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Slash lamented that he couldn’t get away with using more sitar in his music — because it immediately sounded like the Beatles.

George Harrison popularized the Indian instrument in the West after playing it on a number of Beatles tracks, and his studies with master performer Ravi Shankar drew even more attention among Western artists.

Slash used a sitar in the track “Spirit Love” on recent solo album 4 — but in a new Music Radar interview, the Guns N’ Roses guitarist admitted it was hard to avoid the Harrison comparison. “I laughed because, when you said George Harrison, that was the one thing I was trying for it not to sound like!” he told interviewer Jonathan Horsley. “It’s true, though! That’s what happens whenever you record sitar; it just becomes that cliche.”

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