The Beatles musicians Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined to paid tribute to George Harrison yesterday (02.10.11).
Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr joined to paid tribute to George Harrison yesterday (02.10.11).
The two surviving members of The Beatles joined with their bandmate's widow, Olivia Harrison, his son Dhani, producer Sir George Martin, Noel Gallagher, Ronnie Wood and Yoko Ono - wife of the fourth member of the group, John Lennon, who was assassinated in 1980 - at the premiere of 'Living in the Material World', a new documentary about the guitarist and songwriter by Martin Scorsese in London.
Paul told the BBC: "Every time I see something to do with George it brings back more memories than you would believe. He was my little mate on the school bus. A lot of fond memories. He's sorely missed by us all."
He also said George gave the world: "Great music, great writing, great guitar playing. An all round good boy."
Ringo said he was moved that such a compassionate film was being made about his friend ten years after his death from lung cancer.
He said: "You remember his guitar and later on his songwriting. It is far out, but it's like the Beatles go on forever."
Director Martin -who has previously made documentaries about The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan - also attended the premiere of the movie, which he had worked on over five years.
He said: "Harrison's music is really what the key is for me. He seemed to be dealing with themes that I connected with. I found comfort in them and a hope and a special experience listening to his music. So I was fascinated by him."
'Living in the Material World' has as limited cinema run in the UK, starting tomorrow (04.10.11).
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Dhani Harrison attends the UK premiere of George Harrison: Living In The Material World at The BFI Southbank on October 2, 2011 in London, United Kingdom.
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Luckily, viewers of Scorsese’s documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World won’t have to deal with commercials when the exhaustive biopic airs in October on HBO and hits Blu-ray across the pond. But Harrison thinks they might want to take a night off after watching his father’s expansive life unfurl onscreen, from his humble Liverpool origin and global crossover with the Beatles to his late battles with both a murderous psychotic and, eventually, lung cancer.
“It’s really heavy for me,” Harrison explained. “I already lived it, so it’s like watching your life fed back to you through the eyes of Martin Scorsese, which is weirder than living it. But he did a great job. My mother Olivia and everyone on her team worked really hard on it. I did voice-overs and interviews for hours and hours. We’ve been working on it for over five years now. My advice is not to plan anything after watching it. Have a nice evening off.”
What smartphone addicts and Beatles collectors might want to watch out for is the iPhone and iPad app that Harrison is building, which photographically and intertextually reproduces his father’s entire guitar collection. The app, made with the help of award-winning director Steven Sebring’s Bandwidth Publishing, launches in October in conjunction with the Grammy Museum’s multimedia retrospective of George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
The app photographically recreates each of the elder Harrison’s guitars in 360 degrees, employing Apple’s embedded accelerometers to give users the ability to view the instruments from all angles, as well as learn facts like each guitar’s physical details, where it was acquired, and on what songs it was used.
“It’s a portal to everything that has ever been played on them, and will also be an online storefront,” Harrison said. “We’re really looking forward to launch. The guys at Bandwidth have been working their asses off on it.”
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 18:56:51
Luckily, viewers of Scorsese’s documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World won’t have to deal with commercials when the exhaustive biopic airs in October on HBO and hits Blu-ray across the pond. But Harrison thinks they might want to take a night off after watching his father’s expansive life unfurl onscreen, from his humble Liverpool origin and global crossover with the Beatles to his late battles with both a murderous psychotic and, eventually, lung cancer.
“It’s really heavy for me,” Harrison explained. “I already lived it, so it’s like watching your life fed back to you through the eyes of Martin Scorsese, which is weirder than living it. But he did a great job. My mother Olivia and everyone on her team worked really hard on it. I did voice-overs and interviews for hours and hours. We’ve been working on it for over five years now. My advice is not to plan anything after watching it. Have a nice evening off.”
What smartphone addicts and Beatles collectors might want to watch out for is the iPhone and iPad app that Harrison is building, which photographically and intertextually reproduces his father’s entire guitar collection. The app, made with the help of award-winning director Steven Sebring’s Bandwidth Publishing, launches in October in conjunction with the Grammy Museum’s multimedia retrospective of George Harrison: Living in the Material World.
The app photographically recreates each of the elder Harrison’s guitars in 360 degrees, employing Apple’s embedded accelerometers to give users the ability to view the instruments from all angles, as well as learn facts like each guitar’s physical details, where it was acquired, and on what songs it was used.
