Talk:Sitar in popular music

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I believe it is a tanpura not a sitar on Tomorrow Neven Knows. But I digress. Also, it is an electric sitar used on legal man by belle and sebastian, not a real sitar. R

[edit] Early use

You might want to start the 2nd paragraph with the Beatles references, since they used it before the Rolling Stones.

"The Inner Light" doesn't feature any sitar. It uses harmonium, shenai, sarod, tabla, pakavaj and flute, so I guess it should be removed from the list. It is not Ravi Shankar who plays sitar in Across the Universe. In fact, I don't think there's sitar on Across The Universe, just tamboura.

The same thing happens on "Tomorrow Never Knows". There's no sitar, only a tamboura.

The "Capitol Albums" reference should now be updated, as "Another Hard Day's Night" is included on Vol. 2 of the series.

George Harrion wasn't introduced to sitar by the Byrds, but rather while filming "Help!", there's a scene on an Indian restaurant, with musicians playing in the background. That's how George first saw the instrument and picked it up. Around the same time he started hearing of Ravi Shankar, bought one of his albums and got interested in indian music and culture. The wikipedia article for "Norwegian Wood" has the story in details, citing as its source The Beatles Anthology video documentary.

Max Mismetti (talk) 11:30, 26 April 2008 (UTC)