Talk:For You Blue

message: The article doesn't say who produced this song, and I don't have a reference book handy. If it was George Martin please add the article to :Category:Songs produced by George Martin. --kingboyk 16:10, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was produced by Phil Spector. In fact, Let It Be is the only Beatles album not produced by George Martin, so it would not need to be included in that category. 204.115.253.51 20:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Producer? 

message: Is this song a US #1? I know "winding road" is a #1, but on the billboard page, they are listed together. On the Beatles Discography page, it does not have a #1 ranking.
Diego 16:02, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it was released as a double-A side.  Bubba73 (Who's attacking me now?), 02:35, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  US #1? 

message: Does anyone know what changes, if any, were made by Paul & co. to this song while re-mixing/reproducing the "Let It Be... Naked" album?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.36.84.114 (talk) 05:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ringo's drums were pushed up in the mix; I think that's about it.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 11:26, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Naked version?

message: "Go, Johnny, go!" Harrison is not referring to the song Johnny B. Goode, he's commenting on Lennon's awesome slide-guitar playing.
"There go the twelve-bar blues" - it's quite clear what his words are; he's alluding to the fact the song uses a prototypical 12-bar blues riff.
"Bop, bopcat, bop" - "bopcat" is an aficionado of beebop, a blend of jazz and blues; he's not singing about bobcats.
I don't think some random person's opinion (cribbed from the "Songfacts" website) on which song this sounds like deserves inclusion or qualifies as a reference.Nickrz (talk) 20:32, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoken words 

message: The term "shotgun bullet casing" is nonsensical.  Shotguns do not fire bullets.  A shotgun round is called a "shell" and the portion that remains in the shotgun after the round is fired is called a "hull".  The phrase "a shotgun bullet casing" should be replaced with something like "the hull of a spent shotgun round".
It seems unlikely that a standard plastic hull would be suitable for use as a bottleneck when playing a steel guitar, so one might suspect that the device used by John Lennon was the hull of a (somewhat unusual) solid brass shell.
Mrpaulin (talk) 08:20, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The source says "shotgun shell", so I'll change the article to use that phrase.  GoingBatty (talk) 19:25, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  shotgun bullet casing 

message: Could someone write a section describing the difference between the Let It Be version and the version reinstating George Harrison's acoustic guitar on Let It Be...Naked? C.Syde (talk | contribs) 23:23, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The difference is in the balances and the EQ. Same song. What could be said? Radiopathy •talk•   23:39, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

text: The "Queen says no to pot-smoking FBI movement" remark was tacked on out of context by Phil Spector. The acoustic guitar is apparent in the Spector version, just not as loud or bright. Radiopathy •talk•   17:05, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compare Let It Be version with Let It Be...Naked 

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message: From listening to the various versions of For You Blue, I'm quite convinced (as many sources are), that there is no bass guitar on this song.  There is a low walking riff at the end of each verse that could be mistaken for a bass guitar, but it could easily be either Lennon or Harrison's guitar--the album already has at least 2 other tracks that have a guitar playing the bass part.  
But more importantly, every version of this song (there are now more to listen to due to the release of the Let It Be expanded edition) has the same walking riff at the end of the verse.  So if McCartney played that part, we'd have to accept that McCartney overdubbed a brief bass part on each take, as as obviously, he couldn't have played piano and bass live at the same time.  And that seems extremely unlikely, given that the material was intended to be live in the studio and that presumably they wouldn't have bothered overdubbing on multiple takes anyway--even with normal Beatles albums, the practice was to select the best takes and overdub onto that. I don't have the physical version of the expanded edition, but I suspect that the liner notes list no bass guitar any of the several versions and mixes of the song included.   
Also, the entire idea that there was a bass guitar on the track seems to stem from one interview Harrison did in Creem Magazine, as follows:
Did you play bass on "For You Blue," too?
I don’t even remember that song. No, wait a minute—"For You Blue" was Paul, Paul was on that. Unless you’re talking about the live version which nobody’s heard, but that’s Willie Weeks.
So, he gets asked if he plays bass on the song, he can't even remember the song, and then he states that 'Paul was on that.'  I think that the whole idea that there is a bass on the track at all came from the interviewer, and Harrison assumed that if there was a bass, it must have been Paul.  This is, by the way, the same George Harrison who thought it was Paul playing bass on Golden Slumbers until George Martin reminded him that it was tracked live with Harrison on bass and Paul on piano.  
Anyway, unless the Expanded Edition lists it, I think we should consider removing the bass guitar credit for this song--we can keep the mention Harrison crediting McCartney with a bass part in the the interview in the notes.Mabewa (talk) 10:19, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Bass Guitar?