GUITAR WOLF...George Harrison

 


     By virtue of playing in a band whose music is here, there and everywhere, George Harrison would by default be a world-best guitar everyman. But let’s not forget that his contributions to The Beatles’ blues and ballads are among their most beloved—”Something,” “Taxman,” “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”—and that it was his embrace of Eastern philosophies and instrumentation that helped transform the Fab Four from mod scoundrels to unrepentant hippies. The influences of Hare Krishna, Hinduism and transcendental meditation would be felt and heard long into his solo career. Sitar, slide guitar and the keys and progressions of Indian classical music quietly opened the eyes (and ears) of Harrison’s fans within Beatlemania and beyond it.
     Harrison would also sign on to pluck strings in sessions for his Beatles bandmates (including “Instant Karma” by John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band), their friends (Billy Preston), contemporaries (The Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood), and inspirations (Ravi Shankar), as well as a broad list of other big names as the decades rolled on (Hall and Oates, Belinda Carlisle, Jeff Healey, Carl Perkins). And his time with The Traveling Wilburys wove a seemingly endless web of guitar parts for him and his “brothers”: Dylan, Orbison, Petty, Jeff Lynne. He held a philosophy of unending consciousness and permutations of experience; his catalog of sound is manifest evidence of that belief system. Put bluntly, George Harrison’s legacy will never die.


GEORGE HARRISON

Living In The Material World

Apple,1973

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