wasnt he kind of a hypocrite talkin about livin in the material world livin in that little shack did you ever see that house its fuckin huge what a load of bullshit dumb fuckin psuedo hippies
At least he came by his wealth honestly, directly reaping the benefits from his own work unlike most of the rich. If he made his wealth buying stocks for fast food restaurants and arms manufacturers, then yeah, he'd have been a hypocrite. All he did was write some killer tunes, record some great music and put it out there in case anyone was interested, while always putting forth a positive message in his music and helping others.
This is very high up on my top favorite George songs.Everything about it is awesome!The words and the topic he's singing about are sad but music sounds happy and I like the way those feeling mix together in this song.Overall this is just another great song by George :)
My favorite by George too. Infectious melody that's stayed in my head ever since I flipped over Bangla Desh to listen to the B-side. George really pulled one out of the hat with this tune. You know it's George -- right away -- even if someone else recorded it, you'd know from the minor chords it's George. I love how he played with the minor chords and he did the finest job on this song. It's all in there -- the blues, the uplift, the jamming, the emphasis, the fine fingerpicking guitar, yeah.
Why some people have the urge to stuff their homemade videos with pics that have nothing to do whatsoever with the song in question? This one doesn't need these silly Beatles pictures that everybody has seen a million times before. They are totally unsuitable and anticlimatic.
@oliaiguambfigues76 I did use more Beatle pics than of George's solo career, but that was probably all i had at the time. I was just discovering his solo music & mainly wanted to share the song. The Beatle pics are special to me though, because their humor was one of the things I always loved about them.
@oliaiguambfigues76 WTF? Why do you even care enough to dis the video? Just turn away and do the dishes! I like the pics and appreciate people who post music at all for the rest of us. Do you do it?
@oliaiguambfigues76 ..shut up douche bag..this person did something creative and wanted to share it, if you cant simply appreciate it for that then just move along..you dont need to rag on the contribution..get a freaking life..
I just finshed reading I, Me, Mine and it was fantastic. I love George. He is my favorite, his voice is just so peaceful and nice. His guitar playing is the best to me. I love his work, I absolutely love him.
Oh my goodness, I made that very first picture with the 'My Sweet Lord' lyrics way back in...2005 or 2006. I think I was 15 or so, messing around on Paint, but I'm glad I did it. I've seen it used everywhere, and to see it used to show such great love for George is what makes me glad I made it. Long live GH, and thanks for the great video! <3 Hare Krishna.
I absolutely love this song!I like everything about it,George's voice is beautiful as always.This is a deep song becuase George wrote it while his mother was sick.This song deserves to be more popular.
I love his B sides. He wrote this for his mother, watching her when she was dying of cancer. Deep Blue, Miss O'Dell and I don't care anymore are some of my favorites.
The present situation: horror and devastation in Haiti and most of us in the USA donating what we can and looking on. Seems to me exactly the situation George is expressing.
I feel smart, since I loved George from the beggining and right thru. However, I dug all of the Beatles and wished that they would not have had to break up. That was not smart on their part, imo. And one of their major mistakes to all of their detriment. (spelling?)
This is really off-topic, but it has seemed to me that George's singing voice seems a lot like that of Neil Finn of Crowded House on their early songs. Am I the only one to notice that?
It saddens me when one Beatle gets praised while another gets
heaped with criticism. It wouldn't be the Beatles without any of them. John found Paul, Paul found George, George found Ringo. All 4 are talented in different ways. They all deserve recognition & respect for the music they created for us.
(cont.) Eventually I believe he did, finding solace in his meditation, his gardening &
of course his beautifully hypnotic guitar. It's also important to note that Paul admitted that he had bossed George around too much & George forgave
him. George & Paul loved each other like brothers. Dhani regards Paul & Ringo as his uncles. All the Beatles were like family, which is one of the reasons why the break-up was so difficult.
