Bar's open, drinks for everyone!!!
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Magical Mystery Girl:
Awwww Non..... you're such a sweetheart!! Drinks on me guys! Take what you want! I'll have a huge pin!!!
Did I say "pin"? I meant "pint'! One huge pin coming right up!!
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Good morning- couldn't sleep thinking about the hurricane- Jon, you be careful- we will get it on Wednesday..... coffee for a Monday morning..... non
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I was gonna make a thread of this, but it would just get moved and you guys may miss it..... Q&A: Paul McCartney By Paul Sexton Mon Aug 29, 2:06 AM ET Doing the garden? Digging the weeds? Who could ask for more? But don't expect Paul McCartney to slow down like that when he's 64. Just one year shy of the milestone he once immortalized in song, McCartney is gearing up for the release of his 20th album of his post-Beatles career and a major U.S. tour. The album, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," arrives September 13 from Capitol Records in the United States and from EMI worldwide. McCartney's US Tour, as he calls it, opens September 16 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. But this Liverpudlian knight of the realm does not confine himself to the typical album-tour-album-tour cycle. Last summer, McCartney took the stage at Britain's renowned Glastonbury Festival and played a set in tribute to his deceased former bandmates, John Lennon and George Harrison. In February, he played the halftime show at Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Fla. And when called to join the global consciousness-raising of Live 8 in July, McCartney was there front and center. In another creative sphere, on October 4 McCartney will publish "High in the Clouds," his collaboration with author Philip Ardagh and animator Geoff Dunbar for Penguin Young Readers Group. But for McCartney's longtime fans, the focus first is always on his music. On "Chaos," the artist resumed the role of multi-instrumentalist that distinguished "McCartney," his first post-Beatles project -- released precisely 35 years ago -- and the "McCartney II" set exactly a decade later. Adding zest to McCartney's challenge, this is his first studio set in four years, after the 2001 release of "Driving Rain," which was a modest performer in the marketplace by McCartney's exacting standards. In conversation with Billboard on the eve of the release of "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," McCartney emphasizes that the only challenges he now needs are the ones he sets himself. Prior to this interview, Billboard heard an advance copy of the new album that was credited with a pseudonym for security. Q: I sense that people are surprised that this is your 20th solo album. A: I'm kind of surprised, because I don't count how many I've done; I just do the next one, and love it. There're always people who say, "Did you know it's 40 years since the Beatles?," and I go, "Get away." Or "You've done 3,000 gigs." I say, "Never." Of course the more we go on, the more it mounts up. But it really doesn't matter to me whether it's the 30th or the 3,000th. But at the same time it's kind of impressive. Q: How did your initial meeting with producer Nigel Godrich go? A: Our ideas were surprisingly similar. I said, "I'm going to make a great record." I thought instead of saying, "I would like to make a good record," I'm going to put some pressure on myself and motivate myself. And he said, "If I do it with you, it's got to be you." I suggested a couple of possible things I was listening to that we might draw off. And he said, "No, we've got enough to draw off. That's what people want: an album that sounds like you." So we decided to do two weeks at Rak Studios to see if we could work together or if we hated each other. Sure enough, we got on very well. First week, I came in with my live band, thinking that might be the way we'd go. But he started to intimate toward the end of the week that he wanted, as he put it, to take me out of my safety zone, to do something different. Q: In what way? A: He said, "I like the way you play drums." I said, "I've got one of the world's greatest drummers in Abe (Laboriel)." He said, "Yeah, but it might be a bit safe. You know these guys, they know you. I'd like to try something out." I love playing drums. I love knocking about on a lot of instruments. I may not be the world's greatest drummer, but I've got a feel that he liked. I remember Elvis Costello talking to me about the feel I had on drums. So that turned out to be the feel, and I had to say to the guys in the band, "Look, we'll be playing this live, but I hope you understand." They were really cool about it, and we set off on the road. Q: You mention Costello, who you collaborated with on (the 1989 album) "Flowers in the Dirt," and this feels like it could be your best record since that one. Is there a link, in terms of bringing somebody new in who was prepared to tell you good things and bad things? A: I think that's probably true, yeah. Someone you respect who has their own respect in the community and who is forthright enough to say, "No, we can do better than that." The funny thing is, I always like that, but what happens is when you reach a certain position, people will naturally, in a way, assume that whatever you say goes. But in a lot of the areas I work, like tours and in the office, if you were able to look in on a meeting of mine, it'd be, "OK, who's got a good idea? What do we do now?" I really like teamwork. Q: When you meet new people, not just in work but socially, you must have to take the lead. You must be aware that an awful lot of people are completely daunted by meeting you at all. A: It's true, yeah. It'd be like when I met Phil Everly. He was such a figure from my youth that I went all daft and said, "Err, I used to be you ... John was Don ...," and all the most