Arles, 1972 / Nashville Sessions / Cold Cuts / WOAII – Cal76
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Wings in Arles France, 1972 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/THwtYFyS4kI/AAAAAAAAAQU/_-0ruWMRSrI/s320/arles73.jpg PM & Wings ? 1974 ? The Nashville Sessions http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/TK73FshTShI/AAAAAAAAAn0/HQOF-vi2IP0/s320/nashville.jpg PM ? Cold Cuts http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lM6DdeSiK9Q/TgXrTZTHksI/AAAAAAAACXA/8iSSBNGrvkc/s320/cold.jpg Wings Over America II ? 6/23/1976 ? Inglewood, California http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/THw1fr9VqGI/AAAAAAAAAQk/stEvZRX04o0/s320/wingsoveramerica.jpg Do people know about these? anyone want to discuss the ridiculous material on these bootlegs? The Waterspout on Cold Cuts is just amazing. That?s my new favorite song, can?t believe I never noticed that one before. I havn?t listened to much else, how ever the beginning of Arles is amazing. I caught that Paul introduces the song 1882 as ?this one is from our next LP?, which ended up not being the case.
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I have Cold Cuts and I LOVE IT! Waterspout is amazing. A Love for You is definitely my favorite on that one. Cage, Hey Diddle, Tragedy...it's just a great boot! I don't have the other three...PM for you!
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aakiboh:
I have Cold Cuts and I LOVE IT! Waterspout is amazing. A Love for You is definitely my favorite on that one. Cage, Hey Diddle, Tragedy...it's just a great boot! I don't have the other three...PM for you!
Yes I cannot wait to really listen to that Cold Cuts album. I'm stoked to listen to it all! I noticed there's a couple McGear tracks on the Nashville album. Its little Macca miracles like this that keep life exciting -
kapoo:
aakiboh:
I have Cold Cuts and I LOVE IT! Waterspout is amazing. A Love for You is definitely my favorite on that one. Cage, Hey Diddle, Tragedy...it's just a great boot! I don't have the other three...PM for you!
Yes I cannot wait to really listen to that Cold Cuts album. I'm stoked to listen to it all! I noticed there's a couple McGear tracks on the Nashville album. Its little Macca miracles like this that keep life exciting I 100% agree! I feel like people are always asking me how I listen to his music so much and don't get bored. Well, aside from the fact that his output is so diverse that I don't think I'd ever get bored...I'm still discovering new songs! Some months ago I got a bunch of boots and discovered some serious, serious jams! Good Sign has been my summer jam this year, along with Flying to My Home and Back on My Feet
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kapoo:
Wings in Arles France, 1972 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/THwtYFyS4kI/AAAAAAAAAQU/_-0ruWMRSrI/s320/arles73.jpg PM & Wings ? 1974 ? The Nashville Sessions http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/TK73FshTShI/AAAAAAAAAn0/HQOF-vi2IP0/s320/nashville.jpg PM ? Cold Cuts http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lM6DdeSiK9Q/TgXrTZTHksI/AAAAAAAACXA/8iSSBNGrvkc/s320/cold.jpg Wings Over America II ? 6/23/1976 ? Inglewood, California http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9jeriPHeDG8/THw1fr9VqGI/AAAAAAAAAQk/stEvZRX04o0/s320/wingsoveramerica.jpg Do people know about these? anyone want to discuss the ridiculous material on these bootlegs? The Waterspout on Cold Cuts is just amazing. That?s my new favorite song, can?t believe I never noticed that one before. I havn?t listened to much else, how ever the beginning of Arles is amazing. I caught that Paul introduces the song 1882 as ?this one is from our next LP?, which ended up not being the case.
1882 is a fantastic song, why it never got properly released is beyond a joke.
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kapoo:
I caught that Paul introduces the song 1882 as ?this one is from our next LP?, which ended up not being the case.
Curiously, a studio version was never found in the archives,and it has been suggested that studio post-production was done on a live version of the song. However,given that the Wings Over Europe tour program makes a clear distinction between the songs in the set that had 'not been recorded' and 'not been released' (the latter applying to 1882) and also given that on several dates Paul confidently refers to 1882 as being on the next album, I still think a pre-tour studio version of 1882 was taped. Even if no-one now can remember recording it or can find any tape of it.
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Kestrel:
kapoo:
I caught that Paul introduces the song 1882 as ?this one is from our next LP?, which ended up not being the case.
Curiously, a studio version was never found in the archives,and it has been suggested that studio post-production was done on a live version of the song. However,given that the Wings Over Europe tour program makes a clear distinction between the songs in the set that had 'not been recorded' and 'not been released' (the latter applying to 1882) and also given that on several dates Paul confidently refers to 1882 as being on the next album, I still think a pre-tour studio version of 1882 was taped. Even if no-one now can remember recording it or can find any tape of it.
good point Kestrel, that interesting didn't know about the WOE program distinction. its cool to get that live look (listen) at the 'in flux' nature of that band when they hit the road early to tour. how were they going to present themselves, what songs etc. I find it interesting how different (and IMO better) the songs on Wild Life sound live, as played on that Arles France 72 show. the rendition they break down of I Am Your Singer kind of actually rocks! I shit you not, its amazing. they were pounding out everything, really funky sometimes reggae vibe. I love the Mumbo they do also. Paul's yelling that one line, and the rest of the band chiming in with the 'woooo's. its great jams, and all new jams being worked into those sets. the sound is way worse on it but I'm liking Arles as much as WOA right now! Nashville sessions is cool. The Jet on that I'm liking better than the album track. just a losseness in it and it rocks, just a sweet sounding recording.
