Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Your Tuesday Moment of How Cool is That?

From a 1992 rehearsal for I'm not quite sure what event, please enjoy George Harrison and company and a rollickingly wonderful update of the Revolver classic "Taxman."

As I said, I don't know what the occasion of that was -- the footage apparently derives from MTV -- but it's an absolutely delightful performance.

The musicians, however, seem identifiable. The white-haired bass player would seem to be Will Lee (then of the David Letterman Show band); the drummer is likely Steve Ferrone (then of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) and the guitar player -- having the seeming time of his life imitating the original Harrison solos -- is obviously the great Mike Campbell (whose guaranteed to be fascinating autobiography, I should add, will be available over at Amazon next week).

In any event, just fabulous.

Coming tomorrow: Actual new music by a band that isn't world famous!!!

[h/t Jai Guru Dave]

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great stuff, thanks!

I was very, very surprised to read a few years back that the solo in Taxman was played by Paul. Maybe the internet was incorrect, as is often the case.

Brian said...

This was the practice session for George's '92 Albert Hall concert. There is a amateur video of the concert on youtube that's pretty good for an early 90's bootleg

Anonymous said...

I believe the guy behind the congas was Elton John’s percussionist whose name I forget

Alzo said...

Ray Cooper?

Anonymous said...

At least Hitler Jr. Eric Clapton is not there.

Bleeding Heart Captain Al

Anonymous said...

Sorry I’m in no mood for haters at the moment.

The Al

pete said...

My addition to the misheard-lyrics file: "Put leather pennies on your eyes."

Alzo said...

"There's a fine line between 'clever' and 'leather.'"
–Nigel Tufnel

wardo said...

Pretty sure that's young Dhani sitting on the riser in the back.