This is how Paul McCartney really feels about Wings
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This is how Paul McCartney really feels about Wings
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Please, can you just post the link without changing the title? I have to keep looking it up. Thanks.
https://www.grunge.com/209190/this-is-how-paul-mccartney-really-feels-about-wings/?mode=gn
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Nancy R wrote:
Please, can you just post the link without changing the title? I have to keep looking it up. Thanks.
https://www.grunge.com/209190/this-is-how-paul-mccartney-really-feels-about-wings/?mode=gn
I have not changed anything.
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jimmix wrote:
Nancy R wrote:
Please, can you just post the link without changing the title? I have to keep looking it up. Thanks.
https://www.grunge.com/209190/this-is-how-paul-mccartney-really-feels-about-wings/?mode=gn
I have not changed anything.
I'm talking about future posts. Thanks.
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I always recall reading Bono of U2 state in Rolling Stone mag, not all that long ago, that "Wings was the best band of the 70's "--wow, very high praise. That band wasn't just chopped liver. I feel Paul should feel proud of their efforts during that time. He needs to work on his gratitude list, possibly (laughs).
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Okay people, here's the scoop. During this interview, which was quite lengthy, Paul was talking about the very EARLY days of Wings. He was talking about what he could had done after The Beatles. At first he thought of creating a super group with Clapton and Bonham, but decided on starting out new with unknown musicians. And yes, at first, he thought they were pretty terrible, saying that even Linda didn't know how to play the piano. He also mentioned that in the early Beatles, John didn't know how to play the guitar. Yep, Bono was a huge Wings fan, as was Bonham. So that blurb in Grunge isn't very accurate. The wonder of it all baby, the wonder of it all.
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Thanks for the clarification, wingsoverkc. I suspected the quote was taken out of context, but I was unable to access the Telegram article from which it was source.
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Interesting article. So many times I've read articles where Paul has said he was glad to be working with Linda and happy to keep the family together on the road. For whatever reason this interview deviated from that a bit. So IMHO it would perhaps make sense that he did actually enjoy Wings more.
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wingsoverkc wrote:
Okay people, here's the scoop. During this interview, which was quite lengthy, Paul was talking about the very EARLY days of Wings. He was talking about what he could had done after The Beatles. At first he thought of creating a super group with Clapton and Bonham, but decided on starting out new with unknown musicians. And yes, at first, he thought they were pretty terrible, saying that even Linda didn't know how to play the piano. He also mentioned that in the early Beatles, John didn't know how to play the guitar. Yep, Bono was a huge Wings fan, as was Bonham. So that blurb in Grunge isn't very accurate. The wonder of it all baby, the wonder of it all.
Wingsoverkc hit it right on the head and that quote was taking way out of context. What Paul really meant was that "early" Wings was a work in progress. It was after Ram that Paul got serious in putting a Band together. In reality, Denny Laine was a very versatile musician and Henry McCullough was a heck of a blues guitarist. Just listening to the whole group of songs from the Red Rose Speedway era that should have been on the proposed Double Red Rose Album you can easily see that Paul had some excellent musicians with him including Denny Seiwell on drums. By the time Paul had the nucleus of songs for BOTR, Henry and Denny Seiwell decided to back out of going to record BOTR in Lagos. At that point, Paul recruited Jimmy McCulloch for lead guitar and Joe English for drums for Venus and Mars and a subsequent world tour. By that time the group was really fine tuned and world class imo.
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B J Conlee wrote: By the time Paul had the nucleus of songs for BOTR, Henry and Denny Seiwell decided to back out of going to record BOTR in Lagos. At that point, Paul recruited Jimmy McCulloch for lead guitar and Joe English for drums for Venus and Mars and a subsequent world tour. By that time the group was really fine tuned and world class imo.
As a Wings fan during the 1970's, my biggest disappointment was that Geoff Britton wasn't able to stay on longer as the bands drummer. That disappointment has only been amplified in recent years with the official release of the One Hand Clapping film, which shows the band in the summer of 74 at their rocking best. There is a raw energy in those performances which was missing from the subsequent live tours. In an alternative universe I would love to experience 'Wings Over America' with a McCartney / McCartney / Laine / McCulloch / Britton line up.
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Kestrel wrote:
As a Wings fan during the 1970's, my biggest disappointment was that Geoff Britton wasn't able to stay on longer as the bands drummer. That disappointment has only been amplified in recent years with the official release of the One Hand Clapping film, which shows the band in the summer of 74 at their rocking best. There is a raw energy in those performances which was missing from the subsequent live tours. In an alternative universe I would love to experience 'Wings Over America' with a McCartney / McCartney / Laine / McCulloch / Britton line up.
Me too! Met Geoff Britton last year at AROTR. What a nice guy and a great drummer!
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Nancy R wrote:
Me too! Met Geoff Britton last year at AROTR. What a nice guy and a great drummer!
Lucky you. I think he lives in Spain now so the chances of seeing him in the UK are fairly remote I think.
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That article was suspect right from the moment it called the 1970 McCartney album "disappointing."
Context is everything and to accept that article at face value you would have to ignore everything said and sung inWingspan, the documentary, album,and book
