Its tragically brief, but i think thats George's best guitar solo, at keast as a Beatle. It edges out the one in Octopus's Garden by a tentacle. This is a pretty deep cut. Highly underrated
Brings back memories. I know that we had that single. It was the B side of their song : The Ballad of John and Yoko ". I was a little bit in love with George Harrison. ☺️❤️❤️🎶🎶🙋♀️
Really appreciate you recognizing George's excellent work in this song, his performances, working with the other Beatles to make it all happen, a true thing of beauty! As you so well pointed out all four of the Beatles (and Billy Preston) were all just swept up in the joy and madness that was the sum total of the recording of this rare Beatles gem.
Love the multiple shots of Billy on bass. I'm sure those performances were not in the final mix. In a 1987 interview of George Harrison, a reporter supposedly told George that "Paul goes crazy with all those bass notes", to which George replied, "that was ME going crazy with all those notes (on the Fender VI bass, reserved for both George and John. Paul, obviously had his own bass equipment. But what I think might be happening here in these early takes is that Billy Preston likely did indeed jam a bass line with McCartney on a lead guitar, but I doubt that performance made the final cut to be a part of the song. However, one scenario I think could be highly likely here-Billy may well have taught George the bass line that Billy was playing, and that's the bass line we hear from George Harrison in this song. The piano performance in the final mix of this song is supposedly Paul, but perhaps in this early version George and Billy were bouncing ideas off from each other from a songwriting and musical performance perspective. A lot of fun to watch the actual footage in this video!
Longtime fave of mine, from when 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' came out and we finally flipped the disc over. Great vibe, lyrics, groove, performances, fave guitar sound(through a Leslie). Cheers, mate. 🍻 😊🤙🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The video is from the Gt Back Sessions, where the Beatles did several run-throughs of the song that were not used. It was recorded again for the Abbey Road sessions. Although Billy Preston did record with them at times during the Abbey Road sessions, he was not there on the days they worked on the new Old Brown Shoe takes.
Yes, I figured that. Those takes have the visual, and I know they were not used in the final mix of the song. Would be fascinating, nonetheless, if the audio of those takes still existed. It would be interesting in terms of the overall story of this song.
One of the tricky things for calling out who's playing what in a Beatles song is that this was a group of four multi-instrumentalist musicians. Even Ringo played keyboard and used to play guitar and sing when he was in the previous group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. In a 1987 interview George Harrison corrected an interviewer who "thought Paul was going crazy on the bass with all of those notes" by saying dryly, "That was ME going crazy on the bass with all of those notes. But I was just playing the bass part the same way I play a lead guitar part". I found that a very interesting comment from George.
You see a quick shot of their longtime producer and friend, George Martin, stately looking man with slightly grey hair, tall, turns his back to the camera. Another one of the "5th Beatles".
Don't know that Billy's guitar part made it to the final mix, but you can definitely see Billy on bass with Paul on an electric guitar, which is not the instrument typically played by Paul. I suspect Paul just wanted to have some fun and see how well Billy could keep up playing bass on that take. But it's just a curiousity showing Billy in the studio with them at that time.
Not true, Paul has always been good on electric guitar and has played it on many of the Beatles recordings. He is doing the lead solo of Taxman for one. He played guitar before he got "lumbered with the bass" after Stu Sutcliffe left the band.....neither John or George wanted to change to bass....so Paul got stuck with it. That is why his bass lines became so melodic and more complicated than bass lines usually were back then, especially in the early '60s.
@@patticrichton1135 I think you misunderstood me. I never said Paul wasn't brilliant on lead guitar-he absolutely is! What I am saying is that lead was not TYPICAL for Paul, that's all! So to see him playing electric/lead guitar while putting Billy Preston on bass I just thought was fun and playful of Paul to collaborate on that in the way he did.
I'm realizing now, Philip, we really haven't delved into George Harrison songs with the Beatles. There are actually quite a few, all good performances. I think the first one we should think about our George Harrison journey with the Beatles would be from the Beatles 1966 masterpiece album "Revolver", I would point to "I Want To Tell You" as a classic George Harrison song. I'll pitch that one your way.
