George Harrison - If I Needed Someone (Live In Japan 1991)

[jackoshaw]

George Harrison was by far the Beatles' best Songsmith..........

[orozcko]

wow en ese tiempo yo tenia 2 añotes !!! ojala todavia viviera george !!! y tuviera giras ya vi a paul y rin go en mexico !!! 2010 y 2011

[dean87bwfc]

Im glad i get to read the more relevant and important messages first (at the top)

[GTM59]

I have to laugh at some of the comments people leave here about this video regarding the suit George was wearing and how bad it looked, I don't think the people who came to see him that night could give a toss about what he was wearing, they came to see ex-Beatle George Harrison perform his fantastic music. what else matters??

[ommauma74]

@GTM59 Yeah, don't think wardrobe was his priority either. :)

[shakedownstreet48]

Nice to see George singing his Beatle songs, i hear him talk shit about them so much .

[misteriox90]

2 hps ignorantes que me lo amaman

[roman14032]

i hate to say this but ,there is no reason that someone with GH kinda money should be performing in such a badly fitting suit.get a tailor, their not that expensive.other than that GH was alwaays great

[aaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaaqaa]

@roman14032 : Yeah, clothing is really important when it comes to music!---------------------too­l!

[moparnutjim]

@roman14032 I don't think George cared to much for suits.

[BEATLE909GRM]

thanks for sharing your videos/gracias por compartir tus videos

[mattp123614]

no rickenbacker 360/12? original solo replaced by bastardized clapton solo? no thanks :\

[teouu]

@mattp123614 no te lo tomes asi che! no es para tanto, tenes q tomarte la musica mas tranqi no es solo de una manera ahi estan compartiendo escenario haciendo otra version y liberando sus almas en un tema hermoso de harrison =) no es pelea, solo una opinion al respecto de tu comentario, solo para q puedas disfrutar mas musica ( a mi entender)

[princeofthemods69]

@mattp123614 Mate, people like to switch things up a bit. Imagine having to play the SAME song in the SAME way for 20+ years. No matter how good the song is, you'd get bored. If you wanna hear it the way it was on the record, listen to the record?

[nearnear2]

if i need someone? we need you.

[blythecaliforniatv]

I was bless to have wittiness a great person life unfold during my life time . . . thanks for the great music George. - "Happy Birthday February 25."

[redredroselass]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE HARRISON February 25

[ChiroQuacker]

i will be dead soon too like george and john..but i dont want to come ack..once was enuff..i hate life..i am loser a failure..nothing..piece of trash...hoping in death there is no feeling..no more misery...no existence...life sucks..easier to be miserable to be a failure then to be happy...most humans have shitty lives..i dont laugh much dont feel successful..just a failure..hope i die this week...i have had enuff...fuck this planet..no more people...

[steve7onfire]

@ChiroQuacker are you still alive????

[09jpick]

@ChiroQuacker this was a good video!!!

[Beatlelover7]

At least he didnt mutter "If i f***ing needed someone" this time like he like in Japan in '66.

[spazzcat03]

It would of been so neat to see The Beatles Sing That song Again !

[superman11978]

George's Hindu and Buddhist philosophy dictated that he should "underachieve." He was too busy living and finding his own contentment to need to put out an album every year and have to deal with the horrible music business and the critics, or constantly be on tour like Paul. He only picked up his guitar when he wanted to. Otherwise he was quite content at home with his family (and ukelele).

[OropherThranduil]

@superman11978

actually here he picked up his guitar after clapton asked him if he would like to tour again.

[sirwob]

@superman11978 nice post, I agree......Hare Krishna

[declan32001]

Ah, George... Eric, please record every lick you ever play. Much love.

[QueenBeatlesWings]

RIP George and all other great musicians. why must All things Pass?

[traderfutures]

My sweet George:))

[Paxhiio]

GEORGEE HARRISOOOOOOOOOOON ^^

no cabee dudaaaa ((:

el mejorr^^

[RingoRevolucionario1]

muy buena version en vivo!!!!

[GeorgeHarrison66]

George is God. Clapton should f*ck off.. the overrated tosser.

[OropherThranduil]

@GeorgeHarrison66

without eric george wouldn't have done this tour.

Eric played in the background and did what george wanted, what the hell is your problem?

