Listen closely to that part and its variations - all slides, not bends. It's not obvious - I didn't realise it was slide at all until someone pointed it out to me years after the fact - I also assumed it was George for a couple of decades...
So interesting. Not only did the Beatles invent everything, but Paul McCartney invented George Harrison! Clearly a slide was in the studio at the time, as it's on Run For Your Life too, and the photos Onder posted are about as clear as can be. Also worth noting that both Robbie McIntosh and Rusty Anderson forego a slide entirely, choosing to bend the it out of those last notes instead, so clearly the solo doesn't require a slide. Just seems odd to me that Macca wouldn't bust one out again until 2012!
Thanks, but I wasn't thinking bends there. Any changes in pitches away from "straight" fingering there could be accounted for by a finger sliding, imo.
It can definitely be a pain to slip the slide on and off for just one track. Now if one were to play a set of solo George songs......
Just listening to "Dear Prudence" now.......near the end of the song there is this piano that doesn't sound like it belongs there. Kind of dead and out-of-tune....as if they bought Brian Wilson's old Wild Honey piano.
.. but you'd be wrong. As others have pointed out, the last bar or so is definitely a slide. There is a "sharpness" to the definition of the notes that simply cannot be accomplished by sliding a fleshy finger along the strings.
Dude should have quit the band earlier. Didn't Capitol try to get him do a solo album in 1966, but he refused.
The remix of While My Guitar Gently Weeps is excellent. IMO it is superior to the original stereo and mono mixes. I love how George’s voice floats. It’s got a whimsical feel to it.
Something that really sunk in for me listening to the Esher demos, is what great chordal knowledge they had, what a great sense of harmony. I pictured them together doing some kind of Unplugged reunion performance to celebrate this release, if only things had been different........
The largely positive reactions in this thread are quite surprising to me. I compared the 2018 remix to the original vinyl, and don't care for the 2018 remix very much. Some tracks are interesting, if not necessarily superior. But, I really don't like any of the tracks where bass has been enhanced, instrumentation has been moved closer to center, and background vocals are moved around, all at the expense of clarity of the lead vocal in the mix. If you had asked me two years ago what might be done to improve the White Album, I might have said that hard panned instruments on songs like "I'm So Tired" and "Martha My Dear" should be centered. But having heard the remix, I realize that what I loved the most about the White Album was the vocals by John and Paul, isolated in the uncluttered center of the mix. I like having the demos, though.
