George Harrison: Living in the Material World Page #7
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me up as a Catholic.
They had told you to just believe
what they're telling you,
and, you know, not to have
the direct experience.
And this, for me, going to India
you know,
"No, you can't believe anything until
you have direct perception of it".
And I thought, "Wow, you know,
fantastic! At last, you know,
"found somebody who...
makes some sense."
And so I wanted to go deeper
and deeper into that.
I think that George's experiences
of expanding his mind with acid...
led him to looking for something
that didn't need chemicals.
He knew that there was a point where
you couldn't keep on doing that.
And it wouldn't be good for you,
if you did keep on using chemicals.
So he was looking for...
He was always looking for the truth
and he was also looking
for peace of mind...
..because it was...
it was pretty crazy.
John would pick us up in this big
Rolls Royce with blacked-out windows,
and Ringo, John and I
all moved out of town to Surrey.
And then he'd pick up Ringo
and then pick me up
and then we'd head into
town and, by the time
we got to Hammersmith,
we were just loaded
and feeling ill, cos,
you know, a Rolls
Royce doesn't have
the proper springs.
They just roll around.
And the black windows,
you couldn't see anything out
and so you'd just be getting
double doses of these reefers.
And then we'd pull up
at Abbey Road Studio
and just be, like,
fall out of the car.
We have to thank Paul that we made
as many records as we did because,
you know, John and I,
cos we lived in the same area,
would be hanging out.
It's like a beautiful day
in the garden in England
and the phone'd ring
and we'd always know it was him.
"He wants us to work!"
I mean, everywhere we went,
people were smiling and,
you know, sitting on lawns,
drinking tea.
I went to Haight-Ashbury, expecting
it to be this brilliant place,
I thought it was
going to be all these groovy
kind of gypsy kind of people, with
little shops making works of art
and paintings and carvings.
But, instead, it turned
out to be just a lot of bums.
And many of them,
they were just very young kids
who'd come from all over America
and dropped acid
and gone to this Mecca of LSD.
We'd walk down the street
and I was, like, being treated
like the Messiah or something.
I was really afraid,
because I could see
and they were...
still an undercurrent
of Beatlemania,
but from a, kind of, twisted angle.
And they were...
People were handing me things,
like there was this big pipe,
like a big Indian pipe
with feathers on it
you know, all kinds of stuff.
And trying to give me drugs and,
you know, I'd say
"No, thanks, I don't want it."
We were walking quicker and quicker.
We went through the park
and back out of the park,
and in the end, we just said,
"Let's get out of here."
And we drove back to the airport,
got on the jet, and as it took off,
the plane went into a stall,
and the whole dashboard lit up,
saying "Unsafe" right across.
It certainly showed me what was
really happening in the drug cult.
It wasn't what I thought of all
these groovy people getting...
having spiritual awakenings
and being artistic.
It was like any addiction.
So, at that point,
I stopped taking it, actually,
the dreaded Lysergic.
for the meditation.
Let me take you down
Cos I'm going to
Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real
And nothing to get hung about
Strawberry Fields forever
Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see...
We'd stopped touring.
We were now in the mid-60s.
We were partying
and I think we, kind of, lost,
sort of, our spiritual direction.
Not that we ever had one,
but we lost it.
So we were, kind of,
experimenting in anything.
It was the time of Sgt Pepper,
and I'd written a song,
the title song,
and I put it to the guys
that what we should do,
under another persona.
We'll be this other band.
And it will free us.
The idea was we could
bring anything we wanted,
because now, you know, there was
no lid on what we could do.
When we were doing Sgt
Pepper, he presented
us with a song which I
thought was boring.
And I had to tell him so.
And I said,
"George, honestly, I
think we could do...
you could do something
better for this record,
"because it's going to be
an astonishing record.
"There's so many
great moments in it.
"And do you mind going
away and thinking
about it and coming up
with something else?"
We were talking
About the space between us all
And the people
Who hide themselves behind
A wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth
Then it's far too late
When they pass away-ay-ay...
He came up with
Within You Without You.
was not a commercial song,
by any means.
But it was very interesting.
He had the way of communicating
music by the Indian system
of, kind of, a separate language,
like, tiki-tiki-ta-ta-ta,
tiki-tik, tika-da - the kind of things
that would be the rhythms suggested
by the tabla player. And you had
to get inside that to find out
what it was about. So it was like
working out a puzzle with George.
He had Ravi play at his house once.
And we all went.
And we're sitting on the floor
and Ravi made the announcement,
"Please don't smoke
while I'm playing."
And, uh, anyway, there was
like a crowd of us and
a crowd of Ravi's friends
just sitting around
and Ravi's playing away and this is
how little we understood at the time,
that Ravi's pals
are all like going...
"Aw!
"Aw!"
Which it sounded like to us they
were saying, "Aw, God, crap!"
But they were really going,
"Ohhhh. Ohhhh."
We were like,
"Keep the noise down"!
When you've seen beyond yourself
Then you may find peace of mind
is waiting there
And the time will come
When you see we're all one
And life flows on
within you and without you.
When you get a sort of typical
westernized Englishman coming to you,
what is the most important thing
you have to teach? Concentration?
No. Just allowing the mind
to take its natural course.
Just that.
Say, it was surprising
someone one day, uh,
started to meditate. Next day
he came for checking and he said,
"I feel wonderful.
I slept very deep
"and the whole thing is good, but
tell me what you have taught me."
I said, "Nothing."
Because the process of thinking
has not to be learned.
We are used to think. We know
how to think from birth.
I got a message from John
and a message from George, saying,
"We're going to Wales.
We've met this guy.
"We listened to him.
He's great. Come."
We'd seen this giggly
little Indian guy with
and we liked him.
He was a funny little character,
who was going to save the world.
So he came around
and we were ripe for saving.
You know, I wanted
to get into meditation.
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