Dhani Harrison and the Wu Tang Clan clear up the confusion!

Hello

There has been some slight confusion over the Wu Tang Clan collaboration with Dhani ...

As reported here correctly on the 13th September, the track is an interpolation of the George Harrison penned 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps' .... and NOT a sample from it, which is what several media sources have been suggesting for a couple of days ...

In order to satisfy everyones curiosity Wu Tang Clan have made it possible for their version of the track - correctly titled 'The Heart Gently Weeps' to be exclusively streamed at http://www.loud.com/ today!
It will be the first single and video from the album '8 Diagrams' which is scheduled for release on December 4th.

There has also been some confusion as to what Dhani actually collaborated on the track. Some media sources were suggesting guitar, others were stating that it was the drums!!

Dhani Harrison had this to say when approached by MTV.com to clarify the details ....

"EMI freaked out about this whole thing, but it's less about a major corporation talking to another major corporation, it's more like two friends — RZA and myself — talking about working together," Dhani Harrison said. "[The RZA] asked me to see if he could use the song, which is owned by us [the Harrison Estate], and we said yes. It's not the original master — they've never been cleared — but the song is used compositionally.
"I play a bit of guitar on it, John Frusciante played some guitar too, and Erykah is on there," he continued. "I haven't heard the final version, but whatever capacity the RZA wants to use all of those parts in, I'm sure he will."

Meanwhile, the Wu Tang Clan were full of appologies and had this to say ...

"The statement on Wu-Tang Clan's myspace site is incorrect and we apologize for any confusion it may have caused. We did not sample the Beatles, rather we did an interpolation of the classic George Harrison composition 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.' In a historic collaboration, Dhani Harrison, son of George, through his friendship with the RZA, played guitar on the song and he himself helped secure the reuse license. Also appearing on the song are John Frusciante, guitar player for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Erykah Badu singing the chorus. To satisfy everyone's curiosity, the song will be streamed exclusively on loud.com tonight. It will be the first single and video from the forthcoming album 8 Diagrams, in stores December 4."

that's all for now ...

Be seeing you ..

Site update + Dhani and Wu Tang Clan reports ...

Hello everyone,

Further to my report mentioning the delay of the Wu Tang Clan's album being until 4th December, news articles are now circulating based on a report on the Wu Tang Clan's official website that the delay is to do with history being made and the magnitude of the sampled track 'While my Guitar Gently Weeps'.

The following is clipped from NMEcom ....

Wu-Tang Clan get clearance to use first-ever Beatles sample
Rap supergroup push back album release to 'make history'
02.Oct.07 11:43pm
Wu Tang Clan have announced that they've been given permission to use a sample of a song by The Beatles for the first time ever.The rap supergroup originally said that they were covering The Beatles' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' with George Harrison's son Dhani Harrison, as previously reported. Now the band have revealed that they've been given permission to use a sample of the song in their cover version.In a message posted today (October 2) on their website, the band wrote, "Special thanks to Danny [sic] Harrison & Erykah Badu for helping bring this song to life!! Also thanks to The Harrison Estate & The Beatles for helping make this possible!!"The band also said that they're pushing back the release date of their new album, '8 Diagrams', from November 13 to December 4 "due to the magnitude of the sample and the History being made."

Website News
As promised earlier the gallery has been updated ....
27 images have been uploaded into the following folders today ....

1 image in 1987
1 image in 2002
3 images in 2003
20 images in 2004
1 image in 2005
1 image in 2006

That's all for now ...

Be seeing you ...

Longer to wait for Dhani and the Wu Tang Clan!

Hello everyone,

Longer to wait for Dhani and the Wu Tang Clan! ....

The Wu-Tang Clan have delayed the release of their album.
Their record company, SRC, will now release 8 Diagrams on 4th December instead of the original 13th November release date.

Also, I have posted a new article on the website
http://www.absolutelydhaniharrison.com/DhaniandtheWuTangClan.html

Be seeing you ...

Website Updates ~ 16th September.

Hello everyone,

A few more website updates to mention ....

News reports on Dhani's Wu Tang Clan collaboration are still continuing to surface .... and today I have added yet another article to the page 'Dhani and the Wu Tang Clan' in the site's media/articles section dated 10th September, 2007...