So, an interesting question I would like to pose here. If we believe George from his 1987 interview that he was the one playing bass on the final mix of this track, with Paul on piano, as George pointed out in that interview, I have two questions, 1.) George obviously heard the take of Billy on bass with Paul on electric guitar-just to confirm?/and if George heard Billy's bass playing, did that have any impact on the way he (George) played the bass? If we go back to George's interview, it seems at first glance not. George states he simply played the bass the way he would have played lead guitar. What would be really interesting would be to have the audio from the take with Paul on guitar and Billy on bass. I think they likely were brainstorming just to see what they could come up with, but I would be fascinated to hear this nonetheless.
But there's lots more George Harrison songs in addition that deserve more attention. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (featuring George's good friend Eric Clapton on lead guitar) maybe one of his if not his greatest song with the Beatles. "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are also high up on this list. So there's a lot more George Harrison territory to cover within the Beatles. Then, after the Beatles, the explosion. All those songs that were being passed over in the Beatles, George had all this backlog of songs, and it literally came out in this amazing triple album, "All Things Must Pass" that most critics will tell you is the greatest single solo Beatle album of all four solo Beatles. Tells you a lot about George Harrison as a creative songwriting force in his own right. Fascinating to see that Billy was becoming, in the short time represented in these films we've seen, kind of a writing partner to George and supporter to him the way John and Paul were writing partners of each other, and would also support each other's songwriting efforts. With Billy Preston, the Beatles could have had 4 songwriters (5 if you include Ringo's written songs)-if that was sustainable, that would have been amazing.
Yep, the mystery of just who was playing piano in the final mix of this song? I had never seen George playing piano on this track. And then Billy Preston is also shown playing piano in this video; again, this track would assume the nature of an out-take on a song. But fascinating documentation as to what was actually going on in the sessions for this song.
We've got a fact check here, Philip! Totally understandable that you would think that's Paul's bass line. But, in an 1987 interview, George set the record straight that it was HIM (George), not Paul playing the bass line on studio version of this song. George said he pretty much played the Fender VI bass the same way he played lead guitar. Not a bad bass player is George, wouldn't you say?
Sorry mate, Paul McCartney 's bass style is well heard here, George Harrison just overdubbed a second guitar on it playing bottom strings... But George Harrison played bass line on few other records like Two Of Us
Who plays what on this song is still under dispute. No one should barge in confidently tell anyone else they know for sure. Piano, For example. Could be George, could be Paul, could be Billy.
Hi Phil, I hope you are well. Would you please consider reacting to 'Gimme Some Truth' by John Lennon and the versions of 'Savoy Truffle' by The Beatles and Ella Fitzgerald on your TH-cam channel? Those tracks are amazing. Thank you, and all the best.
The Beatles were done by 9/20/69 when, at a business meeting John called at his Tittenhurst mansion, he suddenly burst out he was leaving the Beatles. The end of the Beatles as a functional band; would not have been possible to replace Lennon, and the other three knew it.
I'm going to pay close attention to your reaction and analysis at the end of the program. There's a lot going on in this video that needs to be inventoried when considering the video for the song. I will just be curious to see what you pick up in this video that's going on in the background.
I'm sorry if my remarks are causing any controversy here, but I've now seen two shots of Billy Preston playing guitar-most unusual! This must be the only track of Billy Preston playing guitar in existence.
George's vocal appears to be accompanied by Billy Preston on the piano. At least that's what the video shows. Clearly George is simply delivering his vocal; he's not playing any instrument in that track, and the track that we hear has a piano on it. So. . .one of the tracks with Billy Preston on piano? Hard to know, but a fascinating video documentation unfolding before our eyes!
Mr. Harrison on lead thank you. 3:26
This song is a hidden jewel.
Excellent song.
One of Harrisons best
Make that THREE separate shots of Billy Preston on guitar! Wow! Didn't know he could play guitar; he was always known for his keyboard skills.
Its tragically brief, but i think thats George's best guitar solo, at keast as a Beatle. It edges out the one in Octopus's Garden by a tentacle.
This is a pretty deep cut. Highly underrated
Brings back memories. I know that we had that single. It was the B side of their song : The Ballad of John and Yoko ".
I was a little bit in love with George Harrison. ☺️❤️❤️🎶🎶🙋♀️
love watching footage of beatles recording sessions
George Harrison. . .the Beatles "hired gun" comes out with that blistering lead guitar on his legendary multi-colored guitar, "Be-Bop A Lua".