(cont.)...They just had very different personalities which sometimes clashed in the studio. I think Paul would just get very excited about coming up with the next album as a group whereas George was beginning to find his inspiration outside of the group. They reacted differently towards their fame too. Paul always loved performing & is often energized by the audience. George hated being mobbed by the fans everywhere he went &
George is awesome & very underrated. I believe he is a genius & is definitely one of the artists (if not *the* one;)) resposible for bringing eastern music to the western world. Whenever I hear Indian influences in American or British music I always think of George.
But seeing the recent comments I want to say something about the relationship between George & Paul. I know Paul argued with him a lot & could be very controlling, but I don't think he was trying to be a jerk...
to VegasGuy: yeh, I agree......over the many years I find myself listening to all George stuff instead of Beatles Stuff (unless they were Harrison Beatle songs)........I listen to "Hear Me Lord" all the time.....I just never get tired of it
So I just wanted to conclude that during the Beatles time, George's songs became nearly instant classics. Let's look at some examples: -I Need You -If I Needed Someone -Think for Yourself -Tax Man -I Want to Tell You -Within and Without You -While My Guitar Gently Weeps -Long, Long,Long -Savoy Truffle FM "alternative radio" played all of these as if they were hit singles. The Beatles kept their avant-garde caché due in no small part to George. We all know George's hits, singles or classics.
to MrApplescruffs: here is a list of songs I really like (of Georges) that never get much mention......Don't Bother me, The Inner Light, Old brown shoe (i especially like Old Brown Shoe), Bangla Desh, Sour MIlk Sea, and I think George's (Beatles) version of "Roll over Beethoven" is the most kick ass cover I have ever heard of that song. Its really high energy. Side note: by 1964 American Rock & Roll needed some new energy badly...The Beatles were like an atomic bomb going off.
That's one great list. Old Brown Shoe features George on a blistering solo (far superior to the Paulo's Taxman) that anticipates the stuccato-like attack, Jeff Beck's Come Dancing on Wired, some eight years later.
American Rock&Roll actually had Motown and Stax Volt. Some have accused the Beatles of wresting fame, praise, and fortune due to their Black inspirations. It is more complex, in my view, as the Beatles and Motown influenced each other in a cultural/musical dialogue
On the whole, I totally agree with you about the rich, sophisticated, and often revolutionary multi-cultural dynamic of George Harrison's Beatle contributions, as well as solo career offerings, many of which were ahead of their time.
I remain concerned that many rock fans either don't know of or downplay the Beatles' debt to African-American Rock, Soul, and R&B, inspirations that the Beatles themselves forthrightly acknowledged ("Rubber Soul," "Pure Smokey," etc.).
PART 2__Since Lennon & McCartney were the "sure hit makers" they did not want to spend any time and money on George who was just lying dormant due to neglect. I think it very telling that Phil Spector had no trouble at all turning Georges songs into hits on "All things Must Pass" yet George Martin seemed to think it a dreadful chore. Martin later admitted that he was wrong about George and just neglected to see the huge talent he was surpressing.
PART 1__I have read a number of "Beatles books" including 3 about George and have some very interesting George interviews on cd. His Beatles years were filled with degradation, humiliation and suffering caused mostely by Paul McCartney & George martin. As George said in a recorded interview...."Paul McCartney ruined me as a musician". George Martin constantly critisized him (to his face) and often in front of other people that happened to be in the studio...like the press.
BRAVO!!!!! I have made the same argument, and used many of the same sources you seem to have drawn upon (Lewisohn, Guitar Player, etc.). Martin actually considered "Something" as "inferior"; it became among the Beatles' all-time greatest hits.
Emmerick, who remains on the Paulo's payroll, slagged Harrison, yapping Paulo's lines, all the while claiming to be an "impartial" witness(Yeah. Stop collecting the checks).
George's albums and live shows prove who the best musician was:GEORGE
to mrApplescruff: Another point too....is that George really had nobody to brainstorm his songs with. Lennon had McCartney & McCartney had Lennon & both of them had George Martin. George Harrison was cut a drift to float through "Beatle LImbo" on his own. Had he been cultivated by Martin...like the way L&M were, he would have had many more hits. But then again McCartney being the ego-maniac that he is would have probably butted heads with George at every turn.
