"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" George Harrison performed by cult guitarists!
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" - the famous composition of The Beatles group, the author of which is George Harrison. Subsequently, she will become his business card, and not only ... In 2004, after the death of the legendary beatle, Prince joined Jeff Linnu, So Petti and Steve Winwood to fulfill the pearl of the repertoire of the late comrade on stage ... "While my guitar is gently crying "- One of the most clinging on the soul of compositions, whose fame does not fuss even after so many decades from the moment of release ...
A little about the song ...
As you know, a truly talented person is able to create something from nothing! Such a person is enough to take a random image as a basis ... So this is exactly the person and was George Harrison. Practically from nothing he created a timeless anthem, which we all know today as "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"!
According to the late "Bitla", this composition was born in the house of his mother in Warrington. At the time of this writing, George pondered about Eastern philosophy ...
Thus, the pearl of the repertoire of The Beatles appeared literally from a couple of words that the author saw in the first book that had fallen ... But at first did not like the Kharrison colleagues in the group ... The Beatles participants perceived "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as some comic song . What, in fact, not surprisingly. At that time, each "Bitle" was concerned about his own creativity ... and at least a similar attitude of colleagues to the song hurt George, he was not going to give up!
Then Harrison invited to the studio ... Eric Clapton! His appearance fabulously influenced the situation in the studio ... The remaining members of the team revised their attitude to the song and agreed to record it, and with quite a big enthusiasm! Hit's author himself completely performed the vocal party, and also played on a rhythm guitar. As a result, the composition adoraly decorated the famous "white album" ...
George Harrison and The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys was formed in 1988, when five rock legends combined their forces for informal record in a cluttered garage in Los Angeles. Five experienced musicians - Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynn and Roy Orbison - gathered to write and write down what was thinking like a one-time track of the BI Side ...
After Harrison presented the finished song "Handle With Care" with his recording company, he was told that she was too good to hide her on the back of the European single. Instead, he was ordered to regroup with other musicians and record a whole album of songs! But for the newly formed supergroup there was no roadmap, nor the detailed plan, nor the participation of a record company, nor the expectation of success ... All five musical legends who received the nickname "Quintet per billion dollars," could talk about their personal achievements, their musical triumphs, and Also about long periods of indifference of fans. Some of the participants have already established close relationships, while others almost did not know each other.
Birth The Traveling Wilburys was a happy random. However, subsequently, this accident resulted in "Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1" - an album sold by more than 5 million edition copies!
Execution "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Prince with other legendary guitarists ...
In 2004, Prince joined the long-time team of George Harrison, namely to Jeff Linnu, So Petty and Steve Winwood, for the execution of the song "While my guitar is crying" ... it was the posthumous introduction of Harrison to the Rock and Roll Glory Hall. The musician died in three years earlier, in November 2001.An interesting moment in this video, which also presents the son of Harrison - Dhani, and several Petty's Heartbreakers participants are how Prince (and His Roui, of course) make their guitar disappear! Prince does not appear in the video until 3:28, but when it does, intensity increases into several steps (no offense Petty and Lynn, former Harrison comrades for the Traveling Wilburies group). According to The Times, Producer Show Joel Gallen asked Prince to play solo songs. But during the rehearsals, Mark Mann, who plays a guitar with Lynn, took the solo on himself, knocking the perfect reproduction of the original solo Eric Clapton in the middle of the song ...
Prince assured Gallen that everything will be fine on the performance. He told the producer to allow Manne to play the first solo, while he fulfilled an extended final solo.
Tom Petty, Dhana Harrison, PrinceSmile on the face of Dhani Harrison - the son of George Harrison, who plays on an acoustic guitar in this room - shows how much he enjoyed the star's moment of Prince in the song of his father. But what about the disappearing guitar? As soon as it leaves the hands of Prince, she no longer appears ... It can be seen on the video that no one catches him. Even the drummer Petty, Steve Ferron, still does not understand - was she at all on stage?
Interesting Facts…
- Today, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is part of the best guitar works according to Rolling Stone!
- The initial version of the song included an additional verse, as well as several lines, which were subsequently changed ...
- After the death of Prince in New York Times, an article appeared in which Petty and other participants who spent with him that evening shared their memories ...