Ringo Starr agreed, calling it some of his best drumming on record. “I feel as though that was someone else playing – I was possessed!” Starr later recalled. “I think I just played amazing. I was into the snare and the hi-hat. I think it was the first time I used this trick of starting a break by hitting the hi-hat first instead of going directly to a drum off the hi-hat.”
As for the song’s notorious backwards vocals, Lennon claimed that he first discovered the technique while returning home from the studio. Lennon wanted to play back the rough tape the band had made, but thanks to a bit of help from weed, Lennon put the tape on backwards and discovered something incredible.
“I got home from the studio, and I was stoned out of my mind on marijuana and, as I usually do, I listened to what I’d recorded that day,” Lennon remembered. “Somehow, I got it on backwards, and I sat there, transfixed, with the earphones on, with a big hash joint. I ran in the next day and said, ‘I know what to do with it, I know… Listen to this!’ So I made them all play it backwards. The fade is me actually singing backwards with the guitars going backwards. [Singing backwards] Sharethsmnowthsmeaness… [Laughter] That one was the gift of God, of Ja, actually, the god of marijuana, right? So Ja gave me that one.”
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-beatles-song-john-lennon-god-of-marijuana/
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