From the Album: By George By Bachman, Year of Release: 2018#rock
Lyrics: While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Before he found fame with the Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive (BTO), guitarist Randy Bachman cut his teeth playing in cover bands around his Canadian home town of Winnipeg. This was where his lifelong admiration of George Harrison crystallized.
“I was always the George Harrison guy in every band I was in,” Bachman says. “The drummers in those bands got to sing Ringo’s songs and I was always delegated to sing George’s songs.”
Many decades down the road, Bachman decided to relive that experience on his new album, By George, By Bachman, a collection of 11 songs written by George Harrison with one track, “Between Two Mountains,” that Bachman wrote as a tribute to the former Beatle, who passed away in 2001. Had he lived, Harrison would have turned 75 this year, and Bachman celebrates his own 75th birthday this September 27. So the timing seemed ideal to Bachman, who takes a very freehanded approach to Harrison’s compositions on the disc, departing markedly from the original chord progressions, melodies and grooves. But he feels that Harrison would have approved.
“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” {1968} THE BEATLES
“I didn’t want to use the original chords. Although they’re wonderful, how can you outdo Eric Clapton, who played on the original track with George Harrison? So I said, ‘I’m just going to powerhouse this out.’ It’s a really great vehicle for guitar solos. I had my good friend Walter Trout come in and solo with me in the outro. He comes in and it’s like Hendrix has landed in the studio. Then I come in halfway through and play a slow, Clapton kind of thing. Then we both rock out for the last minute. It brings tears of joy to my eyes. Playing together was quite incredible. We’ve both always admired each other’s playing, and we’ve both had some serious health issues. So we come near the end of ‘Guitar Gently Weeps’ and I figure, Here’s two guys who should have been dead. We’ve died a couple of times between us and have been resuscitated, and here we are rocking our faces off.”
Guest, Guitar – Walter Trout
Vocals, Bass, Keyboards – Mick Dalla-Vee*
Vocals, Drums – Marc LaFrance
Vocals, Guitar – Brent Knudsen*, Randy Bachman
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