The Beatles | While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Reaction/Analysis) - A New Era of Music?
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Why canât he believe that is the Beatles, the Beatles did everything, they are everything. â€đ
They sure did!
Beatles hands down the best musical act of all times..
The infighting stuff gets way overblown. It was said that the Get Back sessions that produced Let It Be were arduous as they were 'at each others throats" But when Peter jackson looked at 60 hours of film footage to make his 8 hour documentary of those sessions he was surprised to see how incredibly close they were and filled with humour. Sure they argued and had creative tensions, who wouldn't working that closely for so many years. They virtually lived together 12 hours a day for near 10 years. Jackson thought he was going to find 60 hours of depressing film but what he found was 4 individuals who loved and respected each other and were incredibly funny.
True, We loved the documentary for showing that side but it was true when they brought in other musicians it helped with those tensions sometimes that they had. For example also the Billy Preston appearance helped with their rut they were in at the time refreshed their attitudes and creativitiy.
I found the new footage extremely healing. "Let it be" was SO depressing. The new film eased my heartache. Seriously.
Well said
Amen!
The media loves to overplay things
I don't think tthe song is about being humbled by the guitar. Its about being humbled about life while playing guitar. He's been super-focused on being a Beatle, writing, playing, being, and yet life goes on, love goes on.
great take
The song is an indictment. It's saying, "The way you all treat each other and the world around us is hurting my soul." The guitar is a metaphor.
This is my favorite analysis thus far ^
Dear prudence is a great one you all should give a listen to.
They asked Ringo to come into the studio and when he did his drumkit was covered in flowers. No matter how everyone else fell out, they all, always loved Ringo.
Try âA day in the lifeâ, âHelter skelterâ, Something, Hey Jude
The Beatles knew Billy Preston from early in their career. He was the keyboard player with Little Richard when they opened for him at a club in Hamburg, Germany. He happened to stop by the EMI studios when the Beatles were recording the Get Back sessions. They were delighted to see him and asked them to jam with them, and later to play on the album. All very serendipity.
The acoustic demo version that George did of this is incredible and haunting. It has a very melancholic additional verse which puts a somewhat different spin to it. As was noted, it's available on the anthology and the Esther demo tapes which they recorded at George's house upon their return from India. Definitely worth a listen.
They use this acoustic demo version on the songtrack of âLoveâ also. It has strings added by George Martin, his last job with them. It gives me chills, so beautiful .
Yep, I was gonna note the acoustic Demo....
Tons of good songs on this record. Including Happiness is a warm gun.
This song is one of my favorites. I liked what the panel said about the Zen quality and the beauty of their musical structure. To me these lyrics sum up the meaning: "I don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love I don't know how someone controlled you They bought and sold you, With every mistake We must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps". So many people go through life not realizing they're not living up to their potential for love and an inner life as nobody showed them the way. Also, how external things control our lives (you were inverted/perverted) and as the world keeps turning we are like robots going through the same repetitive motions and are asleep and often blind to the beauty of life; so my guitar gently weeps for everyone in this state who can't or don't learn how to live a better life. Very trippy concepts from George!
Its interesting to hear Paul totally invested as a sideman (for a change) in this tune...his growling bass, piano, harmonies and vocal flourishes really add to it
McCartney was always invested in John's songs and George's songs - and always did everything to make them as great as they could be. It was John who wasn't invested in many of Paul's and George's songs.
I think Paul didnât play the bass on that one
@@mateusdoria2487 - Paul added his bass overdub to the track on September 6th, 1968. The same day that Clapton added his guitar overdub.
George brought Billy Preston in mainly because George was producing his album on the Beatles label, they knew him from their Hamburg days and they needed piano parts on the songs. The myth to relieve the tension is overblown.
Eric Clapton was once asked by a guitar magazine I read about the solo he did on this song. He just replied that he was so 'high' at the time he really didn't remember.
The solo is played on a 1957 Goldtop Les Paul (Lucy) that Clapton had gifted to to George.
