Coral Sitars & Sitars in General

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Rory Gallagher playing solos on a Coral sitar!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEQOmGISHM

Steve Vai plays a Coral sitar on a WS song:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZH5BxCSSA

It's not on the '87 album that's pictured tho, it's on the next one--Slip o' the Tongue. ~

I've got a Radha Krishna Sharma sitar which is very beautiful & sounds magnificent. The Real Deal!
I've taken only 5 classes but my teacher's so good I already sound sort of like I know what I'm doing!  
I'm composing my first original piece on sitar already! It's called Sunset.
It has elements of the Moody Blues song by the same name, which was a spontaneous occurence that works out PERFECTLY for my instrumental.

Been working up an instrumental version of Norwegian Wood too since I just learned that Duane Allman played sitar on that & that song done instrumentally would open shows he & Gregg did with the Hourglass in Cali in '67!
I've heard that David Crosby told George about sitars but another story is that George discovered one on the set of Help! or Hard Day's Night.
Anyway...
George made a trippy album called Wonderwall which was a movie soundtrack (the movie SUCKED pretty bad)
While still with the Beatles he recorded Wonderwall & the sessions also produced his song Inner Light:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YF_xj71KpA

Lyrics are basically from the Tao Te Ching. This was George's first song on a single. It was the B side of Lady Madonna.

Within You, Without You is gorgeous too:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAADkgJBxhY

I told my sitar teacher I gotta learn to play that before I die!

Raga Rock is a 60s thing. I aim to bring it back in style!

[gweimer]

My neighbor across the street had a Jerry Jones electric sitar.  It seems that Jones must have a lifelong fascination with that Danelectro catalog.  I had one when I was a kid, and it featured both Danelectro and Coral products.  I still remember the photos of Pete Townshend.

Anyway, here's another song that I'm pretty sure uses a sitar.

[chromium]

There's a small Coral sitar solo in Vai's Bledsoe Blvd. around 1:45




I like the Tommy Mars vocal bit at 2:25 too.  Love to sing along and torture my wife and kids with that 

[Chris P.]

Pete had a Coral guitar. Never seen him with a Coral Sitar?

In the Beatles Gear book is a nice episode of the Beatles never using the Coral Sitar:)

Love the sitar part in that Spinal Tap song!

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Yeah I don't remember seeing or hearing Townsend ever playing a Coral sitar.

Zep is the band most known for Eastern influences but no sitar either.

[gweimer]

Yeah I don't remember seeing or hearing Townsend ever playing a Coral sitar.

Zep is the band most known for Eastern influences but no sitar either.

I guess I was a little vague.  The catalog had all the Danelectro and Coral products.  Townshend was pictured with a Coral guitar.  I never meant to imply that he used a Coral Sitar.

[Chris P.]

Okay, sorry. I thought you implied that:) My mistake!

[Highlander]

Duane Allman in a "contractual obligation" recording for Liberty records...

[Hornisse]

On the video the Coral Sitar has transformed into a Les Paul!   

[Freuds_Cat]

Isn't there a Gallagher song on Top Priority where he plays a sitar sound? Always thought it was just a guitar with effects. Sounds good regardless.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Duane Allman in a "contractual obligation" recording for Liberty records...

Not really diggin' what they did with it. hahaa haaaaaaaaa

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

On the video the Coral Sitar has transformed into a Les Paul!   

This is a bad flashback to jr. high days. I liked this song then so I cringe now.
Funny how the Coral Sitar sound is coming from the LP tho. lol

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Well Zep never used a sitar on a toon but they did use tablas!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OYZm4RhFE

I've got tablas too & just got new heads on 'em so they sound wonderful.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Classic Moody Blues~ more 60s flashback tracks:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfkUfarjVO8

Beautiful!

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Isn't there a Gallagher song on Top Priority where he plays a sitar sound? Always thought it was just a guitar with effects. Sounds good regardless.

See first post, first vid on this thread.

I'm hearing it for the 11th time today-it's officially my Current Fav Song!