Help! - The Beatles - Full Instrumental Recreation (4K) - Featuring a Framus Hootenanny!

Major thanks to Perry Stanley for lending me his beautiful vintage 1964 Framus Hootenanny and Gretsch Tennessean for this cover. Do yourself a favor and subscribe to his channel (“Perry Stanley“) for his awesome Beatles gear videos! Man, this is a frantic, crazy song! So much energy and speed. Beatles on 1.5 speed. This was a song I really wanted to do right, and I couldn’t have done it without the Framus and Tennessean. Those sounds are SO distinct and unique. The driving Framus on rhythm, with John slapping the strings to keep a steady tempo for George’s overdubs. And George’s guitar playing is terrific. I had some difficulty with that rundown riff! It ain’t easy! And Ringo’s drumming here is really extraordinary. That Ringo shuffle and those snare / floor tom fills are quite tricky. Dude was a beast. I studied the isolated parts, and I don’t hear nearly as much bass drum as I expected. Almost none in the verses, just an odd hit here an