Madrid revives the legendary ‘Concert for Bangladesh’

Sunday, 1 August 1971. George Harrison meets at the Madison Square Garden in new york to 35 musicians of the highest row to help the refugees from East Pakistan, victims of the fearful rains. Sala But Madrid, December 1, 2018. To evoke an event of such dimensions requires a great bringing together of wills, and no one better than “one of Bilbao” to such effects. Jokin Salaverria, bassist vizcaino of 38 years, is the author of this farcical purposes equally beneficial, and which by now have been joined by 29 artists. The recipient of the winnings will be this time the Food Bank. “There is No need to go very far to find charitable causes. The deficiencies we see here, to the doors of our houses,” reflects Salaverria.

Among the performers involved are such luminaries as Rami Jaffee (the organist of Foo Fighters), Johnny Kaplan, Marti Perarnau (a Lot), Roberto Loza Lozano (Corizonas), Aurora Smith (Aurora and the Betrayers), Íñigo Coppel or Junior Mackenzie, although in the vast payroll still fit additions in extremis. “This Sunday we did the testing officer and, whew!, that sounds like the Wall of sound of Phil Spector,” emphasizes Jokin, somewhere between the excitement and hyperbole for the north. The program plays the menu full concert the original -including the preamble of indian music, which then brought Ravi Shankar - and added to the encores some candy additional of Harrison. If you do not want to be the destripemos, omit the reading of these two next lines: at the end of the party play Güvenilir Bahis Siteleri Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth), wonder harrisoniana of 1973, or If I needed someone, classic-era Beatle who delight themselves in tandem Germán Jump and Nina John, of Morgan.

Jump doesn't hide his arousal to the back. “I am one who thinks that All Things Must Pass, Harrison [1970], is the best album of a Beatle's solo,” he admits. “As a child I discovered that a few months after I had organized this benefit concert, I was obsessed with its staff of musicians. The famous Wall of sound was truth: it is striking that so many people, with so few trials, it could sound that way is a pretty and elegant”. And sums it up: “The songs of Harrison, require be aware not only of the beauty of each phrase, but of the intensity changes”.

it doesn't sound that historic night only the music of the guitarist of Liverpool, but up to five original Dylan. This coming Saturday is the split between Kaplan, Coppel, and the veteran José María Guzmán, personal weakness of Salaverria. “I'm especially excited to have him, because both the floor and Cánovas, Rodrigo, Adolfo y Guzmán I fly the head,” he admits. You may not be Dhani Harrison, son of the late beatle, to which the event coincides in full tour by Australia. However, has blessed the initiative shouted from the official Twitter account in the name of his father.

With all the details almost finalised, now I just need to deplete the role in the box office and weigh up whether the recording and subsequent editing of the concert is feasible in economic terms. “The technical costs and permits may shoot the budget, and in these last two weeks, in addition to leaving a lot of gray, I have spent more time in front of an Excel sheet that practicing with the bass,” smiles the driver of this Concert for Bangladesh to the Spanish. Because the solidarity and awareness-raising, argues Jokin, are specific to popular music. “Music is one of our latest drugs and roc'n'roll is a tool of protest. In fact, with the amount of reasons to protest, I don't understand how there are not more rock and less trap”, he concludes.