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The Wings era is glorious, glorious, glorious; during my chronological exploration I tried to beef it up with as much extra session material as possible, and I still have yet to hear a Wings song/jam I don't like. Unbelievable.
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Cyllthain:
The Wings era is glorious, glorious, glorious; during my chronological exploration I tried to beef it up with as much extra session material as possible, and I still have yet to hear a Wings song/jam I don't like. Unbelievable.
what album are you up to now Cyllthain? I agree its a glorious run Wings had! If you think about it Paul just kept it all going, coming up with the songs to stay all up in the charts for another Beatle-like run. quite impressive. Arles shows them really finding themselves as a band still, and Paul just carrying it. something else I just thought of and haven't researched it, but are the Nashvilles sessions shown at all in the film One Hand Clapping? the do a few of the same songs on each I believe; 1985, Jet, My Love, Live and Let Die
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I don't believe Paul had the Wings rehearsals in Nashville filmed although they would have been recorded. None of those rehearsals ended up in any form in the One Hand Clapping film, which was shot entirely in London in Augist 1974, a few weeks after their return from Nashville. In the following years bootlegs began to appear of the soundtrack tapes from the One Hand Clapping film sessions which were incorrectly attributed to the Nashville rehearsals. Together with Linda's Nashville Diary 1975, further confusion reigned on the location and date of these sessions.
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kapoo:
Cyllthain:
The Wings era is glorious, glorious, glorious; during my chronological exploration I tried to beef it up with as much extra session material as possible, and I still have yet to hear a Wings song/jam I don't like. Unbelievable.
what album are you up to now Cyllthain? I agree its a glorious run Wings had! If you think about it Paul just kept it all going, coming up with the songs to stay all up in the charts for another Beatle-like run. quite impressive. Arles shows them really finding themselves as a band still, and Paul just carrying it.
Back to the Egg, so unfortunately, the end of Wings. McCartney II is up next, then the last existing studio track by Wings that I know of (Rainclouds, from September or October of 1980), and then it's all Paul solo from then on. I'm looking forward to that very much, too, of course, because Paul is Paul and an incredible songwriter, but I just adore the sound that Wings as a band created. Next to Crosby, Stills & Nash, I know of no three voices that work so marvelously together as McCartney, McCartney & Laine
Now that I've reached the end of the Wings era (and, I should note, Back to the Egg is a fantastic swan song), I can honestly say that I prefer Wings to the Beatles. I'm not that big a fan of the earlier Beatles work, so basically, where the Beatles enjoyed three years of utter perfection (1967-9), Wings got an entire decade!! I really don't think there is a single Wings song that, to my ears, is any worse than the amazing late Beatles material. -
Cyllthain:
Next to Crosby, Stills & Nash, I know of no three voices that work so marvelously together as McCartney, McCartney & Laine
Lennon McCartney and Harrison had great three part harmonies. 
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That's true, of course (one need only listen to Because), but I much prefer the way the three core Wings voices work together. Just more pleasing to my ears is all.
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Cyllthain:
That's true, of course (one need only listen to Because), but I much prefer the way the three core Wings voices work together. Just more pleasing to my ears is all.
I know what you mean. Just wanted to point it out
I was listening to Someone Who Cares, because of another thread, and as soon as Linda began harmonizing with Paul .... I thought Wings!!! -
Cyllthain:
then the last existing studio track by Wings that I know of (Rainclouds, from September or October of 1980), and then it's all Paul solo from then on.
I think rehearsals of that song by Wings do exist from that period on bootleg but the TOW version was taped on 8th & 9th December 1980 at AIR studios, London,with the line up of Paul & Denny with Paddy Moloney.
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Oh, alright, thanks! I remember reading somewhere that Rainclouds was the last Wings song proper but I haven't been able to find that source again, so who knows... And to go back to the main thread topic for a second, Arles '72 is indeed awesome! I started listening to it yesterday and it's a completely different feel from Wings over America or Last Flight (which is in turn very different from both of its predecessors). Too bad the show doesn't exist in better quality! But in a way, the roughness of the recording matches the roughness of the band
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Exactly very poor quality.. heres the opener, Bip Bop from the Arles 72 show
funny the only one I could find is probably my absolute least fav on the entire show.. Smile Away, is the next song they do, this clip is not from Arles, from sometime in 1972 though
Did you guys realize Wings did Soily in 1972? Audi I know you?ll love that! I don?t think this version is Arles either, but Soily is on that boot as well Paul sings his butt off in that show overall, he?s killer. Here?s one last Mumbo I found from 72, Antwerp
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any chance this stuff will show up on the re-mastered stuff? 1882
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Kestrel:
Cyllthain:
then the last existing studio track by Wings that I know of (Rainclouds, from September or October of 1980), and then it's all Paul solo from then on.
I think rehearsals of that song by Wings do exist from that period on bootleg but the TOW version was taped on 8th & 9th December 1980 at AIR studios, London,with the line up of Paul & Denny with Paddy Moloney.
What a coincidence that Paul was taping this great song on the same day as John was murdered..
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Danish Macca:
What a coincidence that Paul was taping this great song on the same day as John was murdered..
Yes, and considering what a sad and depressing day it was for Paul, the title was somewhat apt.