Clapton is one of the greatest Guitarists ever.

He and George were good Friends.

He's not overrated and surely not a tosser.

But still georgie is my favorite Guitarist of all Time.

he's just sooo GEORGEous.

[GeorgeHarrison66]

@OropherThranduil It's just my opinion that I think that Clapton is overrated. One thing that we agree on is that George is our favorite guitarist of all time. :o)

[OropherThranduil]

yeah, he was so versatile, always perfect, never had the generic guitar sound of the era.

didn't had the urge to show on during solos, but when needed could scream with the best of them like on yer blues.

oh, i think claptons legacy largely builds on the years 65 to 68, his years with the bluesbreakers and cream.

and during that time, with his woman tone, his leslies, his trusted wah pedal and his gibson guitars he could blow hendrix of the stage.

creams early performances of i'm steppin out

[sirwob]

@OropherThranduil I'm trying to remember where George screams on Yer Blues, also trying to remember where he played a wah-wah w/The Beatles

[OropherThranduil]

@sirwob

his guitar screams on Yer Blues.

and he used a wah-wah pedal in the wildlife version of across the universe.

[sirwob]

@OropherThranduil I'm sorry, I beg to differ, knowing Johns and Georges guitar styles, I'd be willing to bet that's a John lead on Yer Blues as for the wildlife version of across the universe, not sure I'm familiar w/it

[OropherThranduil]

@sirwob

John does the first riffing solo, then george takes ober and does the screaming solo.

just like he did on the rolling stones rock'n'roll circus with clapton on lead.

he does the riffing solo, eric the screaming stuff.

the wildlife version was released in 68 on a charity album.

[sirwob]

@OropherThranduil obviously I'll investigate,ty

[individrus]

@sirwob He used wah wah a lot in a Let it be movie, but I am not sure, if there s any wah on the records...

Maybe im Across the Universe (on some early versions)

[79goldmaster1]

should have been a single...

[billie713]

I know that during this tour Dhani Harrison sometimes performed onstage. Does anybody know what songs or where i can find any videos of this?

[Helmut83]

Underrated song, underrated even by George.

[dimoskaterina100]

love it

[scott29298]

well done george Wished i could of hung around JOHN and PAUL

[QueenBeatlesWings]

George wasn't happy to tour- he never was much into fame he preferred making music an raising awareness about things thru music as well as gardening and thinking about religious stuff. He only toured because some business person basically robbed him of what he was due so he needed cash and Clapton offered to be his backing band for a tour

[maximoveneno]

we need the real video!!!!

[LookingForMyLife]

@maximoveneno seguis rompiendo las bolas en mis videos flaco. tomatela!

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@maximoveneno tell that to Warner Bros. company they never released an official whole video of the tour or nay concerts- only a few songs

[dead0piggy]

@maximoveneno This is the real video. At least it IS George.

[cunnidvd]

such a great song. Hardly ever hear it.

[hosford1019]

Eric Clapton made George play this one on the tour because it was one of Eric's favorite Harrison songs. Eric said, "For me George's songwriting was closer to what I liked then John and Paul's, even though John and Paul were great, George's songs always had the emotion closer to what I felt." That is a quote. I fell the same way....

[stevedrums]

It was kind of sad reading in Clapton's utobiography that George just really had no desire to perform anymore and even during this tour seemed detached from the whole thing.

[TheFlickreaper]

George's clothes always look baggy.

[tiranchula]

I'm a Paul girl, but this is by far my favorite Beatles song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Stringsattached]

Check out our version of this great song on our channel

[ufaldrums]

my friend told me: george didn't change the tempo... it's just the same as in the budokan in 1966...

[TurgeonFan77132]

@ufaldrums- Just sans the Rickenbacker 360-12 guitar. He's got a Fender 12 string here.

[beatlesgtpepper]

2 dislike = 2 assholes

[taniken1007]

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[beatlesgtpepper]

Oh, god, i love you, George. You're totally fabolous!

[dylanfanjd]

we miss you george....you meant so much to me and so many others

you were the greatest

[linclink]

Does anybody know what kind of electric 12-string guitar George is playing here? It certainly doesn't look like a Rickenbacker! I wonder what it is? A Fender of some sort?

