Every time I listen to XTC/Partridge, I think of McCartney.
He had a great potentiality as an artist.He could and should have been much more.However, his solo work was often so self-indulgent.He destroyed his talent by not using it.

cjh wrote:>> Wig can work it out <<
Paul McCartney and the phantom syrup

The backstage area of Later With Jools
Holland this week was buzzing after one
of the show's team loudly claimed that Paul
McCartney had a hairpiece.

FYI: Everyone was calling Macca "Cilla Black"
behind his back, thanks to chipmunk teeth
and skin stretched way too tight on the face.

and now, thanks to this week's popbitch, it seems that Lady McCartney is dishing more dirt:

Peg-Leg wrote:Following last week's claim that Macca has a syrup, we hear that Lady Mucca has been telling friends some further hair-raising stories about her marriage. And that maybe Sir Paul is unafraid to dye not just his hair... but also his pubic hair.

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alex maiolo wrote:

Josef K wrote:Come on...Temporary Secretary?

This song, she is not so good.
I can sort of defend it though. It was recorded in 1979 and uses a step sequencer, some vocoder, drum machine, and oddly, a compressed to hell acoustic guitar played so ham fistedly it's sort of out of tune. Pretty crazy for the time. This was Kraftwerk's domain and not many others.

McCartney II was essentially him trying to figure out how all of this new gear worked, hence the song Check My Machine, which he wrote as a way of...checking out how the machines worked.

-A

Ok Alex, I can see the musical merit when you put it like that but what about the lyrics? Jeez. And, maybe it would have been better for him to learn the machines before recording an album using them.

McCartney for me is middle of the road. He occupies the same territory as Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, U2 and all that other big name shit. They don't have to try too hard to get an audience.

I saw Quentin Tarantino talking about Michael Cimino on tv once. He spoke of how Cimino gets an awful lot of abuse for his flops (mainly Heaven's Gate). He said that you can hate Michael Cimino all you want, you can go on about his failures all you like and you can call him a lost, self indulgent fool, but when it comes to the Russian Roulette scene in The Deerhunter you have to shut the fuck up.

You can hate McCartney's "granny songs". You can find him annoying, offensive, too successful, too old. You can hate him for wearing a wig and giving thumbs up all the time. You can feel nauseous at the sound of his mid-Atlantic scouse accent. You can declare that you detest every one of his solo songs, including Maybe I'm Amazed. (You'd be silly to, but you could.) You can hate him for what you think is his personality. You can call him the worst Beatle. You can rip on him for marrying a woman with one leg. You can stoop as low as you like in your uninformed diatribes against this musician.

But, when it comes to the guitar solo in Taxman, you have to shut the fuck up.

Taxman. Guitar solo. Shut the fuck up.

PMC=Midnight Toker

http://www.taima.org/en/hemplib3.htm wrote:Prior to the mishap in Japan, McCartney was busted three times for pot. He paid a $2000 fine for smuggling hashish into Sweden in 1972, was fined for pot possession in Scotland that same year and was fined $240 for growing pot on his Scottish highlands farm in 1973. His wife Linda was arrested in Los Angeles for pot possession in 1975, but the charges were dropped.

space junk wrote:Taxman. Guitar solo. Shut the fuck up.

space junk
mister rogers
Joined: 12 Jul 2006
Posts: 267
Location: Liverpool

Oh! so it's down to guitar solos is it?

Boredom. Pete Shelley. You shut the fuck up.

the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

fiery jack wrote:the guitar solo argument is somewhat akin to
"say what you like about his later work with the Jews, but at least the trains ran on time, shut the fuck up"

No, Mr. Godwin, you can accuse Macca of certain Crimes Against Music, but nobody, to my knowledge, died, and everyone has been free to not listen.

-A