Billy's showing the Beatles an early miniature synthesizer. Notice he's got John, George and Ringo hovering over him like bees around flowers!
You do yourself proud on these programs, Philip! Very enjoyable watching your programs!
Really appreciate you recognizing George's excellent work in this song, his performances, working with the other Beatles to make it all happen, a true thing of beauty! As you so well pointed out all four of the Beatles (and Billy Preston) were all just swept up in the joy and madness that was the sum total of the recording of this rare Beatles gem.
The Beatles, "I Want To Tell You"-one of my all time favorite George Harrison/Beatles songs.
Love the multiple shots of Billy on bass. I'm sure those performances were not in the final mix. In a 1987 interview of George Harrison, a reporter supposedly told George that "Paul goes crazy with all those bass notes", to which George replied, "that was ME going crazy with all those notes (on the Fender VI bass, reserved for both George and John. Paul, obviously had his own bass equipment. But what I think might be happening here in these early takes is that Billy Preston likely did indeed jam a bass line with McCartney on a lead guitar, but I doubt that performance made the final cut to be a part of the song.
However, one scenario I think could be highly likely here-Billy may well have taught George the bass line that Billy was playing, and that's the bass line we hear from George Harrison in this song. The piano performance in the final mix of this song is supposedly Paul, but perhaps in this early version George and Billy were bouncing ideas off from each other from a songwriting and musical performance perspective. A lot of fun to watch the actual footage in this video!
Very interesting. . .your analysis of George's lyrics is definitely resonating with me.
Longtime fave of mine, from when 'The Ballad of John and Yoko' came out and we finally flipped the disc over. Great vibe, lyrics, groove, performances, fave guitar sound(through a Leslie). Cheers, mate. 🍻
😊🤙🏼🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
The video is from the Gt Back Sessions, where the Beatles did several run-throughs of the song that were not used. It was recorded again for the Abbey Road sessions. Although Billy Preston did record with them at times during the Abbey Road sessions, he was not there on the days they worked on the new Old Brown Shoe takes.
Yes, I figured that. Those takes have the visual, and I know they were not used in the final mix of the song. Would be fascinating, nonetheless, if the audio of those takes still existed. It would be interesting in terms of the overall story of this song.
Duality-how pairs of opposites go together. Nice pickup Philip!
One of the tricky things for calling out who's playing what in a Beatles song is that this was a group of four multi-instrumentalist musicians. Even Ringo played keyboard and used to play guitar and sing when he was in the previous group Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.
In a 1987 interview George Harrison corrected an interviewer who "thought Paul was going crazy on the bass with all of those notes" by saying dryly, "That was ME going crazy on the bass with all of those notes. But I was just playing the bass part the same way I play a lead guitar part".
I found that a very interesting comment from George.
o man its such a great tune
I'm pretty sure George played bass on this one, too.
So much joy ~~~~
That's why we adored them
You see a quick shot of their longtime producer and friend, George Martin, stately looking man with slightly grey hair, tall, turns his back to the camera. Another one of the "5th Beatles".
Don't know that Billy's guitar part made it to the final mix, but you can definitely see Billy on bass with Paul on an electric guitar, which is not the instrument typically played by Paul. I suspect Paul just wanted to have some fun and see how well Billy could keep up playing bass on that take. But it's just a curiousity showing Billy in the studio with them at that time.
Not true, Paul has always been good on electric guitar and has played it on many of the Beatles recordings. He is doing the lead solo of Taxman for one. He played guitar before he got "lumbered with the bass" after Stu Sutcliffe left the band.....neither John or George wanted to change to bass....so Paul got stuck with it. That is why his bass lines became so melodic and more complicated than bass lines usually were back then, especially in the early '60s.
@@patticrichton1135 I think you misunderstood me. I never said Paul wasn't brilliant on lead guitar-he absolutely is! What I am saying is that lead was not TYPICAL for Paul, that's all! So to see him playing electric/lead guitar while putting Billy Preston on bass I just thought was fun and playful of Paul to collaborate on that in the way he did.
I'm realizing now, Philip, we really haven't delved into George Harrison songs with the Beatles. There are actually quite a few, all good performances. I think the first one we should think about our George Harrison journey with the Beatles would be from the Beatles 1966 masterpiece album "Revolver", I would point to "I Want To Tell You" as a classic George Harrison song. I'll pitch that one your way.
