Fred Carter was one of my closest friends and after a session in the 70s (Fred, Ray Eddington and I on guitar) when everyone had gone home, I asked him to show me the intro to the Boxer. After an hour he gave up - he couldn't remember what he had played. True story.
The runs you hear throughout the record are just Fred - not two guitars. Paul
wasn't even at the studio when Fred recorded those parts ( not talking about the intro).
I arranged for Fretboard Journal to do the interview Howard quoted, and Fred was
very forgetful by that time. I think he was playing his gut string on the entire record.
Ron
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