New Paul McCartney album "Egypt Station" coming September 7, 2018*

Excellent suggestion!

I've talked to Paul's people and they are sending you a metal tray and a paper hat like the beer vendors use at ball parks. Your metal tray will be stocked with some of Paul's CDs and they are sending you work passes for his various concerts.

I can see and hear you now : Hey! Get your McCartney here! Hey! Get your McCartney here! I've got your New, I've got your Memory Almost Full. 15 bucks. Hey pal,pass this down to the guy in your row and pass back his money. Hey! Get Your McCartney here!

 

Could/would never be done. It's hard enough to get him to add a few new songs....keep dreaming. While I wish it could happen, it's 100% unrealistic

 

I just hear him saying "Get your Kisses On The Bottom - right here! Only fifteen bucks."

I hope medical insurance is provided.

 

There's a hell of a lot more than that but we are lucky if we get a token amount of set list changes. Good chances this year with a new album out but that doesn't bode well for any deep tracks

 

Like I said in an earlier post, it won’t happen in a million years!

 

Thank you thank you thank you for posting! After wrestling with their website and getting numerous errors I finally was able to place an order. So glad to get this! And thanks again.

 

You're absolutely right!

There is so much more, and that's what amazes me when it comes to McCartney the live performer? Yeah he was a major force in the Beatles, but the man has so much absolutely fantastic music since then and he hasn't performed nearly enough of it?! The man has #1 hits that have never ever been performed, just imagine that! How many artist do you know that have never ever performed their #1 hits?!

It's the one stain on his live legacy since the 80s!

 

I was always terrible at maths

 

Again, I was told there would be no math in this thread!

 

Man if Paul paid my airplane ticket to his concerts, you bet I would do this. I might single handedly get multiple albums of his back on the charts!

 

Sorry I believe Paul is only paying for train tickets during the upcoming tour.

 

It would be worth it!

There are a few downsides of course. Just like the beer vendors in the stands at baseball games you are going to get the occasional "Hey vendor, move you jerk . You're blocking my view of the stage."
But, you're a pro. You can handle it.

 

I hear this "bathroom break" thing all the time and I guess I won't argue about it as it seems that's what actually happens now. Didn't used to be the case, though. How else can fans speak of Neil Young debuting such-and-such song and having the excitement of knowing, either immediately or later, that they were there to witness it?

A bathroom break? "You were at that concert where Neil debuted Sugar Mountain?! Wow, that must have been something to experience."

"Yeah, it was!", when really the attendee was in the bathroom.

 

I never understood this bathroom break thing. I mean you gotta go when you gotta go no matter what song is playing right?

That is unless they’re also serving hot towels.

 

$5.99 shipping $25 total for a CD with two bonus tracks. I'm out. I'm hoping the HD Tracks version has all the tracks or I can buy them individually. I was very happy with the HD Tracks version of "New." Best I've ever heard the album. I don't really need the physical copy to be honest. I'm ecstatic about paying for a uncompressed/less compressed digital copy. To be doubly honest, I will be at Target on release day to pick up a copy of the Exclusive CD if they have any store copies, just 'cause I like the thrill of seeing the display and getting a new McCartney album day one. Wonder if they will do a display, my Target hasn't let me down yet.

 

All you need is Math!

 

“And now for our next number: One And One Is Two.”

 

Language Arts is also pretty important, we use it for every post.

 

Exactly. And if McCartney were to say, "we're gonna play a new song for you now"...I just can't see anyone I know heading off to take a whiz.

 

That's just it... a producer shapes the record, along with the artist and engineers involved. It's not their job to slander a song, or a demo before its even properly recorded. I can't imagine Paul would have been so bullheaded and/or nasty that Nigel would have had to fight back. If he brought say, Summer of '59 to the session why would Nigel deride it as a "50's pastiche", or whatever he said? It surely meant something to Paul or he wouldn't have recorded the song in the first place. It's not like he had just a handful of tunes for these sessions either. He had a good 2-3 albums worth. Surely Nigel's job was to get the best performance of the songs down on tape. Nothing more. Along the way, George Martin may have thought certain songs weren't up to par, including most of George's pre-1966 material, but he recorded/produced them nonetheless. It was only years, decades, later that he ever criticized some of the tunes. Not everything can be a Strawberry Fields or Hey Jude!

I don't think any of my band's stuff is online. Most of it was recorded in the 70's and 80's... last album was 2007. Let me see what I have here and I'll send you a few samples. Then you can critique away! Ron

 

I want to construct a set list to see how ridiculous this would be on paper. A few days ago one of you posted upthread a list or the recent great McCartney songs, anyone have that list or can link to it, 'cause I'm lazy as fuh.

 

But All You need is Math, language and arts doesn’t roll off the tongue so well...

 

Has anyone purchased the HD Tracks versions of the singles? If not do you folks want me to buy them and report back on the sound quality? I can use the $5.99 that I'm saving on the shipping on the Target CD.

 

As experimental and adventurous as he can be in his recording career, it does not translate to Paul the live performer

 

Well, we weren't in the room and I only recall hearing Paul talk about it. If Nigel ever brought up that incident, I don't remember what he specifically said about it.
It's not a producers job to slander a song, but if he's actually producing, it IS his job to try to get the best songs available on the record.

Nigel did more than just get the best performance of the songs on tape. Apparently he was more hands on than most producers Paul had worked with recently. He told/suggested to Paul to lose the Les Paul and use his Casino,etc.

I actually think it was a bad combination between the two. Nigel was used to working in a collaborative manner with Radiohead.( who to my ears are as close to Beatles creative as we have these days)

So, he was trying to get Paul out of his comfort zone really trying to push the envelope but Paul wasn't going that far. In my opinion if I/you/ we have worked with Radiohead I can see why a song like "Summer of 59" might seem like a step backwards. I might have thought, you need ME to work on things like this ? Why did you bring ME in then ? Anyone can produce things like this.


Regarding George Martin and some of George Harrison's songs you will notice that yes, he got the songs recorded. But as an actual producer he got some of George's songs left off of the releases they could have been placed on.
I remember reading in George's Martin's Making of Sgt Pepper book that he dreaded it at times when George brought in songs like "It's Only a Northern Song" because he wasn't going to allow that to go on Sgt. Pepper . He said he was relieved when George brought in "Within You Without You" because he thought it was something workable and he didn't have to shoot down George again.

I also remember when George Martin heard Paul's potential songs for Tug of War he told Paul a few of the songs would work but he wasn't interested in the rest, or words to that effect.
Even at that fairly early point Paul wasn't used to anyone telling him that.

That's a real producer, not a recording manager.