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DandelionPowderman
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whitem8
We've been here before. George really didn't start playing slide until after he left The Beatles. Delaney Bramlett inspired him to take up slide, and as George has said in interviews he became bored with the guitar and immersed himself in the sitar. Then Delaney Bramlett inspired him to get back into guitar.
For example This Boy doesn't have a slide on it. It is a double tracked guitar with heavy reverb and echo. The slide on For You Blue? That is John! ("this cats got nothing on Elmore..." "Go Johnny go!") Really there are no Beatles songs with a slide on it, unless John was playing, as For You Blue. This also was one of McCartney's major reasons for not wanting the slide on Free as a Bird as he thought that sounded too much like George's solo stuff, I am glad he lost because that slide is blisteringly beautiful!
Welcome back tele71!!!!!
Get on Hogg's tail about Let it Be! Come on Ringo let it all out!
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We've been here before. George really didn't start playing slide until after he left The Beatles. Delaney Bramlett inspired him to take up slide, and as George has said in interviews he became bored with the guitar and immersed himself in the sitar. Then Delaney Bramlett inspired him to get back into guitar.
For example This Boy doesn't have a slide on it. It is a double tracked guitar with heavy reverb and echo. The slide on For You Blue? That is John! ("this cats got nothing on Elmore..." "Go Johnny go!") Really there are no Beatles songs with a slide on it, unless John was playing, as For You Blue. This also was one of McCartney's major reasons for not wanting the slide on Free as a Bird as he thought that sounded too much like George's solo stuff, I am glad he lost because that slide is blisteringly beautiful!
Welcome back tele71!!!!!
Get on Hogg's tail about Let it Be! Come on Ringo let it all out!
Paul plays slide on Drive My Car.
Actually Harrison's reinterest in the guitar comes around mid-1968. After fimling Raga in California, Shankar was asking him where his "roots" were. On the way home, he ran into Clapton and Hendrix in New York and figured "Well, I may as well get back to it, 'cause I'll never be a great sitarist." On the David Frost Show in 1971, Harrison picked up a sitar, said "It's been three years," and played the basic sitar scale.
Re Let It Be. Doesn't ABKCO have a say in this? I know Macca isn't too keen on it.