George Harrison: Search & Destroy

I didn't want to mention it, but yeah, it does look like he's had a stroke, damage from past drugs or both. Whitlock did do a lot of great stuff 50 years ago, especially on Layla, but it's pretty sad he's resurfaced shitting all over something that isn't worth shitting over.

To be clear, I love the album (at least the album proper, not the jams), but it's just a reissue. The remix may be dubious, but there's like a million albums getting anniversary remixes now.

What about the deep, previously unreleased cuts?

Beyond that, I actually like the Who Sell Out remix you mention - it's not just a remix, incorporating the bonus material does everything Dave Marsh claims and brings the original concept to complete and satisfying fruition.

I do like that remix, but I was never of the opinion that the concept on the original was abandoned: the album mirrored the shift (in the US, anyway) from hyperactive AM to “heavy” and reflective FM.

The new mix sounded really nice when I was listening to it yesterday, not drastically different but I think “Isn’t it a Pity” sounded a lot clearer. And I liked the devotional songs that didn’t make the album, “Om Hare Om” is a cool tune!

For some reason I've adored this self-produced throwaway recorded for the excellent Best of Dark Horse comp. Happy birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJB7cl5Ww8E

Hadn’t heard “Poor Little Girl” before. Not bad. Kinda catchy chorus

I’m fairly certain this thread would’ve stalled ca. 2009 were it not for Alfred.

Um….

What about the deep, previously unreleased cuts?

I finally got around to the set last week, and I think the two discs of demos are great - I wish they got their own standalone release. The disc of outtakes felt pretty disposable. It's funny to hear "Isn't It Shitty" done as a joke to the tune of "Isn't It a Pity," but otherwise there is close to nothing on there I'd want to revisit. The one exception is probably the acoustic "Woman Don't You Cry for Me" but you already get a great version of that on Early Takes, Vol. 1 (what happened to "volume 2"???). To be fair it's much longer on the ATMP super deluxe set, so I guess it has that going for it.

Haha.

Man, do I like Cloud Ninem

Alfred has some kind of love/hate relationship with George.

No longer!

I can't resist him.

Just realized via the “end of the line” video that GH is kind of the lead on that

This is pretty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6s3v-XLfa0

Dig those white teeth

cloud nine has hooks galore. “Fish in the sand”, “this is love”

"Fish" is one of his best.

hooky chorus but the production and instrumentation sound hasn't aged too well

sounds fine to me but I've no problem with Lynne's production, and thanks to Harrison's mitigating influence it's less burdensome.

George Harrison was rather unimpressed with the new releases in December 1965: "Take it off, it's crap," "It's crap. Take it off," "That's enough," "I don't like it," and the succinct, "Rubbish." pic.twitter.com/WLhKHdtwaH

— John F. Lyons (@JohnFLyons2) April 26, 2022

Are you sure that wasn't an outtake from A Hard Day's Night?

when wasn't George "rather unimpressed"

He never dropped that attitude. Even when the guy stabbed him he had something dismissive to say.

He said, "...That's enough. I don't like it".

To be fair, those records in question WERE crap, and he liked a few things like the one by the Zombies. (Plus his responses turned out to be much longer.)

George during this era was the band's resident American R&B expert.

Thought he said “I don’t think he was here to audition for The Traveling Wilburies.”

"good if it's English, mediocre if it's American", oof brutal

George during this era was the band's resident American R&B expert.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 26, 2022 10:13 AM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep. I believe he was the one who pushed most for them to try recording at Stax, and he had the idea for the "Respect"-like unison guitar & bass line in "Drive My Car" (and ended up playing bass on it).

A couple years earlier when he visited his sister in southern Illinois, he bought records by Bobby "Blue" Bland, Booker T. & the MGs, and James Ray, the latter of which had "Got My Mind Set On You."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/02/11/they-were-the-first-really-loud-european-band-i-ever-heard/

Yep. I believe he was the one who pushed most for them to try recording at Stax

His brief guitar solo at the end of "Got to Get You Into My Life" is one of his greatest moments on record. Exemplary of his taste and what he may have learned from Cropper - he's otherwise quiet for the rest of the track.

^The longest version of the story of Norbert Putnam, Tommy Roe and The Beatles I have seen so far. (xp)

Thirty Three & ⅓ was his best album since ATMP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DzisXpZM7c

yeah it's really good. I like it as much as the s/t that followed it; and dare I say that those three are his best albums.

Beautiful Girl dates back to the same backlog of songs that was used to fill up ATMP.

I'd claim Cloud Nine bests the s/t.

What was George doing between cloud nine and brainwashed? The former was a huge album and then he was basically done til the latter was released (posthumously of course.)

Wilburys, Japanese tour, legal battles, dealing with Paul 'n' Beatle shit, hanging out.

Oh yeah wilburys, of course…surprised I guess he didn’t knock out another solo album or two in that time.

I don't think he cared much. He had plenty of dough and had a strong enough sense of self.

Yeah, I don't get the sense that he enjoyed the process enough to continuously do it. Working with Lynne and the Wilburys helped a lot and made those sessions enjoyable, but even the second Wilburys album (Vol. 3) was much less fun to do, especially for Dylan. The only reason he did the tour was because it was short and Clapton talked him into it, but it was never going to more than a one-time deal.

Hare hare, George!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yJLqVN6eJM

Stachewave

Would've been 80 years old today! Wish we could see all of them at this age.

Like

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/george-harrison-living-in-amaterial-world-1234737644/

Fantastic album - his quietude as rewarding as it ever was. Even the funny stuff (Sue Me Sue You Blues) works, which can't be said so much for e.g. Extra Texture.

Talk about a forgotbuster: #1 for weeks in the summer of 1973, not spoken of much ever since. Unavailability on CD until the early '90s didn't help.