[128] The performance concluded with a highly acclaimed extended guitar solo by Prince, who was also being inducted into the Hall of Fame.[142][143][144][145][146][147][148]. Projection mapping – and no CGI – was used to create the clip. [99], Writing for The Observer in 2004, Pete Paphides described "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" as "George Harrison's startling coming of age as a songwriter" and one of the few tracks that "pick themselves" when listeners attempt to edit the double album down to a single disc. 1 comment - PE RedThanks for this; I was lucky enough to be there !!!! It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. Watch Prince’s Incredible ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ Solo Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others performed the song at the 2004 Rock Hall of Fame induction ceremony [23], A demo that Harrison recorded at his home in Esher includes an unused verse: "I look at the trouble and hate that is raging / While my guitar gently weeps / As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing …"[24] This version also includes the line "The problems you sow are the troubles you're reaping", which he similarly discarded. [33], In his lyrics to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Harrison revisits the theme of universal love and the philosophical concerns that were evident in his overtly Indian-influenced compositions, particularly "Within You Without You". Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in Guitar World's 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". Written and sung by George Harrison, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” is considered one of the Beatles' masterpieces. "[91] Geoffrey Cannon wrote in The Guardian: "George Harrison has seen the truth, and is anxious that we should see our truth. Wenner found the lyrics "slightly self-righteous and preaching", representing "a general set of incidents, a message, like a sermon, impersonally directed to everyone", and concluded: "I am willing to bet something substantial that the lead guitarist on this cut is Eric Clapton, yet another involution of the circular logic on which this song [is] so superbly constructed as a musical piece. Playing next. Performing The Beatles classic ,"While My Guitar Gently Weeps," Prince's guitar solo at the end of the song spans three minutes and represents some of his finest work. Only a guitar player could write that ..."[106], Rolling Stone ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 136th on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time",[107] seventh on the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time",[108] and at number 10 on its list of "The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs". Writing for Mojo in 2003, Ashley Kahn attributed the track's "classic" status to its evocation of "a band falling out of harmony" and, with regard to the enduring musical bond between Harrison and Clapton, its standing as "their song". [153] The video was directed by Dandypunk, André Kasten and Leah Moyer. [5][64] Recalling the session in his 2007 autobiography, Clapton says that, while Lennon and McCartney were "fairly non-committal", he thought the track "sounded fantastic", adding: "I knew George was happy, because he listened to it over and over in the control room."[65]. The visit had allowed Harrison to re-engage with the guitar as his primary instrument, after focusing on the Indian sitar for the previous two years,[7] and also marked the start of a prolific period for him as a songwriter. This is my step by step tabs walk through tutorial for my ukulele fingerstyle arrangement of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” written by George Harrison from The Beatles and released in The White Album. Harrison first recorded it with a sparse backing of acoustic guitar and harmonium – a version that appeared on the 1996 Anthology 3 outtakes compilation and, with the addition of a string arrangement by George Martin, on the Love soundtrack album in 2006. [136] On 29 November the same year, Clapton, backed by a large band that included McCartney, Starr, Dhani Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Marc Mann, performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the Concert for George in memory of Harrison. [120] He later said that this was a poor decision and, as with his substandard playing at the event, one that was indicative of his descent into heroin addiction. Milwaukee, WI: Hal Leonard. The full group recording was made in September 1968, at which point the song's folk-based musical arrangement was replaced by a production in the heavy rock style. Mike Campbell (Tom Petty) carried the lead guitar stuff through the concert and can be seen playing acoustic here just over Gary Moore's shoulderI co-authoring Burst Believers and Goldtop Believers with Vic DaPra - Gary's son has helped along with Joe Walsh and Mike Campbell - among many other celebs - check them out on Amazon The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be ... every little item that's going down has a purpose. "[104] In their written tributes to Harrison following his death in November 2001, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards each expressed their admiration for the song. [109][110] Clapton's performance was ranked 42nd in Guitar World's 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". The song serves as a comment on the disharmony within the Beatles following their return from studying Transcendental Meditation in India in early 1968. [141], In 2004, when Harrison was inducted posthumously into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was played in tribute by a large band that included Tom Petty, Lynne, Steve Winwood, Mann, Dhani Harrison and Steve Ferrone. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" written by George Harrison for The Beatles on their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). Ryan Reed, describing the clip for rollingstone.com, wrote that "Dandypunk's hand-drawn illustrations depict Harrison's lyrics falling off the page into the air, transporting LOVE performer Eira Glover into a series of fantastical locations. [80][81] This single was an international hit, topping charts in Australia, Austria, Switzerland[82] and West Germany,[83] but was not released in Britain or the United States. While My Guitar Gently Weeps: The Music of George Harrison. [139] As his personal tribute to Harrison,[140] Peter Frampton released a version of the song on his 2003 album Now. "[154], According to Ian MacDonald,[155] Walter Everett[71] and John Winn:[64]. Videos 14 seconds and under are known … In a box one level up at angle of about 30degrees to the stage. This lack of camaraderie was reflected in … ISBN 978-0-7537-2545-0 MacDonald, Ian (2005). [137], American musician Todd Rundgren covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for the 2003 album Songs from the Material World: A Tribute to George Harrison. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album"). The English band named The Beatles. 16 Apr 2019 3 503 178; Share Video. According to musicologist Dominic Pedler, the 8–♭7–6–♭6 progression represents a hybrid of the Aeolian and Dorian modes. She later called Prince’s solo brilliant. In the case of the 16 August version, an overdubbing session on 3 September marked the first time that the Beatles had used eight-track recording at EMI Studios. [128] Author Ian Inglis writes that while Clapton was already "permanently associated" with "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" due to his presence on the White Album recording and the Concert for Bangladesh and Live in Japan versions, his long, closing solo at the Concert for George contained "perhaps the most expressive" playing of all those versions. YoutubeHaiku: A place to share the best videos UNDER 30 seconds! Daily Dosage Subscribe Unsubscribe 1009. [37] He sings of people that have been "inverted" and "perverted" from their natural perspective. [52][79][nb 6], Recalling the release in his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner said that, in returning to pop/rock songwriting after his excursions into the Indian classical style, Harrison's four White Album songs "firmly established him as a contender" beside Lennon and McCartney. [75] One of four Harrison compositions on the double album, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was sequenced as the penultimate track on side one in the LP format,[76] between Lennon's "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Happiness Is a Warm Gun". [6] As Harrison put it, "[the book] seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else, as opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental. [64] McCartney also added a second bass part, played on his Fender Jazz Bass[66] rather than on either of his usual Höfner or Rickenbacker models. [27] Harrison's demos suggest the influence of folk music, yet the Beatles' version is in the heavy rock style typical of much of the band's late 1960s work. [25] An early acoustic guitar and harmonium performance of the song features a slightly different third verse: "I look from the wings at the play you are staging / While my guitar gently weeps / As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing …"[24] This version was released on the 1996 compilation Anthology 3 and was used as the basis of the 2006 Love remix, with a string arrangement by George Martin. He said the song was "hands down one of The Beatles' greatest" and, having being conceived through "disharmony – in the world, as well as in the band he'd grown up with", "testament to Harrison's genius". [86] In 1973, it appeared on the Beatles' double album compilation 1967–1970,[94] as one of only three tracks representing the White Album. George created the job description for my first paying gig, the vocation that I'm still lucky enough to practice today …"[138] Johnny Loftus of AllMusic views the recording as one of the collection's highlights, saying that Rundgren "effortlessly replicates the grandeur" of the Beatles' track. [37] Musicologist Walter Everett comments that the change from the minor-mode verse to the parallel major might express hope that "unrealized potential" described in the lyrics is to be "fulfilled", but the continued minor triads "seem to express a strong dismay that love is not to be unfolded". It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist. [131], Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey covered "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on his 1990 album Hell to Pay. [39], "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" follows in a lyrical tradition established by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Bo Diddley, whereby emotions and actions are attributed to a musical instrument. [135], During the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II concert at Buckingham Palace Garden on 3 June 2002, McCartney performed the song with Clapton, as a tribute to Harrison. [118] At Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh, held at Madison Square Garden in New York on 1 August 1971, Clapton performed the song on a Gibson Byrdland, a hollow-body guitar more suited to jazz[119] or country music than rock. Loads more free lessons can be found at: http://guitar.freemovies.co.uk Or… Report. Labyrinth Underworld New Ancient Love Understanding Imagination Consciousness Imagination An edit combining parts of the 14 December and 17 December Tokyo Dome performances of the song was included on Harrison's 1992 double album Live in Japan. [71], Everett credits Clapton's guitar contribution with making the Beatles recording a "monumental" track. -The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps[George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr. [132] Also issued as a single, Healey's version peaked at number 27 in Canada,[133] number 85 in the UK[134] and number 25 in New Zealand. [10], The song reflects the disharmonious atmosphere within the Beatles following their return from India. [67][68] During final mixing for the White Album, on 14 October,[67] the guitar part was run through an ADT circuit with "varispeed", with engineer Chris Thomas manipulating the oscillator to achieve the desired "wobbly" effect. [104] Starr paired it with "Something" as "Two of the finest love songs ever written", adding: "they're really on a par with what John and Paul or anyone else of that time wrote. VIDEOS GALLERIES. [34][35] In the description of theologian Dale Allison, the song "conveys spiritual angst and an urgent religious point of view without being explicitly theological". Browse more videos. George Harrison decided to write this song when he studied "I Ching", the … [31] All the sections consist of an even sixteen bars or measures, which are divided into four phrases. [49][53] At the same session, Harrison overdubbed a backwards (or "backmasked") guitar solo, as he had done two years before on "I'm Only Sleeping", on the Revolver album, but he was not satisfied with the results. I am co-authoring Burst Believers 4 with Vic DaPra - we finish the book with a tribute to Gary including a write up from his son Jack. Song: While My Guitar Gently WeepsArtist: George Harrison (The Beatles)Album: The White Album (1968)I do not hold any copyright. A Fun Waste Of Champagne. [90] Three weeks later, Smith acknowledged that the singer and composer was in fact Harrison, and added: "the words are evocative and the melody line is creeping into my mind to stay. "[122][nb 8], The version performed by Harrison during his brief set at the 1987 Prince's Trust Concert reunited him with Starr and Clapton,[124] and features an extended coda with the guitars of Harrison and Clapton interweaving. [26], "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was one of the few Beatles compositions from early 1968 that changed markedly from demo form to the official recording. Backed by a band that included McCartney and Ringo Starr, Clapton performed the song at the Concert for George in November 2002, a year after Harrison's death. Still wary that his contribution might present too much of a departure from the band's sound, Clapton requested that Harrison give the lead guitar track a more "Beatley" sound when mixing the song. He's a preacher, man of fire. Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others -- "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Meg [102] McCartney identified it as one of his favourite selections on the 1995–96 Anthology outtakes series,[103] and he grouped the song with "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun" as candidates for Harrison's "greatest track". [58][59][nb 4], On 6 September, during a ride from Surrey into London, Harrison asked Clapton to play guitar on the track. Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options The recording was one of several collaborations between Harrison and Clapton during the late 1960s and was followed by the pair co-writing the song "Badge" for Clapton's group Cream. "[115] In 2018, the music staff of Time Out London ranked "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" 20th on their list of the best Beatles songs. [117], Harrison played "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at every one of his rare concerts as a solo artist. [42][nb 2] Allison writes that the lyrics represent the "antithesis of spiritual triumphalism", in which Harrison "mourns because love has not conquered all". While my guitar gently weeps Look at you all [LOVE version:] As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging Still my guitar gently weeps Oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Oh, oh, oh, oh Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, ooh Submit Corrections. [31] Such contrasts are limited by the inclusion of minor triads (III, VI and II) played over the E chord that ends the bridge's second and fourth phrases. [125] On their 1991 tour of Japan, Harrison and Clapton performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" with additional background vocals. Harrison and Clapton often performed the song together live, during which they shared the lead guitar role over the closing section. [97][98] The Beatles' recording appeared on the soundtrack to Withnail and I, a 1987 comedy film set in late-1960s London and produced by Harrison's company HandMade Films. [149] Santana did a cover for his twentieth album Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, in 2010, featuring singer India Arie and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Harrison recalled that Clapton's presence also ensured that his bandmates "tr[ied] a bit harder" and "were all on their best behaviour". [31], The chord progression over the verses includes a descending bass of A–G–F♯–F (8–♭7–6–♭6) over an A-minor chord, leading to F-major on the F bass note. [85][nb 7] According to Beatles historian Erin Torkelson Weber, the release of the White Album marked the start of a period when many observers began to consider his songs "equal to some of Lennon and McCartney's best compositions", a view that was heightened with his two contributions to the Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road, "Something" and "Here Comes the Sun". 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The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping". India.Arie & Yo-Yo Ma by Santana. In June 2016, Apple Corps and Cirque du Soleil released a music video for "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Recommandé pour vous en fonction de ce qui est populaire • Avis [69][nb 5] According to Everett, Lennon's tremolo-rich guitar part, recorded on 5 September, was retained only in the song's coda. [127][128] Harrison shared the lead guitarist's role with Robben Ford, often extending the piece to eight minutes. Thanks to Dwaipayan Sengupta, Podis Otto for correcting these lyrics. Was a brilliant night. Having contributed to "Ski-ing" on Harrison's debut solo album, Greene comments that "Wilting Flowers" was the title of. [54] The Beatles then remade the basic track on 5 September[33] – a session that marked Ringo Starr's return to the group after he had walked out on 22 August, upset at the unpleasant atmosphere. An acoustic guitar lesson of the classic Beatles song - While My Guitar Gently Weeps. [126], Harrison also featured the song in the set list for his only other tour as a solo artist, a series of North American concerts over November–December 1974 with Ravi Shankar. As particularly notable features, he highlights the increasing lengths of thrice-heard first scale degrees (0:17–0:19), the restraint shown by rests in many bars then unexpected appearances (as at 0:28–0:29), commanding turnaround phrases (0:31–0:33), expressive string bends marking modal changes from C to C♯ (0:47–0:53), power retransition (1:21–1:24), emotive vibrato (2:01–2:07), and a solo (1:55–2:31) with a "measured rise in intensity, rhythmic activity, tonal drive and registral climb". Joe Walsh opened, followed by Gary Moore. 0:14. [31] Musicologist Alan Pollack views this combination of C and E as representing a sense of "arrival", after which the bridge contains "upward [harmonic] gestures" that contrast with the bass descents that dominate the verse. 6:16. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the CD release of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on Discogs. George Harrison originally performed the song with a solo acoustic guitar and an organ; a demo version, longer than the officially released version, can be heard on the Anthology 3 album and in reworked form on the Love album. [12][13] Harrison had led the band in their highly publicised endorsement of Transcendental Meditation[14][15] and viewed this spiritual pursuit as superior in importance to their career momentum. I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw "gently weeps", then laid the book down again and started the song. [149][150] Toto did a cover version for their album Through the Looking Glass and in a live performance in Live in Amsterdam. The video was created for the tenth anniversary re-staging of Cirque du Soleil's Love theatrical production.