George Harrison's slide guitar playing brings man to tears
Dec 31, 2017 18:42:55 GMT
Post by antiram on Dec 31, 2017 18:42:55 GMT
Basenote66 said:
Firstly apologies if this has been done before - I did do a search but maybe I messed it up.Was listening to Badfinger's Day After Day this morning and was blown away (as usual) by the slide solo, which I assume was George - though I know he didn't play all the slide on the recording so happy to be corrected if I'm wrong
It got me thinking it would be nice to put together a playlist of his slide playing - Beatles, solo and as a guest - and I was hoping the folk on here could help me out.
So any help would be appreciated - and a happy New year to you all!
No apologies necessary; nobody in the history of Beatard Central has never once brought up Harrison's guitar playing.
But in a world that includes (or included, I guess most are dead now) Elmore James, Duane Allman, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sonny Landreth, the guy from Foghat, Muddy Waters, Billy Gibbons, Sonny Sharrock, and even Mick Taylor, I find it hard to be "blown away" by that rinky-dink tinny solo on "Day After Day". For such a genius, why was Harrison so incapable of finding a guitar tone that wasn't thin and reedy sounding? The smirking bit where he goes "Elmore James got nothing on this baby" in his clumsy blues showcase, "For You Blue", is almost as annoying as listening to David Cassidy claim Jimi Hendrix inspired him.
Ringo always gets the criticism for being the non-genius in the group, but I have never objected to his drumming, which is usually excellent in its own spare way. Frankly, Harrison was the ringer.
Glad that it got you thinking though. Once upon a time, watching a bird would get a man thinking about how to build a flying machine, but never mind...
LewisBoogie said:
”Punchdrunk” — Ruby Horse“King of Broken Hearts” — Ringo
“Stuck inside a Cloud” — George
“Day After Day” — Badfinger
My favorites. Bring tears to my eyes.
Edit: “Free as a Bird”as well.
Tears to the eyes? Among all the ways "Free As a Bird" sucks hairy balls, one is definitely that same, thin guitar tone...
A digression on my own thread so apologies but listening to My Sweet Lord this morning apart from the wonderful slide playing and George's passionate vocal listening to the backing vocals you realise what a contribution they made to The Beatles stuff
Don't even get me started on his vocals. If George had wound up in the Hollies instead, nobody would even remember him now.
I'm not even a Harrison hater; he was all right, even if his fans are thick and ordinary. But he constantly gets all kinds of glory for a body of work that is thinner than even David Crosby's, with thin vocals and thin guitar. If you live your life never listening to blues or hard rock or southern rock, and mostly just stick to Beatles, then of course you'll become convinced Harrison was the greatest guitarist ever. You can't pick what you don't know. And this is why the fame imbalance between the Beatles and all other 60's musicians only widens...