Hi all,

I'm new here, need a bit of a debate settled...

my dad (age 52) who lived through every part of the beatles, reckons... that when it came out there was loads of fuss saying that the intro to 'i feel fine' was created by plucking the chords of the guitar while they held John Lennons electric shaver/razor on the guitar, that is how the vibrating noise is created.

I cant find anything on the internet to either make or break this theory

I look forward to any facts or opinions...

many thanks
Ian

http://www.recmusicbeatles.com/public/files/awp/iff.html

(hope that helps)

many thanks Soft_Guitar60, I had read that site, there are also (for one reason or another) many different websites which use exactly the same text. that one talks in detail of the intro after the so called 'feedback' but with no mention as to how it was achieved.

the mystery continues

Quoted from cash, posted August 27, 2004, 8:11pm at here

the mystery continues

Thats about right! I've read many articles and books that state Paul had struck an 'A' chord (I believe) on his bass and that fed through Johns guitar to cause the feedback. I've also read that John was using a semi-electric acoustic Gibson guitar (acoustic with a pick up) and that he leaned it on the amp without turning it off, in which caused the feedback. One of those mysteries in life we may never know.

No mystery here tk.  You nailed it right on the head.

There was no electric shaver...in 45 years I never even heard such a story!

Anyone who has set an electric guitar down knows that after a few minutes it will feedback all by itself.  To actually set it next to or on the amp would really aggravate the feedback.  To have a bass guitar sound a string would REALLY set up a sympathetic vibration causing a *very* distinct feedback sound.

Which is what happened.  These guys used equipment constantly.  It was inevitable that at some point this combination of events would happen.  The real artistry is the genius involved in actually using the usually unwanted noise in the song itself.

Cheers guys and girls,

I can safely tell my dad he is a fool ha ha ha

Well, I don't mean to disparage your dad.  Maybe he was kidding, or maybe he was just saying it -sounded- like that (Pictures Of Matchstick Men by Status Quo was always described as the 'mosquito-sounding song').  Or maybe a dj actually said that, there was a LOT of misinformation from them in the old days.