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| Length = 4:46 3:27 (Original version) | Writer = George Harrison | Label = Apple Records | Producer = George Martin | Misc = | Tracks = }} "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song written by George Harrison, first recorded by the Beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album (also known as "the White Album"). The song features lead guitar by Eric Clapton, although he was not formally credited on the album.〔(While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles Songfacts )〕 "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is ranked at number 136 on ''Rolling Stone''s "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", number 7 on the magazine's list of the ''100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time'', and number 10 on its list of ''The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs''. In an online poll held by ''Guitar World'' magazine in February 2012, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was voted the best of Harrison's Beatle-era songs.〔"Readers Poll Results: George Harrison's 10 Best Beatles Songs", ''Guitar World'', http://www.guitarworld.com/readers-poll-results-george-harrisons-10-best-beatles-songs?page=0,9 (retrieved 26 February 2012).〕 In October 2008, ''Guitar World'' ranked Clapton's playing at number 42 in its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos". ==Composition and recording== Inspiration for the song came to Harrison when reading the ''I Ching'', which, as Harrison put it, "seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else... opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental." Taking this idea of relativism to his parents’ home in northern England, Harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. Those words were “gently weeps”, and he immediately began writing the song. As he said: The initial incarnation was not final, as Harrison said: "Some of the words to the song were changed before I finally recorded it.” A demo recorded at George's home in Esher includes an unused verse: :''I look at the trouble and see that it's raging,'' :''While my guitar gently weeps.'' :''As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing,'' :''Still, my guitar gently weeps.'' As well as an unused line in the very beginning: :''The problems you sow, are the troubles you're reaping,'' :''Still, my guitar gently weeps.'' This line was eventually omitted in favour of the one appearing on ''The Beatles''. An early acoustic guitar and organ demo of the song featured a slightly different third verse: :''I look from the wings at the play you are staging,'' :''While my guitar gently weeps.'' :''As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing,'' :''Still, my guitar gently weeps.'' This version was released on the 1996 compilation ''Anthology 3'' and was used as the basis of the 2006 ''Love'' remix, with a string arrangement by George Martin.〔(While My Guitar Gently Weeps|The Beatles Bible )〕 The band recorded the song several times. Take 1 on 25 July 1968 involved Harrison on his Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar and an overdubbed harmonium.〔Walter Everett. The Beatles as Musicians. Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press. NY. 1999. ISBN 0-19-509553-7. ISBN 0-19-512941-5 p201〕 Sessions on 16 August and 3 and 5 September included a version with a backward (or "backmasked") guitar solo (as Harrison had done for "I'm Only Sleeping" on ''Revolver''), but Harrison was not satisfied. On 6 September 1968, during a ride from Surrey into London, Harrison asked friend Eric Clapton to contribute lead guitar to the song. Clapton was reluctant; he said, "Nobody ever plays on the Beatles' records"; but Harrison convinced him and Clapton's guitar parts, using Harrison's Gibson Les Paul electric guitar "Lucy" (a recent gift from Clapton), were recorded that evening. Harrison later said that in addition to his contribution, Clapton's presence had another effect on the band: "It made them all try a bit harder; they were all on their best behaviour." Clapton wanted a more "Beatley" sound, so the sound was run through an ADT circuit with "varispeed", with engineer Chris Thomas manually 'waggling' the oscillator: "apparently Eric said that he didn't want it to sound like him. So I was just sitting there wobbling the thing, they wanted it really extreme, so that's what I did." "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was one of three songs on ''The Beatles'' that Paul McCartney experimented with the Fender Jazz Bass (the others being "Glass Onion" and "Yer Blues") instead of his Hofner and Rickenbacker basses.〔http://www.thecanteen.com/mccartney7.html〕 According to Walter Everett's book ''The Beatles as Musicians'', John Lennon's electric guitar is only audible in the coda with the tremolo switched on. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「While My Guitar Gently Weeps」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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