| No. |
Full Detail
(preceded by Start Time, ending with track timing) |
Total
Time |
| 1 |
| Roll 1064b Slate 341 contd. |
| 0:00 |
I've Got A Feeling (playback)
At end John says, "I cocked it up trying to get loud, not bad though" |
2:16 |
| 2:16 |
Dialogue/Tuning
"George, do you want to hear some of the Jimmy Page album ?",
they then discuss Page and the Yardbirds.
John then discusses the slide guitar, and tuning. |
6:09 |
| 8:25 |
For You Blue
A light acoustic run-thru.
After this John gets right into the slide guitar foot pedal. |
1:30 |
| 11:37 |
For You Blue
Not surprisingly, after John discovering the Slide, with very dominant slide guitar.
Ringo joins in too, ("just brushes") |
2:13 |
| 14:35 |
For You Blue
Slide practice, then some piano chords. |
1:26 |
| 16:01 |
| 2 |
| Roll 1065b Slate 341/343 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
This track is all practice and discussion, with one amusing exchange:
Paul, "Yoko, can you just lift up the leg of your chair ?"
John, " ... and dance."
At 3:41 in, "Slate 343", Other quotes:
George, "Glyn, would it be possible for me to stand up, I prefer standing".
John, "I wish I could get a real steel".
Finally they discuss the opening bars, and practice the acoustic start. |
16:01 |
| 16:01 |
| 3 |
| Roll 1066b Slate 343/345 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
A brief take, followed by 3 minutes of discussion on the format of the song. |
0:54 |
| 3:54 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, after which George says,
"I think we should be influenced by those old guys who just did it in one take,
although ours might be a four take wonder." |
2:01 |
| 7:31 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, followed by tuning noises
and more chat about how the old guys did it. |
2:09 |
| 11:35 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, instrumental at first, with vocal coming in at 12:18
followed by a boogie on the piano, and then a significant construction thought from George;
"Let's have two 12-bars in the middle". |
2:10 |
| 16:09 |
| 4 |
| Roll 1067b Slate 345 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
Instrumental start and brief run-thru, much laughter on a bum note.
George has another idea to change the texture of the song:
"Glyn, how can we make the piano sound like an old honky-tonk ?"
An idea which comes to fruition, as one can soon hear, as they wrap the piano in paper !
At 3:30 in, clear sound of a match lit, then a tape is rewound. |
1:27 |
| 4:09 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, very raw version |
2:09 |
| 6:46 |
For You Blue
The first run-thru with two 12-bars in the middle.
After this run-thru, Ringo bangs out a steady rhythm, Paul some nice piano, but
guitars can be heard tuning loudly over the top.
More practice doodlings take us to the end of this first disc. |
2:26 |
| 16:09 |
| No. |
Full Detail
(preceded by Start Time, ending with track timing) |
Total
Time |
| 1 |
| Roll 1068b Slate 345 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
Jazzy instrumentation. At end of which is this brief exchange:
George, "O.K. shall we just go from the top ?"
John, "'Take' it, just in case."
George, "I don`t know if you'll hear the guitar to know where to come in"
John, "We'll hear it if we're quiet". |
4:46 |
| 5:14 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, George's singing is poor, he comes in where the piano break should be,
so John shouts out, "Piano". |
2:26 |
| 8:05 |
For You Blue
A run-thru, John has a short "dirty" laugh at the start, but
another very poor attempt. |
2:29 |
| 11:44 |
For You Blue
A false start, followed by noises over the next start.
George complains, but it is the noise of paper being wrapped over the piano !
This is followed by some more instrumentation.
At 14:52 George starts singing, but this is not a serious attempt. |
4:24 |
| 16:08 |
| 2 |
| Roll 1069b Slate 347 |
| 0:00 |
Sorry I Left You Bleeding (Take 1) |
0:30 |
| 0:56 |
For You Blue
Calls for quiet, as they plan a proper take.
False start, is followed by another poor effort.
George's voice is weak, the slide is terrible, only the piano is
sounding more like how it ends up on the final take. |
2:30 |
| 4:02 |
For You Blue (G.B.no 25.25)
Take 1.
First the sound of ice being shaken in a glass, a false start,
after which John shouts, "Quiet Please !"
Then follows Take 1, a really good take well known to collectors.
At the end of it, John wryly says,
"I'm gonna go for my peak in a minute, I'm hitting my best now." |
2:29 |
| 8:28 |
For You Blue
Take 2.
Starts with another false start, after which John shouts,
"Don't talk when he's playing, gang !"
Then follows another complete take, altho, not as good as previous one.
At the end of it, John says,
"Just one Jimmy Reed in that one" .... meaning ? |
2:29 |
| 12:24 |
For You Blue
A playback of Take 2. |
2:29 |
| 16:20 |
| 3 |
| Roll 1070b Slate 347 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
Listening to the playback of Take 2 (contd. from above),
they agree that the first take was the best so far, but head back into the studio.
Some rehearsal instrumentation, then they prepare for another take.
George, "Are you going, Glyn ?" John, "Glyn ?" |
5:57 |
| 5:58 |
For You Blue
Take 3.
A run-thru, John misses start and messes up his 12 bar break,
a poor version all round. |
2:28 |
| 8:27 |
For You Blue
Aborted run-thru, less slide in this version, especially in 1st verse. |
1:03 |
| 9:47 |
For You Blue
Take 4.
False start, then complete run-thru.
John sums it up at the end, "Me solo got lost." |
2:29 |
| 12:28 |
For You Blue (G.B.no. 25.22)
Take 5.
False start (25 secs, George messes up), then complete run-thru.
Within this version George shouts, "Mr. Blüthner"
At end George says, "Felt nice",
John, "Could do better of course."
They then rewind this take to play it back. |
2:30 |
| 16:17 |
| 4 |
| Roll 1071b Slate 347 |
| 0:00 |
For You Blue
Take 5 is played back.
Paul, "The first one we heard grabbed me more."
John, "Can we hear the first one again ?"
Take 1 is played back again.
George, "That's the best feeling, let's here that one more time."
Take 1 is played back again.
John, "Let's just do it once more, but have that one !"
George, "OK, that's fine, that'll do."
They chat about mixing the best parts of each take together, then
Take 5 is played back again.
More discussion, including talking about "Magic Alex" and a 20 channel mixer etc
(this sequence is mentioned in Sulpy's book)
Before next playback "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" can be briefly heard, then
Take 1 is played back yet again.
John says, "Robert Johnson and Delta Blues." |
16:20 |
| 16:20 |
| 5 |
| Roll 1072b Slate 347 |
| 0:00 |
Dialogue
Discussion of "Let It Be".
Some instrumentation (sounds like "The Addams Family").
John, "I'm getting like Brian Jones in this group" ... as he agrees to play bass again. |
1:48 |
| 1:49 |
Let It Be
Paul starts Let It Be in the background, whilst
the others talk and play other instrumentation (some very badly). |
3:00 |
| 4:49 |
Let It Be
Paul starts again, this time his vocal is in the foreground ....
as the available tape runs out.
END OF CAMERA B RECORDINGS FOR THE 25th JANUARY 1969. |
0:21 |
| 5:10 |
