A little something I came across... George Harrisons recollection of how he and Eric Clapton wrote the song Badge. From the Remembering George Harrison Facebook page. Remembering Jack Bruce - 1943 - 2014 George Harrisons re-counting of the evolution of the Cream song Badge - Let me see - I wrote most of the words, Eric had the bridge, definitely, and he had the first couple of chord changes. He called me up and said, Look,were doing this last album, and weve each got to have our song by Monday. I finished the verses off, and he had the middle bit already,and I think I wrote most of the words to the whole song - although he was there, and we bounced off of each other. The storys getting a bit tired now, but I was writing the words down, and when we came to the middle bit I wrote Bridge: And from where he was sitting, opposite me, he looked and said, Whats that - Badge? So he called it Badge because it made him laugh. It sounds as much like a Beatles song. On the record Eric doesnt play guitar up until that bridge.He sat through it with his guitar in the Leslie (rotating speaker), and I think Felix somebody (Pappalardi) was the piano player. So there was Felix, Jack Bruce, (drummer) Ginger Baker, and me-I played the rhythm chops -and we played the song right up to the bridge, at which point Eric came in on the guitar with the Leslie. And then he overdubbed the solo later - George Harrison
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:21:01 +0000