[gtrDan1963]

A classic Harrison performance, with George on a Fender ElectricXII as opposed to a Rickenbacker...

Andy Fairweather-Low is on camera playing the same runs as George on a capo-ed Strat, and it is, in fact, Eric Clapton (not in shot, unfortunately) who plays the soaring, bending lead breaks along side George's more melodic 12 string lines...

The "Live In Japan" cd has the definitive version of this Byrds-inluenced Harrison classic...

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@gtrDan1963 So, Andy fairweather Low is the guitarist in this film clip but Clapton is there too right?

Also, u mentioned Low plays a capo-ed Strat guitar- I've never seen anyone capo an electric guitar before- is it possible and is there a reason why not?

[gtrDan1963]

@QueenBeatlesWings

It's not uncommon for an electric player to capo their guitar...Albert Collins did it all the time with special tunings.

Often times a song is written in 1st pos. chording, but sounds better in a different key.

George's melody for "if I Needed..." is written around the "D" chord, but capoed up 7 frets to be played in "A". "Here Comes The Sun" was written in the same manner.

"If I Needed"s" inspiration was the Byrds' "The Bells Of Rhymney".

Play them back-to-back.

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@gtrDan1963 interesting- thanks for the info

[gtrDan1963]

@QueenBeatlesWings

In fact, the Beatles and Byrds often inspired each other ; The Byrds heard "Ticket To Ride", which inspired "She Don't Care About Time", "The Bells Of Rhymney" begat "If I Needed Someone", "And Your Bird Can Sing" (read as Byrd) begat "Have You Seen Her Face" and finally, as a tribute to his late friend George Harrison, Roger McGuinn recorded a version of "If I Needed..." for his "Limited Edition" cd in 2004...

[OropherThranduil]

@gtrDan1963

right, but since without George's use of the Rickenbakcer 12 string there would be no byrds there wouldn't have been a bells of rhimney to influence this song.

[gtrDan1963]

@OropherThranduil Absolutely correct...That's why McGuinn did his version of this song as a tribute and "thank you" to his late friend and mentor.

At the time of the Japan shows, George's original Rick 12 was close to 30 years old and George didn't want to risk damging it on the road, hence the use of the Fender XII...

The last recording to feature the 63 was Cloud Nine's "Fish On The Sand" in 1987.

Just a bit of trivia...

Dan.

[OropherThranduil]

@gtrDan1963

well, i knew all the trivia, but it will go noticed by others.

yeah, i saw roger live last year, was his 67th birthday, little room, 200 people, was very familiar feeling about it, talked a lot between songs, just him and his trusty old ricky and his 7 string, was really really cool, i sat about 2 meters away from him.

[gtrDan1963]

@OropherThranduil Sweet...I miised Roger last time he was in town, but to quote another George song from Rubber Soul, "...you've got time to ectify all the things that you should", so next time I'll be sure not to miss him.

Peace.

Dan.

[OropherThranduil]

@gtrDan1963

yeah, i hope he will come back to my town here in merry ol cologne, germany. xD

and paul in december was also great, first row, right in front of him for 3 straight hours, he's got himself a pretty neat band.

now i'm hoping the beach boys will get together for a 50th reunion tour in 11 and then the stones will reunite with bill to celebrate their 50th anniversary tour in 12, with mick tayor it would even be more awesome.

[gtrDan1963]

@OropherThranduil

Have tickets for Paul in Philadelphia on 8 / 14 /10, and am looking forward to it...

Haven't seen either Beach Boys faction since Carl Wilson passed away....Brian was the brain, but Carl was the heart and soul...

If Mike and Alan can put their differences aside, that would be great...

Love Mick Taylor ! Awesome blues guitarist ! John Mayall's "Crusade" is Mick's shining moment for me ! Getting Bill W. back on the road won't be easy, though...

[OropherThranduil]

@gtrDan1963

actually alan said they have at least one show planned, with brian, mike, alan, bruce and probably even david marks.

yeah, taylor was the best guitar player the stones ever had, their 73 tour trough europe is still the best live stuff they ever did, especially the brussel concert, unbelivable how great it is, especially jumping jack flash.

i've read bill would like to play with them again, but forgot the source, so it could be someone talking shit, but once there was a link on wiki.

