On the third day of their US trip, George Harrison, Neil Aspinall and Alexis ‘Magic Alex’ Mardas returned to Ravi Shankar’s music school in Los Angeles.
Harrison and Shankar held a press conference at the Kinnara School of Music to promote Shankar’s Hollywood Bowl concert, which was taking place the following day. Harrison’s wife Pattie was not present; her sister Jenny Boyd had flown from San Francisco, and the pair went sightseeing in Los Angeles.
In the evening the Harrisons and Derek Taylor attended a Mamas And The Papas recording session.
Last updated: 3 January 2011
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The recording session George, Patti and Derek attended on 3rd August was with Lou Adler who was producing for Scott McKenzie. At the session George, in a long White coat, talked and jammed with guitarist Mike Deasy. George liked the Bartell Fretless guitar that Mike was playing, which was a good things as George had received from Al Casey the 1st of the Bartell Fretless prototypes earlier that week. Maxine Casey delivered it up on Blue Jay Way.
Mike Deasy and Al Casey were good friends and both first call session players. Both played on stage with Elvis on his 68 comeback special.
Al Casey had a music shop in Hollywood and he took out an advert in the L.A. free press a few weeks later to advertise the new Bartell Fretless models, saying George got the first one.
Richard Bennet (Neil Diamond, Mark Knopfler, guitarist) worked for Al and was mentored by him. He remembers Al telling him of the fretless guitar they gave to George.
George took the Back to the U.K. where is was next seen at Abbey Road, where John Lennon played it during a radio with Kenny Everett on 6th June 1968. It stayed in the studio during the White Album recording sessions and was probably used on Happiness Is A Warm Gun and Helter Skelter. The guitar was serviced at Top Gear in SoHo in 1972, Mark Moffat confirms this. George kept the Bartell at Friar Park in his collection until 1985 when he gifted it to Ray Russell whilst recording for the film WATER.
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