Also today, I have added 2 articles about Dhani from 31st October, 2002 and 1 article from 12th November, 2002 into the media/articles section .... all with similar subject matters.

Gallery Updates
The gallery was again updated on the 14th September
The 14 newly loaded images can be found in the following folders in the gallery.
2 images in 1992
1 image in 1998
1 image in 1999
1 image in 2000
6 images in 2004
3 images in 2005

http://www.absolutelydhaniharrison.com and click on the gallery tab ....

Forum Updates

Welcome to our newest forum member,
gnome.

... more later ....

BCingU

Dhani + Wu Tang Clan and more site updates.

Hello everyone,

The latest news on the Wu tang Clan and Dhani collaboration is that the album '8 Diagrams' will be released on 13th November via Wu Music Group/Loud/SRC/Universal. As mentioned previously, the track, titled "My People Gently Weeps" that Dhani has collaborated on is an interpolation of The Beatles' version of the George Harrison penned 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'.

Website Updates

36 more images have been added to the gallery ....

2 from 2000
30 from 2002
1 from 2004
3 from 2005

.... and 1 more track to the music player

More soon ....

BCingU

Catch-Up

Hello everyone,

Apologies for the lack of News Feed Updates but as you will see from the lists below I have been rather busy with the site ...

This particular news feed is to catch up on all the website and forum updates that have been added since the last news feed blog was posted.

Media Section Updates

15th August

.....updated with all the news articles regarding Dhani and the Wu Tang Clan collaboration...


16th August

.... added a further 8 articles of various content to the media/articles section
.... added 1 transcript to media/audio visual
.... added 2 video links to media/audio visual

17th August

.... updated thenewno2 page
.... updated Dhani bio slightly
.... added another Wu Tang Clan article in media/articles

18th August

.... 3 visual links added to to Media in the audio visual section

19th August

.... 6 more articles added to the media section

21st August

..... added another visual link to the media section

31st August

..... Two articles loaded into the media section

2nd September

......Added four articles to the media section

4th September

.... Added a new page to the site - 'Associates'
.... Updated the index page to include a link to the Associates page

.... In the Media - Articles section added another article regarding Dhani's Wu Tang Clan collaboration




And the gallery updates since the last feed.....

Photo Gallery updates

16th August

17 more images added to the gallery ....

1 image in 1979
2 images in 1987
6 images in 2002
2 images in 2003
3 images in 2004
1 image in 2005
2 images in 2006


18th August

16 more images added to the gallery....

2 in 2000
6 in 2002
2 in 2004
6 in 2005

31st August

..... Three exclusive images added to the gallery section

2nd September

16 images added to the gallery section ...
the 1990 ones are exclusive ...

2 images in 1988
4 images in 1990
6 images in 1991
2 images in 1992
1 image in 1994
1 image in 2002

4th September

....... Added 1 music track to the gallery player
and a further 9 images to the gallery

1 image in 1983
3 images in 2000
4 images in 2002
1 image in 2004

6th September

18 images uploaded into the gallery ....

1 image in 2000
2 images in 2004
15 images in 2005


...... to check the gallery go to www.absolutelydhaniharrison.com and click on the gallery tab.


New Forum Members

Last but not least a mention for the new members who have joined the forum since the last news feed blog was posted. They are :-

Omgoshdhani
Photograph
FPSHOT
Paola Harrison
Joyce


I think we've caught up with everything .....

More soon...

BCingU

More on Wu Tang Clan and Dhani

Hello everyone

Further to our breaking news in the feed from 28th July entitled 'Wu Tang Dhani!' we can now inform you of further developements in this story.

It would appear that the Wu Tang Clan have done a reworking of George Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' with Dhani also contributing to the track.

As reported by us earlier, the collaboration will be available on the Wu Tang Clan's next album '8 diagrams.'

Group member RZA has revealed that he called Dhani after hearing that he was a big fan of the group and asked for his approval on the reworking of the track and to invite him to the studio to take part. RZA said "He's the biggest Wu Tang Fan in the world. I told him I would be honoured if he played his father's song."

The Red Hot Chili Peppers star John Frusciante also joins Dhani and the group on the track.


More details as we get them..

BCingU....