George Harrison & Bob Dylan “If Not For You” Concert For Bangladesh Rehearsal, July 31, 1971.

The way bob dylan awkwardly half-waves when he comes on stage. dylarrison is literally awkwardgirl4awkwardgirl

“I’d Have You Anytime” by George Harrison and Bob Dylan

George Harrison visiting Bob Dylan, Sara Lownds, and Robbie Robertson near Woodstock, NY (November of 1968). In Bob’s home, he and George wrote “I’d Have You Anytime”.

George on writing with Bob:

George “I liked ‘I’d Have You Anytime’ because of Bob Dylan. I was with Bob and he had gone through his broken neck period and was being very quiet, and he didn’t have much confidence. That’s the feeling I got with him in Woodstock. He hardly said a word for a couple of days. Anyway, we finally got the guitars out and it loosened things up a bit. It was really a nice time with his kids all around, and we were just playing. It was near Thanksgiving. He sang me that song and he was very nervous and shy and he said 'What do you think about this song?’ And I felt strongly about Bob when I had been in India years before, the only record I took with me along with all my Indian records was Blonde on Blonde. I somehow got very close to him, you know, because he was so great, so heavy and observant about everything. And yet, to find him later very nervous and with no confidence. But the thing he said on Blonde on Blonde about what price you have to pay to get out of going through all things twice, 'Oh mama, can this really be the end.’ And I thought, 'Isn’t it great?’ because I know people are going to think, 'Shit, what’s Dylan doing?’ But as far as I was concerned, it was great for him to realise his own peace and it meant something. You know, he had always been so hard and I thought, 'A lot of people are not going to like this,’ but I think it’s fantastic because Bob has obviously had the experience. I was saying to him, 'You write incredible lyrics,’ and he was saying, 'How do you write those tunes?’ So I was just showing him chords like crazy, and I was saying, 'Come on, write me some words,’ and he was scribbling words down and it just killed me because he had been doing all these sensational lyrics. And he wrote, 'All I have is yours, All you see is mine, And I’m glad to hold you in my arms, I’d have you anytime.’ The idea of Dylan writing something, like, so very simple, was amazing to me.”

(‘The Beatles: Off The Record 2 - The Dream is Over’, Keith Badman)

I’d Have You Anytime was started in Woodstock - I was invited by The Band. It was Thanksgiving time… I was hanging in his house, with him, Sara and his kids. He seemed very nervous and I felt a little uncomfortable - it seemed strange especially as he was in his own home. Anyway, on about the third day we got the guitars out and then things loosened up and I was saying to him 'Write me some words’, and thinking of all this: 'Johnnie’s in the basement, mixing up the medicine’, type of thing and he was saying 'Show me some chords. How do you get those tunes?’ I started playing chords, like major sevenths, diminisheds and augmenteds and the song appeared as I played the opening chord (G major 7th) and then moved the chords shape up the guitar neck (B flat Major 7th). The first thing I thought was: 'Let me in here/I know I’ve been here/Let me into your heart’. I was saying to Bob 'Come on, write some words’. He wrote the bridge: 'All I have is yours/All you see is mine/And I’m glad to hold you in my arms/I’d have you anytime.’ Beautiful. And that was that.

(‘I, Me, Mine’, George Harrison)

George Harrison & Bob Dylan “If Not For You” Concert For Bangladesh rehearsal, July 31, 1971.

um. george snoopy and bob woodstock peace and love on planet earth.............inspired by this post

George Harrison during Robert Whitaker's Yesterday and Today photo session | 25 March 1966 © Leslie Bryce

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The thing about I'd have you anytime and behind that locked door is that both songs started with george trying to get to bob. He started I'd have you anytime with "let me in here, I know I've been here, let me into your heart" bc bob was distant in that trip to woodstock. Behind that locked door is an entire song with a similar idea but he also wants to show to bob that he is loved by everyone ("the love you are blessed with this/world is waiting for") and by george himself ("with only this short time/I'm gonna be here with you") and also how much george loves to listen to him ("and the tales you've told me/from the things that you saw/makes me want our your heart"). And then on the concert for bangladesh when bob goes there and play in the concert he is basically opening himself to that possibility, yknow??? And when George says "I'd like to bring an old friend of us all, Mr Bob Dylan" he is reinforcing those ideas he mentioned on behind that locked door, that Bob is loved by everyone, but he does it in a much bigger scale somehow

George Harrison in the Beatles’ suite at the Tokyo Hilton, Tokyo, Japan, photographed by Asai Shimpei. (June 30th?, 1966)

The Beatles during the filming of Magical Mystery Tour | September 1967