Well, you know inkey2, even though George's Beatles songs were not released as singlesand therefore Paul and John dominated the Beatles' hitsit is telling that when the Beatles DID release George's songs, they became among the Beatles' biggest hits ever (Something, Here Comes the Sun).
Consider, too, the all-time classic Beatles tunes such as While My Guitar Gently Weeps; the World Music/Experimental power of the Beatles would be nothing without George's forays into Indian and electronica
That's his dad Harry Harrison probably taken on a breakfast break at home in between tours in 1964 for a magazine article. Later on Harry adopted George's religious beliefs ,(and long hair-style)and accompanied him on his 1974 tour of the U.S.
Wow, then alot of Biographers out there are lousy... thanks for letting me know.. though I still need to track down where in the world I ever heard the father's name was Adam...
I have updated my video details, adding that this song is on the remastered version of "Living in the Material World". It is not on the original version.
You know that way, that every time someone asks you what your favourite song is, and it'll probably be a different song you tell just depending on how you feel or whatever. Well this has been my favourite song for a while now. Thanks.
It is good to know there is someone out there with the same reverence for this song. Since I first heard this song (long, long ago) this has been my favorite song.
to twi333light: yeh, I always liked this song too. Something interesting: I have never met a george harrison fan that I did not get along well with. I think people that like George are similar to him...down to earth good people
Thanks for the reply, inkey2; I think you must be right -- also goes for the musicians who joined him (i.e., Bangladesh). One reason I love this song: despite all he did for the people of Bangladesh (his active compassion), he is devastated by a possible truth of the human condition. Though he suffers because the world suffers it seems he suffers, in part, because he is alive -- because it is part of life. And so he simply and honestly asks for help. Love these lyrics.
fuck i miss him RIP george
underestimated145 2 months ago
wasnt he kind of a hypocrite talkin about livin in the material world livin in that little shack did you ever see that house its fuckin huge what a load of bullshit dumb fuckin psuedo hippies
flakbac 4 months ago
@flakbac
At least he came by his wealth honestly, directly reaping the benefits from his own work unlike most of the rich. If he made his wealth buying stocks for fast food restaurants and arms manufacturers, then yeah, he'd have been a hypocrite. All he did was write some killer tunes, record some great music and put it out there in case anyone was interested, while always putting forth a positive message in his music and helping others.
subg88 4 months ago
@flakbac ......dont be a hater
jillzi7 3 months ago
This is very high up on my top favorite George songs.Everything about it is awesome!The words and the topic he's singing about are sad but music sounds happy and I like the way those feeling mix together in this song.Overall this is just another great song by George :)
LennonHarrisonFan96 6 months ago 2
My favorite by George too. Infectious melody that's stayed in my head ever since I flipped over Bangla Desh to listen to the B-side. George really pulled one out of the hat with this tune. You know it's George -- right away -- even if someone else recorded it, you'd know from the minor chords it's George. I love how he played with the minor chords and he did the finest job on this song. It's all in there -- the blues, the uplift, the jamming, the emphasis, the fine fingerpicking guitar, yeah.
Balertwine 6 months ago 2
@Balertwine What a great analysis you just did, my friend!
chrstnlmllr51 4 months ago
Why some people have the urge to stuff their homemade videos with pics that have nothing to do whatsoever with the song in question? This one doesn't need these silly Beatles pictures that everybody has seen a million times before. They are totally unsuitable and anticlimatic.
oliaiguambfigues76 6 months ago
@oliaiguambfigues76 I did use more Beatle pics than of George's solo career, but that was probably all i had at the time. I was just discovering his solo music & mainly wanted to share the song. The Beatle pics are special to me though, because their humor was one of the things I always loved about them.
starryblue04 6 months ago 3
@oliaiguambfigues76 WTF? Why do you even care enough to dis the video? Just turn away and do the dishes! I like the pics and appreciate people who post music at all for the rest of us. Do you do it?
chrstnlmllr51 4 months ago
@oliaiguambfigues76 ..shut up douche bag..this person did something creative and wanted to share it, if you cant simply appreciate it for that then just move along..you dont need to rag on the contribution..get a freaking life..
