Beatles Gear

Andy Babiuk

Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002 - Music - 256 pages

Now in paperback and updated with new material and photos, this acclaimed book is the first to examine the guitars, basses, drums, keyboards, amplifiers - everything The Beatles used to become history's greatest rock 'n' roll band. It analyzes all the gear and how the trend-setting Beatles played it to sculpt an unforgettable range of sounds. Year by year, Beatles Gear examines in fine detail specific instruments, amplifiers, and other equipment used by each artist - from the pre-Beatle days in 1956-57 Liverpool, throughout the global Beatlemania of the '60s, to the group's disbanding in 1970.

What people are saying

Review: Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio

User Review  - Earl McElfresh - Goodreads

Buy this one book if you don't own a single Beatles book and buy this one book if you have them all. Beatles Gear by Andy Babiuk, the revised edition. Here's the level of scholarship. John's first ...

Review: Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments, from Stage to Studio

User Review  - Dan Morris - Goodreads

This is not a book for gearheads; it's really the story of the Beatles told through their instruments. And every *new* way I can read the story of the Beatles is one more time I can be inspired, sad, stunned, etc. Also it's a *little* bit a book for gearheads.

Contents

• I: 16
• CHAPTER 2: 18
• II: 20
• III: 28
• IV: 44
• V: 60
• VI: 80
• VII: 104
• VIII: 156
• IX: 176
• X: 196
• XI: 232
• XII: 252
• XIII: 256

About the author

Andy Babiuk (Rochester, NY) is a musician, writer and co-owner of the boutique music shop Tone Bender Music. He has been a professional in the music industry for more than 25 years and is a consultant to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and to major auction houses in London and New York. He is the author of The Story Of Paul Bigsby: Father Of The Modern Electric Solidbody Guitar. He plays in the recording and touring band, the Chesterfield Kings and lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife, six children and a very large collection of guitars and music memorabilia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Beatles Gear
• Author: Andy Babiuk
• Editor: Tony Bacon
• Edition: 2, illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation, 2002
• ISBN: 1617747645, 9781617747649
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Music / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal