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@njr said in Where's Paul been lately?:

Paul, Nancy & Stella at Miami party. Nancy appears to be darkening her hair. I like it better.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11736027/Naomi-Campbell-joins-Stella-McCartney-father-Paul-Miami-bash.html?mibextid=tejx2t&fbclid=IwAR3H-Uxckjc_9UnRJAAseJkzdXHiTUBdp49KzFc6enzgT7Adc5gXbEHF5KM

It looks lighter than former years, though I haven't kept up with her more recently I guess.

@njr Yes indeed!

@wandy said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@fast-city-line said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@njr said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@wandy said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@kㅤ said in It was 59 years ago today!:

I was about to post that it was 59 years ago when they came to America!
It was 59 years ago today Buddy Holly taught the band to play. Yes I know Buddy Holly never taught the Beatles to ACTUALLY play. But of course, John got the name "Beatles" by accident from Buddy Holly.

Yes, but that was 63 years ago John & Stu came up with Beetles/Beatles after the Crickets.

Were there any other "insect" bands in the 50s/60s? Or are Crickets and Beatles the only ones?

Not sure. But in the 80s we had Adam ANT. And the 70s had David Bowie & The SPIDERS From Mars. Just remembered The BEE Gees, 60s, 70s, and 80s.

There's a whole world of possible names for new bands: "praying mantis" "termites" "The Mosquitos" -- in fact, "Insects" would be a good name for a punk band!

@kㅤ Thanks K! I remember mentioning in the "story" that Paul still looks "boyish" at 125 lol

@njr said in 8 celebrities still doing what they love after 80:

Of course, Paul is one of them!

https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/celebrities/info-2023/stars-excelling-after-80.html

Back in 1991, before I had Internet, I created a fake newspaper blurb from the future, cutting and pasting and using a Zerox machine, with page A25 of the New York Times dated 18 June 2067 with the headline "Paul McCartney still rocking at 125!"

@njr said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@wandy said in It was 59 years ago today!:

@kㅤ said in It was 59 years ago today!:

I was about to post that it was 59 years ago when they came to America!
It was 59 years ago today Buddy Holly taught the band to play. Yes I know Buddy Holly never taught the Beatles to ACTUALLY play. But of course, John got the name "Beatles" by accident from Buddy Holly.

Yes, but that was 63 years ago John & Stu came up with Beetles/Beatles after the Crickets.

Were there any other "insect" bands in the 50s/60s? Or are Crickets and Beatles the only ones?

@wandy said in 25 Best PM songs:

@kㅤ said in 25 Best PM songs:

@wandy said in 25 Best PM songs:

I Will, is a mini masterpiece, and deceptive. I Will, is the very example of the type of song that makes you think " I coulda wrote that". But you can't. And he's done it over and over again. Mother Nature's Son. Blackbird. Heart of The Country. Bluebird. I'm Carrying. Long Haired Lady. Love Awake. And probably more, I have forgotten. I would love to have learned the acoustic guitar just to play those wonderful songs, alone, nevermind other great songs, written by other artists. Another example of McCartney's genius is the tribute song he wrote about John. Here Today. It's a lovely song, but not overly sweet and syrupy. It's just about right in its sensitivity and kindness. I have heard several tribute songs to John, after his death. They were bloody terrible. I never heard one as good as Paul's.

Exactly! You are correct about the "I wish I wrote that!"

Yes, I Will, is just simplicity itself, AND amazingly, FOR such a simple song, I like it more and more each time I hear it. How can that be after 50 plus years! I should be sick of it by now, blghuuuur!🤮 but I'm not, I still get a glow in my heart, in anticipation of it coming up when playing the cd. AND I still get a thrill at singing the darned thing all the way through LOL!!!

Though of course I've listened to I Will dozens if not hundreds of times over the years, it was only recently that I listened intently to his "mouth bass" then I saw a useful YouTube where someone was mouthing it loudly so you get a better sense of the bass pattern throughout -- and a new epiphany occurred to me: The bass pattern when accented out of the song has the distinct vibe & quality of a late 60s/early 70s Motown soul-pop song. Someone could re-do the song by accenting the bass part (even having backup singers doo-wah it as well) and turn it into that genre.

@kㅤ said in 25 Best PM songs:

Disagree, Where is I Will and others?! Instead you have Freedom and Come On to Me on it!!! It is hilarious!
I wonder if the people who write the articles actually listen to the music.

Woops, forgot about I Will. I was concentrating so much on his solo career.