stupid things, and he got thoroughly embarrassed. But I am very aware of that, even to people at the newspaper shop. I do a sort of Liverpool thing, which is (jokingly), "Look here, I don't want any trouble off you," or whatever. I'll be in their face, and they'll go, "Oh, he's just ordinary," and we soon get at ease. It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transport if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn. I was in New York and I needed to get uptown, so I took one of the uptown buses. A few people noticed, and this black lady said, "Hey, you Paul McCartney?," and started getting quite loud. I said, "Yeah, but I don't want any trouble off you, babe," and she laughed. I said, "If you're going to talk to me, come over here, sit by me." So she did, and I heard her entire history, how she was going to visit her sister and all this stuff. Q: Another tour coming up in the States suggests that you're having a good time now. A: The end of my last American tour, promoters were saying, "We could still take more, do longer." Because I don't really go out for much longer than three months, I find I get bored and it really becomes a slog. Three months at the rate we tour, which is pretty much one gig, then a day off, is pretty leisurely compared to how we used to work. Q: Are you planning on any more "new old" songs onstage? A: Yeah, I found a few, I must say, which will be surprises. That's one of the great pleasures now, because I used to resist Beatles songs. It was as if I was just trading on the past. But I realized audiences loved them. They didn't mind you doing that -- in fact just the opposite. But I found that on the last American tour, things like "Hello Goodbye," that I'd never sung live before, was very entertaining for me and the audience. So that became a big plus. I've got a few songs I did in Europe that I've never done on American soil, and I'm thinking of a couple of others I've not done before, so it means they're very fresh. Reuters/Billboard
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Thanks for the article. How are y'all today?
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Thanks Non, great article! Hope everyone is well. Hard to believe it's almost September! Holly
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At least it's cool here. It only made it up to 91 yesterday. They're saying 84 today, but I don't believe it. I guess it's cause the Hurricane's supposed to shoot on up here later on.
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I hope EVERYONE is safe!! Its so a monday.. i need coffee!
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Coffee's not good for ya. Eat an apple. I think that hurricane's moving faster than they thought.
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vidgamerjon:
Coffee's not good for ya. Eat an apple. I think that hurricane's moving faster than they thought.
Your in Arkansas aren't you???
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blondie10:
vidgamerjon:
Coffee's not good for ya. Eat an apple. I think that hurricane's moving faster than they thought.
Your in Arkansas aren't you???
That's why I think it's moving faster than they said, cause we're getting torrential downpours and the wind is hellacious out there.
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Jon be safe dear! They are predicting over 100 tornados to hit all over before this is done. I will be thinking of you. Hope all goes well. Holly
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its really bad Jon.... you should be home.. not out!
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vidgamerjon:
blondie10:
vidgamerjon:
Coffee's not good for ya. Eat an apple. I think that hurricane's moving faster than they thought.
Your in Arkansas aren't you???
That's why I think it's moving faster than they said, cause we're getting torrential downpours and the wind is hellacious out there.
Be safe Jon!!!
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is it affecting you Val?
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TinybubbleCA:
is it affecting you Val?
No....I just feel terrible for the people it is affecting...central Fl got lucky this time Anna...South Floridians got Katrina as a cat one and it was pretty bad...my mom said trees and fences where down all over, thousands still have no power..she's in Miami Lakes..Jorge got hit too...I hate hurricanes!!
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Afternoon
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TinybubbleCA:
its really bad Jon.... you should be home.. not out!
But if I'm at home then I can't talk to you or anyone else that matters to me. I'm not worried about the weather, God will see me through it.
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Mark Baker:
Afternoon
Hey love... I want to BEAT MY HEAD ON MY COMPUTER!!!!!!! STUPID THING.. grrrr.. i know better.. something is wrong and when i try to save a file on the server my indesign crashes... grrr.. and I just lost this stupid file i was working on.. as i was trying to save it.. GRRR~!!!!
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TinybubbleCA:
Mark Baker:
Afternoon
Hey love... I want to BEAT MY HEAD ON MY COMPUTER!!!!!!! STUPID THING.. grrrr.. i know better.. something is wrong and when i try to save a file on the server my indesign crashes... grrr.. and I just lost this stupid file i was working on.. as i was trying to save it.. GRRR~!!!!
Sounds like the server might be down. I had that problem at the car lot a while back.
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TinybubbleCA:
Mark Baker:
Afternoon
Hey love... I want to BEAT MY HEAD ON MY COMPUTER!!!!!!! STUPID THING.. grrrr.. i know better.. something is wrong and when i try to save a file on the server my indesign crashes... grrr.. and I just lost this stupid file i was working on.. as i was trying to save it.. GRRR~!!!!
Would my computer expertise be of any use?