Don't Bother Me (Demo) / George Harrison - The Beatles

[quonsetsun]

"This incredible tape of George Harrison working on Don't Bother Me, his first song for The Beatles, was made by their chauffeur Alf Bicknell (on the reel-to-reel recorder given to him by John Lennon) during the group's six-night summer season at the Gaumont in Bournemouth from 19 to 24 August 1963."

from: "Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Beatles & Bournemouth" by Nick Churchill (Natula Publications, 2011)

[blueguitarz17]

Its George, heard it before, the mannerisms in his voice sound leave no doubt, hey we all mumble, whistle and hum when playing and trying to write all at the same time. Anyway a great song, Don't Bother Me, goes up with I Saw Her Standing There, as one of the great early Beatles album records. This song happened to catch Mccartney and Lennon off guard, for how well written and put together it was, in a way it made them both strive to be better songwriters themselves, bar their ongoing rivalry.

[tkatvgps]

This definitely is Harrison! You can even hear him trying to fit those crazy diminished chords he loved to use.

[ChiroQuacker]

a very very underated song....it is a great song

and it goes down very well "live"...

[jillzi7]

dumbass..this is in no way George...what a load of shit..

[1970Dobby]

Sounds like George Harrison to me, even if you rarely hear his voice. Plus, the age quality of the recording does sound authentic. I AM a hardcore Beatles fan, so to me, it sounds legitimate.

[assaglioli]

this is not george harrison

[ModGirl1967]

I believe it is authentic. To my ears, anyway.

[eleni1968]

In an early installment of the Beatle Anthology interviews, George said that he was doing these song writing experiments/exercises. Just for fun. He was never a song writer in the early yrs. as either a Quarryman or a Beatle. I am curious as to how authentic this upload is and if so how the poster got it. I thought Olivia and Dhani owned all of George's "stuff"

[manthasagittarius]

God, this is giving me chills. That process is so private and so necessary -- to work and work it until you hack all the crap off and you finally get what it had to be from the beginning. Doesn't matter if it's Beethoven or Harrison -- and some time, if you look at Beethoven drafts, you can see the number of massive wrong avenues before the inevitable comes through there too. Music, writing, it's all the same.

[agalambao]

sound like my mad ass

[ladbrady]

He was IN THE HOSPITAL. It IS George!!!

[comic4relief]

this sounds not like to George

[comic4relief]

@comic4relief -- if this is GH i'll eat my proverbial hat

[jias188]

@comic4relief  he was sick just so you know

[hippojuice23]

Thanks! Amzingly obscure!

[anshanfield]

Thanks. This is a trip! (Ahh, my favorite song)..

[baxterbather]

this is so great, hearing his process for figuring out a melody is amazing. i wonder if he always whistled to come up with the melodies and syllables? it's so ingenious. he's my second favorite beatle, but still this guy i think gave the band a lot of melodic ideas. the way he instructs ringo on the chord sequence for the piano part of "Octopus's Garden" in the Let It Be documentary sort of hints at how he threw everyone ideas. not saying ringo didn't usually need the help anyway haha

[jguterman]

I could be wrong, but this sounds like the day he woke up and wrote it. He was known to have a cold. You hear him cough.