@oobu24 said in 25 Best PM songs:

Agree or disagree

https://ew.com/music/the-25-best-songs-of-paul-mccartney/

I only agree with 9 out of the 25 --
I Saw Her Standing There
Eleanor Rigby
Penny Lane
Hey Jude
Uncle Albert
Jet
Band on the Run
Listen to What the Man Said
With a Little Luck

So let's see if I can list 16 more:

You Never Give Me Your Money
Junk
Too Many People
I Am Your Singer
Some People Never Know
Little Lamb Dragonfly
the Hold Me Tight medley
Venus and Mars / Rock Show
Take It Away
Bluebird
Dance Tonight
Get On The Right Thing
Let 'Em In
Mumbo
Tomorrow
Junior's Farm

@njr said in Taxman intro:

@wandy said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@wandy said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@njr
I'm glad he mentioned the Batman theme, because I was all set to make sure that was pointed out. I would guess that it's George doing the main countdown. I can't tell who's doing the second one. As far as Paul doing unusual voices, I have always maintained that Paul is doing that voice talking at the beginning of Listen To What The Man Said. My friend also a McCartney fan adamantly insists "No! That can't possibly be Paul!" But I think Paul is quite capable of putting on other voices.

On a related note, over at the Beatles Bible Fab Forum, they had many years ago this long dragged out debate over who was doing the "Ahhhhs" that transition from Paul's interlude in A Day in the Life back to John. One camp said it was Paul doing them as a bridge leading back to John, and the other camp insists it was John. I'm in the John camp because those "Ahhhhs" just have that signature tonality of John's voice to me, even though Paul theoretically could be capable of doing it. But that debate became so emotional and dragged out, the members of that Forum still have bad memories about it LOL

I too believe it was Paul's voice.

wow, interesting. If it was Paul, he was singing out of character

Sorry. I should clarify. Listen To What The Man Said. I too believe it is Paul's voice at the beginning. Also on Talk More Talk ( Press To Play ) I believe at least one of the talking voices at the beginning, is Linda Mac.

The one voice is definitely female (in Talk More Talk) and sounds like Linda putting on a Cockney accent or something. The other (male) voice seems slowed down. I found this online which seems to indicate the voice is Tom Waits:

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/talk-more-talk/

I'd love to be a fly on the wall while Paul is sitting in a chair listening to --

@njr said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line I agree that it is George doing the slow countdown and I think it’s Paul doing the fast one and he yells “Go!” The cough could be Paul too.
As far as the Aaaahhs in A Day In The Life I’m torn between John & Paul on that. Would have to listen again with earphones.

I just listened to it myself with my high-powered headphones. Aside from a few other details I picked up that interest me, I paid keen attention to that portion, but also to John's singing elsewhere as I think it's relevant because he does a couple of things with his voice that go up high like with "Albert Hall", and you can detect the Lennon twang in those, as one does in the "Ahhhs". So to me, if Paul did it, and he certainly is capable of doing that, he purposefully tried to sound like John, because it clearly sounds like John with that nasal twang and thin quality. I don't know why Paul would try to sound like John, particularly as he's not sounding like John during his little portion right before. Also I have heard isolated tracks of the "Ahhhs" and it sounds to me like whoever did it tracked over more than once maybe two or three times to get an effect of two (or more) voices merging down one note into a half step below it simultaneously so to speak. Those isolated "Ahhhs" sound to me even more like John.

@wandy said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@wandy said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@njr
I'm glad he mentioned the Batman theme, because I was all set to make sure that was pointed out. I would guess that it's George doing the main countdown. I can't tell who's doing the second one. As far as Paul doing unusual voices, I have always maintained that Paul is doing that voice talking at the beginning of Listen To What The Man Said. My friend also a McCartney fan adamantly insists "No! That can't possibly be Paul!" But I think Paul is quite capable of putting on other voices.

On a related note, over at the Beatles Bible Fab Forum, they had many years ago this long dragged out debate over who was doing the "Ahhhhs" that transition from Paul's interlude in A Day in the Life back to John. One camp said it was Paul doing them as a bridge leading back to John, and the other camp insists it was John. I'm in the John camp because those "Ahhhhs" just have that signature tonality of John's voice to me, even though Paul theoretically could be capable of doing it. But that debate became so emotional and dragged out, the members of that Forum still have bad memories about it LOL

I too believe it was Paul's voice.

wow, interesting. If it was Paul, he was singing out of character

Sorry. I should clarify. Listen To What The Man Said. I too believe it is Paul's voice at the beginning. Also on Talk More Talk ( Press To Play ) I believe at least one of the talking voices at the beginning, is Linda Mac.

Ah okay. Never heard Talk More Talk before -- quite creative vocal impressions there!

@wandy said in Taxman intro:

@fast-city-line said in Taxman intro:

@njr
I'm glad he mentioned the Batman theme, because I was all set to make sure that was pointed out. I would guess that it's George doing the main countdown. I can't tell who's doing the second one. As far as Paul doing unusual voices, I have always maintained that Paul is doing that voice talking at the beginning of Listen To What The Man Said. My friend also a McCartney fan adamantly insists "No! That can't possibly be Paul!" But I think Paul is quite capable of putting on other voices.

