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    SOUNDING BOARD

    Nov 02, 2021 4 minutes

    Cheech & Chong & George

    hanks for the George Harrison cover [September 2021]. I’ll add a Harrison studio performance that I’ve never seen mentioned anywhere: “Basketball Jones” by Cheech & Chong. Before you laugh, go to YouTube and listen. Yes, that’s none other than George Harrison playing that slinky, tone-drenched riff. It sounds like he’s playing a Strat through a Leslie — and it sounds incredible. I’m a longtime subscriber (I have every tab magazine going as far back as 1983 — all the way through to and ), and I owe a debt to every transcriber, because I would never have made it this far in playing ability. Thank you for keeping alive and kicking with

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