(Studio SHN)
Abbey Road Studios
London, England
May - August 1970
Demos & Studio rehersal takes
Source: Studio
Lineage: Possible Master Reels > ? > Shn
Abbey Road Studios
London, England
May 27, 1970
Demos (tracks 1-15)
01. Run of the Mill [acoustic]
02. The Art of Dying [acoustic]
03. Everybody, Nobody [acoustic] > Tuning
04. Wah Wah [electric with bass]
05. Window, Window [acoustic]
06. Beautiful Girl [acoustic]
07. Beware of Darkness [acoustic, song is not finished yet]
08. Let It Down [acoustic]
09. Tell Me What Happened to You [acoustic]
10. Hear Me Lord [electric]
11. Nowhere To Go [electric, co wrote with Bob Dylan]
12. Cosmic Empire [acoustic started out on the electric]
13. Mother Devine [acoustic]
14. I Don’t Want To Do It. [acoustic, Bob Dylan composed and Taught him this song]
15. If Not For You [acoustic, composed and Taught him this song]
16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps [May 1970 Demo, acoustic guitar in mono]
17. All Things Must Pass [Summer 1970 Rehersal with electric guitar]
18. Old Brown Shoe [Summer 1970 Rehersal, electric guitar with piano]
19. Something [May 1970 Demo, electric guitar in mono]
20. I Me Mine [Summer 1970 Rehersal, with full band]
George Harrison - acoustic and electric guitar & vocals on all tracks
Klaus Voorman - bass player on track 4 [can not confirm]
Billy Preston - piano [can not confirm]
Possible Band for track 20 [can not confirm]
George Harrison - acoustic guitar & vocals
Eric Clapton - lead guitar
Klaus Voorman - bass guitar
Ringo Starr - drums
Gary Wright - keyboards
BACKGROUND NOTES
Harrison had been accumulating the songs he recorded for the album as far back as 1966. One being "The Art of Dying". Harrison picked up several more songs in late 1968 while visiting Bob Dylan and The Band in Woodstock, New York. He and Dylan co-wrote "I'd Have You Anytime" and "Nowhere to Go" (also known as "When Everybody Comes to Town") at this time, and Dylan showed him "I Don't Want to Do It." All three songs were attempted at some point in the sessions for All Things Must Pass, but only "I'd Have You Anytime" made the album which he did not perform during this rehersal session.
He began writing "My Sweet Lord" while touring with Delaney & Bonnie in late 1969, and would later utilize their backing group "Friends" as an important part of the All Things Must Pass sound. He made one last detour before beginning work on All Things Must Pass, visiting Dylan while the latter was starting sessions for New Morning in May 1970, learning "If Not For You" and participating in a now-bootlegged session.
On May 27,1970, before recording the album, Harrison sat in a studio with Phil Spector and ran through fifteen songs on guitar, with occasional support from an unknown bass player. These demos (eventually bootlegged as Beware of ABKCO! due to an altered line in his performance of "Beware of Darkness") showed him in the process of weighing his material, as eight of the songs would be either substantially reworked or not appear on the finished album.
Among these early outtakes, three have been officially released in one form or another: "Everybody, Nobody" was an early version of "The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp", "Beautiful Girl" would be finished for Thirty Three & 1/3, and "I Don't Want to Do It" would wait fifteen years until being revisited for the soundtrack of Porky's Revenge. Five other songs, "Cosmic Empire", "Mother Divine", "Nowhere to Go," "Tell Me What Has Happened With You," and "Window, Window", have not seen official release.
Two demos of songs that did make the album, "Beware of Darkness" and "Let It Down" (with overdubs from 2000), would eventually be released on the remastered All Things Must Pass. Full discs of electric outtakes from the recording sessions would also leak on bootlegs in later years, and some of those tracks were also included in the remaster. Multiple takes of songs from the album appear on a bootleg three-disc box set The Making of All Things Must Pass along with other releases.
This demonstrates how talented George Harrison was and how much he was held back at the end of the Beatles. he was the first to have success as a solo performer even before Lennon and way before McCartney and the Wings.
AMAZING SOUND AND PERFORMANCE
Fresh and Raw at the time of George Harrison's carrer