Can't wait for this one, Philip!
So, an interesting question I would like to pose here. If we believe George from his 1987 interview that he was the one playing bass on the final mix of this track, with Paul on piano, as George pointed out in that interview, I have two questions, 1.) George obviously heard the take of Billy on bass with Paul on electric guitar-just to confirm?/and if George heard Billy's bass playing, did that have any impact on the way he (George) played the bass?
If we go back to George's interview, it seems at first glance not. George states he simply played the bass the way he would have played lead guitar. What would be really interesting would be to have the audio from the take with Paul on guitar and Billy on bass. I think they likely were brainstorming just to see what they could come up with, but I would be fascinated to hear this nonetheless.
Awesome reaction ❤
thank you
A song this good can only be the B side of a single if you’re The Beatles
Absolutely agree
But there's lots more George Harrison songs in addition that deserve more attention. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (featuring George's good friend Eric Clapton on lead guitar) maybe one of his if not his greatest song with the Beatles. "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" are also high up on this list. So there's a lot more George Harrison territory to cover within the Beatles.
Then, after the Beatles, the explosion. All those songs that were being passed over in the Beatles, George had all this backlog of songs, and it literally came out in this amazing triple album, "All Things Must Pass" that most critics will tell you is the greatest single solo Beatle album of all four solo Beatles. Tells you a lot about George Harrison as a creative songwriting force in his own right.
Fascinating to see that Billy was becoming, in the short time represented in these films we've seen, kind of a writing partner to George and supporter to him the way John and Paul were writing partners of each other, and would also support each other's songwriting efforts. With Billy Preston, the Beatles could have had 4 songwriters (5 if you include Ringo's written songs)-if that was sustainable, that would have been amazing.
Yep, the mystery of just who was playing piano in the final mix of this song? I had never seen George playing piano on this track. And then Billy Preston is also shown playing piano in this video; again, this track would assume the nature of an out-take on a song. But fascinating documentation as to what was actually going on in the sessions for this song.
We've got a fact check here, Philip! Totally understandable that you would think that's Paul's bass line. But, in an 1987 interview, George set the record straight that it was HIM (George), not Paul playing the bass line on studio version of this song. George said he pretty much played the Fender VI bass the same way he played lead guitar. Not a bad bass player is George, wouldn't you say?
Sorry mate, Paul McCartney 's bass style is well heard here, George Harrison just overdubbed a second guitar on it playing bottom strings... But George Harrison played bass line on few other records like Two Of Us
He also handled the bass and backup vocals on She Said She Said when Paul stormed out of the session.
Who plays what on this song is still under dispute. No one should barge in confidently tell anyone else they know for sure. Piano, For example. Could be George, could be Paul, could be Billy.
Hi Phil, I hope you are well. Would you please consider reacting to 'Gimme Some Truth' by John Lennon and the versions of 'Savoy Truffle' by The Beatles and Ella Fitzgerald on your TH-cam channel? Those tracks are amazing. Thank you, and all the best.
hello Philip.
The Beatles were done by 9/20/69 when, at a business meeting John called at his Tittenhurst mansion, he suddenly burst out he was leaving the Beatles. The end of the Beatles as a functional band; would not have been possible to replace Lennon, and the other three knew it.
Released 1969.
I'm going to pay close attention to your reaction and analysis at the end of the program. There's a lot going on in this video that needs to be inventoried when considering the video for the song. I will just be curious to see what you pick up in this video that's going on in the background.
Now, back to the shoe
Don't you just love Lennon and McCartney's little joy dance at the end of the video?
643 views in 20 hours. . .wow! The power of the Beatles to draw in views!!!
I'm sorry if my remarks are causing any controversy here, but I've now seen two shots of Billy Preston playing guitar-most unusual! This must be the only track of Billy Preston playing guitar in existence.
George's vocal appears to be accompanied by Billy Preston on the piano. At least that's what the video shows. Clearly George is simply delivering his vocal; he's not playing any instrument in that track, and the track that we hear has a piano on it. So. . .one of the tracks with Billy Preston on piano? Hard to know, but a fascinating video documentation unfolding before our eyes!
He's not playing any instrument?