Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 17, 2009

It looks like the volume knob was set to 20 (forget 11) in the last panel.

Just like the first note to “I feel fine” by the Beatles.

Actually pouncingtiger, it was set at 41.

wndrwrthg, I personally like the 1987 “redo” of that song (by Sweethearts Of The Rodeo) better.

I’ve heard the first note of “I Feel Fine” was the earliest intentional recording of guitar feedback.

I once wrote something that in literature was similar to Toggle’s musical piece. Here it is: “TH-!”

hymenoxix, correct!

These two are perfect for each other. Love it!

WOW! Nobody else notice how HOT Alex is with her hair swept back !!!

A disproportionate squeeze on a song writer’s pleeb.

I think you folks are thinking of the chord that starts “Hard Day’s Night,” not “I Feel Fine.” That’s the complex little bugger that the producer overlaid with a piano chord to make it impossible to reproduce with guitar alone.

Nope, it’s “I Feel Fine”….single string note, sustained and distorted. It precedes the guitar riff that has a rockabilly feel. Guitar has a Gretsch or Gibson hollow-body tone. Then Ringo comes crashing in nicely. One of their better early works, in my humble.

You can do almost anything with a Moog, a Stratocaster, and the Berkeley Cyclotron.

Fourth panel: Volume set to stun

It is “I Feel Fine”. Alot of people do confuse it with “A Hards Days Night” because both start off with that sustained note. But “I Feel Fine” the note was distorted through feedback.

I’m really pulling for Alex and Toggle. Nice to have some young blood in this strip not connected to the CIA.

Hymenoxis, you nailed it. I listen to it quite frequently.

Give the credit to wndrwrthg for nailing the note to begin with…

i love both tunes. and also some of their more acoustic oriented songs (like “i’ve just seen a face” or “you’ve got to hide your love away” or “norwegian wood”). you can never have too much Beatles. (Okay, you can, but it takes a while!)

Okay, now I’ve got “Michelle” going through my head.

To be honest, I’d have mentioned the first note of Jimi Hendrix’s “Cross Town Traffic”.

“I Feel Fine”, it is indeed folks… I can hear it in my head as I type this. hymenoxis got the production description perfect; and Folks, do NOT doubt wndrwrthg on such topics. He is unerring!

hymenoxis, this pursuit has brought the opening strains of “one of these Nights” by the Eagles to my head (the bass line). I blew up a pair of studio monitors with that back in the mid 70’s. I think I did something to my brain too lol.