The Beatles - Sour Milk Sea ( George Harrison )

[taariqtaariq]

how or why was this left off/ omitted from the Beatles anthology # 3 ??

[russellhubley]

Really nice job here!

[thumper250464]

This should have been on the White Album. Just fucking superb, what a rocker...

[stratocat9999]

Cool!

[tiburonesrojosver]

George Harrison - Guitar

Paul McCartney - Bass

Ringo Starr - Drums

Eric Clapton - Lead Guitar

Jackie Lomax - Acoustic Guitar

Nicky Hopkins - Piano

[donniedilley]

nice job on linking the two tracks! this has been one of my favorite songs from the sixties since I was a kid. this song's chord progression is different; the lyrics are a brilliant message.

the video (tape spinning in black and white) gives this youtube presentation a nice non-cheesy vintage touch. I give the whole thing 10 stars.

thanks!

[TheFpuff]

Best take.

[MuscleJacker]

Before Billboard magazine changed its Hot 100 qualification criteria, this was the only non-Beatle B-side to chart. One of Apple's best B-sides. I love this song!

[steele917]

I'm thinkin' that when "apple" first started They were..."Awesome" producing Badfinger, James Taylor, Jackie lomax...shit Hartry nilsson wanted to sign with them....the break-up-the corruption of the big boys in charge...was like a raping of what The Beatles had envisioned. "the Boys were not savvy buisnessmen, (thank Our Good Lord for that), Ironiclly Brian epstein would have kept the ship afloat. Nevertheless, John & George were weary with the persona of being "FAB" still they Played...;o)

[TheFrickinPope]

I understand this is not the real demo, just harrison's demo vocals and the instrumental of the lomax version.... But how can I get this exact mix from this video?!? This sounds much better than lomax and demo versions

[TheFrickinPope]

This song is AWESOME. Where can I buy it?

[AudioTech50]

This ain't the Beatles--it's clearly Clapton on guitar and Nicky Hopkins on piano. I heard multiple versions of the isolated backing track in 1968--WABX (Detroit) DJ and Grande Ballroom impresario Russ Gibb brought it back from a trip to England, where he witnessed the recording session and was given a copy of the rehearsal tapes, which he played on-air. He knew many of the musicians (notably, Clapton), since they had played at the Grande. Everything but the vocals was played live.

[Scarperguy]

@AudioTech50 Look up the recording session. All Beatles played on the track apart from John. Clapton and Hopkins WERE there. This mix takes George's vocals from the demo recording and plonks it over the top of the Lomax track, getting rid of Jackie's vocals. So yes, it is more or less the Beatles.

[johnmcglinchey]

agree with you Julie B - what the hell were Len and Mac thinking putting Revolution No 9 on White Album and leaving this gem off - It only proves that they were too powerful for people to hear the word "No"

[Perfidia4ever]

masterpiece

[cometandcupids]

Love it. Sounds like a Rolling Stones song.

[inkey2]

I have never heard this.....this is really good, Georges voice sounds great. This definately should have been on a beatles album. Lennon, McCartney & George Martin just continually berated and ignored his emerging musical talent. Three huge egos were just not willing to open the doors to him

[ammar255]

@inkey2

Why do think Paul and John prevented George of releasing this song under the Beatles name?

DO you know that Paul is playing in the song also???

can't you realize that George wanted to give the song to Jakie Lomax simply?

[inkey2]

@ammar255 all of what you said does not change or refute anything I wrote.....

[arriano99]

This is a mix of the music recorded for Jackie Lomax's version, erasing his vocals and adding George's vocals from his accoustic version.

[cewerlang]

This version is a combination of Lomax version with the Kinfauns session. It's not real.

[GIUNIEMFA]

George, que talento,si entraron treinta temas en el album blanco podrian haber entrado trentaiuno,esta muy bueno, y tiene todo el estilo de Harrison.

[sir699]

Se parace mucho a Savoy Truffle del gran Harrison en el White Album

[DocWyoming]

very nice, I'm gonna add this to my double album version of Living the (Alternate) World.

[leoconde]

The work of our youtube buddy is very good, but LanceHall is right: Apple could do this job professionally, as they have the session tapes. I would be great! a true lost Beatles track!

[leoconde]

According to a book that I've read (forgot the name) Sour Milk Sea was recorded with George on acoustic guitar, Paul on bass, Ringo on drums and Eric Clapton on electric guitar. John didn't participate, but as the White Album has a lot of songs with 3,2 or even 1 Beatle and they were released as "The Beatles", I think we sure can consider SMS a Beatles track. The idea of insert George's vocal on the studio version is great and it fit perfectly, as the key is the same on both recordings.

[riverdale999]

@leoconde

It would great if an "official" version of this could be done. It seems like whoever did this mix was able to erase Lomax's vocals so it seems like it would just be a matter of isolating George's vocal track from the demo - if possible. It would be nothing less than the "creation" of a "new" 1968 Beatles track.

There are other recording from the Let it Be sessions and demos that could be cleaned up and edited to make "new" Beatles songs. John's "Watching Rainbows" for instance.

[cbimbi]

Yes.. but this melody is almost equal.. let me see...glass onion.. or am I wrong?!

[JulieBrownsGuitar]

I'm gonna go ahead and say you're wrong.

This isn't even a bad take...I bet the source tape is of release quality. What the hell were they thinking when they omitted this gem and Not Guilty as well... but left in Revolution 9? Just to fuck George out of some extra attention.

Julie,

(musician and beatle fan for 17 years)

[JulieBrownsGuitar]

Actually I think George withdrew this one voluntarily as he intended for Jackie Lomax to use it but then... if he never intended to have the Beatles do it,.. why did they learn it?

[Housemaster]

they might've wanted to show Lomax how to do it, like McCartney did with that Badfinger track

[angelbaby0109]

@JulieBrownsGuitar God bless ya, Julie! You nailed it! Both of George's songs should've been on that album! Thanks for the post!

[Lukestar1991]

@JulieBrownsGuitar Amen to that



[thesaintoz]

@JulieBrownsGuitar I am a musician as well, and also a huge beatles fan... And if you don't get the inmense importance in the conceptual manufacture of bizarre Revolution 9, then you don't get the white album at all... Pieces like that or wild honey pie are the key to unlock the beautiful mistery sorrounding those days. This is a great song though. peace

[TheFpuff]

@JulieBrownsGuitar They never felt they could get Not Guilty quite right, so they just gave up. Kind of ironic, considering they rarely put that much care into George's and Ringo's work.

[milan1499]

genial compadre!! gracias por estos!!! sube mas!! =)

((°J°))

...- Edder

[Inga3219]

Just great!

Always something new comes up!

[ParnHawk]

Terrific! :-o

I'm astounded that although knowing the Beatles and their solo careers for 20 years now, which is my whole life I still can find more tunes of them each day which are downward great or even greater (to me) than the album songs! Thanks!

[subg88]

@AdequateFinch

You're completely mistaken. George produced the entire Is This What You Want album for Lomax, and the instrumental track was from those Harrison produced sessions. Harrison never produced any Beatles session.

[dissidencello]

Extremely well done, highly enjoyable !

[LanceHall]

Fantastic!

Abbey Road may still have the original multitracks tracks for Sour Milk Sea and presumably the Harrison estate still has the 4-track demo tape... they could combine those and make a REAL version in stereo.