<P> Harrison collaborated with Tom Scott on Scott's album New York Connection (1976), and in 1981 he played guitar on "Walk a Thin Line", from Mick Fleetwood's The Visitor . In 1996 he recorded "Distance Makes No Difference With Love" with Carl Perkins, and played slide guitar on the title track of Dylan's Under the Red Sky album . In 2001 he performed as a guest musician on Jeff Lynne and Electric Light Orchestra's comeback album Zoom, and on the song "Love Letters" for Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings . He also co-wrote a new song with his son Dhani, "Horse to the Water", which was recorded on 1 October, eight weeks before his death . It appeared on Jools Holland's album Small World, Big Band . </P> <P> During the Beatles' American tour in August 1965, Harrison's friend David Crosby of the Byrds introduced him to Indian classical music and the work of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar . Harrison described Shankar as "the first person who ever impressed me in my life...and he was the only person who didn't try to impress me ." Harrison became fascinated with the sitar and immersed himself in Indian music . According to Lavezzoli, Harrison's introduction of the instrument on the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood" "opened the floodgates for Indian instrumentation in rock music, triggering what Shankar would call' The Great Sitar Explosion' of 1966--67". Lavezzoli recognises Harrison as "the man most responsible for this phenomenon". </P> <P> In June 1966 Harrison met Shankar at the home of Mrs Angadi of the Asian Music Circle, asked to be his student, and was accepted . Before this meeting, Harrison had recorded his Revolver track "Love You To", contributing a sitar part that Lavezzoli describes as an "astonishing improvement" over "Norwegian Wood" and "the most accomplished performance on sitar by any rock musician". On 6 July, Harrison travelled to India to buy a sitar from Rikhi Ram & Sons in New Delhi . In September, following the Beatles' final tour, he returned to India to study sitar for six weeks with Shankar . He initially stayed in Bombay until fans learned of his arrival, then moved to a houseboat on a remote lake in Kashmir . During this visit, he also received tutelage from Shambhu Das, Shankar's protégé . </P> <P> Harrison studied the instrument until 1968, when, following a discussion with Shankar about the need to find his "roots", an encounter with Clapton and Hendrix at a hotel in New York convinced him to return to guitar playing . Harrison commented: "I decided...I'm not going to be a great sitar player...because I should have started at least fifteen years earlier ." Harrison continued to use Indian instrumentation occasionally on his solo albums and remained strongly associated with the genre . Lavezzoli groups him with Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel as the three rock musicians who have given the most "mainstream exposure to non-Western musics, or the concept of' world music"'. </P>

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