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Post by backseat on May 25, 2014 13:50:19 GMT -5
Maybe you're aware of this, since it's out from November, but in any case...It's available on Amazon UK
TITLE: Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013). A Journey Through Paul McCartney's Songs After The Beatles. Foreword by Tony Clark. LANGUAGE: English AUTHOR: Luca Perasi PAGES: 440 PRICE: 28 euros ISBN: 9788890912214 DESCRIPTION: The stories behind all of Paul McCartney’s solo career compositions in chronological order of recording, from "McCartney" to "New". Recording dates, studios and “who played what” on each song. Includes 70 exclusive interviews with musicians, arrangers, producers and collaborators who worked with McCartney through the years: Denny Seiwell, Laurence Juber, Richard Niles, Richard Hewson, Alan O'Duffy, Carl Davis, Neil Dorfsman, Carlos Alomar, Jerry Marotta, Steve Holly... and many others!
A couple of worthy reviews:
EDWARD EIKELENBOOM, Maccazine editor: link "Many books about The Beatles have been published over the years – maybe too many books. But every once in a while an author really delivers the goods. This is the case with Luca Perasi’s new book describing the recording process of songs from Paul McCartney’s solo career, starting with The Lovely Linda from 1969 and ending with the hidden track Scared from his latest album NEW. In 428 pages this Italian author tells the story of 383 McCartney compositions. This is not an easy story to tell, because there is still so much we don’t know. However, Luca did his very best compiling all available information – from interviews, magazines, record releases and many other sources – displaying a lot of admiration for the most successful musician in the world ever! Like this is not enough he also interviewed over 70 people who worked with McCartney during his solo career. This information is especially valuable. The Paul McCartney Recording Sessions book is not only interesting for hard core fans, but also for people who just love this brilliant music and would like to know more about it. Nice detail is the L.I.L.Y Publishing as a tribute to the beloved Linda, a woman strong enough to join a band without having any musical training and who became a very important member of Wings. I cannot say that Luca Perasi’s book is the definite book about McCartney’s solo career as there is still so much to uncover, but it is a brave and successful attempt – written with love and dedication that can only be done by someone who is a real fan indeed. “When you got a job to do, you gotta do it well” – as Paul sings in Live And Let Die. Luca, this is a job well done indeed!" (Edward Eikelenboom)
JOSHUA LAPIN BERTONE: link
"If someone wanted to learn how the Beatles recorded “Strawberry Fields Forever”, it wouldn’t take them long to find out. There are tons of books out there which detail every step of the song’s birth from John’s composition of it to the even...tual recording of it at EMI Studios. Beatle scholars have no difficulty finding out every tidbit about the recording sessions. Unfortunately, one wouldn’t have the same luck if they wanted to learn about how Wings “Little Lamb Dragonfly” was recorded. There are limited resources out there for those who wish to learn about recordings sessions the Fab Four did after they split up. Luca Perasi saw the void and filled it. His book “Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions (1969-2013)” covers just what its title implies. The book begins with the secret 1969 recordings for the “McCartney” album and ends with entries on “New”. While the “Eight Arms To Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium” covers similar ground, that book is almost fifteen years old and new information is always coming to life. “Recording Sessions” even corrects some material which was incorrect in “Eight Arms”. Each song gets its own entry. The entry details where and when the song was recorded, who played what instruments on it and other miscellaneous details. Luca interviewed many musicians, engineers and other industry professionals to get the story straight. In doing so he’s brought never before heard stories onto these pages. He even had Monique Seiwell (wife of Wings first drummer Denny Seiwell) consult her diary to get some recording dates and locations correctly. That’s what I call following up on leads! Tony Clark, an engineer whose name should be familiar to McCartney fans, also helped consult on the book and gives a great introduction. This isn’t a complete look at Paul’s recording career. In order to make the book’s mission statement more obtainable, only McCartney penned compositions are covered. This means that non-McCartney written songs such as Wings “Medicine Jar” (written by Jimmy McCulloch) and various cover songs aren’t represented. While their absence is notable, the wealth of information on the rest of the catalogue is more than enough to make up for it. When you’re being served a five course meal, you don’t complain that there isn’t enough bread. I’ve seen some reviews bemoan the book’s lack of pictures, but I didn’t read the book for photos. I wanted a book that would tell me the story of Paul’s post Beatle recording career, and this more than delivered. I consider myself a McCartney scholar, and I’ve read many books on his recording career. There were many times in this book that I found myself learning new pieces of information. There were some surprises and lots of interesting stories. I was very impressed with the amount of research Luca took in putting this together. This book is a must have for any Paul McCartney fans and belongs on the shelf right next to Madinger and Easter’s “Eight Arms To Hold You” and Lewisohn’s “Complete Beatles Recording Sessions”.