On a related note, over at the Beatles Bible Fab Forum, they had many years ago this long dragged out debate over who was doing the "Ahhhhs" that transition from Paul's interlude in A Day in the Life back to John. One camp said it was Paul doing them as a bridge leading back to John, and the other camp insists it was John. I'm in the John camp because those "Ahhhhs" just have that signature tonality of John's voice to me, even though Paul theoretically could be capable of doing it. But that debate became so emotional and dragged out, the members of that Forum still have bad memories about it LOL

I too believe it was Paul's voice.

wow, interesting. If it was Paul, he was singing out of character

@njr
I'm glad he mentioned the Batman theme, because I was all set to make sure that was pointed out. I would guess that it's George doing the main countdown. I can't tell who's doing the second one. As far as Paul doing unusual voices, I have always maintained that Paul is doing that voice talking at the beginning of Listen To What The Man Said. My friend also a McCartney fan adamantly insists "No! That can't possibly be Paul!" But I think Paul is quite capable of putting on other voices.

On a related note, over at the Beatles Bible Fab Forum, they had many years ago this long dragged out debate over who was doing the "Ahhhhs" that transition from Paul's interlude in A Day in the Life back to John. One camp said it was Paul doing them as a bridge leading back to John, and the other camp insists it was John. I'm in the John camp because those "Ahhhhs" just have that signature tonality of John's voice to me, even though Paul theoretically could be capable of doing it. But that debate became so emotional and dragged out, the members of that Forum still have bad memories about it LOL

@njr said in Why is Post Anything You Want thread locked?:

It was the one in the Souvenir forum that got locked. There is another one under Talk More Talk!

It seems an ironic thread to lock

@njr said in Denny Laine:

@fast-city-line said in Denny Laine:

@njr said in Denny Laine:

@fast-city-line said in Denny Laine:

Denny is an accomplished clarinet player too -- nice work on Picasso's Last Words doing deeper drollery probably on an Eb clarinet (and it seems he's double-tracking), and old-timey high clarinet soloing in the background of Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five.

Do you have a link proving that info?
For 1985:

Personnel

Paul McCartney – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, drums
Linda McCartney – backing vocals, keyboards
Denny Laine – vocals, guitar
Tony Visconti – orchestrations
Beaux Arts Orchestra – horns, strings
Personnel per The Beatles Bible

And Picasso’s Last Words:

Personnel

Paul McCartney – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums
Linda McCartney – backing vocals
Denny Laine – vocals, guitar
Ginger Baker – percussion
Tony Visconti – orchestrations

And fun fact: Tony Visconti had 2 Beatle-related wives:
Spouse: May Pang (m. 1989–2000), Mary Hopkin (m. 1971–1981)

My memory is that it's on the vinyl liner notes -- will check tomorrow

I looked in the book that came with the Archive edition and
info was the same as what I wrote. I also have it in vinyl, CD and 25th Anniversary Edition! Haven’t checked those yet!

I can't find my vinyl album! I know it's somewhere... It was likely on the inner sleeve, not on the back of the album cover. All these years that little memory of Denny playing the clarinets has just stuck with me; I know I got it from somewhere...

@njr said in Denny Laine:

@fast-city-line said in Denny Laine:

Denny is an accomplished clarinet player too -- nice work on Picasso's Last Words doing deeper drollery probably on an Eb clarinet (and it seems he's double-tracking), and old-timey high clarinet soloing in the background of Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five.

Do you have a link proving that info?
For 1985:

Personnel

Paul McCartney – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, drums
Linda McCartney – backing vocals, keyboards
Denny Laine – vocals, guitar
Tony Visconti – orchestrations
Beaux Arts Orchestra – horns, strings
Personnel per The Beatles Bible

And Picasso’s Last Words:

Personnel

Paul McCartney – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums
Linda McCartney – backing vocals
Denny Laine – vocals, guitar
Ginger Baker – percussion
Tony Visconti – orchestrations

And fun fact: Tony Visconti had 2 Beatle-related wives:
Spouse: May Pang (m. 1989–2000), Mary Hopkin (m. 1971–1981)

My memory is that it's on the vinyl liner notes -- will check tomorrow

Denny is an accomplished clarinet player too -- nice work on Picasso's Last Words doing deeper drollery probably on an Eb clarinet (and it seems he's double-tracking), and old-timey high clarinet soloing in the background of Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five.

@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@njr said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@fast-city-line said in Letter from John to Mrs. Harrison:

@njr Thanks anyway!

After short Google search, I found this!

https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0118196

Thanks, it looks promising, but they won't preview the only part I need -- the last page!

Ya want something bad enough, ya gotta pay for it!

Yeah, but in this case it's like buying a car from a salesman who won't let you look at the engine!

I know this is probably just another one of your jokes, but the guy would hardly publish the entire thing if he’s trying to sell it! What would be the point of that?

True; but there could be a compromise. He could answer my question "do you include those chords at the very end where the song spins out into an electric guitar solo?" At that point I'd still have to trust his word, but at least I'd have more to go by. In the meantime, I've found 3 different versions of those end chords and will do a comparison soon.

Were you able to contact him or not?
P.S. When I wrote to you about you joking, I was thinking I was writing to @wandy!
Good luck & let us know what happens!

I just sent them an email -- we'll see!