“It’s a portal to everything that has ever been played on them, and will also be an online storefront,” Harrison said. “We’re really looking forward to launch. The guys at Bandwidth have been working their asses off on it.”
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 18:55:41
продолжение, о следующем полноценном альбоме и не только
If Harrison is making what he wants to hear, he’s also writing what he knows. His band’s future full-length, which like the new EP also features cover design from street artist Ben Eine, is called The Fear of Missing Out. Taken together with Liam Finn’s recently-released FOMO, both albums examine the new century’s addiction to information overload.
“I was talking with Liam about it when we both played Pearl Jam’s 20 Festival, but basically everyone worries about it,” Harrison explained. “We call Facebook “FOMO-book” because it’s a bunch of people posting things that you’re not doing. It’s a very real and present phenomenon, which is probably why Liam and I found out that we were naming our records almost the same thing.”
Our tremendous connectivity may have exponentially attuned our perniciously viral “fear of missing out” on whatever happens when we close our eyes, but our minds may suffer in the end, said Harrison. Like DJ Shadow, who confided similar fears to Wired.com last week, Harrison’s a tech-friendly artist growing concerned that we might be a bit too plugged in, when we could benefit from more disconnection.
“We’re so worried about FOMO that we’re not doing things, or enjoying the things that we’re doing,” Harrison said. “Being here now is zen, but being present in the moment is lost when you’re always worried about checking your emails, phones, widgets and Google goggles. I love technology, I’m a huge advocate, but I can definitely see how it can take away from the experience of playing a whole record, or a television show. Which is why I like like TiVo and Apple TV. I just can’t be watching an episode of CSI with 10 ad breaks anymore.”
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 18:46:05
“Thenewno2 is more of a gang than a band,” the 33-year-old Harrison said about his expanding band, er, gang, which celebrated its 10-year anniversary this month. “I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day’s done, we’ve made something. We recognize that we’re from different walks of the music industry, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t be collaborating. That’s what I’m trying to create with thenewno2 — a sense of community.”
Inspired by cross-genre collaboration standouts like DJ Shadow, James Lavelle’s Unkle, Massive Attack and the beat junkies at the UK label Ninja Tune, Harrison’s gang is similarly inclined to pound out pop-hop calibrated to the still-new century’s thirst for creative mashups. Thenewno2’s self-titled second EP injects digital noise and street slang into otherwise mournful ballads like “Wide Awake” and “Live a Lie,” featuring siren Regina Spektor.
Meanwhile, the scathing satire “Dear Mr. President” packs in serious scatter raps from Wu-Tang Clan mastermind RZA and Clan affiliates Crisis and Sir Eyes. There’s also a “Dear Mr. President” remix spliced and diced by Harrison’s electro offshoot pHd. Over and under it all, Harrison’s distinctive vocals, searing guitar and operational instincts play the scene like a savvy turntablist.
“We recorded ‘Dear Mr. President’ on 4/20,” Harrison said. “It’s no diss to [President] Obama, because you can’t solve everyone’s problems in a day. ‘Live a Lie’ is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep. It’s tricky to combine all that because I love hip-hop, trip-hop, drum ‘n’ bass, surf rock and more. I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn’t want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it’s like that, you have to make what you want to hear.”
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 17:39:02
As for the forthcoming album, the four-year-old band's second, Harrison divulges that in addition to more from the RZA, the still-untitled record will feature Harrison's Fistful of Mercy cohort Ben Harper, Eleven's Alain Johannes, and Icelandic singer Thorunn Antonia, with Rage Against The Machine engineer Ryan Williams also on board.
"We hope to have it out at the end of January, but I hope to have it finished at the end of next month," Harrison says, adding that thenewno2 will also hit the road in 2012. "Next year we'll be touring. I want to do all the festivals, as many as we can. I'd really like to get over to things like Reading and V or Glastonbury, somewhere in England. Because I've never done English festivals."
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 17:37:41
"We wrote the track and emailed him," Harrison says of how the RZA got involved. "We did a really funny other song which is going to be on the [2012] record. It was 4/20 and we were like what are we going to do for 4/20 and the Wu-Tang turned up. It was pretty intense... Another song was written that day which is called 'Battlestar Galactica.'"
"Regina was staying with me in England, hanging out with her guy," Harrison says of Spektor's guest spot. "They're really good pals and so I managed to get her to drop some chorus on that." He adds that violinist Jessy Greene, who previously toured with his other band, Fistful of Mercy (which also features Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur), augments thenewno2ers' Harrison, Jeremy Faccone, Nick Fyffe, Jonathan Sadoff, Frank Zummo, and Paul Hicks on the EP track, "Wide Awake."
