Paul McCartney (Official Thread)

[LG]

I am impressed, EMI is releasing "Wings Over America" in vinyl format on June 4, at least that's what it said on Amazon.ca when I checked.

Might end up buying this one, just for nostalgia and it is one of the best live records from the 70's.

 

[Hurdy Gurdy Man]

Contrary to previously HUGE popular conceptions,vinyl is NEVER going away.There's always going to be way too many of us 60's and 70's fanatics who know that TRUE appreciation of the music from these times can only stem from analog materials.Just as nature intended.The restructuring of signals into digital form diminishes the natures of the original releases.I say recorded analog should be listened to that way.

 

[LG]

^^I agree with you HGM, old analog is the best when it comes to our 60's-80's albums.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Paul McCartney Books One-Hour ‘Colbert Report’ Special



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The June 12 stop on Paul McCartney‘s ‘Out There’ tour will find him playing to one of the bigger audiences he’s likely to face this year: Everyone watching ‘The Colbert Report.’

The Comedy Central host will dedicate a one-hour special to McCartney, featuring an interview segment as well as live performances. It’ll mark McCartney’s second appearance on the show — he also stopped by in January of 2009 — but his first time playing live for Colbert’s audience.

While it’s ostensibly a politically themed show, Colbert has used his ‘Report’ as a forum for promoting artists from across the musical spectrum, most notably with the weeklong on-air live festival he organized last year, dubbed ‘StePhest Colbchella ’012: RocktAugustFest.’ And although Colbert has often focused on younger acts, including Jack White and Radiohead (the latter of whom made their own one-hour appearance on the ‘Report’ in September 2011), he clearly has impeccable taste in performers of an older vintage as well.

Still, viewers can expect a fair amount of humor at McCartney’s expense during the show. Staying in character as the blustery doofus he portrays on ‘The Colbert Report,’ Colbert announced the former Beatle‘s arrival in a statement that reads, “I think this McCartney kid’s got something special and I’m gonna put him on the map!”
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[LG]

^^I might make a point of watching that show now. Colbert is hit or miss with me, I used to watch his show before the last election but then lost interest.

June 4th was the date "Wings Over America" new deluxe edition was supposed to be released, I'll be picking up a vinyl copy if it's not too expensive.

 

[terry ells]

venus and mars , rock show

 

[METALPRIEST]

Paul McCartney’s Drummer Teases New Album



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It’s been six years since Paul McCartney released an album of original material. But according to his longtime drummer Abe Laboriel, Jr., the former Beatle has written plenty of new songs since then.

Telling the Boston Globe that McCartney kicked off sessions for his next LP with “a wealth of material,” Laboriel hinted that whenever the new collection of songs is completed, it could end up being one of McCartney’s more eclectic efforts.

“It’s exciting,” he told the paper. “A lot of different styles. It’s very youthful — aggressively rock at times, and singer-songwriter, insular and intimate, at others.”

It’s the latest in a series of McCartney records that Laboriel has been a part of, starting with 2001′s ‘Driving Rain,’ which he says was recorded during a period when McCartney — coping with the recent death of his wife Linda — “wanted to start fresh … I think he just wanted to see what was out there.” These days, said Laboriel, “Even if he’s making a little fruit salad, he’s humming a tune or whistling away. The music doesn’t stop around him. It’s beautiful.”

In the meantime, Laboriel and the band have a string of concert dates with their famous boss. McCartney may be the senior member of the group, but that doesn’t mean he’s getting tired. “He has boundless energy,” said Laboriel. “At the end of an almost three-hour show, I’m completely wiped out. I’ve run the marathon. It’s amazing — he’s still bouncing around.”
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[METALPRIEST]

‘New’ Songs at iHeartRadio Festival



Cover Art for new McCartney CD!!

 

[METALPRIEST]

Paul's NEW Jimmy Kimmel Interview

 

[METALPRIEST]

Paul McCartney, ‘New’ – Album Review




None of the four producers who worked on Paul McCartney‘s 16th album, ‘New,’ were even around when he was making music with the Beatles that would shape both his career and the past 50 years of pop culture. And that’s a key factor to the success of McCartney’s first album of new material in six years.

Working with secondhand knowledge, or remembrances formed after the fact, of McCartney’s storied career, Paul Epworth, Mark Ronson, Ethan Johns and Giles Martin (son of Beatles producer George Martin) don’t try to re-create the legend’s legacy so much as they piece it together by their individual perceptions of it. The results make up McCartney’s best album in 30 years.

And McCartney, doing his part, takes a cue from his forward-thinking producers and cooks up a batch of songs that sounds very much part of the 21st century while still rooted in the nostalgia that has driven his career from the start. ‘Early Days’ may sound like it stems from any one of the acoustic ballads McCartney has written since ‘Yesterday’ — and it does, make no mistake. But the subtle production touches by Johns (whose father, Glyn, mixed the Beatles’ troubled ‘Get Back’ sessions before they were shelved and later resurrected by Phil Spector as ‘Let It Be’) also lend it a spark of modern-day electricity.

‘New”s best songs expand on McCartney’s pop and rock pasts without ripping them off: the opening fuzz-drenched rocker ‘Save Us,’ the late-Beatles bass-and-drums bounce of ‘Queenie Eye,’ the bubbly harpsichord-graced title track. They, along with a handful of other songs on the album that glide along similar paths, make the obvious Beatles/Wings connections without hanging onto them like a crutch.

But they don’t try to completely reinvent McCartney either, which is a credit to the producers’ willingness to step back and let a master do his thing from time to time while consistently nudging him out of his comfort zone. After spending the past few years getting reflective on records like the 2007 album ‘Memory Almost Full’ and the 2012 standard collection ‘Kisses on the Bottom,’ McCartney sounds revitalized on ‘New,’ ready for a future he helped pave all those years ago.
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