Jock Tamson:
graystoke:
He must think Glasgow is in Australia!
Well it is just down the road from Perth!
LOL! And there's an Edinburgh just up the road from me (I'm not kidding).
Jock Tamson:
graystoke:
He must think Glasgow is in Australia!
Well it is just down the road from Perth!
LOL! And there's an Edinburgh just up the road from me (I'm not kidding).
Apple Scruff:
A lot of the interview I had read, in bits and pieces, over the years, but to me, the most surprising statement was that he thought Paul subconciously sabotaged some of his work, the examples he gave were Across the Universe and Strawberry Fields Forever.
This from the man whose poor bass playing sabotaged Long And Winding Road. Once again, Lennon the hypocrite. It was John who wanted to recut SFF after the simple, guitar-based take 1. The various incarnations of SFF were down to him being indecisive and unsure about how he wanted the song to sound. I love him but John was full of it a lot of the time.
Why not? Better yet, he could put out a rap christmas album with Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Dickie Nuts, Wis-Consin, Notorious Phat Man, Bill-I-Be et al. Some of the tunes could be: "Yo Fatman, Get Yo Reindeer Off My Lawn" "Slay Bells" "Silent Nite (Shut Yo Mouth MoFo)" "Jiggy Bells" "Missing Toe" "Clap Yo Hands, Cap Yo Ass" "Yeezus Cripes Stupid Star" and that yuletide favourite "Your Nuts Roasting When I Opened Fire". Another guaranteed #1 for our boy Paul E Cartnee. Later.
Suits. They looked like German gay boys in leather. Leather jackets I get, they look cool. Leather pants are a joke. Hutchence and Morrison looked cool because of their personas not their pants.
WixRocks!:
1 part snarky + 1 part truth: I've always been DYING to know what the setlist was like for the original "aborted" 1980 Japanese tour.
It seems like he's been playing the same one for decades, so probably the set list he plays now!!!
How many "writers" did it take to come up with this piece of garbage? As for wannabe Paulie (hey, there's a great rapper name for him Paul E Wannabee) one word: coattails. I be off now to watch my bent grandad busta cap some bo janglin' bizzle befo' the boyz suss he be a wanksta. Yo!
Your socks, wool or cotton? Still have that black and white cowboy shirt you and the other guys started wearing around 1959? You know, the one you wore in the Fabs photoshoot in front of the white Rolls in ?69 and again sometime in the seventies? What do you think of George?s ukulele playing? How?s your shoulder? Any movement? When you look upwards in interviews?.?.yeah, that?s it??..what do you see? How?s your thumbs? Arthritic? What?s the name of that really interesting second piano chord you play in Warm and Beautiful? Oh, sorry. I don?t know how that question got in. Ignore it. Let?s move on. Er, ooh, here?s a good one??Did you choose that lovely pale blue jacket you wore on stage back in 2010 or was that something your dresser picked out for you? Very fetching I thought. Have you met Angela Lansbury? L?Oréal, Garnier or Clairol?
Nah. Just talk. Even though New Orleans was supposedly on the cards I reckon it was just John talking crap.
RMartinez:
Michelley:
Nancy R:
So Noel would say no to McCartney? Or did he mean something else?
Actually I don't think it's clear WHAT Noel is saying about whether he would or wouldn't work with Kanye. In fact, I think Noel is saying he would say "yes" to Kanye, too. Just look at the comment that proceeds Noel saying "I would." Noel says, "What are you gonna do? Say no?," he's saying that Kanye is an important enough figure that if he approaches you to collaborate, you say yes and that he would, too.
If we are reading the English correctly, he is saying he would turn Kanye down. But some musicians do speak in a confusing way so who knows? If he did, it would be another duet I wouldn't buy.
That's the way I read it: "What are you gonna do? Say no? I would (say no)". If he wanted to say yes he'd say "Say no? I wouldn't (say no)". My regard for Noel Gallagher just went up a couple of notches.
moptops:
If The Beatles toured today, George might tell us himself what a really good ukulele player he is.
moptops:
He's not gonna go out like Elvis, he's gonna go on like Chuck Berry. And that thought sickens me.
Second post of the day.
They'd have been playing the same set list for the last ten years and getting a lot of complaints about it! Or, God forbid, they'd have ended up as washed up as the Beach Boys were in the mid to late 70s and had John Stamos sit in for a drunken Ringo.
Fly Paul Fly to Australia:
Paul is #1 in Australia, perhaps his most elusive yet deprived market, this is an achievement
A very, very tenuous #1 in my opinion. Seems to me he was more like a guest muso. Tom Scott didn't get a solo performer credit on Listen To What the Man Said, all he got was a general album listing credit (Afro on congas anyone?). That was a #1 for Paul McCartney and Wings, not Paul McCartney, Tom Scott and Wings, yet his sax solo stars in the song. On Forty or Fifty Seconds or whatever it is, you can't hear a note from Paul. If we hadn't been told he was on it, we wouldn't know. This isn't something in the usual vein of a duet or trio, where each credited performer can be heard singing a verse separately (as West and Rhianna clearly do) or in unison. Ultimately, he is being credited but this whole saga smacks of some serious coattail riding. Giddy-up!
moptops:
RMartinez:
Again, he said it once John was gone. He never said that in 1974. Why not? I'm not into revisionist history.
