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Today George Harrison visited Ravi Shankar’s music school in L.A. with his wife, aide Neil Aspinall, and a Greek TV repairman.
Wait, what?
Yes, Magic Alex had somehow managed to tag along on this trip too. He’s like Zelig, except that he was often right there in the front of the picture, rather than lurking in the background.
But he didn’t make it into this shot, in which Shankar looks like he’s about two seconds away from bitch-slapping the presumptuous Beatle:
Or maybe that’s all in my mind. Ravi was a man of peace, after all. But still, you don’t touch another man’s sitar.
To paraphrase Sigmund Freud,”Sometimes a sitar is just a sitar.”
“you don’t touch another man’s sitar” sounds like the closing line in a stanza by psychedelic Johnny Cash.
Or the Indian Jim Croce.