![]() ![]() "That was my one moment with George Harrison, but a pleasant one," he said. ![]() The call ended with a mutual exchange of sincere best wishes as they each pursued their future projects. Harrison wasn't inclined to have a "straight arrow" in his mix. Harrison explained that he was living what we now know to be the rock 'n' roll lifestyle of that era, freely using mind-bending substances. Harrison also knew that Bachman was a confirmed non-user of drugs and alcohol. #TORRENT GEORGE HARRISON GREATEST HITS TV#Harrison told Bachman he'd caught The Guess Who segment on the British TV show Top Of The Pops so he was aware of his work. "I tell him who I am and the first thing he says to me is 'you're calling from Winnipeg? Is that where Winnie The Pooh is from?'" What is this gonna cost me?"įinally, Harrison comes to the phone and Bachman said it was worth the wait the second he introduced himself with that signature voice. The garden to them is the outdoors, the yard, and his yard is 30 acres, you know, and he's somewhere out there. She says 'well, he's out in the garden, hold on,' and she set down the phone and as I'm waiting I'm counting the minutes. "A beautiful voice answered the phone who I imagined was Patty Boyd (Harrison was married to the supermodel from 1966-77), I say 'I'm blah-blah-blah from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and the first thing she says is 'is this where Winnie The Pooh is from?' Yes, he is, there's a display at the Assiniboine Park Zoo. Bachman timed the call so the time zones would work for both of them, but he was scared of the long distance phone bill he was about to invite upon his broke budget. The ex-Beatle was living at his Friar Park estate in London at the time. York gave Bachman the phone number for Harrison who was also contemplating the formation of his own next band. The Beatles had also called it quits that year. He told me 'I know you're in between bands and haven't got anything going yet.'" My wife said 'you'd better start another band.' And I got a call from Ritchie York who was the publicist for The Guess Who at the time he was also the publicist for The Beatles. I was walking around the house and going down to the basement with headphones on and playing for three hours a night. I'd been playing in a band, then, for 11 years so every night at 8 or 9 o'clock your body starts kicking in with its adrenaline and you get this musical itch to go and play. "I left The Guess Who in 1970 and I didn't know what to do. It was really weird," Bachman recounted to The Citizen. He and Harrison conversed once about working together. Unlike most mere music mortals, the ones who listen to it on radios and stereos, as opposed to the ones who conjure it and compose it, Bachman has actually had Harrison's ear. He even calls it co-written by Harrison because it came to him "in the middle of the night" while he felt an overwhelming sensation of "the spirit of George Harrison in the room." He also penned his own called Between Two Mountains which Bachman believes to be "one of the best songs I've ever written" because it was a concentrated ode to the great guitar muse. Harrison wrote comparatively few songs for The Beatles compared to the Lennon-McCartney torrent, but those he did compose include Taxman, Something, Here Comes The Sun, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and other seminal songs of the 1960s.Īll the songs on Bachman's new album are remakes of those Harrison hits, but revamped and reimagined for modern times. 11 on their list of 100 greatest guitar players of all time. He was always overshadowed in popular culture by fronting Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, but Harrison's influence on the band was definitive, he was ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine as No. By George By Bachman is a tribute album to immense guitar personage George Harrison, one of The Beatles and one of the Traveling Wilburys but also inducted in to the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame for his solo work. When rock 'n' roll legend Randy Bachman comes to Prince George this week, he will bring another even larger music figure with him, at least in spirit.īachman is excited to show the world a brand new album he's been working on for years, in a recoding sense, and decades in an incorporeal sense. ![]()
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