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Concert for George Harrison!

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Posted in: Artist / Heroes

Have you seen this event on dvd?
 

If not, you owe it to yourself to check it out immediately.
 

This monumental concert took place at London’s Royal Albert Hall, featuring friends and family of George, with Eric Clapton as Musical Director.
 

Ravi Shankar’s daughter Anoushka opens the concert, playing sitar and then conducting an orchestra – and the music is fantastic. Improvisational in nature, the players seem to know what each other is doing at all times – and the interplay will blow your mind.
 

The Monty Python troupe also assembles to perform some old favorite skits (does anyone still use that term?). Next is a band setting, led by Eric, which features Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, Gary Broker, Ring Starr, Paul McCartney, George’s son Dhabi (who resembles a young George to a tee). The songs, of course, are George’s, with some of his old favorites thrown in. The amazing thing is that the great songs just keep coming – whenever you think it will end – out comes another gem which you might have forgotten about. Sir Paul tells a hilarious story about how they used to joke around after having dinner, and the ukuleles would come out for everyone to play and sing – and then, Paul launches into a Hawaiian version of “Something”, which morphs beautifully into a full band version.
 

Eric also plays a great interpretation of his ground-breaking solo on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, which was indeed a thrill. A Strat on the neck pickup never sounded better!

 

Seeing and hearing the great musicians of the sixties, who would you say are the greats of today?

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