Lucy was originally a "Goldtop" Les Paul Standard model with PAF humbucking pickups. By 1965 the guitar was owned by John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful, who traded it to Rick Derringer for an amp.
Derringer has it refinished in Red like his SG. However, Derringer wasn't happy with the guitar afterwards so he sold it to a guitar shop in New York where Eric Clapton bought it. Eric gives it to George Harrison.
Harrison continued to play Lucy as one of his principal guitars for the remainder of his time with the Beatles. It can be seen in the promotional videos for "Revolution" and âThe Ballad of John and Yokoâ, and the 1970 Let It Be documentary film. Lucy can be heard during the three-way guitar solo near the end of "The End".
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(guitar)
Very cool info, thank you for sharig this!
The one Beatles track that should be reacted to is "Tomorrow Never Knows" which was like 30 years ahead of it's time.
Will do, it's coming for sure.
This has a fender 6 string bass played by John
No itâs Paul on bass
Listen to Tomorrow Never Knows. It's the last track on the Revolver album.
One of the greatest songs ever. And Paulâs bass is đ„ I do think the lyrics low key hint at some of the frustrations going on (Yoko had just arrived on the scene) but I think they remembered those times as being more tense than they actually were (as we witnessed in âGet Backâ for the âLet It Beâ album.) Things had just changed from the structured, happy go lucky mop top days⊠more people in the circle, they werenât touring anymore, and there were too many drugs involved. BTW, I canât listen to Beatles covers. Iâm so embarrassed for artists who try lol
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I'm embarrassed you haven't found the good ones! David Bowie's Cover of Across The Universe was even praised by John Lennon as better than their own version (and I believe he helped produce the album it appeared on)
George is a king for writing and performing in my opinion some of the greatest Beatles Stand out Songs.
I enjoyed your perspective very much. However, these guys âloved each other deeplyâ, and like any family they had an occasional tiff. They were thoughtful, đfun loving kids when they started and went from adolescence to adulthood together, as they matured
in personality and talent, hiccups were inevitable. Beatles FOREVER!
Great song and the next one on this Lp is Lennon's
"Happiness Is A Warm Gun", incredible song.
For years it was assumed that although it sounds like three different incomplete snippets of Lennon songs that were stitched together to make one song kinda like with "Mean Mr Mustard" and "Polythene Pam" on the Abbey Road medley. Not true, one of their recording engineers Geoff Emerick who was only eighteen when he was hired by EMI in 1967 and worked with The Beatles from Sgt Peppers on to the end. He actually had a lot to do with their sounds and one that George Martin leaned on a lot.
Sadly he passed from I believe cancer a couple of years ago. He kept detailed notes of everything and pointed out a few years ago that John brought in the song in a complete form into the studio, it was written as one complete song which is amazing and shows Lennon's genius as a songwriter. Well worth a review by you guys along with Lennon's "Dear Prudence" another great one. This song best summarizes the whole "White Album" vibe and probably the whole year of 1968 for the band.
You guys brought up Billy Preston during the "Let It Be" sessions. He wasn't called in and recruited.
The Beatles actually met him in 1962 while they were in Hamburg and Preston who was only sixteen at the time and a member of Little Richards band. The Beatles were good friends of Richards and became friends with Preston. He was in London in 1969 and knew The Beatles were in the studio recording "Let It Be" and he dropped by to say hello.
They were working on John's "Don't Let Me Down" at the time which didn't make it onto the Lp but was the B-side of the "Get Back" single. Another Lennon gem that's kinda overlooked. You always see it on the rooftop concert but the studio version is phenomenal.
They asked Preston if he wanted to sit in and come up with the keyboards on the song. You watch this in the Disney "Get Back" film and its amazing. They played it real quick and he came up with the keyboards right while they were playing it for him.
Amazing and they loved it and by the next session the band discussed if they should maybe bring him in for the Lp and voted yes by all four. The Beatles were always very Democratic like that. Big rule in that band, no one ever said we're gonna do this, there was always a vote.
George did kinda break that rule with Clapton though. Him and Clapton were together one day and George had to go to the studio that day and invited Clapton to come and play on his song. Clapton was very hesitant and like you said Clapton tells the story this is The Beatles you just don't walk in. George said screw them, its my song and I want you there.
