George Harrison - Awaiting On You All (Early Take / Living In The Material World)

[chopinesprit]

te amo, george!!!!

[Livesteam45]

Great version!

[msyolandacastro]

@schpoogie very interesting point. i see people adoring guys like george or john as if they were any gods that made more for world than other "common people" but in the end of the day it was not exactly like that

[schpoogie]

lyrics should be:

You don’t need to dig deep

Deep into your pocket

If you’ve got rich friends like me all you have to do is hold a massive concert

Let the public do the work, let them sacrifice,

Why use your own money? When lives are on the line

And while the pope owns 51% of general Motors

I sit at home with my 400 million dollars.

Spiritual wealth can only buy you oh so much, but its the monetary value of my pride that I can’t discard.

[subg88]

@schpoogie

That might be fitting if it weren't for the fact Harrison spent his life contributing to numerous charitable causes. The entire proceeds of Harrison's follow up album, Living in the Material World. and it's accompanying single, Give Me Love, went to establishing Harrison's Material World Foundation in 1973. 

Of all the sick ways the rich often generate wealth, to come around and criticize someone for being successful through music who gave so much...pathetic.

[schpoogie]

@subg88 George was the one who said "we need to get rid of money and greed" but he hoarded over 400 million dollars for himself...only giving away less than 10% of it to charity. For a normal person I would say Bravo, but for a so-called 'spiritually enlightened' being it is just disgraceful. His son Dhani owns the rest of George's wealth and is the richest entertainer under 30 years old (you can look all this up).

I feel lied to by Harrison, he never gave his money 'n wealth and tells us to

[subg88]

@schpoogie

You are just making stuff up now. Pathetic.

[schpoogie]

@subg88 No, I've done my research on this, everything I've said is true and i can send you to my sources if you want. In summary; George was not spiritually enlightened, he was just like the rest of us; full of pride and greed. If he really was spiritual then he would have humbled himself and lived on just 50,000 a year like an average person.

[subg88]

@schpoogie

OK, tell me the source for the quote where Harrison said "We need to get rid of money" then.

[schpoogie]

@subg88 I'm glad you ask. Go to google and type "the marterial world foundation" then click on the first one. When the website loads click on 'video' and then watch the video....The great George Harrison says it himself "we need to get rid of money and greed". I personally don't know how he can say that with a straght face

[subg88]

@schpoogie

He said "I had a song called Living in the Material World and it was from that I decided to call the foundation Material World Foundation cause the idea most people think of 'material world' representing purely money and greed and take offense to the word, whereas my point of view is it really means the physical world...so the idea is to give the money away in the material world." The 'idea' being the Material World Foundation, which is exactly what he did.

[subg88]

@schpoogie

So obviously you are misrepresenting what he said, which is, as I said before pathetic. Why don't you go defame someone deserving like Bill Gates or something. Let me guess, you think Bill Gates is just fantastic.

[subg88]

@schpoogie

Further to claim Harrison 'should' have lived on 50 grand a year if he were spiritual is hogwash. Krishna Consciousness does not teach that a devotee should not acquire wealth, only that wealth should not be acquired through the wrong means, just like most religions. Being a successful musician who produced positive music would not be considered wrong means, except by fascists who think they should tell people how they should behave and what to do with their money.

[schpoogie]

@subg88 What did he say after that? "if it is about money and greed then it's about giving the greed and money away" Which he didn't do. If Hinduism alows for a person to be dirty rich while others are poor then Hindiusm certainly isnt for me

[subg88]

@schpoogie

That's not what he said. I transcribed the entire video in the above comment. Besides, you claimed he said "we need to get rid of money." See, you are just full of crap. Secondly, Krishna Consciousness and Hinduism are two distinct religions. Educate yourself before you try to miseducate others. Dirty rich? I'd argue Harrison became rich in one of the cleanest ways possible.

[subg88]

@schpoogie

And you're saying he didn't do it? He gave the entire proceeds of the LIMW album and Give Me Love single to the foundation of which he is speaking about in the interview! Didn't you read my previous post? When he said "the idea is to give the money away" he was talking about the proceeds from the Material World album. Forty years later you're twisting his words to make him look like a hypocrite. I suppose if he was a word twisting punk you'd be singing his praises.

[schpoogie]

@subg88

1. If his foundation wasn't about 'giving away greed and money' then he wouldn't have included that bit in the video. But he certainly had greed and money. Oh wow he gave to proceeds to LITMW, so the starving people in Bangladesh had to wait until he produced an album until they could get aid...may i say this again...he had 400 million dollars!!!!

2. Fine, Krishna Consciousness (even though George never claimed any particular religion), K.C is not for me then.

[schpoogie]

@subg88

3. If he changed is mind after 40 years thinking 'ohh i should keep my 400 million' then he is still a hypocrite

[nafaidni]

@schpoogie

I'm not sure George said that it was bad to have wealth. His concepts on spirituality were that individuals just need to find their own relationship to God without the help of a specific religion or Church. Charity is fine and all, but it's not everything.

It's not as if he hasn't lost money on other expenditures that didn't purely help him, though. For example, he gave out 3 million GBP for the production of Life of Brian (and its religious message is rather akin to his).

[subg88]

@schpoogie

Just to clarify - that makes two consecutive massive selling albums by Harrison, Concert for Bangla Desh and Material World, plus a #1 single and a film, constituting the bulk of work of Harrison from 1971-1973 that went entirely to charitable causes. His other work during that time period included producing albums for Ravi Shankar as well as the Ravi Shankar Music Festival. Guess where the proceeds from that went.

[cometandcupids]

This is a better version than the album track.

[harrispca]

the more demos I hear of Georges All things must pass tracks, Spector over produced it big time. I have seen interviews with George where he said he doesnt like the production on all things muss pass, but the whole album is over done.

i have this CD, and Run of the Mill is great too

[subg88]

@harrispca

I'm not sure about that - the album was produced by Harrison and Spector. It seems Harrison was responsible for the recording production, and Spector the mixing production. If you watch the Scorcese doc, Spector makes it clear the recording process was already more or less complete when he arrived. It was Harrison responsible for having overlayed track upon track of guitars, vocals, etc.

[MotherNaturesSon7]

I think that Phill Spector plays bass on this. I saw an interview of Phill (in Living in the material world movie I suppose) and he says that George played the song to him and he take the bass and play with George few times.

[KJam206]

Who plays bass on this track!?? Klauss or Paul? Or a mystery man?

[MadSquirtle]

Fuckin' brilliant.

[ElNowhereMan1985]

Oh wow! this is awesome! Love it!!!!

[349quinman]

Lovely.

[GermanOperaSinger]

Never heard this take before! Thanks for posting.