While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison (at the Concert for Bangla Desh, 1971)
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Uploaded by marknavl on Feb 11, 2011
The Concert For Bangla Desh was held at New York's Madison Square Garden on August 1, 1971. It was a charity event to raise funds for relief to the refugees in East Pakistan (now Bangla Desh) after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and during the 1971 atrocities and BanglaDesh Liberation War. The event was the first benefit concert of this magnitude in world history. Present for the show were it's organizer George Harrison, along with musicians Ravi Shankar, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Badfinger, Billy Preston, Ringo Starr, Klaus Voormann, Jesse Ed Davis and Jim Keltner.
It's great that Eric Clapton plays lead guitar on George's While My Guitar Gently Weeps, just as he did on The Beatles White Album. With Ringo on drums, it must have seemed very reminiscent of those 1968 sessions. The triple album highlighting the concert was released on Apple Records on December 20, 1971 and a film of the show was released later in 1972.
An interesting side note is that some of the crowd noise from the film was used in the Aerosmith recording of Train Kept A Rollin' on their Get Your Wings album.
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goingsupernuts 1 month ago
extraordinary !!!!
mccartneywings 2 months ago
clapton with the brydland hollowbody.....he said in his bio he shouldve used a solid body. I agree but I still love this.
A626fan 4 months ago
@bluepastry I will forever be jealous :)
madmanmemo 5 months ago
George Harrison foi o melhor beatle.
TheMoretti22 6 months ago
@Beetlejules35
during this gig Clapton has been in "Cold Turkey" condition due to drugs. This I read it in his autobiography book some time ago :)
MrSvetoslavMironov 6 months ago
at this gig Clapton was so Stoned
Beetlejules35 6 months ago
also featuring Ringo, Leon Russell and Jesse Ed Davis
fleetwoodmac1982 6 months ago
It's the young Eric Clapton who's guitar is gently weeping, will & still gently & not so gently weeps.
ohiodixiechick2 7 months ago
I was 16 when I went to this concert, It has been 40 years and i have never seen a concert as great as this.
bluepastry 10 months ago