jillzi7 3 months ago
gr8 song!:)~D
donsden93 8 months ago
I just finshed reading I, Me, Mine and it was fantastic. I love George. He is my favorite, his voice is just so peaceful and nice. His guitar playing is the best to me. I love his work, I absolutely love him.
georgeharrisonlover5 8 months ago
Oh my goodness, I made that very first picture with the 'My Sweet Lord' lyrics way back in...2005 or 2006. I think I was 15 or so, messing around on Paint, but I'm glad I did it. I've seen it used everywhere, and to see it used to show such great love for George is what makes me glad I made it. Long live GH, and thanks for the great video! <3 Hare Krishna.
BellBottomBlues07 8 months ago 4
paul was the alround most talented.
scott29298 8 months ago
I absolutely love this song!I like everything about it,George's voice is beautiful as always.This is a deep song becuase George wrote it while his mother was sick.This song deserves to be more popular.
BeatlesFan4Ever96 8 months ago
This song certainly wasn't on the original "Living in the Material World" album.
But great upload nonetheless. Thanks.
241357 11 months ago
Always loved this song. It's one of my favorites of his. Thanks for posting this
MsMesmer1 1 year ago
I love that picture at 1:41, and the one at 1:25 is so precious.
LadyMoondancer 1 year ago
LOVE this......wonderful pictures, so nice that you ended it with Dhani.....thank you for sharing.
MsJune54 1 year ago
I love his B sides. He wrote this for his mother, watching her when she was dying of cancer. Deep Blue, Miss O'Dell and I don't care anymore are some of my favorites.
Katmido302 1 year ago
george was such a deep person...and a great songwriter...i love his work
XXemorissaXX 1 year ago
Beautiful song. One of my favorites.
MsLithium21 1 year ago
Great man,Great song...Just heard it for the first time yesterday...Thank you for sharing this...:D
turfterror 1 year ago
Sounds like the guitar playing from For You Blue.
cometandcupids 1 year ago
@cometandcupids yes, it reminds me so much of that song... and I love both...maybethey sound the same because both are blues songs in a way
rockyraaacoon 9 months ago
George Harrison is one of the best songwriters of all time.
AnonymousWhitePerson 1 year ago
What are the chords? I must learn this.
JetWaveRadio 2 years ago 3
The present situation: horror and devastation in Haiti and most of us in the USA donating what we can and looking on. Seems to me exactly the situation George is expressing.
twi333light 2 years ago
I feel smart, since I loved George from the beggining and right thru. However, I dug all of the Beatles and wished that they would not have had to break up. That was not smart on their part, imo. And one of their major mistakes to all of their detriment. (spelling?)
DAVWAVE 2 years ago
This is really off-topic, but it has seemed to me that George's singing voice seems a lot like that of Neil Finn of Crowded House on their early songs. Am I the only one to notice that?
4rainbowed 2 years ago
It saddens me when one Beatle gets praised while another gets
heaped with criticism. It wouldn't be the Beatles without any of them. John found Paul, Paul found George, George found Ringo. All 4 are talented in different ways. They all deserve recognition & respect for the music they created for us.
starryblue04 2 years ago 20
Totally agree
poolfarm2 2 years ago 5
(cont.) Eventually I believe he did, finding solace in his meditation, his gardening &
of course his beautifully hypnotic guitar. It's also important to note that Paul admitted that he had bossed George around too much & George forgave
him. George & Paul loved each other like brothers. Dhani regards Paul & Ringo as his uncles. All the Beatles were like family, which is one of the reasons why the break-up was so difficult.
starryblue04 2 years ago 8
(cont.)...They just had very different personalities which sometimes clashed in the studio. I think Paul would just get very excited about coming up with the next album as a group whereas George was beginning to find his inspiration outside of the group. They reacted differently towards their fame too. Paul always loved performing & is often energized by the audience. George hated being mobbed by the fans everywhere he went &
tried to find peace & solitude in his life.
starryblue04 2 years ago 6
George is awesome & very underrated. I believe he is a genius & is definitely one of the artists (if not *the* one;)) resposible for bringing eastern music to the western world. Whenever I hear Indian influences in American or British music I always think of George.
