I’ve been tempted a few times to rent The Concert for George. KCET aired it tonight, but I didn’t catch all of it. What I did see rivaled The Last Waltz. Check out the list of performers.
What stands out in the performance?
I saw most of it. Billy Preston singing “My Sweet Lord” with all that incredible backup almost made a believer out of me for a while.
And the song “Everything Must Pass” or words to that effect mixed with the looks that passed between Dhani Harrison,Eric Clapton,and Paul McCartney,not to mention one sad look between Paul and Ringo completely broke me down. I was sobbing and looking blindly for kleenex.
Shit,I’m dripping again just thnking about it.
Great show and tribute.
Who played the uke song to close the show? I missed his intro.
That last guy was Joe Brown, an artist who started out headlining with the beatles in the early days and apparently became a good friend of George’s.
I don’t think the concert rivals Last Waltz, but it sure comes close.
If you are a George fan, I would definitely buy the dvd-- it includes the full version of the concert and also the version they showed last night on PBS.
The full version is just the concert, no interviews, but includes a 20-minute Indian orchestra piece that is very interesting.
It was a very moving concert. Makes me cry every time I watch it.
This was one performance I did see, and I was blown away. I especially liked some of the shots where the conductor appeared right above Billy Preston’s swaying noggin.
Michae Palin’s intro to “The Luberjack Song” was quite funny.
Only caught a peek of it, but holy crap. Harrison’s son looks so much like him circa 1964 it’s freaky.
The neat thing about Python’s Lumberjack bit was that Tom Hanks was one of the Mounties.
I know! I couldn’t get over it. He looks like George’s clone.
Sounds like him, too, at least in the vocals dept.
I loved the wall-of-sound treatment of “Wah-Wah”. Sounded remarkably crisp, given that there were three drummers, six or so men on guitars and bass, a string section, a horn section, backing vocals…
I caught the end of the concert and I’ve since had time to get through the first hour or so. Thus far I’ve been blown away. This is exactly what an all-star band should sound like and never does.
Dhani Harrison should have been retouched in b&w. That would be the only thing to make him look more like a ghost of his father.
Oddly, I just happened to watch The Last Waltz this past week. No question: this concert tops it.