The Beatles' Sitar
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Topic: The Beatles' Sitar
Posted By: Earendil
Subject: The Beatles' Sitar
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 15:31
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Which song featuring George Harrison's sitar is your favorite? |
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 15:36
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Tomorrow Never Knows is a very good choice from The Beatles as well as from Manzanera´s 801. Simply told, excellent thing! ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Rrozza
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 15:36
| Love you to. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:27
| Within You Without You. |
Posted By: Prog Geo
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:29
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Norwegian wood!!!But I'm not sure.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:31
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chopper wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:36
 Great song. Actually I love the tabla as much as the sitar. Dig the crazy time signature in the instrumental section. I also like the way Harrison counts everyone back in after the solo. I like Norwegian Wood as well. By the way, you missed out the rather excellent The Inner Light. |
Posted By: Philius Maximus
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 16:45
| Can't vote, but gotta be Tomorrow Never Knows for me! Yeah the 801 version is cracking as well. |
Posted By: ferush
Date Posted: January 31 2011 at 17:08
| Every sita track but I prefer With In You With Out You |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: February 01 2011 at 02:48
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I like all four, but my vote goes to Love You Too. ------------- 
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Posted By: MonsterMagnet
Date Posted: February 01 2011 at 10:46
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Within You Without You is surely my favourite! I love the middle part. Tomorrow Never Knows is also very good besides being unique. I find yet that there isn't a lot of sitar in TNK, apart from the intro. |
Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: February 01 2011 at 10:51
| vote for tomorrow never knows even if i love within you |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: February 01 2011 at 16:03
| Tomorrow Never Knows |
Posted By: thehallway
Date Posted: February 04 2011 at 10:58
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The peppery one... ------------- http://www.thefreshfilmblog.com/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: ten years after
Date Posted: February 05 2011 at 16:41
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Although i prefer Tomorrow as a song, i feel the Sitar is just a nice add on. In the case of Within You it is the main component of a magnificent song so it gets my vote.
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Posted By: CloseToTheMoon
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:28
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Norwegian Wood is a simple and extremely complimenting application. Within You Without You is gorgeous but to me it slows down Pepper drastically. I'd rather hear Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on there...I know it's blasphemy!
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:56
if released as a cd pepper could has kept within plus strawberry and penny and it would be great ,no blasphemy!
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Posted By: jean-marie
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 14:57
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Posted By: The Block
Date Posted: February 06 2011 at 15:03
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My particular favorite is Norwegian Wood, but I also like Within You Without You
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Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 08:51
This bird has flown, baby.
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Posted By: Schindleria Praematu
Date Posted: February 08 2011 at 19:57
| With In You With Out You |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 09 2011 at 07:27
| This poll really needs to include The Inner Light. |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 09 2011 at 19:01
| Uh...I hate to break it to you, but...Harrison didn't play sitar on Tomorrow Never Knows. He played Tamboura. And the instrument that sounds like a sitar is actually a tape loop provided by Paul. So...AYHNNK!...TNK should be rmeoved from this poll. |
Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: February 09 2011 at 21:29
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Make love all day long, make love singing songs...
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 03:15
Granted there is not a lot of sitar in TNK but according to Ian Macdonald's "Revolution in the Head", Harrison did play the sitar on it. It also says the same in Mark Lewisohn's "Complete Beatles Recording Sessions". |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 10 2011 at 21:42
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Chopper:
Common mistake: some people think any drone-y sounding Indian instrument is sitar. George played tambour, which is actually a drone, with only four tones (I think). As noted, the sitar sound is a tape loop that Paul provided.
Peace.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 03:04
You may well be right Maani, but Lewisohn's book is derived from the official Abbey Road records. I assume the opening drone is the tambour, maybe there's some sitar in there as well that you can't really hear? |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 03:09
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I wandered around for a week, embarrassed that for all these years I did not know that sitar was used on TNK. Thanks Maani for clarifying that sitar was NOT used on TNK.
"Within You Without You" gets my vote.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 17:56
| Lewisohn's book definitely states that Harrison recorded a sitar for TNK, however it does not say whether or not it made it to the final mix. My feeling is it probably didn't. I agree with Maani that the opening drone is a tambour, therefore I can only come to the conclusion that there is no sitar there. |
Posted By: maani
Date Posted: February 11 2011 at 19:18
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earlyprog, chopper:
I think we are all correct. Harrison played tambour, but not sitar and, as chopper notes, it is possible that Harrison recorded a sitar, but they preferred the "sitar sound" loop provided by Paul and used that instead.
Peace.
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: February 12 2011 at 20:37
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Within You Without you and is also probably my favourite George song. ------------- 
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