Peter Frampton has a song on his new album where they use a Sitar Swami effect... not a sitar per se, but I like the sound it gives. I like While My Guitar Gently Weeps on that album, as well. I think I like it better than Harrison's... though I believe him and Clapton were involved with writing the song.
Yeah, I used to have the video for all of them playing it together on my old computer but it's gone now... I found it a long time ago. I love the Concert For George album... it has Anoushka Shankar on it in the beginning. Billy Preston was really great on disc 2. He's in Clapton's band now. I remember Chuck Leavell used to be with Clapton, I think on his Unplugged album. Chuck has played for the allmans/rolling stoned. Sgt. Pepper, I think, in Sgt. Pepper movie was also played by Billy Preston. He was really involved in the Beatles... He was arrested for having drugs and he kind of faded out for awhile. They used him on the Cadillac commercials and he joined Clapton and gained it back a little. Played at the Crossroads Festival there in Dallas. I wish I could have gone, but I was at a funeral.
AHAhhaha... I said stoned. Though that is true... I have le munchies right now too. Squash and some... noodle.. thingies.
Nathan, not exactly what you are looking for, but have I steered you wrong? see Fareed Haque's Cosmic Hug album He designed (built?) a suitar a guitar with the sitar drone.
thievery corporation have some wickedy wicked sitars in their music. Albumns like "the richest man in Babylon" and "the cosmic game" they are quite chilled, i don't know if you would call them rock as such but they are fantastic nontheless.
Kula Shaker are my favourite sitar-wielding rock band. and then there's The Rolling Stones' late '60s albums, George Harrison, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, John Cale with the Velvet Underground, etc etc
Tom petty "don't com around her no more" either has sitar coupled with synthesized sitar, or just the sythezized, i dont know which Joe Perry's self titled album has "Pray for Me"...im not sure if it is an acctual sitar, or just an effect...EDIT wait, i dont think there is even a sitar in this, i just think he uses some weird effects to give it an indian sound... and about Concert for George...Arpan is proboly one of the coolest indian grooves ever, specially with Clapton coming in near the end to wail on his acoustic...and if you want more classical indian stuff, "concerto for sitar and flute" by ravi shankar is brilliant