[huntergruntetr123]

is that really george harrison? he sounds a little different. anyways, love ya george! R.I.P

[SaddleCat1]

Great Freakin Song...

[rockerr12595]

awesome playing I'm not sure if it was from Clapton or Harrison but such melodic playing love it

[p90goldtop]

Crappy bootlegs, a waste of bandwidth. With today's technology and access to video content, there is no need for low quality bootlegs. Nice from a historical perspective but that's where it ends.

[Danimals411]

i believe that is andy fairwheather low. not eric clapton. close though.

[QueenBeatlesWings]

@Danimals411 no, it's Clapton for sure because In 1991, a year after releasing the final Traveling Wilburys album Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3, Harrison was persuaded by his friend Eric Clapton to come out on tour with Clapton in Japan. The album "Livei n Japan' is credited to "Harrison,Clapton & Band" so u know its Clapton

[Danimals411]

@QueenBeatlesWings well clapton may be there. but so was andy fairwheather-low. and that shot is of harrison and low. i don't think clapton had a receding hairline at that point.

[jthornton17]

maybe my favorite. I don't know. lol. So many great George Harrison songs. Something, Handle with Care, My sweet Lord, Taxman, and My guitar gently weeps are all so great!

[huevito93]

@jthornton17 You forgot here comes the sun hehe

[biminitwst]

One of my favorite Beatles songs. thought this was a John Lennon song.

George wrote this?

[LewisYoung]

Yes - Hence singing the original lol. Like they always did for the songs that they wrote..

[MOSKII58]

@LewisYoung yes thats a good way to figure out who really came up with the song,even w/ Paul & John they rarely gave away their tune for someone else to sing it.

[SweetChick10101]

Yes he did <3 :)

[jthornton17]

nope, George Harrison off the Ruber soul album!

[jthornton17]

nope, George Harrison off the Ruber soul album!

[jthornton17]

nope, George Harrison off the Ruber soul album!

[GeorgieGirl66]

Oh, to have been there!

[LEON2808]

George was so charismatic...it was impossible not to love him.

[abigirl63]

Omg you have this footage from 1991!

[MrPaulmccartney111]

R.I.P George Harrison 25 February 1943  29 November 2001 :'(

[josephpuma]

Happy birthday George,we miss ya.

[newsy8]

G was so fab. I was too much in love with him as 60's pre-teen and twill be evermore.

[newsy8]

wow that was different.

[tadowjonez]

Now that's sumthin' you don't see every day.. Incredible! 2:53

[MICHITO62]

Muchas gracias por traer este video. Este tema me emociona mucho cada vez que lo veo o escucho.

[randomloves74]

This is awesome footage that you got here! I'm guessing that you went to the concert? Thank you for this. This is truly one of my favorite George Harrison songs with the Beatles along with I Want To Tell You.

[zr24X4ROCKS]

claptons tone is awesome !!!

[neilus]

wot is GH playing, looks like a mustang or smt? Yes, the world is surely a worse place without George...

[HBrotine]

It appears that George is actually playing a Fender XII

They do look a bit like a Jaguar..

[HBrotine]

You can really see it at 3:02.. Note the long 12 string peg head

[Darbyjack]

Looks like a jazzmaster.

[kurtcobain628]

i think he's playing a fender jagstang

[jesusphillips]

lol

[prabhu108dasa]

great George! miss you and love you!

[olivehoover4eveer]

miss u george you were the best

[cablonde320]

George was my very fav Beatle...miss him so much too

[BeatlesPaulMCcartney]

go george

[fairydustjohn]

I miss you so much George.

[bushwick]

i wish george and john were still alive.

thankfully we have their music.

[orgulloso79]

George and Clapton is gods

[walrus2506]

This song is very good!!!T love George Harrison!!!

[kc768]

Good thing this song stretches out a bit. Nice version.

[V624161]

he was a great man MISS YOU

[theodorus45]

One of the best Beatles songs,however not the best version.

[AValidMember]

clap clap clap..omg can you clap some more

[jicchan0723]

AWESOME VID !!

[RockChick1567]

Don't like the drummer on this gig sorry!

[TurgeonFan77132]

That's Tom Petty's current drummer, Steve Ferrone.

[buffalobraves9]

Steve Ferrone is an excellent drummer too!