Ravi Shankar on The Sitar's Association With Drugs | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • @utsavrocks100
    @utsavrocks100 5 років тому +317

    "I like to put them in a high, but i feel cheated when they are already high". Hahaha

  • @doydivision3984
    @doydivision3984 4 роки тому +117

    What a cool guy. Ravi Shankar will definitely go down as one of the greatest musicians of all time!

  • @gdg1963
    @gdg1963 3 роки тому +124

    Classical Indian music is beautiful in itself, no drugs needed. 👳

  • @76jmlaw
    @76jmlaw 3 роки тому +27

    I know this is just a slice of the times, but it is amazing to think of this interview within the context of today's talk shows...

  • @2flyabove
    @2flyabove 5 років тому +66

    Entertaining interview. A real time capsule.

  • @jojoexperience
    @jojoexperience 4 роки тому +52

    Rest in peace Shankar sir

  • @BeatlesFan1975
    @BeatlesFan1975 Рік тому +9

    What an interesting time to be young....
    Would have loved to be young when the Beatles were popular

  • @thedinoking1335
    @thedinoking1335 5 років тому +89

    "I learned a lot of things from the lennons"
    I'm weak

    • @namaste91
      @namaste91 4 роки тому +11

      adultery and wife beating? 🤪😆🤣

    • @BeatlesFan1975
      @BeatlesFan1975 Рік тому +1

      ​@@namaste91 no. You can't judge anyone, certainly not John Lennon

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 Рік тому +1

      @@BeatlesFan1975 What's this? One can easily observe certain realities and facts which naturally lead to certain conclusions, even though it was clearly undertaken with humor in the above comment. Many expressions and opinions are partly based on a person living in a FREE SOCIETY to utilize their own outlook and the manner in which they relate their ideas and concerns to others. Something which you are wholeheartedly disagreeing with here. Understand, while you may not appreciate that, using sarcasm is not necessarily a qualification for harshly judging someone; your supposedly moralistic condemnation originates from your limiting observable viewpoint. With those types of authoritative statements, basically ordering people that 'you can't judge anyone' or remotely criticize anything negative about them, you are attempting to coerce others to fall into your own trap by making your own hypocritical judgements on their behavior as well. Normally, people make minor decisions with critical thinking all the time, and surely it would be a less orderly or interesting world if it were avoided altogether. In other words, look to your own backyard. Sorry for the diatribe, but I get sick of these unfair random attacks on someone's integrity. How about, there is no such sentence as 'no.' That is a constructive criticism whether you like it or not.

  • @GodWeenSatan
    @GodWeenSatan 5 років тому +72

    That tie is the size of another shirt

  • @gregschannel4918
    @gregschannel4918 4 роки тому +20

    Ravi lived in my hometown Encinitas Ca . George would come to Encinitas to visit Ravi .

    • @martindegaard1444
      @martindegaard1444 2 роки тому +1

      What is your personal experience with the music of Ravi

    • @mallikaguha5694
      @mallikaguha5694 10 місяців тому

      Ravi Shankar's music has divine energy.

  • @petercollin5670
    @petercollin5670 4 роки тому +66

    Imagine the raga class with everyone constantly checking their phones.

    • @Luigi_Mario_1997
      @Luigi_Mario_1997 4 роки тому +7

      Your imagination is far from the real thing.

  • @varunpandey1484
    @varunpandey1484 4 роки тому +45

    He would have been 100 years old this year

  • @flashflame4952
    @flashflame4952 10 місяців тому +1

    I was at the Concert for BanglaDesh...what an incredible concert for such a good cause at that time.

  • @spinny369
    @spinny369 2 роки тому +5

    I feel as if the reason why they’re intertwined with eachother is because a lot of Indian culture involves the soul (if im not mistaken), and drugs are sometimes considered to be a journey into the “inner soul”.

  • @YogeshRana-fg8jr
    @YogeshRana-fg8jr 4 роки тому +39

    Today I got to know that He could sing as well 😳😳

    • @edwardkumarkenway1875
      @edwardkumarkenway1875 4 роки тому +1

      Boom

    • @BlackMambo5
      @BlackMambo5 4 роки тому +10

      Of course he could. Most all indian classical music artists get some kind of vocal training, it's essential in a way.

  • @joaopeste4595
    @joaopeste4595 4 роки тому +11

    Great musicians! Fantastic!

  • @Allan-et5ig
    @Allan-et5ig Рік тому +4

    I have seen a photograph of Shankar, Peter Sellers and George at a Disneyland closed down just for them - surely in exchange for lots of $$.
    Ravi may have been anti-drug but he wasn't anti-fun and he wasn't really anti-materialism, I don't think.
    My mom had East Meets West which I played constantly - great music from a great artist. Astounding virtuosity.

  • @scottmasson3039
    @scottmasson3039 2 роки тому +2

    Random Kalamazoo shout-out from Ravi. Sweet!