But seeing the recent comments I want to say something about the relationship between George & Paul. I know Paul argued with him a lot & could be very controlling, but I don't think he was trying to be a jerk...
starryblue04 2 years ago 8
Not to take anything away from John and Paul, but George's music is the only stuff I still listen to and thoroughly enjoy.
VegasGuy89183 2 years ago 3
to VegasGuy: yeh, I agree......over the many years I find myself listening to all George stuff instead of Beatles Stuff (unless they were Harrison Beatle songs)........I listen to "Hear Me Lord" all the time.....I just never get tired of it
inkey2 2 years ago
MrApplescruff 2 years ago
to MrApplescruffs: here is a list of songs I really like (of Georges) that never get much mention......Don't Bother me, The Inner Light, Old brown shoe (i especially like Old Brown Shoe), Bangla Desh, Sour MIlk Sea, and I think George's (Beatles) version of "Roll over Beethoven" is the most kick ass cover I have ever heard of that song. Its really high energy. Side note: by 1964 American Rock & Roll needed some new energy badly...The Beatles were like an atomic bomb going off.
inkey2 2 years ago
To inkey2:
That's one great list. Old Brown Shoe features George on a blistering solo (far superior to the Paulo's Taxman) that anticipates the stuccato-like attack, Jeff Beck's Come Dancing on Wired, some eight years later.
American Rock&Roll actually had Motown and Stax Volt. Some have accused the Beatles of wresting fame, praise, and fortune due to their Black inspirations. It is more complex, in my view, as the Beatles and Motown influenced each other in a cultural/musical dialogue
MrApplescruff 2 years ago
To inkey2:
On the whole, I totally agree with you about the rich, sophisticated, and often revolutionary multi-cultural dynamic of George Harrison's Beatle contributions, as well as solo career offerings, many of which were ahead of their time.
I remain concerned that many rock fans either don't know of or downplay the Beatles' debt to African-American Rock, Soul, and R&B, inspirations that the Beatles themselves forthrightly acknowledged ("Rubber Soul," "Pure Smokey," etc.).
What genius!
MrApplescruff 2 years ago 4
Here Comes The Sun wasn't bad either. Something didn't suck or anything.
thedave108 2 years ago
PART 2__Since Lennon & McCartney were the "sure hit makers" they did not want to spend any time and money on George who was just lying dormant due to neglect. I think it very telling that Phil Spector had no trouble at all turning Georges songs into hits on "All things Must Pass" yet George Martin seemed to think it a dreadful chore. Martin later admitted that he was wrong about George and just neglected to see the huge talent he was surpressing.
inkey2 2 years ago 3
PART 1__I have read a number of "Beatles books" including 3 about George and have some very interesting George interviews on cd. His Beatles years were filled with degradation, humiliation and suffering caused mostely by Paul McCartney & George martin. As George said in a recorded interview...."Paul McCartney ruined me as a musician". George Martin constantly critisized him (to his face) and often in front of other people that happened to be in the studio...like the press.
inkey2 2 years ago
Inkey2:
BRAVO!!!!! I have made the same argument, and used many of the same sources you seem to have drawn upon (Lewisohn, Guitar Player, etc.). Martin actually considered "Something" as "inferior"; it became among the Beatles' all-time greatest hits.
Emmerick, who remains on the Paulo's payroll, slagged Harrison, yapping Paulo's lines, all the while claiming to be an "impartial" witness(Yeah. Stop collecting the checks).
George's albums and live shows prove who the best musician was:GEORGE
MrApplescruff 2 years ago 4
to mrApplescruff: Another point too....is that George really had nobody to brainstorm his songs with. Lennon had McCartney & McCartney had Lennon & both of them had George Martin. George Harrison was cut a drift to float through "Beatle LImbo" on his own. Had he been cultivated by Martin...like the way L&M were, he would have had many more hits. But then again McCartney being the ego-maniac that he is would have probably butted heads with George at every turn.
inkey2 2 years ago 3
Well, you know inkey2, even though George's Beatles songs were not released as singlesand therefore Paul and John dominated the Beatles' hitsit is telling that when the Beatles DID release George's songs, they became among the Beatles' biggest hits ever (Something, Here Comes the Sun).
