OHNOTUSAGEN / Extra Texture Deep Dive

it's extra texture it's a good old-fashioned inner light tradition at this point that we start a season off a new chapter with a deep dive one two and one two three Towards the end of 1974, George was booked and busy, but also he was extremely exhausted.

Now, if you have heard our Dark Horse deep dive, we go into all the details about that period of his life, the tour.

It was a struggle for George, to say the least.

He had just finished off 45 shows to celebrate the release of that album and promoting his new music label.

Big up Dark Horse Records.

So the tour itself took a huge toll on George.

And his mind, his body was not in a good state here.

And honestly, I think the tour and the people around him, such as Olivia, Ravi and his father, were all holding him up, kind of trying to get him through these shows.

I don't know what a tour is like, but I can... imagine the adrenaline high like coming off that type of tour and trying to go back to normal life is is is wild especially

it was such it was a tour that was so divided yeah people that loved it were like going back night after night but the people and the critics that slated it it was it was it was very hot and cold there was no one that was just like yeah it was all right it was oh my god that was incredible or george Hang on.

That is an immense whiplash.

yeah and he even said himself when i got off the plane and back home i went into the garden and i was so relieved that was the nearest i got to a nervous breakdown i couldn't even go into the house so yeah like he he went through it his marriage ended with patty he was suffering from laryngitis and of course cocaine can't forget that little nugget so no one would blame him if he wanted a clean break from the industry after that like no one would be like saying you know get back out there if he was really he was really run down but he still had one album to make under his contract with apple The fact that he couldn't even release on his own label is

wild to me.

Because the Beatles dissolved, there's that clip of him and Paul finishing the Beatles, but he's still got a contractual obligation to release an album on Apple.

Which I really think you can kind of also hear that on this album.

You can hear it's just him trying to get through it to complete the contract.

So, yeah.

And this album is a result of all of the suffering that George has been through.

I mean, from 1970, yeah, from when the Beatles woke up in 69 all the way up to 75, it's that whole catalogue.

And the fragments of this album go all the way back to 71.

It does feel a bit like George is kind of stringing from everywhere and there's a lot of emotions old and new.

Obviously you have them looking forward with people like Olivia and there's still a lot of optimism in this album but you can't negate the tracks from when it goes back a bit further and he's reliving that trauma.

It's got a bit of everything.

And I think that is what makes it such a standout with his solo albums.

Frankly, it's one of the most overlooked as well.

it's extra texture it's a good old-fashioned inner light tradition at this point that we start a season off a new chapter with a deep dive one two and one two three Towards the end of 1974, George was booked and busy, but also he was extremely exhausted.

Now, if you have heard our Dark Horse deep dive, we go into all the details about that period of his life, the tour.

It was a struggle for George, to say the least.

He had just finished off 45 shows to celebrate the release of that album and promoting his new music label.

Big up Dark Horse Records.

So the tour itself took a huge toll on George.

And his mind, his body was not in a good state here.

And honestly, I think the tour and the people around him, such as Olivia, Ravi and his father, were all holding him up, kind of trying to get him through these shows.

I don't know what a tour is like, but I can... imagine the adrenaline high like coming off that type of tour and trying to go back to normal life is is is wild especially

it was such it was a tour that was so divided yeah people that loved it were like going back night after night but the people and the critics that slated it it was it was it was very hot and cold there was no one that was just like yeah it was all right it was oh my god that was incredible or george Hang on.

That is an immense whiplash.

yeah and he even said himself when i got off the plane and back home i went into the garden and i was so relieved that was the nearest i got to a nervous breakdown i couldn't even go into the house so yeah like he he went through it his marriage ended with patty he was suffering from laryngitis and of course cocaine can't forget that little nugget so no one would blame him if he wanted a clean break from the industry after that like no one would be like saying you know get back out there if he was really he was really run down but he still had one album to make under his contract with apple The fact that he couldn't even release on his own label is

wild to me.

Because the Beatles dissolved, there's that clip of him and Paul finishing the Beatles, but he's still got a contractual obligation to release an album on Apple.

Which I really think you can kind of also hear that on this album.

You can hear it's just him trying to get through it to complete the contract.

So, yeah.

And this album is a result of all of the suffering that George has been through.

I mean, from 1970, yeah, from when the Beatles woke up in 69 all the way up to 75, it's that whole catalogue.

And the fragments of this album go all the way back to 71.

It does feel a bit like George is kind of stringing from everywhere and there's a lot of emotions old and new.

Obviously you have them looking forward with people like Olivia and there's still a lot of optimism in this album but you can't negate the tracks from when it goes back a bit further and he's reliving that trauma.

It's got a bit of everything.

And I think that is what makes it such a standout with his solo albums.

Frankly, it's one of the most overlooked as well.