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Who plays the guitar tremolos on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’?

Who plays the guitar tremolos on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’?

Who plays the guitar tremolos on ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’?
June 27
09:24 2024

For many, George Harrison’s song ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ was his greatest achievement as a songwriter during his career with The Beatles. This paean to guitar-playing as an antidote to disagreements within the band sees its lead guitarist become their balladeer supreme.It originated from two words Harrison picked out at random on the page of a book he’d opened – “gently weeps” – which immediately led him back to the instrument that made him. Ironically, though, the electric guitar we hear on the track isn’t Harrison’s. He enlisted the best guitarist he knew to play the lead part on his new song.

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Martin Nethercutt

Martin Nethercutt

Martin A Nethercutt is a writer, singer, producer and loves music. Creative Director at McCartney Studios Editor-in-Chief at McCartney Times Creator-in-Chief at Geist Musik President (title) at McCartney Multimedia, Inc. Went to Albert-Schweitzer-Schule Kassel Lives in Playa del Rey From Kassel, Germany Married to Ruth McCartney

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