Cheers!
Luca
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Post by winstonoboogie on May 25, 2014 14:01:57 GMT -5
Welcome, luca! Have you met our board McCartney maven, Return to Pepperland (or RTP for short)? ;-)
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Post by stavros on May 25, 2014 16:46:13 GMT -5
Good luck with the book. It doesn't seem to be easily available from Amazon in either the UK or USA at the moment. In the meantime there is a webpages.charter.net/ram71/
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Post by backseat on May 25, 2014 17:18:40 GMT -5
Good luck with the book. It doesn't seem to be easily available from Amazon in either the UK or USA at the moment. In the meantime there is a webpages.charter.net/ram71/It is available on Amazon UK. Here: Amazon UK
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Post by stavros on May 25, 2014 17:59:03 GMT -5
Good luck with the book. It doesn't seem to be easily available from Amazon in either the UK or USA at the moment. In the meantime there is a webpages.charter.net/ram71/It is available on Amazon UK. Here: Amazon UKNothing against yourself personally but this is only via a secondary vendor and £22.67 is a pretty steep for a paperback book in the UK. Most books of the sort are around £10 - £15 max. There is no other choice on Amazon UK I am sure a lot of work went into the book and I wish you well. However there is no way I am going to fork out that much for a paperback. Have you considered a Kindle version?
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Post by kc on May 25, 2014 19:08:50 GMT -5
Welcome Luca/backseat. I think I would probably be interested in buying the book at some point. Will there be future re-printings and distributions?
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Post by backseat on May 26, 2014 5:23:22 GMT -5
Welcome, luca! Have you met our board McCartney maven, Return to Pepperland (or RTP for short)? ;-) Hope this is the right place to meet him!
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Post by backseat on May 26, 2014 5:46:56 GMT -5
Nothing against yourself personally but this is only via a secondary vendor and £22.67 is a pretty steep for a paperback book in the UK. Most books of the sort are around £10 - £15 max. There is no other choice on Amazon UK I am sure a lot of work went into the book and I wish you well. However there is no way I am going to fork out that much for a paperback. Have you considered a Kindle version? Hello Stavros, I'm sure there's nothing against me personally Just a couple of things: the product is on stock in the Amazon warehouse and is shipped by Amazon directly. So it makes no difference between this and the other products: it's simply a different deal. To buy or not to buy...well, it's up to anybody. Allow me to say that I' not interested in establishing a connection between prices of other books and mine: IMHO, only prices and quality of the product should be linked. If someone says "my product TOO offers this..." you're killing yourself. It means you have nothing to offer. The message should ever be "ONLY my product offers this...".Personally, I prefer to have something new and interesting in a product, and not simply thinking how much does it cost. This is surely a book that contains NEW information. This book is totally different from, let's say, Doyle's one that , to me, tells the story of Paul McCartney's career the same way many others did. This is the first book dedicated to Paul McCartney's compositions in detail and I interviewed 70 different people, with such names like engineers Tony Clark (at Abbey Road from 1964 to early Eighties), Alan O'Duffy (VENUS AND MARS), arrangers like Richard Hewson, Alan Broadbent, Fiachra Trench, producers like Neil Dorsfman, musicians like Jerry Marotta, Carlos Alomar, Denny Seiwell, Steve Holley, Laurence Juber. It has an historical approach, and that's the aim of the work.
If you want to know how Paul's compositions were born, how they were recorded and developed in the studio (according to various sources, each one of them is quoted, since the book has got nearly 900 footnotes), who played what, this is your book. Otherwise, there are other books that could fit anyone's tastes. I'll post the interview done by Steve Marinucci last March asap: hope it helps everybody to form a clear picture about how the resesarch was conducted. And soon the LOOKINSIDE option will be featured on Amazon.