That's where the band was at that point. I always felt a little bad for George. John and Paul always treated him as not an equal but as secondary which wasn't right, he was with those two from the beginning.
Paul brought him in to meet and audition for John just about five months after John and Paul met.
George was only fourteen at the time, Paul fifteen and John seventeen, that's crazy. They were kids.
John regretted the way they treated George years later and Paul regrets to this day. By time "Abbey Road" George showed them with "Something" which was the only #1 song off of that album and his "Here Comes The Sun" which just may be my all time favorite Beatles song.
Look it up, this song is the #1 Beatles song on Spotify with over 700 million plays as of 2020, I don't know what it's currently up to.
Peace â€â€â€â€ a heart for each of you.
There are different songs by the Beatles for different times! Ballads,Love songs,pop songs rock songs,etc! You canât generalize on the Beatles at any given time!
A New Era of Music? Yes, when I listen to while My Guitar Gently Weeps it does sound more to me like a 70s song than a 60s song.
George gave Eric Clapton a ride Into London one day on his way to the session. He didnât feel the others were putting their all into the song and asked Clapton if heâd play on it. At first Clapton was saying âOf no, the others wouldnât like it.â George said âDonât worry man, itâs my song and I want you on it.â When Clapton walked in with George, the others straightened up quickly. Youâre hearing the result.
Thanks for your thoughts on this great track by Harrison and The Beatles.
How good is McCartney's bass though? Perfect.
Love his bass playing absolutely.
This song works without the guitar! There is a version with extra lyrics and an orchestra! And a beautiful acoustic version which makes it sound like a wise folk song đ â€
From the same double album, quite a few other tracks. How about: Yer Blues, Dear Prudence, Happiness Is A Warm Gun - the list is long (or Long, Long, Long).
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I don't know why you can't believe this is the Beatles!!! It just shows how very very little you know anything about the band and rock 'n' roll history.
I was so happy when the White Al came out and the guys were back to playin their guitars. enough ( too much ) artsy stuff.
It's said that George was refering to Paul for selling out.
It has a weird discordant darkness and intensity but still works as a guitar rock track.
Works on all fronts.
Isn't most good rock discordant and dark? At least a lot of the stuff I listen to anyway.
The bass esta,chingon..wow.
To me, this is Beatles Magnum Opus. By none other then the quiet Beatle, George Harrison. My Top 5 Goes As Such:
1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Strawberry Fields Forever
3. Eleanor Rigby
4. Hey Jude
5. Revolution
Thank you for sharing! All great songs!
Yes, an incredible song for certain. And one of the most moving covers was done at the "Concert for George" after his untimely death. Clapton plays lead and sings, and Paul plays piano and sings, and Ringo is on drums, and Billy Preston is there too, as are a host of other musical icons, and George's son Dhani plays acoustic - and he's the spitting image of George:
czcams.com/video/CrTMc2i6Lzc/video.html (While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Taken from Concert For George))
Looking at the roller-coaster ride these four young men survived from 1963 to 1969, it's only natural that their growing maturity would result in internal strife.
They didnt fucking hate each other.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no, just like any band relationship.
George Harrison - vocals, acoustic guitar, Hammond organ
Paul McCartney - bass, piano, backing vocals
John Lennon - backing vocals, electric guitar with tremolo
Ringo Starr - drums, percussion
Other musicians
Eric Clapton - lead guitar
Credits
George Martin - producer
More beatles pls
Please comfort this guitar.