  • @marianjones6193
    @marianjones6193 10 місяців тому

    I can relate to what he is saying about having a clear mind when you go into the concert as for sure you will be high when you come out. I have experienced this after several of Ravi's concerts and it is for real. Ron Jones.

  • @johnnyd63
    @johnnyd63 3 роки тому +31

    George Harrison said he felt that Ravi was the best musician on the planet.No wonder he looked at western pop music as a joke.

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 Рік тому +1

      Only a different type of music - yet not to the extreme extent of most awful rap with its juvenile sounds, pretentious attitudes and criminal associations. Of course, as he was well aware, a large part of Shankar's fame was achieved through his connection with popular pop and rock musicians.

  • @mwmingram
    @mwmingram 5 років тому +10

    That looks like the clifftop at Esalen. [Edit: Yes Ravi confirms this - from the film "Raga"]

  • @sanchitasishodiar2619
    @sanchitasishodiar2619 2 роки тому +1

    Wow.. great time 🎵🌹🌹🧿🧿

  • @2muchtv
    @2muchtv 2 роки тому +2

    I've always associates indian music with very long car rides. my parents came to the usa with a case of bollywood tapes. when we lose local stations they got to play their indian tapes.

  • @ChintanPandya01
    @ChintanPandya01 3 роки тому +49

    Funny how the Western ignorance and shallowness always tries to bring everything down to the carnal "pleasure" of drugs and sex, and music as entertainment. When the music such as that of the sitar and of the hindustani classical music itself is one of the most refined, ancient and complex forms of art the world has ever seen. Each tune being a sound closest to god. It's much more beautiful than getting high, it's transcendence...a prayer of the universe.

    • @vishnur9852
      @vishnur9852 2 роки тому

      God lol.feck GwOD

    • @supraguy4694
      @supraguy4694 2 роки тому +6

      The thing is, when it comes to the "drug" connection, they're mostly referring to psychedelics which themselves can provide a very deep and spiritual experience. There are new connections in the mind formed and much introspection, making for what can most certainly be a transcendental experience.
      Psychedelics such as mushrooms and ayahuasca have been used by various cultures for thousands of years, and are very different from typical drugs. They aren't about carnal pleasure, but a way of getting in touch with ones own soul, and that's why their experiences are often paired with spiritual and transcendental music.

    • @BeatlesFan1975
      @BeatlesFan1975 Рік тому +1

      Whatever

    • @elijahthesage8510
      @elijahthesage8510 Рік тому

      @@BeatlesFan1975 shhhh

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 Рік тому

      @@supraguy4694 They can be used in both ways.

  • @dfb1976
    @dfb1976 Рік тому +1

    Gold ❤

  • @RF_HS28280
    @RF_HS28280 2 роки тому +3

    My grandfather ravi Shankar

  • @sanjaymiketangoburagohain1296
    @sanjaymiketangoburagohain1296 4 роки тому +6

    Guruji Indian music needs you

  • @yagyatrips
    @yagyatrips 2 роки тому +2

    He is enlightened already no need to get high

  • @sowjanyarao8348
    @sowjanyarao8348 3 місяці тому

    Ravi Shankar swag

  • @utsavrocks100
    @utsavrocks100 5 років тому +17

    This was in 1971

  • @manishaviator
    @manishaviator 9 місяців тому +1

    This video is just one year prior to SHOLAY released in 1972. THINK about it

  • @karoshabudhram8219
    @karoshabudhram8219 3 роки тому +39

    I get disgusted when westerners think the sitar is a drug thing . This ancient instrument is thousands of years old played by a goddess.

    • @ritiksharma2544
      @ritiksharma2544 3 роки тому +14

      Is that goddess saraswati? cos if she is, then my friend you are wrong saraswati veena and sitar are two different instruments...just research a bit...

    • @tripmonk0
      @tripmonk0 3 роки тому +8

      Saraswati Maa sits with the South Indian VEENA, NEVER a sitar. The sitar, in its present form, is less than 2 centuries old !!!

    • @naveengokarla9518
      @naveengokarla9518 3 роки тому +4

      @@tripmonk0 sitar is not that modern
      It is from medivial times

    • @illusionary5951
      @illusionary5951 3 роки тому +1

      Thats ok I dont like the music to begin with goddess or no goddess

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 3 роки тому +3

    I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos on YT.

  • @epicaffairs
    @epicaffairs Рік тому +1

    India's culture leads to Almighty! Hail To India!

  • @josephgodfrey8468
    @josephgodfrey8468 5 років тому +22

    Timothy Leary and other folks had NO LANGUAGE to describe the ""psychedelic experience". And, in order to supplement the deficiencies of standard English, they looked up words in other languages, especially Hindic. Probably, they got the meanings wrong....

  • @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv
    @FlyingNazgul-wm1dv 4 роки тому

    Great Shankar
    ¡¡With Paco!!