Luca
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Post by backseat on May 27, 2014 15:11:16 GMT -5
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Post by stavros on May 27, 2014 16:38:30 GMT -5
Hello Stavros, I'm sure there's nothing against me personally Just a couple of things: the product is on stock in the Amazon warehouse and is shipped by Amazon directly. So it makes no difference between this and the other products: it's simply a different deal. To buy or not to buy...well, it's up to anybody. Allow me to say that I' not interested in establishing a connection between prices of other books and mine: IMHO, only prices and quality of the product should be linked. If someone says "my product TOO offers this..." you're killing yourself. It means you have nothing to offer. The message should ever be "ONLY my product offers this...".Personally, I prefer to have something new and interesting in a product, and not simply thinking how much does it cost. This is surely a book that contains NEW information. This book is totally different from, let's say, Doyle's one that , to me, tells the story of Paul McCartney's career the same way many others did. This is the first book dedicated to Paul McCartney's compositions in detail and I interviewed 70 different people, with such names like engineers Tony Clark (at Abbey Road from 1964 to early Eighties), Alan O'Duffy (VENUS AND MARS), arrangers like Richard Hewson, Alan Broadbent, Fiachra Trench, producers like Neil Dorsfman, musicians like Jerry Marotta, Carlos Alomar, Denny Seiwell, Steve Holley, Laurence Juber. It has an historical approach, and that's the aim of the work.
If you want to know how Paul's compositions were born, how they were recorded and developed in the studio (according to various sources, each one of them is quoted, since the book has got nearly 900 footnotes), who played what, this is your book. Otherwise, there are other books that could fit anyone's tastes. I'll post the interview done by Steve Marinucci last March asap: hope it helps everybody to form a clear picture about how the research was conducted. And soon the LOOKINSIDE option will be featured on Amazon.
Luca
Well thank you for taking the time to reply in such detail Luca. You are a good salesman sir. The look inside option on Amazon is not yet available. So tell you what. If you give us a little a preview of it on here (of say one song or interview) then I'll buy your book and review it on here as I read it. Is that a deal?
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Post by debjorgo on May 27, 2014 18:22:28 GMT -5
We could had used backseat here when we were on that "Who Played Bass on Silly Love Songs" thread. At the time, Wiki had the bass as being played by Harold Cowart. He is the bass player for the Playboys, the band who did Judy in Disguise. It also had Barry Gibb producing some of the tracks on the album. Perasi (or his book, most likely) could have cleared that up pretty quick.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on May 27, 2014 19:42:53 GMT -5
I will say that the book is very detailed. Luca put a lot of work into it.
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Post by backseat on May 28, 2014 2:45:14 GMT -5
Hello Stavros, I'm sure there's nothing against me personally Just a couple of things: the product is on stock in the Amazon warehouse and is shipped by Amazon directly. So it makes no difference between this and the other products: it's simply a different deal. To buy or not to buy...well, it's up to anybody. Allow me to say that I' not interested in establishing a connection between prices of other books and mine: IMHO, only prices and quality of the product should be linked. If someone says "my product TOO offers this..." you're killing yourself. It means you have nothing to offer. The message should ever be "ONLY my product offers this...".Personally, I prefer to have something new and interesting in a product, and not simply thinking how much does it cost. This is surely a book that contains NEW information. This book is totally different from, let's say, Doyle's one that , to me, tells the story of Paul McCartney's career the same way many others did. This is the first book dedicated to Paul McCartney's compositions in detail and I interviewed 70 different people, with such names like engineers Tony Clark (at Abbey Road from 1964 to early Eighties), Alan O'Duffy (VENUS AND MARS), arrangers like Richard Hewson, Alan Broadbent, Fiachra Trench, producers like Neil Dorsfman, musicians like Jerry Marotta, Carlos Alomar, Denny Seiwell, Steve Holley, Laurence Juber. It has an historical approach, and that's the aim of the work.
If you want to know how Paul's compositions were born, how they were recorded and developed in the studio (according to various sources, each one of them is quoted, since the book has got nearly 900 footnotes), who played what, this is your book. Otherwise, there are other books that could fit anyone's tastes. I'll post the interview done by Steve Marinucci last March asap: hope it helps everybody to form a clear picture about how the research was conducted. And soon the LOOKINSIDE option will be featured on Amazon.
Luca
Well thank you for taking the time to reply in such detail Luca. You are a good salesman sir. The look inside option on Amazon is not yet available. So tell you what. If you give us a little a preview of it on here (of say one song or interview) then I'll buy your book and review it on here as I read it. Is that a deal? Hi Stavros, I will sure give some preview here. I'll prepare a couple of pages, so to show how the book is structured. The LookInside option shoud be working the next week. Certainly it helps everyone to understand the features of the book and it's a great tool which I used many times to take a decision about my purchases.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 3:28:26 GMT -5
I'm definitely thinking about buying this book, i'll look into it when i get back from Sydney.
