George Harrison showing great tone as he plays live slide guitar in standard tuning.
George Harrison – Lead Slide Guitar Live – Cheer Down!!
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He played a little slide in the middle of the solo of Baby you can drive my car and Old brown shoe
What song is this?
Very, very cool, THANKS
You´re right, precisely , in tune and clean!
This is played in standard tuning, BTW.
Was that before or after he banged his wife??
Eric Clapton taught George how to play Slide Guitar. When he took a break from The Beatles, he played with Delaney & Bonnie.
George plays slide in open key tuneing.
rip john and george even though youve disbanded,beatles forever
Of all four of the band, I think his writing is the best, and Ringo comes in second. They just never got any kind of airplay. Ringo has been able for the last 15 years to write and produce and he is phenomenal.
I wish could have seen more of this….
best guitar player in music rock history..pure love .
Actually he did play slide guitar on the end of the solo to drive my car with the Beatles, it was a short part but it was still slide.
He plays so precisely!
well said – totally agree
He was actually turned onto slide guitar by Delaney Bramlett, who he did a few gigs with at the very end of his Beatles tenure. So your timeline is right on the mark. He didn’t play slide with the Beatles but had learned the technique by the time he was recording ATMP.
As a side note, it was those gigs with Delaney & Bonnie (Also featuring Eric Clapton, not a bad backup band, eh?) that got George interested in guitar again, He was allowed to just play and jam and wasnt being told WHAT to play.
He’s a master. RIP George, he was always my favorite 🙂 <3
Great slide player
:07 it’s Young George!!
three people will never cheer down.
When people talk about the all-time great guitarists it can lead to heated discussions. George was great not perhaps in the same was as Hendrix, Malmsteen, Satriani, Van Halen, or Page, but his greatness was on three critical levels: 1) he always played what the song needed; it was not about stroking his own ego; 2) he wrote more "hummable" guitar lines than anyone else; and 3) he really created a sound all his own. Even if you close your eyes and listen, that guitar sound is George.
Legend….great slide playing
Im not sure, but in the end of "Drive my car" solo, sounds like he uses a slide. (dont know if Paul played that solo)
No, he first played a touch of slide – as kind of ‘colour’, rather than a solo – on some of the original takes for ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. It might even be buried in the finished mix, but I cannot hear it.
Apparently he had Mal Evans saw a piece of metal tubing off one of the amplifier stands to use as a slide.