  • @spacemissing
    @spacemissing 10 місяців тому +1

    HIndustani music itself is intoxicating. No chemicals should Ever be added.

  • @fruitcake4t
    @fruitcake4t 2 роки тому +1

    did ravi play the one sitar all his life?

  • @dreadfulspiller8766
    @dreadfulspiller8766 5 років тому +11

    Cool video but what's the deal with the date of this not shown?

  • @sanjaymiketangoburagohain1296
    @sanjaymiketangoburagohain1296 4 роки тому +22

    The one dislike might be from a EDM person

    • @rebruisinginart2419
      @rebruisinginart2419 4 роки тому +6

      the beatles too were considered shallow musicians in their time, you dont have to put another genre down to respect some other

    • @joez6235
      @joez6235 4 роки тому +3

      Indian music is very well respected among electronic musicians

    • @johannsebastianbach108
      @johannsebastianbach108 2 роки тому

      @@rebruisinginart2419 they were not lol, where did you get that misinformation lol?

    • @freddyturner2063
      @freddyturner2063 Рік тому

      @rebruisinginart2419 But he’s right untalented crap is untalented crap anybody can push a few buttons these days and call it music to each their own sure but edm is terrible no thought process whatsoever at least the Beatles play actual instruments

  • @Jadadam654-w3u
    @Jadadam654-w3u Рік тому +1

    Is it just me or is Alan watts sitting in the back of that video clip

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 Рік тому

      We all know Watts never experienced hallucinogens. Lol.

  • @stevejames5863
    @stevejames5863 3 роки тому +6

    i think probably...sitar music is more about hindu mysticism...or the idea of the infinite etc..so on...

  • @VijayKumar-wo4qs
    @VijayKumar-wo4qs 3 роки тому +41

    Am I the only one who feels some kind of rudeness in interviewer’s style of asking questions?

    • @bomsukim8463
      @bomsukim8463 3 роки тому +7

      That was dick yeah raw and crude

    • @davids454
      @davids454 3 роки тому +2

      I'm surprised but absolutely. I believe Cavett plays an instrument and is knowledgeable about music.

    • @illusionary5951
      @illusionary5951 3 роки тому +2

      Ahem it was 1971 before all you woke ppl were born get over yourselves alrdy

    • @Amor_fati.Memento_Mori
      @Amor_fati.Memento_Mori 2 роки тому +1

      He was being honest in what he thinks.

    • @ZenFox0
      @ZenFox0 2 роки тому +2

      I don’t think it was his intent to be rude, but he was too eager to ask ignorant questions with the aim of keeping the discussion moving, rather than listen to Ravi and George, and learn about why they made the Raga film, and what they hoped to accomplish by sharing it. If he had truly listened and expounded upon what was shared, it would have been a more fruitful interview.

  • @Kunal_manral
    @Kunal_manral 7 днів тому

    The two greatest of all time

  • @rudralifeandfitness
    @rudralifeandfitness 29 днів тому

    How do people trust these artists as great..they expressed there dark thoughts through their music and people took it lifes truth...

  • @Pscotto
    @Pscotto Рік тому +2

    Ravi Shankar is Norah Jones' Dad.

  • @peterlustig4047
    @peterlustig4047 5 років тому +12

    Who is this George?

  • @tappeywrap
    @tappeywrap Місяць тому

    Man i feel this world has gone really
    Downwards these days

  • @SVR811
    @SVR811 3 роки тому +18

    The interviewer is being a real jerk all throughout the interview. Ravi shankar did really well replying with tact and calmness

    • @ayanmukherjee333
      @ayanmukherjee333 3 роки тому +1

      I mean come on, his name is Dick!

    • @illusionary5951
      @illusionary5951 3 роки тому +9

      No he wasnt he was doing his job which was ? Geez dude lighten up different time different place hold up on the SJ diatribe

    • @theelectricant98
      @theelectricant98 Рік тому

      Dick was fine

  • @7rajcan
    @7rajcan Рік тому +2

    Why you need drugs.. when indian classical music is playing you already close to almighty

    • @alwilson3204
      @alwilson3204 Рік тому

      Obviously you have never experienced both or you wouldn't have asked.

  • @SalMichaelC
    @SalMichaelC 11 місяців тому

    Honestly I didn't know that George was a devote cocainomane, acid and alcohol user. I imagined that he used lsd but the rest no. He even got hepatitis!

  • @taavishivaid1637
    @taavishivaid1637 4 місяці тому

    Internet People, in the clip where he's sitting with a bunch of white folks and singing with them- is the woman singing in the red sari Lakshmi Sankar by any chance?

  • @nofacemonster
    @nofacemonster 11 місяців тому

    Indian music associated with drugs? dude, then what about all the heavy stuff that plays in the west? Hindu kush or hindu music?

  • @js913
    @js913 Місяць тому

    He wasted the sitar guru sishya flow so that he get more fame. His wife was much much better than him. But wasted her talent too