Consider, too, the all-time classic Beatles tunes such as While My Guitar Gently Weeps; the World Music/Experimental power of the Beatles would be nothing without George's forays into Indian and electronica
MrApplescruff 2 years ago
really good slide show its go's with the feel of the song good jobcsoldier boy
wregerg 3 years ago
"Living in the Material World" is a brilliant album.Excellent pictures.
TheBeatlesYears2 3 years ago 2
0:21, is that a relative of his? Or some sort of commercial?
2:11 --He looks like a wolf. So elegant and cool.
3:22 -- lmao, one of them still has a cigarrete in his hand. XD
3:14 --tea time, lads!!
And I love how you end off with Dhani. <3 Beautiful song.
HoneyLilac 3 years ago
lol, 0:21 does look like a commercial with the product placement & all. And how cute is George's smile! I think that might be his dad next to him.
starryblue04 3 years ago
Adam? hmm... maybe I need to look closer to see the resemblance. lol Yes, Georgie's smile is perfect. He must really love that cereal
HoneyLilac 3 years ago
That's his dad Harry Harrison probably taken on a breakfast break at home in between tours in 1964 for a magazine article. Later on Harry adopted George's religious beliefs ,(and long hair-style)and accompanied him on his 1974 tour of the U.S.
gooshala 3 years ago 2
Wait a minute. But I always thought George's dad's name was Adam.
HoneyLilac 3 years ago
Harold was his dad. Harry was George's brother.
aDayInTheLife56 3 years ago
Wow, then alot of Biographers out there are lousy... thanks for letting me know.. though I still need to track down where in the world I ever heard the father's name was Adam...
HoneyLilac 3 years ago
2:52 wat is he playing
gameoverx2 3 years ago
it looks like a sitar.
starryblue04 3 years ago
Sitar definitely...from Riki Ram's shop in Delhi. Google it...it's interesting.
saidas108 3 years ago
I have updated my video details, adding that this song is on the remastered version of "Living in the Material World". It is not on the original version.
starryblue04 3 years ago
You're correct sir, If my fried memory serves me right this song 1st appeared as the B-Side of the studio single Bangla Desh (another rarity)
Of course I may be dreaming this up.
ChasBeauregarde 3 years ago
Thanks for your comment. I'm a girl, actually ;) - but you are right that it was on the Bangladesh single.
starryblue04 3 years ago
This song was not (is not) on the actual album.
It was released on the B Side on a Single.
(couple of real nice pictures of him)
123ThisIsMe 3 years ago
i love this song!!!
great video
congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BrennMcC 3 years ago
You know that way, that every time someone asks you what your favourite song is, and it'll probably be a different song you tell just depending on how you feel or whatever. Well this has been my favourite song for a while now. Thanks.
SgtDazz 3 years ago 2
It is good to know there is someone out there with the same reverence for this song. Since I first heard this song (long, long ago) this has been my favorite song.
twi333light 3 years ago
to twi333light: yeh, I always liked this song too. Something interesting: I have never met a george harrison fan that I did not get along well with. I think people that like George are similar to him...down to earth good people
inkey2 3 years ago 2
Thanks for the reply, inkey2; I think you must be right -- also goes for the musicians who joined him (i.e., Bangladesh). One reason I love this song: despite all he did for the people of Bangladesh (his active compassion), he is devastated by a possible truth of the human condition. Though he suffers because the world suffers it seems he suffers, in part, because he is alive -- because it is part of life. And so he simply and honestly asks for help. Love these lyrics.
twi333light 2 years ago 2
He stated eventually that "Soft-Hearted Hana" was the upbeat song based off this...
But, unfortunately, it was never put on any album...
Damn well should have been! BUt yeah, it remained the B-side for "Bangla Desh"... nothign more.
:(
Great song.
nastyprismsforsyd 3 years ago
Bliss!
longingtobethere08 3 years ago