George Harrison - Wah Wah - On Electric Guitar

04 Wah-Wah (On Electric Guitar)

Here is a rare song of George Harrison,
he recorded it during a rehearsal at 1970.
George let Phil Spector hear some songs he had written
arround the „All Things Must Pass Time.

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[therealnotpalc]

sure sounds like clapton on guitar

could this be true?

[LittleHarrisonGirl]

yeah, I already thought that, too, but I read a description of this bootleg, and there are only harrison and spector, no clapton ;-)

[randlec6]

and of course the guitar is pure golden.

[randlec6]

Nice job finding this, this is better than the studio version. Your can really hear the lyrics clearly.

[trashiscool1]

Love is harrisongs.

[clairdenisetpotee]

@nafaidni, there's a lot of Harrison bootlegs out there, and they've been out there for years. Long before you tube. They're well documented on who played what. They confirm Harrison as the solo guitarist on lots of stuff that we already suspected he played on. Like It Don't Come Easy or Day After Day. George played session lead for a lot of people. From jazz-rock guy Tom Scott to soul man Billy Preston. He even played on a Cheech and Chong song. They were the Harry and Kumar of the day.

[clairdenisetpotee]

@nafaidni, nah, I didn't see anything from anyone anywhere that claims Clapton played the solos on Wah Wah. All of the solos are bottleneck slide and they use major and diminished scales. Pure Harrison. Clapton played straight blues riffs. Both Harrison and Clapton played the intro riff together, but Clapton's on the wah wah pedal. Harrison plays through a wah wah here, and pretty well, too. Seems Clapton and Harrison played together so often because they were like brothers, real tight.

[nafaidni]

@clairdenisetpotee

Well, they identified it well on that particular song. Unless they somehow looked up the song to find out that Clapton played the solo at the end and then deliberately came back to ask, "Did Clapton play on this? The solo at the end sounds like him", then I'm going to assume they're not completely clueless.

Besides that, don't think I myself make assumptions that Clapton played on this. I never listen to Clapton.

[clairdenisetpotee]

@nafaidni, remember, it's one thing to have an opinion. That's merely a feeling or belief. When most people say things on the comments section about a guitarist, they often give voice to their feelings and beliefs, and not about what they actually know about playing guitar. Most people who post here and elsewhere are not guitarists.

Actual musicians will explain what a featured guitarist is doing, and why it makes his or her playing interesting.

Harrison was a very interesting guitarist.

[clairdenisetpotee]

@nafaidni, people who talk up "Clapton's playing," are those who often never actually played a guitar in their life. They don't know squat Clapton's or Harrison's guitar techniques. Or any other guitar player's.

A lead rock guitarist, be he Clapton or Harrison, sets down an improvisational set of notes based on a scale (usually pentatonic) over a preset chord progression (the pattern of chords making a song or piece).

Harrison wrote the chord progression. Both he and Clapton solo over it.

[nafaidni]

@rifham

Not really, no. I'm just mirroring what I've seen other people say on the comments.

[rifham]

@nafaidni I think you've got it reversed.

[witchever99]

. George was a great guitar player and was quite capable of strumming a few chords while writing a cool song. As the Yardbirds and Clapton were riffing on robert johnson George had already sold millions with a little ensemble called THE BEATLES !

[nafaidni]

@clairdenisetpotee

That's good to know, then. But why do people keep saying they can recognize "Clapton's style of playing" on songs like That's What it Takes? Doesn't that imply that he's making up his own chords to play? The way he plays any specific riff can't be much different from the way anyone performs it. His riffs are just recognizable.

And by complex, I mean having an excessively large amount of notes in a short period of time. >.>