Dave Edmunds and George Harrison performing during the Carl Perkins Special (recorded 21 Oct. 1985,
Dave Edmunds and George Harrison performing during the Carl Perkins Special (recorded 21 Oct. 1985, aired 1 Jan. 1986)Ray Shasho: In 1986, you participated in Carl Perkins’s Rockabilly Session television special with George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.…Great program!Dave Edmunds: Carl asked me and George if we’d be on his TV show. We said yes and then discovered that there was no TV show, he was just asking us anyway and then hoping that we would put it together. So George said to me, if you get all the directors, line producers and the studio and all that and I‘ll get Ringo and Eric Clapton in. So I said right, let’s do it! So it all came together and I was the musical director. It all came down to Carl’s personality that brought it off. George was so excited to be back out playing, he was like a little boy and enthusiastic to be playing with Carl.Ray Shasho: What was George Harrison like? Dave Edmunds: He was one of the most interesting people that I’ve ever met, and one of the nicest. Whenever the subject of The Beatles would come up…he always called them the fabs, like the fab four. He’d say…when I was in the fabs… and always looked at it with amusement, not with any ego at all. He looked at it like…what a weird thing that was, how the hell did that happen? The other three may have been egotistical about it and proud of being Beatles, but with George he saw it as some cosmic joke. He was just amused by the whole thing, he loved it but he kept it to himself, and you could tell when you were talking to him that there was no ego at all. Maybe acid burned it off. (All laughing)…I do miss him. - keysandchords.com (June 2015) -- source link
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