Sorry, dude... but you have some faulty information at 10:00 into the video. Harrison did not have to "fight to get this song on the album". And they did NOT decide it was a worthy song only AFTER Clapton came in. The group spent a LOT of time on this song BEFORE Clapton had anything to do with it. They spent the entire July 25th, 1968 recording session (7:00 pm to 3:15 am) working on George's new song. They rehearsed numerous takes on this day trying lots of different ideas for over 8 hours - and George took all of them home to spend some time listening to them. They finished that session with one "official" take (which is the one we hear on Anthology 3). George thought for a while that this might be the version he would like to go with - but eventually he changed his mind and decided he wanted to take a very different approach. So the group went back at the song again on August 16th - and spent that entire recording session working on new versions of the song. They began at 7 pm and continued right through to 5 am - as the group did 14 official recorded takes of the song. These takes had George on guitar, Paul on bass, John on organ and Ringo on drums. Harrison next came back to the track on September 3rd when he spent over 8 hours working alone - trying to come up with a backwards guitar part for the song from 7 pm to 3:30 am. He finally gave up and remained unsatisfied with everything he tried that night. The group went back to work on the song on September 5th and after spending some time working from what they considered the best take from the August 16th session... they took a break and George decided that he didn't like it - and he wanted to scrap everything they had done and start over. So they started fresh and did 28 more new takes that night (takes 17 through 44) working nearly 9 hours - from 7 pm to 3:45 am with George on acoustic guitar, Paul on piano, John on guitar and Ringo on drums.. Listening to the playback of the takes after that session - it was eventually decided that take 25 was the best one (and that is the one used on the record). The next day (September 6th, 1968) overdubs were added to take 25. One of the over dubs was Eric Clapton's lead guitar part. Clapton said that George asked him for a ride to the studio that day - and asked him to play on his new song only as they were almost at the studio. Clapton was hesitant to even go in - as he didn't want to feel as if he was intruding into The Beatles inner sanctum. But George said they would all be fine with him adding a guitar overdub to his new song - and he told Clapton that he just couldn't get the guitar part how he wanted it to sound... and that he felt Eric could get the right sound he was looking for. One of the studio technicians said this about Clapton: "Eric behaved just like any session musician - very quiet, just got on and played. There were no theatrics involved". Other overdubs added on this day were: Paul added the bass and some nice backing vocals, Ringo added some extra percussion, George recorded his lead vocal - and added a few high pitched organ notes. There is no mention of John even being there that day.
Letâs not forget McCartneyâs typical and great bass playing and high harmonies
He is such a master musician indeed.
This songs works without the guitar! There is a version with extra lyrics and an orchestra!
Clapton certainly makes the guitar "weep".
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George returned the favour by co-writing Badge and playing rhythm on it on the Goodbye Cream album
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Quite true that there have been tons of great covers of this song. One of my recent favorites is by two old guys. Peter Frampton & Eric Clapton. Frampton (good guitarist in his own right) had always dreamed of playing with Clapton & they finally did. You can see Frampton's face light up like a little kid. czcams.com/video/K1ijcpo1Ep8/video.html
Clapton is married to Cynthia Harrison, Georges ex-wife and has been since the early 70's
Not true. 1974 Clapton started living with Patti Boyd, George Harrison's first wife and married her in 1979. (m. 1979-1989)
You donât need weed, or any other drug to enjoy listening to The Beatles. When I was growing up in the 1960âs I never did any drugs at all and I loved them to death. That whole drug thing is overblown.
That's a Mt Rushmore song for these guys. Easily top 5, probably top 1-2.
Another reactor who I enjoy did a Beatles top 10 and had this at #2 with Because, from side two of Abbey Road, at #1.
If any of you don't know that song I'd strongly recommend you listen to it. Listen to Here Comes the Sun first to set the mood.
How's this band the greatest of all time? I've heard this song about a 100 times as I did with most of their catalog, I hear the first couple of bars, feel chills running down my back and they don't stop until the song is finished. And no, they are not my favourite band, but its like Bach in classical music, it may not be your cup of tea (even though the Beatles are in my case) but the genius is obvious as long as you've got a pulse going.
I can't BELIEVE they're not your favorite band... There's no band even close.
@@shanelawson5072 There's obviously no logical answer to that. There is no objective metric to define that would make them my favourite, it's subjective taste, but like I said I do love the Beatles just not my favourite.
@@voiceover2191 ok... So who IS your favorite?