<-- PHOTOS: thenewNo2 at the Pearl Jam 20 Festival, Sept. 2011
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 29.09.11 17:31:12
FAVORITE SONG: "Black Milk" by Massive Attack. The guest vocals from Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser are so haunting on this track, which is from the 1998 album Mezzanine. This is the only song I can listen to no matter what mood I am in.
FAVORITE ALBUM: Rage Against Machine's Rage Against the Machine. Start to finish this is one of the most hardcore records ever. Even the artwork is hardcore! It's amazing to drive to and as a debut album, I can't think of anything from our generation that tops it.
FAVORITE NEW ARTIST: Magnetic Man, the English trio of dubstep producers. A friend saw them at Coachella this year and told me about it. I love their new record [2010's self-titled debut], especially that song "The Bug."
Benny Goodman plays Mozart
FAVORITE RECORD STORE: Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. They have great vinyl. I bought a record of Benny Goodman playing Mozart there. Awesome!
FAVORITE PIECE OF MUSICAL GEAR: My Fender Stratocaster and my backup Fender Stratocaster. They're very simple and rarely break. It's an Eric Clapton model and louder than all the rest...heee heee.
FAVORITE WEBSITE: Damnyouautocorrect.com. Hours of fun looking at texts that were screwed up by an iPhone's auto correct. Classic.
FAVORITE TV SHOW: I recently got into Lie to Me with Tim Roth and The Mentalist. Basically, I like shows about people who use their brains to solve crime (in under and hour).
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FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: Grand Theft Auto III: San Andreas. It will go down in history as the most fun game of all time. That, or Mario Cart or GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo 64. Ahhhh! I can't choose!
FAVORITE PET: I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. It would be mean to pick a favorite … but Woody doesn't eat my shoes. Just sayin'.
FAVORITE WAY TO PASS TIME ON THE ROAD: Tell the bus driver to drive faster so the trip takes less time, or listen to Fleetwood Mac and get nostalgic. And if all else fails, head to Ashland, Oregon!
FAVORITE PIECE OF ADVICE: "Keep your head down at school." Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
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FAVORITE ESCAPE: Maui. I try to go once a year to surf, etc. The force is strong out there.
FAVORITE FOOD: Pizza and burritos. Someone recently played me "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
FAVORITE PICK UP LINE: I don't get out much. What day is it?
Re: Группа thenewno2 ( Dhani Harrison и thenewno2 ) Автор:Лена me mineДата: 28.09.11 15:00:34
Ep002 marks another phase in their career in that it features some well-known guests: Regina Spektor and Wu-Tang Clan rapper RZA, among others. The result is an intriguing mix of rock, electronica, and rap.
Harrison handles lead vocals, sounding eerily like his father in tone and thenewno2phrasing. The trance-like track "Wide Awake" contains psychedelic elements-distorted guitars, swirling keyboards, and a slow, steady beat dominate the song. But the mood quickly changes with "Mr. President," which features RZA, Crisis, and Sir Eyes. The mashup between thenewno2's brand of electronic rock and hip hop works surprisingly well, with Harrison's wry vocals nicely complimenting RZA, Sir Eyes', and Crisis' biting lines. Imagine George Harrison collaborating with rap artists, and you get a fairly clear picture of the track. "Here come the Americans!" Dhani Harrison cries, with the rap breaks first addressing President Obama. "Mr. President, thank you for lowering the prices of our medicine/ Being that the Bush war has created more war veterans" they snarl. The second break definitely concerns President Bush: "Mr. President you got the whole country in debt/ Get your family more wealthy, while we suffer for it!/ I'm talking Bush not Obama." Regardless of your political persuasion, "Mr. President" grabs the listener's attention with its relentless beats and contrasts between Harrison's airy vocals and some furious rapping.
The next track, "Live A Lie," features Spektor singing backing harmonies as well as the refrain. With its distorted guitars, ethereal vocals, and electronic beat, it recalls Massive Attack in its brooding mood. Lyrically the words are clearly meant to create atmosphere rather than tell a story. "You and I in the same room/ Now you and I are fallen through," Harrison croons, with Spekor's light voice weaving into the heavy beat: "So long just waiting/ Waiting/ Doors and windows closed," she sings.
The final Ep002 track is a pHd "One Nation" remix of "Mr. President," which increases the tempo, intensifies the beat, and processes Harrison's vocals differently. While an interesting alternate version, it seems a bit tacked on.
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