I find myself completely taken with sitar music this morning.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to wake up, and the coffee isn’t quite<\/i> doing it for me.<\/p>\n
Of course, coffee doesn’t work instantly<\/i>. I have to give it more time.<\/p>\n
So, I’m adding some sitar music into the mix. The sitar has a tangy sound, like a stab of color. That will cut through the mental fog this bright morning, surely!<\/p>\n
My collection of sitar music is not impressive, however. It’s limited entirely to George Harrison’s oeuvre, actually.<\/p>\n
So I’m listening to the early takes of “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” where Harrison’s sitar work was a little more… overwhelming<\/i> than the finished track.<\/p>\n
Seriously, in the first take, Harrison played the sitar everywhere<\/i>, filling every sonic crevice. He dialed that by the fourth take of the song, and that gave us the beautiful — and somewhat malicious — song that we all know and love.<\/p>\n
Okay, that I<\/i> love. I don’t know about the rest of you all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
“She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh.
\nI told her I didn’t and crawled off to sleep in the bath.”<\/p>\n
I could listen to The Concert for Bangladesh<\/i> or The Concert for George<\/i> for more sitar goodness. Even Wonderwall Music<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Or I may just fix another cup of coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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