What's Really Going on inThis Song?
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Listen to the very beginning of Silly Love Songs, the part before Paul's base line starts. What do you think it is? I think it's Frankenstein dancing to the beat! LOL What say you? Any other ideas?
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I was just wondering that exact same thing after listening yesterday. I'm curious as to how they produced that sound. It always reminds me of something you might hear aboard a sea vessel--maybe because it sounds like an effect from Yellow Sub. Someone on another forum thought it was meant to be a factory sound---as in Paul's the love song factory.
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I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
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...a ball and chain.
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moptops:
...a ball and chain.
The wife?
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Bruce M.:
I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
1976 was a beautiful year. Both Elvis and Groucho were still with us.
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toris:
Bruce M.:
I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
1976 was a beautiful year. Both Elvis and Groucho were still with us.
And Paul sang a few more Wings songs in concert!
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oobu24:
toris:
Bruce M.:
I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
1976 was a beautiful year. Both Elvis and Groucho were still with us.
And Paul sang a few more Wings songs in concert!
With the best rock voice in the business!
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toris:
Bruce M.:
I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
1976 was a beautiful year. Both Elvis and Groucho were still with us.
...and Bing.
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We lost some big ones in '77, didn't we?
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In the new Archive reissue, there's a replica of a handwritten sheet of Paul's notes for the song. At the top it says: INTRO RIFF (MELLOTRON) (DOUBLE) I don't know if that means it was compiled out of presets that were already in the Mellotron, or if Paul put them in himself, but apparently that's how those sounds were played in order to record them. That's part of an answer anyway!
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audi:
We lost some big ones in '77, didn't we?
...and Marc Bolan...
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The first thought that came to me was an alien/robot walking... Similar to the beginning of Appreciate...
oobu24:
toris:
Bruce M.:
I read what it was once, around the time of the record's release. Forget the details, but I think it was a combination of sounds, perhaps partly involving a chain saw. It might have been in Rolling Stone's article on the Wings Over America tour, but I could be misremembering. 1976 was a while back, after all.
1976 was a beautiful year. Both Elvis and Groucho were still with us.
And Paul sang a few more Wings songs in concert!
And a few less Beatles songs...
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Paul's response to the critics who were saying he was "cranking out" silly love songs. The intro is the sound of an assembly line in a factory ready to crank out another one. Billy Joel paid homage to it in the beginning of his own Allentown video.
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JoeySmith:
Paul's response to the critics who were saying he was "cranking out" silly love songs. The intro is the sound of an assembly line in a factory ready to crank out another one. Billy Joel paid homage to it in the beginning of his own Allentown video.
Splendid pickup!
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moptops:
audi:
We lost some big ones in '77, didn't we?
...and Marc Bolan...
And to make it worse, my football side lost the Grand Final. A terrible year.
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And when it comes to absolute icons, Charlie Chaplin. A massive year was '77. Off-topic, I know.
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toris:
JoeySmith:
Paul's response to the critics who were saying he was "cranking out" silly love songs. The intro is the sound of an assembly line in a factory ready to crank out another one. Billy Joel paid homage to it in the beginning of his own Allentown video.
Splendid pickup!
Yes, cool story!
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It's a record pressing machine.
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Interesting... just saw a video and found out where the gold and sliver records originate !
