{"id":639600,"date":"2026-04-30T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:26:09","slug":"robben-ford-recalls-what-it-was-like-jamming-with-george-harrison-in-the-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/639600\/","title":{"rendered":"Robben Ford recalls what it was like jamming with George Harrison in the 70s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guitar multi-hyphenate Robben Ford<\/a> has been looking back on what it was like to jam with George Harrison<\/a> in the 1970s, and by his account, things were very rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n

Ford has worked with a wide span of huge artists, including Joni Mitchell<\/a>, KISS<\/a>, Bob Dylan,<\/a> and Harrison, who Ford would later tour with in 1974 for Harrison\u2019s Dark Horse tour. Their first encounter occurred earlier in that very same year though, when Ford was touring with Mitchell.<\/p>\n

In the new print issue of Classic Rock<\/a>, Ford recounts, \u201cI was touring with Joni Mitchell, and we did two shows in London in 1974. I\u2019m hanging out backstage, and I turn around and standing before me is the album cover to All Things Must Pass [Harrison\u2019s first post-Beatles solo album and third studio release overall] \u2013 you know, he had the hair, hat, gardening boots, big plaid coat.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext day, the whole band, including Joni, went out to his place in Henley-on-Thames. We got there about one in the afternoon. George was still asleep. At about four, he came into the kitchen, smoking a Gauloises, making tea \u2013 he only drank Typhoo.<\/p>\n

He continues, \u201cJoni finally split, and at one in the morning the band all went up to the studio. Everyone had been drinking, smoking something, snorting something. So we\u2019re all set up in the studio, and there\u2019s a shelf running along all four walls of the control room, with a box of cocaine on every shelf. So if you felt like it, you just popped over, had a little toot and continued. And we did that until the sun came up.\u201d<\/p>\n

After releasing a number of solo albums, Harrison joined band again in 1988, when he co-founded supergroup the Traveling Wilburys<\/a>. The group consisted of Harrison, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty<\/a>, and came together as a result of Harrison and Lynne dreaming up a new band during the sessions for Harrison\u2019s 1987 album Cloud Nine.<\/p>\n

In a 2007 Uncut interview, Lynne said: \u201cWe were three-quarters of the way through Cloud Nine, and every night, as we were relaxing with a few drinks after mixing a big epic or whatever, George and I had the same conversation: \u2018We could have a group, you know?\u2019 \u2018Yeah, we could.\u2019 He didn\u2019t like the idea of being a solo guy \u2013 that\u2019s what he told me. He was never comfortable with it. He wanted a group, and, of course, George could do anything he wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guitar multi-hyphenate Robben Ford has been looking back on what it was like to jam with George Harrison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1896,49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-639600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-artist","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}