ROOM · SPN · GEORGE HARRISON · 1970
I'd Have You Anytime
Side A, track one. The first sound on the record. Before the wall of sound, before the flood — two minutes fifty-seven seconds of someone opening the door.
Dylan and Harrison wrote it together in Woodstock in the autumn of 1968 — Dylan teaching Harrison a gentler way in. Harrison placed it first because it lands like a hand on a shoulder before three hours of everything else that follows on the album.
Let me roll it to you. That's the second verse. Spector's production is almost restrained here — close guitar, close voice, a prologue that already knows the weight of what comes next. All Things Must Pass earned its long shadow. This earned the quiet before it.
