Subject: Paul McCartney

Date: Fri Oct 12 22:19:44 2018
User: Dr.Bombay
Message:
Has he jumped the shark? (Or at least eased over the shark)? I’ve got Sirius XM in the car and listen to their Beatles channel a bit and every time they interview him it seems like he is trying to re-write history where everything good about the Beatles came from him (even John’s songs and George’s songs). Then he was on CBS Sunday Morning and it was even worse. Do the Brits now consider him a poser?

Date: Fri Oct 12 23:42:50 2018
User: joeygray
Message:
Of course it was John's band for the startup and during the touring years. And it was largely John's songs then, too. But pretty clearly it was Paul (and George Martin) at the helm at the height of their studio-only years. The other three got fed up with how bossy he got but that's where the musical direction was coming from. Paul likes remembering those last years more than the earlier ones, I bet.

Date: Wed Oct 17 10:01:20 2018
User: NHJack
Message:
I find it so interesting that people care about the Beatles now. I tried to like them but can't. Nobody I know likes them. And I remember watching them on the Ed Sullivan show. I find their music boring and their lyrics mediocre. Ya Ya Ya

Date: Wed Oct 17 12:27:40 2018
User: joeygray
Message:
Hmmm. Are you saying you are surprised that people have different tastes than you do? You should have gotten over that surprise many years ago, if you are old enough to have seen them on the Ed Sullivan show. Or are you saying that people ought to have 'moved on' from the Beatles - since they have so clearly been surpassed in every way by later musicians and artists? - or since people shouldn't live in the past by continuing to like things they once liked? - or some other reason? I doubt that nobody you know likes them.

Date: Wed Oct 17 12:55:37 2018
User: joeygray
Message:
I myself am old enough to have seen them on Ed Sullivan in 1964 - but I didn't. According to the internet, that show had a 45 share that night: 45% of all tvs turned on were tuned to it. Not at my house, though. If the tv was on at all, it was to NBC or ABC, but I don't think Sunday nights were big tv nights at my house. I wasn't even aware, at the time, but I do remember the awesome buzz all over school the next day - didja see it didja see it - and there I was out in the cold, nah, I didn't see it. I remember a few years later, trying to rock along singing Oh Darling, and telling my dad gosh I wish I could sing like Paul McCartney, and I remember the incredible scoffing I got from him, like buddy you better the heck set your sights higher than that! Now you can read on the internet how intensely he tried to get that just right, only allowing himself one take a day on it because of how raw it makes the voice, and taking a couple months to lay down that vocal. Are they mediocre lyrics? Why yes, they are. But I would never call that song boring due to mediocre lyrics.

Date: Wed Oct 17 15:37:48 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:
All I remember about seeing them on Ed Sullivan in 1964 was Mitzi Gaynor. A fine young lass.

Link: Mitzi

Date: Wed Oct 17 16:23:34 2018
User: joeygray
Message:
Heh. Mitzi Gaynor was on the second Beatles Ed Sullivan performance, which me and my sisters did get to see. By that time, I think a week later, Beatlemania had even reached my house! My mother m and dad complained about their hair, though. I still remember be shocked, a few years later and looking back, at how well groomed and nice they looked compared to the mangy look rock stars were pulling by then. (Early 70's I guess.)

Date: Wed Oct 17 16:50:13 2018
User: BuzzClik
Message:
I am not one to cling to my musical past, to say the least. However.... I very recently (last couple of weeks) attended a huge music festival with tens of thousands of attendees. About 90% of the crowd was under thirty -- 99.9% at all the electronica venues. McCartney was the headliner that night. I was not interested in standing in the middle of the throng that was standing-room only: about 80 yards wide and over 150 yards deep packed with people. Every geezer (older than 30) in the festival was there, but so was just about everyone else. And the entire place went bonkers for McCartney. A couple of thousand attendees went to Odesza and a couple thousand were at the Silent Disco (what the h311 is the point of that?). So, it's pretty safe to say that McCartney has not lost his appeal among the aging and has accumulated a massive following among the young. But, everyone has their own taste. It was 5 songs and out for me, but I can now say I saw McCartney in concert.

Date: Wed Oct 17 19:18:53 2018
User: outskirts
Message:
I find it funny that an a-hole makes a negative post and receives intelligent thought-out replies. Well, except interp's. Did y'all see where McCartney gave up his hair dye and went over to the gray side?

Date: Wed Oct 17 19:22:16 2018
User: outskirts
Message:
"clinging to one's musical past" ... but once the music is in ya, it's there for good. If it's good. It's a part of you you cannot deny.

Date: Wed Oct 17 19:59:48 2018
User: The_Interpreter
Message:
outskirts, you obviously don't appreciate it when a woman breaks a sweat for you.

Date: Sat Oct 20 00:24:58 2018
User: julia
Message:
I always liked George more. Although I was very effected when John was killed. I got ticked at Sir Paul when he started trying to tell us how we should run our country. Ole Ringo seems to still be a happy cat. But he can't dance, bless his heart.