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spike wrote:
[McCartney voice]Our little band would just write these little ditties.[/McCartney voice]
Perfect. Exactly why I hate listening to McCartney speak. His whole “ho hum I’m a country bloke who became a billionaire” schtick is so grating to me. Heck of a songwriter, though.
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epilogue wrote:
Love to hear that. What was his take prior?
He’s been a HUGE (too small a word) fan since seeing them on Ed Sullivan. Just like most in his generation. He was always a Paul guy. Which is interesting to me because they seem so similar as people. Both left-handed. Both guitar players that got stuck with playing bass. Similar views on most sociopolitical topics. (Pa Wease is NOT vegetarian, tho). He has always seen them as the geniuses they are. Read a lot of the books and such, but just in the little bit I’ve seen, it’s presented in sort of a different way. Almost simplistic. Like Spike said, their little band would write a little ditty. And while he’s always known that’s how the band saw it, it’s this presentation that kind of SHOWS how the simple ideas they had formed the songs. And it shows some of what gave them the simple ideas.
It really is a great show.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
spike wrote:
[McCartney voice]Our little band would just write these little ditties.[/McCartney voice]
Perfect. Exactly why I hate listening to McCartney speak. His whole “ho hum I’m a country bloke who became a billionaire” schtick is so grating to me. Heck of a songwriter, though.
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He’s up there with Springsteen for least palatable rockstar faux-humility I’ve ever seen.
McCartney may be a lovely person; I’ve got no reason to believe otherwise. But is been exhaustively documented that they were studio perfectionists, with a whole team of BBC scientists developing groundbreaking recording technologies to help them realize their visions. Literally hundreds upon hundreds of takes of certain vocal harmonies, whole weeks spent tuning a snare drum.
They may have started as “simple blokes writing simple ditties,” but by the time they hit Revolver, they were firmly in creative genius/mad scientist territory. At least John, for all his arrogance, had the authenticity to embrace that.
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