@@shanelawson5072 My favourite band is Radiohead. Do I consider them better than the Beatles, to me that is unanswerable, by what metrics would you come to such a verdict, I couldn't. In general though I love music in many genres, styles, time periods and to each I have favourites, but Radiohead I've been listening to the most this year. As you can see from my icon I'm also a huge fan of Joy Division, but they are not the type of band you listen to on a daily basis, but when I do, I'm fully immersed.
@@voiceover2191 it's not unanswerable... Radiohead is not even one tenth as good as The Beatles.
Great emotional song. Guitar backing very muted particularly the solo, different to the original vinyl ( unless one of my computer speakers is down?) Vinyl also had a different stronger guitar solo.
George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is not about psychedelics, marijuana, or staring off into a sunset. It emanates from George's cognition of the spiritual meaning of the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedas, that the Supreme Lord, the embodiment of universal divine love, dwells hidden in the souls of all. Yet we pervert it, causing him to weep. The song is a deep and powerful spiritual lament. It is a devotional prayer, the accuracy of which is born out by the panel, who misinterpret it, not sensing "the love there that's sleeping", the divinity hidden within humanity that is neglected and denied.
Clapton on guitar .
His playing is stellar!
Some very good covers out there , but none comes near to the original.
Quite an exaggeration of the band conflicts. They were never at each otherâs throats. It was more a lack of communication. George being upset about things but only going home and telling his wife instead of telling John and Paul. More sulking and passive aggressive stuff, not full blown arguments
The guy saying that he still can't believe that the Beatles did this has uttered the most ignorant comment ever. Maybe he should stick to reacting to Millenial crap.
Eric Clapton doesn't play the lead guitar on this, he plays one of the lead guitars. This track has two lead guitars (George and Eric) they both played on the Cream track, "Badge," (written by both of them) and the critics at the time claimed George's playing added an unusually 'heavy feel' to Cream sound. If you want to see the guitar interplay between George and Eric's two lead guitars on this song, watch the live version on the Prince's Trust Concert in 1987. What's all the nonsense about 'smoking weed?' You can't listen to music properly, or comment on it, because you haven't smoked weed! Your knowledge of Beatles history/facts is sadly lacking and garbled too. Don't you do any research before you do a reaction. Their music is not psychadelic, only a few tracks are. They? Crooning? There is no 'they' the only vocals on this are from George. One nonsense/inaccurate comment followed by another (and all of you agreeing with the nonsense).
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It wasn't just George on vocals, Paul sang harmony vocals.
You said so many things about this song that weren't true, and many things about the Beatles themselves that were incorrect. It's a great track, and has nothing to do with I Ching. George loved the religions of India, not China.
And the guy with the black beard just can't shut up... even talks over one of the most famous lines in the song! All done here....
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Talk about not understanding a song.
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@@galaxyjams Thank you for the very civil and professional response. Well done.
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I believe Lennon had no contribution to the songâs recording.
Listening to the man with white beard explain The Beatles, is like listening to the generic common narrative. It's annoying. The watcher isn't getting the full true story.
Tell us the full true story, Daddy
@@galaxyjams well pull up plate of cheeseburgers there Beatle-beard and I will!
Prince butchered this song during the tribute to George by showboating endlessly and pissing off Tom Petty (look at his face). He totally tried to "make it all about him". Really bad taste.
Prince did not butcher any thing. He was asked to participate for a reason. He smoked it, sliced and diced it, then served it to us. What he did was brought life to the whole tribute even after his own induction that night. Petty, btw did comment and guess what? He loved it.
Glad I'm not the only one who felt like that. The Tribute to George concert version at The Royal Albert Hall is far better.
Ummm... Every single song on The White Album was not great.
The live version of Eric Clapton and friends, when George Harrison died, is phenomal! PS: sorry, for the lady, but the Beatles, never played any psychedelic music, they stoped when the psychedelic geniuses like Hendrix arrivedđđđThe Beatles, are the perfect little kids, singing at church, perfect haircut, and, they wrote the most stupid lyrics ever!đ Ho ho ho! Yeah yeah yeah! Bla bla blađGood melodies, but, i never liked that band! Peace from France guysâïž