Agreed.
McCartney-Lennon anyone?
For me, the answer is simple. John was the dominant force in the group, he was more prolific than Paul and his songwriting was stronger. Even on the next album (Beatles For Sale), John trumps Paul's efforts. Paul doesn't really come in to his own until Revolver. By Pepper the situation starts to become the opposite as John gets into drugs more heavily. By 1969, a whole lot of issues befell John (Yoko, divorce, heroin, car accident, peace campaigning, Beatle apathy) and his songwriting really dropped away, whilst Paul was in the ascendency. And I for one believe the songs they "gave away" in 1963/64 weren't up to standard to be considered for release on a Beatle record. From A Window, Love Of The Loved, Bad To Me etc are just formulaic throwaways and were more about pushing their publishing.
Michelley:
graystoke:
People are perfectly entitled to view Kanye West as either talented or talentless.
Duh. I didn't say people weren't "entitled" to call Kanye "talentless" or to refer to rap as (c)rap, or to wring their hands about Paul's "legacy" being ruined for the crime of collaborating on 2 songs with Kanye. I said those views were ridiculous and make those who state them look ridiculous, at best.
And I don't think those views or the people who stated them are ridiculous at all. I don't agree with everything they said but I see where they're coming from.
RMartinez:
favoritething:
parlance:
Michelley:
Where did I say you had to like the results of the McKanye collaboration? Oh that's right. I didn't. When I called it a smart decision on Paul's part -- which it was: a smart, brave, and interesting artistic decision that produced great results musically and commercially -- I was expressing MY opinion. Who else's opinion would I be expressing in my post? I certainly wasn't criticizing people for NOT liking Only Me or Four Five Seconds. What is bizarre is your suggestion that liking those tracks is somehow blind gushing. Look, I think Tug of War is an utter mediocrity, and Pipes of Peace is worse. In fact I don't like any album Paul released from 1980 to 1994. But I shouldn't have to state and restate that just to satisfy your strange need to reduce my admiration of these McKanye songs to that lame old trope: "oh you're just a gushing fan who thinks Paul can do no wrong." I don't care if you don't like Kanye, rap, or any these McKanye songs. Different strokes. That wasn't my point. I was criticizing all the ridiculous comments I've seen -- here and elsewhere on the web from Beatles fans and McCartney fans -- dismissing Kanye entirely as an artist, calling him talentless, attacking rap music as a genre, or generally shrieking about how this collaboration is "destroying Paul's legacy." THOSE are the dubious hysterical assertions that make some of Paul's fans look, at the least, like cranky old fools.
Very well summarized. It certainly hasn't been only person on the board that's been guilty of overreacting. parlance
And whatever the opinions that people have about Paul's recent decisions, the facts are evident: His Grammy performance with Rihanna and Kanye got thunderous applause and sent the song into the Top 10. His Irving Plaza performance was a triumph, according to everyone I've heard. His SNL performance, while subpar vocally, also got thunderous applause and virtually no bad press. The only negative press result I could find in two pages of Google results was Spin magazine calling it "raspy" (but also praising Kanye's SNL performance as "show-stopping" and "a big standout"). And the after-party is regarded as a milestone event in all-star jamming. If I were Paul, I would not be worried about my legacy right now.
Sometimes it seems all Paul does is worry about his legacy.
Indeed again.
RMartinez:
parlance:
Michelley:
Where did I say you had to like the results of the McKanye collaboration? Oh that's right. I didn't. When I called it a smart decision on Paul's part -- which it was: a smart, brave, and interesting artistic decision that produced great results musically and commercially -- I was expressing MY opinion. Who else's opinion would I be expressing in my post? I certainly wasn't criticizing people for NOT liking Only Me or Four Five Seconds. What is bizarre is your suggestion that liking those tracks is somehow blind gushing. Look, I think Tug of War is an utter mediocrity, and Pipes of Peace is worse. In fact I don't like any album Paul released from 1980 to 1994. But I shouldn't have to state and restate that just to satisfy your strange need to reduce my admiration of these McKanye songs to that lame old trope: "oh you're just a gushing fan who thinks Paul can do no wrong." I don't care if you don't like Kanye, rap, or any these McKanye songs. Different strokes. That wasn't my point. I was criticizing all the ridiculous comments I've seen -- here and elsewhere on the web from Beatles fans and McCartney fans -- dismissing Kanye entirely as an artist, calling him talentless, attacking rap music as a genre, or generally shrieking about how this collaboration is "destroying Paul's legacy." THOSE are the dubious hysterical assertions that make some of Paul's fans look, at the least, like cranky old fools.
Very well summarized. It certainly hasn't been only person on the board that's been guilty of overreacting. parlance
You two have clearly done some overreacting.
Indeed.