George Harrison talks on meditation - youtube
I saw the last part of Ron Howard's 2016 doc on the Beatles - only to discover it was George Harrison who famously announced he was ending the Beatles touring. That was 1966 and after that their musical focus was inward. George became a Hare Krishna honorary member and had this record produced of Hare Krishna chanting. Then for Sargent Peppers - it was George who got the Yogis on the album cover. This record was the FIRST music record I ever purchased (I had no idea it was considered the best rock album ever recorded) - George SANG this early John Lennon song - Do You Want to know a secret George's take on the Beatles:
"When I was 17, I was playing in bars in Hamburg. By the time I was 25, we had recorded Sgt Pepper's. Every year in between was like aging 10 years." From 1995 Anthology, in the very last 2 minutes each Beatle gives their take on being with the Fab Four. "You gave us your screams and money. We gave you our nervous systems.... We tried to give some love and that's what it's really all about."
Wow!! I had no idea Optic Nerve was an original hippy psychedelic record store head shop!! |
I bought it at the "Optic Nerve" in uptown minneapolis in the mid 80s. I listed to this record alone in my basement - over and over and over - starting at age 15 I suppose. But it was George Harrison's song "Within You, Without You" that intrigued me the most.
George took their India trip the most seriously - actually studying and learning sitar, from a great master.
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