Thanks for posting! I'm the sitar player on this recording & performed with them live at B.B. King's in New York. Great band, great bunch of people!!! Peace & Love all!!!
Why can't it just be about the music? A lot of bands may have been influenced by drugs but it's still the music we're interested in not the drugs. The Beatles were a great band regardless of what they did or did not use. Quit arguing about stupid trivial BS and just enjoy the music, thats the reason it's up here.
@aotting111 mate try not believing everything you read on the internet, conspiracy theories are a way of controlling you through the substructure too you crazy believer ;)
Finally, a cover of this song that doesn't suck! This is so cool! :D
While the reggae influences can certainly be heard, it really keeps the spirit and sound of the Harrison version while still being different enough to be unique, but not tarnishing it in the least. I really like this.
Self realization of the one self , confirmed by a continuous spontaneous frisson (aka Goose Bumps) 'were all one and life will flow within you and without you'... the Subtle self notification in the form of a frisson can easily be misconceived. So be awake and aware, observe this self presenting acquaint clue and follow it to its source... the spirit molecule. We our the children of the universe do not ever forget that, the answer is not hiding from you it is you... peace ...OHM... (JK)
So, basically, The Beatles went to India, and did some acid, and found these instruments and were like, "guys, we totally have to write crazy music on acid and record it!". So, that is how this song was created, and then that was how Easy Stars - All Stars created this song. Good times.
No he bought a Sitar in London after his first India trip, and then went back to india and was taught how to play it by Ravi Shankar. his first attempt to use it in a song is in norwegian Wood on the Rubber Soul album, which was much earlier than SPLHCB
@rwebb61 george didn't visit india till late 66 for the first time.so for you to say he bought a sitar after his first trip to india doesn't make sense since he played a sitar on norwegian wood in 1965.
Dude, this song had the deepest lyrics ever written by them. Like, legit. They played a lot of music on drugs, but when they read these lyrics, they deffinately recorded it.
how do you know that? were you with them? It's a ridiculous statement to make really as the only persons that can state that are john, paul, george and ringo
They may have taken drugs, but their music is far too complicated and intimately produced to be recorded under the influence. I'm sure they smoked weed in the studio, but in my opinion, that's only a plant, not a drug. This song's beautiful and has some very deep meanings. Open your eyes, expand your mind. Namaste.
They were never high while recording. The one time John accidentally got high (took an LSD pill that he thought was a pep pill), he started freaking out and the other Beatles had to take him outside, where he, close to tears, said he had to sit out the session and asked them desperately if it was OK.
Many Beatles songs were written either while high or based on an idea that came to them while high. But they were always sober for the recording itself.
Yeah, but actually what happened was he went up on to the roof and I think only Paul knew he was tripping out. Paul went out for a second and when he came back he asked where John. Somebody said he went to the roof and they rushed up there thinking he might kill himself or something. Luckily he was okay, but yeah...interesting bit you might not have known.
@thejohnofsteel Instead of just listening, how about you research some of this stuff. John was very, very deliberate in what he put into Revolution 9. He had a chaotic message he wanted to convey, with a beginning, middle and end, entirely through avant-garde sound. Again, though they certainly did drugs while writing many of their songs for a few years, none of the Beatles were tripping while recording.
In fact, John had quit acid just before The White Album began.
@IndieJackD No, you're correct. The recordings that are on any album were not recorded while stoned or tripping in anyway. Maybe anyone who disagrees should watch The Beatles Anthology. So please refrain from attacking someone who is correct.
geoff emerick was absent most of the white album because he couldnt take the bickering so he quit that session very early on.and according to geoff emerick the beatles never recorded anything taking acid or pot he said it only happened once and the beatles weere just making noise so they all left and the next morning the beatles didnt say anything about it probabaly too embarassed.i read the book so ur wrong.
@IndieJackD I know you'd love to believe, for whatever reason, that drugs didn't influence the Beatles work, but that's just silly. Countless people, including the band members themselves have said otherwise.
@IndieJackD The beatles would smoke every day in their studio during recording. When they recorded the movie help they were stoned throughout creating it. Check your sources you idiot.
Thanks for posting! I'm the sitar player on this recording & performed with them live at B.B. King's in New York. Great band, great bunch of people!!! Peace & Love all!!!
ShaadiKiShehnai 3 months ago
@ShaadiKiShehnai Sitars are awesome. So much respect.
qwertykeyboardwhoa 1 month ago
@ShaadiKiShehnai Much respect for you, your a great player :). You make want a sitar sooo bad
Skapunkfan1 6 days ago
so original. so dope.
Gawillamon 4 months ago
outro may have lasted another 50 minutes :)
stupidnicks 5 months ago
this is over the top!!!
stupidnicks 5 months ago
"We were talking" - straight from Georgie's mouth! :) haha
ChrisArdcath 5 months ago
Reggae and Indian culutre music. so godly!
