Bad Boy- The Beatles (Full Band Cover) ft. @DRguitar918 and @mendips09

I'm honored to share this instrumental recreation with all of you, because it features two legendary Beatles tribute band musicians Dom Rossi and Grant Gerlach!

I've been meaning to cover Bad Boy for a long time. George Harrison played his Gretsch Tennessean and I wanted to recreate his lead guitar parts. But it also includes John Lennon's Rickenbacker 325 rhythm guitar, which I do not own

Luckily, I am friends with @DRguitar918 and @mendips09 who are part of the amazing Beatles tribute band @beatologytribute
If you haven't subscribed to Dom's Youtube channel, you are missing out! He is an incredibly talented musician. Case in point, he is right-handed but learned to play bass lefty...

Grant can play just about any instrument and he can nail John's rhthym guitar style on his Rickenbacker 325, so we just had to include him. And thus the Bad Boys were born!

Bad Boy was a song written by Larry Williams and covered by the Beatles in 1965. It was originally only released in the US on the album Beatles VI. Larry Williams also wrote Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Slow Down and Short Fat Fannie.

The original lineup was
Paul- Hofner Bass, Hohner Pianet C
Ringo- Ludwig Drums, Tambourine
John- Vocals, Rickenbacker 325, Vox Continental Organ
George- Gretsch Tennessean

The Bad Boys lineup-
Sam- Gretsch Tennessean, Hohner Pianet T, Drums
Grant- Rickenbacker 325, Tambourine, Organ
Dom- Hofner Bass

We learned some interesting facts about this song, with the help of @DLD2Music who gave us the isolated tracks to study. We discovered that in addition to Paul's Pianet electric piano part, there is a fast Vox Organ part played by Lennon during the guitar solo. We also learned that George used a volume pedal during the solo on one of his Tennesseans

Our Gear:
1967 Gretsch 6119 Chet Atkins Tennessean
Rickenbacker 325c64
Hofner Ignition Violin Bass
Hohner Pianet T
Arturia Vox Continental
Ludwig Tambourine
Vox AC15C1 (Grant's)
Vox AC30C2x (Sam's)
Amplitube 5 British Copper 30TB (2x15 Closed D J130)- Dom's Bass
Ernie Ball VP Jr. Volume Pedal (Analogman Taper Mod)
Pearl Export Series Drum Kit
Ludwig Blue Oyster Pearl Jazz Fest 5.5" Snare
Zildjian A Series 18” Crash
Sabian B8 14" Hi Hats
Tech 21 Liverpool
Warm Audio WA-47
Neumann TLM-103
Shure SM57
AKG D112

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[DRguitar]

Man this was fun to do. Thanks for letting Grant and I be apart of it!! Can’t wait to do more!!

[randallpinkfloyd]

never would have guessed that this was the song!

[JacobKMusics]

This is epic! Great work, everyone! You guys better behave yourselves after this!

[IanJudge]

Top notch! My 8 year old loves this song because it has the word ‘poop’ in it! 🤣

[TwoBeats]

Holy sh*t... I wasn't expecting this sick crossover. You f*cking nailed it fellas!!!

[mschiano]

i’ve watched a lot of these videos, and i think you’re the only one who gets that rhythm guitar figure right. nice work!

[Louie]

Well done!! Rhythm guitar is hypnotic.

[rainbowmade]

Amazing live sound!!
Everything is perfect!
Vox AC30 pumping out its signature tones..

[stickydrummer.]

thats sounds exactly like the original. Now with the vocals from the original you can not tell the difference!!

[thomaspappalardo]

Excellent! This is a rocker that usually gets passed by a lot of cover videos and bands but I always saw it as one of John’s best rock vocals. I imagine it’s how it might have sounded when they had Roy Young or little Billy Preston with them in Hamburg.

[Fred.pSonic]

The subtle nuances on the Gretsch double track are sublime, very well done Sam I Am.

[davidmontis]

Fantastic! A great rocker that unfortunately gets overlooked. I even like how the tracks are mixed just like they are on the record. It’s truly like listening to the original track without vocals. You all really hit it out of the park with this one!

[klydolph]

The pianet during Georges solo is genius

[snippletrap]

Sounds great! Request more 1964, early 1965 Beatles please. Top of their live game IMO.

[evyalley]

Great lead guitar part! Simple and tasteful. I hate to throw this word around, but I find myself ding it a lot on these videos. Underrated.

[centoeberhardt]

Holy crap, that Grant can play. Bloody badass mates. You’re legends.

Congrats to 8000 subs btw, Sam!! You absolutely deserve this...and MANY MORE!!!

[NUKE.]

Awesome - a thumping rocker w/o vocals! John's rhythm and George's double-track lead! Thanks for sharing.

[NitroUnity]

Great cover, liked the behave yourself remark by John from this song and of course the rhythm guitar.

[junop]

You guys did amazing! Greatest collab of the year

[jayorag]

Fabulous, herculean job! In Beauties' cover of Bad Boy, I miss the deep voice that says "He's a... Bad boy" after Larry Williams sings each line