’ve always thought that the guitar solo sounds like a saxophone.

[@kolomiec]

Tuba?

[@Isotrax]

It’s very faint but There is tuba mirroring Paul’s bass notes during the solo.

[@victorlinge92]

How you know

[@BuffaloBeatle]

@@victorlinge92It is a fact

[@Isotrax]

@@victorlinge92 studio records

[@TezzyWood]

I think all these voices were overdubbed by John alone.

[@paulpennacchia701]

6:17.....as good as anything Hendrix put out....sorry, JMO

[@grinsko6741]

I always find this song deeply poignant in light of what happened to John twelve years later 😞

[@davidhampshire7723]

Me too. Sad and ironic. Think of the great. Music the world was deprived of. RIP John.

[@jeffzimmerman9928]

This song is about heroin not ironic.

[@davidbateman-fe8vu]

Of course it is but it's still ironic.

[@PeterPrism]

!!

[@doncahooti]

sounds more like Kreen Akore drums from McCartney ..

[@vancegilmore245]

Gun was a slang term for a syringe. That's old junkie terminology. John was a junkie.

[@mikeames1427]

John said it was about a gun ad he had seen showing a smoking gun with "Happiness is a Warm Gun:. He stated how that meant being happy was having shot something. Dig deeper.

[@vancegilmore245]

@@mikeames1427 yeah. Happiness was having shot some heroin. John was a junkie.

[@DeeLee-p8c]

The song is a rip off of bluemoon

[@MrRegularAmerican]

Are you insane?

[@DeeLee-p8c]

@@MrRegularAmerican no. listen to both

[@HankFinkle11]

😂

[@jeffzimmerman9928]

And about 10000 others a very common progression . But The Beatles make it all them . Great Lennon song .

[@GrahamJohnStevens]

No man what's this? Spoiler of a good song