| Duane Eddy - The Trembler [Album Version] | Details |
"Jeff is featured on 3 tracks [of Duane Eddy] - The Trembler, Theme For Something Really Important (on which he plays keyboards and synthesizers, and Rockabilly Holiday, on which he plays rhythm guitar, drums, bass and synthesizers (phew!). The LP, called Duane Eddy (CAPITOL EST-2034), didn't unfortunately chart." Andrew Whiteside (1987 - Face The Music fanzine #3) "One of the resulting songs [of the Duane Eddy sessions with Jeff Lynne], The Trembler came from a melody George [Harrison] hummed for Duane, a figure written by Ravi Shankar. Duane wrote a rocking middle section, resulting in one of the strangest-bedfellows composer credits in rock history, 'Shankar-Eddy.'" "According to Eddy and Jeff Lynne, [George] Harrison (though not credited) helped Lynne produce Theme For Something Really Important and The Trembler. The Trembler had the unusual co-authorship of Shankar/Eddy. In an interview in the November 1987 issue of Guitar Player magazine, Harrison recounted that Ravi Shankar had made a tape of the basic melody some years earlier. Harrison played the tape for Lynne and the two decided to simplify the song before Eddy added his part. Eddy remembers Harrison humming the melody to him and then writing the bridge creating the Shankar/Eddy collaboration that he says pleased Harrison immensely." "Duane Eddy was at Friar Park (on January 30 and February 5, 1987). He recorded The Trembler and Theme For Something Really Important for his forthcoming eponymous Capitol LP with George and Jeff during the January session." "George is featured on the [Duane Eddy] tracks Theme For Something Really Important and The Trembler. [...] [1987:] Together with Jeff Lynne, [George] co-produced and played slide guitar on The Trembler and Theme For Something Really Important tracks on the album Duane Eddy. [...] ...track twelve [of the Nobody's Child - Romanian Angel Appeal album] was the Duane Eddy number The Trembler, recorded at George's Friar Park Studio, with George playing slide guitar." "One of the most exotic features of the Duane Eddy album is one of the Harrison collaborations, The Trembler, band on a fragment of [a] Ravi Shankar melody once heard by Harrison. Given a soupcon of Duane, the world's most unlikely writing credit was born-- 'Shankar-Eddy'. That The Trembler mixed Caratic (a school or style of south Indian classical music) tones and Eddy's chunky-tremelo sound with an archepycal Jim Horn rock 'n' roll solo was curious enough. With the raga tone of Harrison's slide added, the result is a notable concoction." "The Trembler is brilliant, with interesting (Duane Eddy - Ravi Shankar) composer credits. When George [Harrison] was studying sitar with Ravi Shankar he began to compose for the instrument. As a sort of 'quid pro quo' Ravi tried his hand at writing guitar instrumentals! George always remembered some elements of what became The Trembler. He played it to Jeff and Duane and everyone loved it. Duane developed the track further, finished it off and it went on the album." "In 1987 he produced three tracks on an eponymous album by Duane Eddy: Rockabilly Holiday, Theme For Something Really Important, and The Trembler, recorded during sessions which also featured Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Steve Cropper on guitar, and Jim Keltner on drums. But these were only the forerunners of much greater things." "[The Trembler] was through George Harrison. You know, George was... he hummed this little melody for me and he says, 'Ravi showed me this.' And he says, 'I think it's... I think that one note is the greatest note I've ever heard.' The weird note, you know. [Hums the melody.] The last note, George says, 'The greatest note I've ever heard!' He just loved it. And he loved the idea of putting two of his heroes together, Ravi and me. Sweet, sweet man." | |
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