DAYD111 8 months ago
Not to discredit The Beatles, but this version does far more amazing things to my body and mind.
AssyMcAssFace 8 months ago
best easy stars cover album
royalnaz1 9 months ago
what makes this song so great for me is the bass especially how it sounds near the end of the song.
jayfey77 9 months ago
this is the ultimate song to smoke to
VladFerdinand1 10 months ago 4
MASTISYAHU BEAATTT BOOOXXXX!!!
ClownsofJoker 1 year ago
This song puts the D in DOPE. OMG this is so good. Anyone know where I can find more songs with a similar Sitar melody?
TheRoyalFreshness69 1 year ago
GO GEORGE! LYRICS MAN. SWWWWEEEEEEET
kong3355 1 year ago
o hell yeah!!!! a reggae tribute to sgt peppers lonely hearts club band!!!! what geniuses, i'm blown away. go matisyahu!!!!
FreakinRican6969 1 year ago
Why can't it just be about the music? A lot of bands may have been influenced by drugs but it's still the music we're interested in not the drugs. The Beatles were a great band regardless of what they did or did not use. Quit arguing about stupid trivial BS and just enjoy the music, thats the reason it's up here.
GDPF88 1 year ago 5
the white album had mind control elements put into it by the tavistock institute. look it up...
aotting111 1 year ago
@aotting111 mate try not believing everything you read on the internet, conspiracy theories are a way of controlling you through the substructure too you crazy believer ;)
pixikapickerknickers 1 year ago
Finally, a cover of this song that doesn't suck! This is so cool! :D
While the reggae influences can certainly be heard, it really keeps the spirit and sound of the Harrison version while still being different enough to be unique, but not tarnishing it in the least. I really like this.
LeoMidori 1 year ago 2
Self realization of the one self , confirmed by a continuous spontaneous frisson (aka Goose Bumps) 'were all one and life will flow within you and without you'... the Subtle self notification in the form of a frisson can easily be misconceived. So be awake and aware, observe this self presenting acquaint clue and follow it to its source... the spirit molecule. We our the children of the universe do not ever forget that, the answer is not hiding from you it is you... peace ...OHM... (JK)
jan9339 1 year ago
This song combines 3 types of world music - Indian, Jamaican, and Western rock.. sooo rad!
CallitSane 1 year ago 23
who would have thought dub and hindi could mix so well!!! damn i wish i could have a fatty right now!!!
simonjsellick 1 year ago 3
A gem.
DarthBizzle138 1 year ago
this song is beautiful and truly real
cassiocuri 2 years ago
Holy shit, this is a hard song to tackle but they did it amazingly!
HamSandwich09 2 years ago 4
Wooow esta con madre esta realmente me relaja hace un buen trabajo yeeeaa
jaximm 2 years ago
Wow.........this is fantastic!
A really unique version, dub and the Indian influence originally from the song. And it sounds fucking great.
Brendanvio 2 years ago 2
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I JUST LOVE THIS SONG!!
HEHRTREIGER 2 years ago 2
looooove this song
BurnDownTheBabylon 2 years ago
simply amazing, best cover out of the entire album :)
nonix81 2 years ago
Super Song !!!!! Habe diesen Song im Nachtdienst gehört :-).Super super song !
Tuffgong000 2 years ago 3
!!!! *** GREATEST SONG *** !!!!
tomka13300 2 years ago 2
what a great cover, three world cultures mixed on one song. i love this cover album!!
jdawg1692 2 years ago 3
that's, just, yes.
peace
rosasparx 2 years ago
woooow! muuuy buena.....
abril4rainbow 2 years ago
FAR OUT, MAN!
BoBeena 2 years ago
So, basically, The Beatles went to India, and did some acid, and found these instruments and were like, "guys, we totally have to write crazy music on acid and record it!". So, that is how this song was created, and then that was how Easy Stars - All Stars created this song. Good times.
GoOooDtYmEZ 2 years ago
All of the Beatles went to India after Pepper was recorded. George went there on his own first and brought back a sitar.
jorel845 2 years ago
Maybe, but they did acid, then after the song was recorded, they deffinately recorded it together.
GoOooDtYmEZ 2 years ago
No he bought a Sitar in London after his first India trip, and then went back to india and was taught how to play it by Ravi Shankar. his first attempt to use it in a song is in norwegian Wood on the Rubber Soul album, which was much earlier than SPLHCB
rwebb61 2 years ago 15
@rwebb61
Wikipedia much?
joediditagain 1 year ago
@joediditagain
Nah dude I just read the Beatles biography, and I really dig George so I know my stuff. Or rather his...
rwebb61 1 year ago
@rwebb61 george didn't visit india till late 66 for the first time.so for you to say he bought a sitar after his first trip to india doesn't make sense since he played a sitar on norwegian wood in 1965.
jayfey77 8 months ago
yea mate - proper good times!!!
gallarun0113 2 years ago
Haha yeah.
