GEORGE HARRISON

GEORGE THE GUITARIST part 2

December 26, 1975.

Rotland Weekend Television (TV performance),

In this TV performance George played the number 'The Pirate Song' in answer to the lawsuits concerning the song

'My Sweet Lord', This has been issued on many bootlegs.

November the 20th, 1976

Saturday Night Live, (TV performance with Paul Simon).

Numbers that were played during this performance are issued on several bootlegs, like: GEORGE HARRISON FAR

EAST MAN, THE LIVE RARITIES LLRC 088 (Living Legend Records). This CD features three songs of this

Paul Simon matter: 'Here Comes The Sun', 'Rock Island Line' and the Everly Brothers classic 'Bye, Bye Love'.

The song 'Homeward Bound', which was also played, (but not broadcasted) appeared on the compilation CD

NOBODY'S CHILD Warner Bros 26280-2), released in 1990.

December the 13th, 1984

Sydney, Entertainment Centre,

Unanounced performance with the strong Deep Purple rockers. George played with them on the number 'Lucille'.

Of this combination of the silent George and the rough Deep Purple boys some illegal video and tape recordings exist.

October the 21st, 1985

London Limehouse Studios

After years of absence from the stage George was invited to participate in a TV show starring rock-a-bily giant Carl

Perkins. After a somewhat nervous start from George, he came in his element and stole the show with rockers like Eric

Clapton, Dave Edmunds and friend Ringo Starr. The recordings of the show have been shown on TV several times and

there are video tapes of them as well. There's also a video CDi of this rock-a-billy session: 'A Rock-a-Billy Session' (

Castle Multi Media CMMCD 116).

March the 15th, 1986

Birmingham, NEC,

Heartbeat Concert, benefit performance

June the 6th, 1987

London, Wembley Arena,

Prince's Trust Concerts

During this performance George played with, among others, Ringo.

February the 10th, 1988

Los Angeles, KLOS Studio

Radio performance for Rockline. George plays live for the radio on his acoustic guitar. He answers questions and

plays several songs, like 'That's Alright Mama', 'Let It Be Me', 'Something' and 'Here Comes The Sun'.

The radio show is also issued on the bootleg CD GEORGE HARRISON FAR BAST MAN, THE LIVE

RARITIES - LLRCD 088.

May the 1st, 1990

Los Angeles, Forum,

Two numbers were played with Eric Clapton.

November the 28th, 1991 - December the 18th, 1991

Japanese Tour,

Perhaps George's best tour until now, is the one of Japan. After not having toured for almost 17 years, he did

twelve shows, together with Eric Clapton and his backing band. Finally we see a George who put some things

straight, by doing almost all bis great Beatle and solo work and performing them very weIl.

The Japanese saw a band of very high quality starring George Harrison and maybe to a little less extent Eric Clapton.

On November the 28th, 1991, George arrived again at Narita Airport, Japan, after twentyfive years. Many reporters

and about two hundred fans were waiting for George, his wife Olivia and son Dhani at the airport. On November

the 29th, George and Eric gave a press conference, which was attended by about fivehundred reporters.

Next to Paul McCartney, the largest number of reporters at a press conference of a pop musician. Paul had eight

hundred reporters around him.

On December the Ist, the tour really started in Yokohama and it ended December the 17th in Tokyo.

George chose a nice set of songs, which originally started with twenty-one songs by George and four Clapton 's.

After two days George played only nineteen songs: 'Love Comes To Everyone' and 'Fish On The Sand' were

cancelled. Some of the performed numbers were 'Here Comes The Sun', 'Taxrnan', 'If I Needed Someone',

'Something', 'Darkhorse', 'Give Me Love', 'What Is Life' and even 'Piggies'. All of them are real Harrison classics,

put down nicely with magnificent guitar duets from George and the yet masterly Eric Clapton.

George's voice can be called passable and the backing band was fine. In short, a very good and up to now last tour

by George.

A nice thing to mention is that George's (then only thirteen years old) son Dhani, during the last show in Tokyo, played

along on guitar on the last number 'RoIl Over Beethoven'. In spite of the success in Japan, the West was less enthousiastic

about this tour. The English magazine Q, described the tour as 'listening to dry praint'. Listening to the recordings of show

many Beatles- and Harrison-fans remember this tour as something special.

Many illegal videotapes of the concerts are circulating and several bootlegs of it have been released as weIl, but George

has had the good sense to decide te release a double-CD of the tour too.

CD GEORGE HARRISON / LIVE IN JAPAN

Warner Bros / Dark Horse 9 - 26964 - 2

This list is not complete. For instance there were performances at the Royal Albert Hall in London, where by George,

on April the 6th, 1992, was assisted by Gary Moore and Ringo Starr. These recordings can be found on several

bootlegs. So far for George's live performances.

HOME