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...Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar--if indeed one can noodle on a sitar--and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time on Wednesday. "George...
...Beatles film, Help!, called for chase scenes involving cartoonish Hindu villains, and Indian sitar players were brought in to provide some zippy chase music. George started noodling on a sitar - if indeed one can noodle on a sitar - and asking questions. This led to exotic instrumentation on the Lennon ballad Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) and later to an apprenticeship with master sitarist Ravi Shankar, who gave Harrison lessons on the instrument and in life itself. "He was a friend, a disciple and son to me," said Shankar, who visited Harrison for the last time on Wednesday. "George...
...Like Spinning Plates,” one of the more opaque and curtailed tracks on Amnesiac is here resurrected as a stuttering, swirling piano ballad, with what may be digs at critics concealed in its newly comprehensible lyrics: “While you make pretty speeches / I’m being cut to shreds / You feed me to the lions...
Other highlights include the power ballad “Close to You,” which just might bring a tear to one’s eye given a few beers beforehand, and “Devil Digger,” which builds a thumping and grinding riff so great that one would find it hard not to at least bob a head to, if not bang. “Cyberface” sounds alarmingly derivative of a Rammstein song, with slow and thick riffing ensconsed in a keyboard melody, which shows that the band is not altogether above nabbing...
...Desire” and “I Don’t Want to Change the World.” As always, Ozzy illustrates his sensitive side, and while “Dreamer” comes across as somewhat trite and derivative of the Sabbath ballad, “Changes,” the song “Running Out of Time” is a moving power ballad in the mold of “The Road to Nowhere.” On the track, Osborne laments some of his life’s earlier chemical and criminal debauchery...