While my Ukelele Gently Weeps

Jake Shimabukuro is the blokes name and no I haven't a clue who he is, whether he is a professional musician, plays in a band, plays for coins in a hat on a street or what.

But he can play a ukelele.
And he more than does justice to one of George Harrison's finest moments, many have tried but few have equalled the master, this comes very close.

Theres a better quality version of that video at http://www.ukuleledisco.com/jake plus some more of his stuff, who would have thunk it eh - a ukelele web site being cool ?

George Harrison

Video Saturday for no other reason that I love this song.

I revised my O levels at home to this song in 1973, sat in the house all day trying to force feed maths and french and physics and geography and all that jazz into a brain that didn't want to play at doing exams and all the while George Harrison, the massively under-rated Beatle sang this song on the radio, "give me hope, help me cope with this heavy load", this and Lou Reed's "Walk on the wild side" were the songs that carried me through those revision months and all to no avail, I was crap at schoolwork but we had some great sounds to revise to in those days...