This comes from Simon Leng's book and is too darn funny.

It's where George was on tour with Delaney, Bonnie & Friends, 1969.



Besides learning how to play slide guitar from Dave Mason and Delaney Bramlett there was time for Rock & Roll games and for George to let his hair hang down and live up to his prankster reputation.

His victim, Delaney Bramlett explains;

We were in this pub, the bar was all locked up with the grille. George said "I'll just break it, we'll just pay for the trouble'

The cops came in and called the landlord. He just laughed and said "Let them have it, as long as they pay for it". So we had a party, Tony Ashton was playing piano and we were singing, running in circles and throwing pies, you know, food fights. It was the damnedest thing you've ever seen.

George's security guy came in and said "It's time to go". I was heading for the door when George said "Wait a second, I think you got something on your pants".

So I turned around and then he tore my pants off my body.

I didn't have any underwear on, I was naked as a jaybird. They all set off running and laughing, jumped on the bus and took off.

I was running up the street after them, naked.

George stuck his head out the bus window shouting "You'll never catch us".

I finally caught them and jumped on and just as I caught them, the bus stopped at the hotel. The good times George remembered from the Beatles early days had returned and he liked being part of a tight-knit group of friends.

George Harrison had the privilege of having a lot of quality musicians playing on his albums. People who were or became friends of George’s.

George however also played as a guest on a large number of songs by others.
On this blog I want to pay attention to that part of George’s work.

Within the community of Harrison fans most of these collaborations are known, yet what I experience on forums is that there are still songs which are not well known.

So I want to start with some of those less known.

Sour Milk Sea - Jackie Lomax

Yes the song itself is known from George. This version by Jackie Lomax was George’s first ‘give away’.

Jackie Lomax was one of George's friends from Liverpool and just like The Beatles performed in Germany in the early 1960’s within the Merseyband “The Undertakers” and saw The Beatles play in Hamburg. In the mix 60’s Jackie formed a new band called “The Lomax Alliance” and tried to find the way in the USA against the advice of Brian Epstein who told Jackie that he would be better off going solo.

Jackie Lomax sang backing vocals on “Dear Prudence” and became one of the first artists to be signed on to the Apple label. One of the songs on the 1968 Harrison produced album Jackie recorded was a song George had ‘on a shelve’.

On the song Jackie finds himself surrounded by Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Nicky Hopkins and George Harrison. Not so bad for a first solo single record.

It's quite a heavy song with strong electric guitars

George wrote the song in Rishikesh, India when The Beatles were with the Maharishi for the meditation course. Sour Milk Sea is about the benefits of meditation, part of Living In The Spiritual World, an issue George wrote more songs about in the Beatles days, like Within You, Without You and The Inner Light.

In his book I Me Mine George says that he used Sour Milk Sea as the idea of “if you’re in the shit, don’t go moaning about it, do something about it”. The title comes from a picture from the Tantric Art called Sour Milk Sea – Kalladadi Samudra in Sanskrit – the origin and growth of Jambudvita, the central continent, surrounded by fish symbols, according to the geological theory of the evolution of organic life on earth. The appearance of fish marks the second stage.

Sour Milk Sea also was the first record where George and Eric exchanged guitar solos which in the years after would continue often on studio work, till the Cloud Nine album like the title song and If That’s What It Takes as well as on stage from The Concert For Bangla Desh till the Japan tour.

Jackie Lomax - vocals and guitars
George Harrison - guitars (2nd guitar solo)
Eric Clapton - guitar (1st guitar solo)
Paul McCartney - bass
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Ringo Starr - drums

You can hear the track here at YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT7HMdUEBI4&feature=player_embedded

In I Me Mine George says that he never recorded the song, well memory is not the best quality of the four Beatles.

Here is a demo The Beatles recorded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzNT4oxkL4&feature=related

George Harrison memorial in Hollywood Febr 25th 2011

George Harrison will be remembered at the annual "George Harrison Public Birthday Celebration" from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 25 at his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star at 1750 N. Vine Street, in front of the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood. Admission is free.

Fans are invited to bring birthday cupcakes to share and flowers and candles to place at his star. Musicians are also encouraged to bring guitars and instruments and perform Harrison and Beatles tunes.

The event is sponsored by the Alliance for Survival peace group. For further information call 310-399-1000.

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