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3 days ago · But when Tom Petty talked about Harrison’s technique, he remembered the guitar maestro saying that he intentionally stifled himself, telling Paul Zollo, “It was just the two of us there, and it was really late at night. And he started playing electric guitar, and he started playing the blues. And he just played the shit out of the blues.
1 day ago · George Harrison[nb 1]MBE(25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)[nb 2]was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian cultureand helped broaden the scope of popular musicthrough his incorporation of Indian ...
2 days ago · And he started playing electric guitar, and he started playing the blues. And he just played the shit out of the blues. And I had never heard him do that. I asked him, ‘Why have you never done that? I had no idea you could do that.’. And he said, ‘Oh, that’s Eric [Clapton’s] thing.’”. While Harrison had a point of Clapton having ...
2 days ago · " Here Comes the Sun " is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison and is one of his best-known compositions.
5 days ago · Come the late 40s and early 50s, with the advent of amplification and hand-held mics, the blues harp found its voice, with practitioners Little Walter Jacobs, Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Snooky Pryor taking it into new realms with wailing solos as expressive as any guitar riff or lick.
4 days ago · “Blues is really thriving and alive and fresh at the moment, whereas it’s few and far between for me to find interesting things to listen to in rock”: Slash was so impressed by this UK blues guitarist that he personally paid to bring him to the US
5 days ago · I’m like [drops his mouth in amazement] because I’m still crazy and starstruck. He says, ‘Buddy, George [Harrison] and I are playing the Roxy tonight. You’re going to come and jam.’”