GoOooDtYmEZ 2 years ago
the beatles never recorded anything on drugs. they thought their music was too important for that.
IndieJackD 2 years ago 4
Dude, this song had the deepest lyrics ever written by them. Like, legit. They played a lot of music on drugs, but when they read these lyrics, they deffinately recorded it.
GoOooDtYmEZ 2 years ago
how do you know that? were you with them? It's a ridiculous statement to make really as the only persons that can state that are john, paul, george and ringo
davidsmith2304 2 years ago 2
they did, each of them have stated it many times in interviews. i'm not the average youtube idiot who makes ridculous shit up.
IndieJackD 2 years ago
They may have taken drugs, but their music is far too complicated and intimately produced to be recorded under the influence. I'm sure they smoked weed in the studio, but in my opinion, that's only a plant, not a drug. This song's beautiful and has some very deep meanings. Open your eyes, expand your mind. Namaste.
toothpicksandglue 2 years ago
They were never high while recording. The one time John accidentally got high (took an LSD pill that he thought was a pep pill), he started freaking out and the other Beatles had to take him outside, where he, close to tears, said he had to sit out the session and asked them desperately if it was OK.
Many Beatles songs were written either while high or based on an idea that came to them while high. But they were always sober for the recording itself.
simps500 2 years ago 2
Thanks beatles anthology
kinversoni 2 years ago
@simps500
Yeah, but actually what happened was he went up on to the roof and I think only Paul knew he was tripping out. Paul went out for a second and when he came back he asked where John. Somebody said he went to the roof and they rushed up there thinking he might kill himself or something. Luckily he was okay, but yeah...interesting bit you might not have known.
Jartny 2 years ago
@simps500 listen to revolution 9 and tell me john wasnt tripping on acid when that was recorded
thejohnofsteel 1 year ago
@thejohnofsteel Instead of just listening, how about you research some of this stuff. John was very, very deliberate in what he put into Revolution 9. He had a chaotic message he wanted to convey, with a beginning, middle and end, entirely through avant-garde sound. Again, though they certainly did drugs while writing many of their songs for a few years, none of the Beatles were tripping while recording.
In fact, John had quit acid just before The White Album began.
ThatWasFred 1 year ago
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Weed is a drug.
It gets you high does it not?
If it were 'just a plant' we'd all be smoking daisys.
Moron.
avanzatotrxx 2 years ago
but it is just a plant
its a drug because it gets you high, correct?
and its a plant because it grows in the ground, naturally, without any chemical additives, correct?
so it's both and you sir are a moron as well
srvtheman 2 years ago 5
@srvtheman YESSS well put shit made me laugh
jbdfc 2 years ago
sure?
rosasparx 2 years ago
revolver was heavily influenced by lsd trips. alot of beatles music was influenced by drugs
yeroc32 2 years ago 3
@IndieJackD
Okay *rolls eyes*
HeyJaw 1 year ago
@HeyJaw they never "recorded", they definately wrote on drugs though.
IndieJackD 1 year ago
@IndieJackD No, you're correct. The recordings that are on any album were not recorded while stoned or tripping in anyway. Maybe anyone who disagrees should watch The Beatles Anthology. So please refrain from attacking someone who is correct.
Halohoundus 1 year ago
@IndieJackD read the book "my life recording the beatles" by geoff emerick. john was tripping acid when they recorded most of the white album.
thejohnofsteel 1 year ago
geoff emerick was absent most of the white album because he couldnt take the bickering so he quit that session very early on.and according to geoff emerick the beatles never recorded anything taking acid or pot he said it only happened once and the beatles weere just making noise so they all left and the next morning the beatles didnt say anything about it probabaly too embarassed.i read the book so ur wrong.
jayfey77 1 year ago
@IndieJackD I know you'd love to believe, for whatever reason, that drugs didn't influence the Beatles work, but that's just silly. Countless people, including the band members themselves have said otherwise.
bootray 1 year ago
@IndieJackD The beatles would smoke every day in their studio during recording. When they recorded the movie help they were stoned throughout creating it. Check your sources you idiot.
death2government 1 year ago
@IndieJackD Actually Bob Dyland introduced the beatles to marijuana. Unless you dont consider that a drug ;P
i3i2ian 1 year ago
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pogonoattaphei 2 years ago
one of my favourite beatles songs, and matisyahu is awesome!
pokoj118 2 years ago
Awesome!!
blumberk1 2 years ago