No Matter What (BDJ Cover Version)

Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea, Wales in the early 1960s.Their history is closely linked with the Beatles; to some, their music imitates the Beatles; for others, it is a welcome extension to the Beatelesque repertoire.

Pete Ham sings in a McCartney-esque voice, their guitars sound a lot like Eric Clapton.......

The other ties to the Beatles are too many too mention all:

- The name Badfinger was suggested by Apple's Neil Aspinall, and was a reference to "Bad Finger Boogie", an early working title of "With a Little Help from My Friends";

- Badfinger was signed to The Beatles label, Apple Records.

- Peter Ham used one of George Harrison's Gibson guitars on this song. George used that same Gibon SG on "Paper Back Writer" and on "Hey Bulldog".

- The song was initially produced by Mal Evans, long-time Beatles hand, but was rejected by Apple staff as a potential single. Geoff Emerick (the beatles engineer) then took over as their producer, and the song was remixed. July 1970

- they played acoustic guitars on tracks from George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and provided backing vocals on Ringo Starr's single "It Don't Come Easy".

- Tom Evans and Molland performed on John Lennon's album Imagine, and all four members of the band appeared as backup musicians throughout George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh in August 1971.

But does the link go even further than that ? McCartney wrote 'Come and get It' for them, which became their greats hit.

What about "No matter What ? To me, it sounds a lot like George Harrison, more than McCartney: the middle eight of No Matter What use the same chords as While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and is that a slide guitar playing the solo (like Harrison did) ?

Harrison was quite generous with his song writing contributions, and did not alway demand being credited, so it seems certainly possible that Harrison contributed to No Matter What.

Anyway, it is one of my favourites, so I made this cover version (Fender Strat, Marshall amp, Ibanez Tube Screamer), and added a solo at the end.