You Never Give Me Your Money- The Beatles (Guitar Cover) Abbey Road Medley

George Harrison used a Fuzz Face pedal into a 1968 Fender Silverface Twin Reverb amp for this song. You may not have guessed it, but the fuzz was engaged from the very beginning of the track. The tone starts off clean and by the solo it sounds like heavy distortion

This is possible because of the guitar's volume knob. When you turn down the volume knob, it cleans up the signal of the fuzz. You can hear him gradually turn up his volume knob throughout the song to get more distortion

George used his 1957 Gibson "Lucy" Les Paul. John Lennon played rhythm guitar on his Epiphone Casino, also into a Fender Twin Reverb

On the Les Paul, I start on the neck pickup- volume at 6.5
At 1:38 George switches to the bridge pickup, volume also at 6.5
At 1:46 for the solo he turns the bridge pickup volume up to 8ish
At 2:03 in the middle of the solo he turns up to 8.5
At 3:02 for the second solo he cranks the volume knob to 10

I'm using an Analogman Sunface BC108 fuzz pedal, which is a clone of a real Fuzz Face. BC108 refers to the silicon transistors used in this pedal. The Beatles recieved two Fuzz Faces during the Get Back sessions in January 1969. They most likely had silicon BC183 or BC108 transistors in them, because Dallas Arbiter changed from germanium to silicon around 1968

You Never Give Me Your Money was recorded on May 6th, 1969. The backing track consisted of Paul on piano, George on lead guitar, John on rhythm guitar and Ringo on drums. Many overdubs were recorded later. But let's talk about the guitar overdubs:

George starts off the song alone on his Les Paul
John enters (Casino) at 1:21 , strumming
At 1:32 a second Casino enters, doubling John's arpeggios (John overdub)
At 2:09 Casinos stop playing, a second Les Paul enters (George overdub)
At 2:28 John's original backing Casino enters again
At 2:39 the overdubbed Casino re-enters, doubling John's chords

John's two Casino parts have a nice natural double tracked sound to them, but I heard some slight ADT Tape Flanging on them. I kicked on my Strymon Deco tape flange pedal at 1:31 on both Casinos

My Gear:
2005 Gibson Les Paul Standard (OX4 low wind PAF pickups)
2021 Epiphone Casino USA Royal Tan
2020 Analogman Sunface BC-108
Strymon Deco
1974 Fender Silverface Pro Reverb (Weber 12F150 12"s)
Neumann TLM-103

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[rockturtleneck]

Great job. George Harrison might be the most tasteful guitarist who ever lived.

[RockinAllDay]

Your best cover. Not joking in the slightest. It's ACTUALLY PERFECT.

[seagullshame]

Amazing work. George’s playing on Abbey Road is next level. I’m impressed how you nailed the tones. The Deco really does that tape modulation sound wonderfully

[MiguelDaguerre]

If I had to pick my five favorite Beatles songs, this song would be on the chart. It's wonderful, it never bores me

[StereoClassics]

It's so cool how this song feels like it transitions to a new song every 30 seconds. I agree with the other commenter; your best cover!

[garyarnold]

For me, this has to be George Harrison's best lead guitar work ever. He improved so much by the time he played on this album, it's astonishing.

[TwoBeats]

You nailed the tone once again! That's incredible Sam!! Well Done

[curtis]

Holy man i’m blown away.. A lot of this was stuff I had kind of guessed and figured out after listening a lot, like the “One sweet dream…” section. But the solo and “out of college” section I had so many misinterpretations that you made me realize! Great job as always this is freaking amazing man keep it up!

[vicentemontequin]

My favourite song! How neat was this performance!

[haywardjr.]

Thank ya' so much, Mr.P. Your talent highlights what incredible musical craftsmen they really were.

[scat]

Absolutely sick. It's so dumb how the Hey Jude story gets talked about way more than the countless times G and P were in perfect harmony. An incredible, loving guitar part for a Paul at his peak song

[Strangelove_]

That bend that George does at 2:10 sounds so good double tracked great work Sam!

[lexmirnov]

What amazes me the most is how simple their music seems to be and maybe actually is composition-wise. As if one could make such songs like a factory, all the hooks and patterns are evident. And still noone is able to.

Thanks for another excellent cover.

[Drenwickification]

One of my favourite beatles songs... such a sublime track. Paul's amazing melodies and singing... john and george's guitars and angelic backing vocals, and ringo providing the perfect beat. What a song.

[zachh]

Can't stop listening to this. Something about this track's guitars has always spoke to me, and hearing you playing it perfectly in isolation is just magical. Thank you.

[imdrrich]

Geez, Sam - if anything was ever played note perfect, that was it! Truly awesome work!

[thedrumdon]

I would enjoy so much more if I wasn't always singing along very loudly - amazing work Sam! This is such a great way for me to fill in those blanks from childhood that the chord book just could not translate and only adds to genius of the Beatles!

[ajr]

Thank you, thank you for this cover Sam! Simply superb!

[brenthooton]

Great tone... to the point that I was shocked when the bass didn't come in at 0:47 .

[Yorkie]

You nailed it, making the guitar sound just like the original. Way to go. This is the best cover on YouTube.