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Post by vectisfabber on May 28, 2014 4:33:27 GMT -5
It interests me, too - it sounds like the sort of book I love.
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Post by backseat on May 28, 2014 4:45:17 GMT -5
We could had used backseat here when we were on that "Who Played Bass on Silly Love Songs" thread. At the time, Wiki had the bass as being played by Harold Cowart. He is the bass player for the Playboys, the band who did Judy in Disguise. It also had Barry Gibb producing some of the tracks on the album. Perasi (or his book, most likely) could have cleared that up pretty quick. Aaahh, that Wiki page about SILLY LOVE SONGS! It was clearly a fake...maybe someone made confusion or made fool of us. Generally speaking, I've heard many times people (not here) saying, 'well, it's on Wikipedia'. That means nothing, unless the source is quoted. Anyone could add anything to Wiki, and sometimes someone is enjoying writing silly things. Anyway... What the state of our knowledge about the recording of SILLY LOVE SONGS? Roughly, that's what is reported in my book: 1. Recording date and location: January 16th, 1976 Abbey Road, with some overdubbing probably in February. Date taken from the Dutch magazine MACCAZINE and discovered- if I'm not wrong - by Chip Madinger. 2. An interesting report by Barbara Charone (from Sounds, April 1976) who witnessed the rehearsal/recording session of the song. Paul was rehearsing the song on piano leading English on drums throught the song. 3 . An interview by Tom Mulhern (1990), where Paul talks about the bass' line. 4. During my interview with arranger Fiachra Trench - who arranged THE NOTE YOU NEVER WROTE and WARM AND BEAUTIFUL - he said he did not arrange SILLY LOVE SONGS. Apparently, no-one knows who did it, after all these years...Certainly, it owes much to Al Green's SHA LA LA... (judge yourself upon hearing) That's my guess/reconstruction about "who played what" in the song: PAUL: vocals, backing vocals, bass, piano (? but it could have been handled by Laine for the recording of the backing track), Mellotron (? the effects used for the intro...who knows), percussion (?) LINDA: backing vocals DENNY LAINE: backing vocals, piano (?), percussion (?) JIMMY McCULLOCH (?): electric guitar (?, maybe thers's some chords in the background) JOE ENGLISH: drums, percussion (?) STEVE HOWARD, THADDEUS RICHARD, TONY DORSEY, HOWIE CASEY: horns UNKNOWN MUSICIANS: strings Hope it helps! Luca
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Post by backseat on May 29, 2014 12:04:08 GMT -5
A fresh review by Chaz Lipp, contributor for the Morton Report. He calls the book "an essential reading for any serious Paul McCartney fan". Click this link to read it: Review by Chaz Lipp
Luca
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Post by John S. Damm on May 29, 2014 17:26:58 GMT -5
Welcome backseat!
As soon as you mentioned Tony Clark(I have also seen it Clarke) my heartbeat jumped as he was an engineer on Wings Wild Life and is the person Paul shouts to at the start of "Mumbo," with, "Take it Tony!"
"Mumbo" is among my top three Beatles/Solo Beatles songs and I once did something called The Mumbo Stomp to it but I was young and trim back then, it involves bonfires, shedding ones clothes and dancing with wild abandon.
Your book sounds neat!
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Post by backseat on May 30, 2014 2:49:13 GMT -5
Welcome backseat! As soon as you mentioned Tony Clark(I have also seen it Clarke) my heartbeat jumped as he was an engineer on Wings Wild Life and is the person Paul shouts to at the start of "Mumbo," with, "Take it Tony!" "Mumbo" is among my top three Beatles/Solo Beatles songs and I once did something called The Mumbo Stomp to it but I was young and trim back then, it involves bonfires, shedding ones clothes and dancing with wild abandon. Your book sounds neat! Great track "Mumbo"!!! Correct name is Clark...it was mispelled on the cover of Wild Life. Yes, he told me he was nicknamed TAKE IT TONY for a while at Abbey Road after the album came out!!!
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Post by backseat on Jun 4, 2014 12:04:13 GMT -5
For anyone interested, there's a podcast of my interview at the BEATLE BUG SHOW here: The Beatle Bugscroll down the page and the last one is mine LUCA PERASI INTERVIEW: PAUL McCARTNEY RECORDING SESSIONS 1969-2013 Enjoy it!! Luca
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Post by backseat on Jun 14, 2014 5:41:58 GMT -5
Hello everyone, and sorry for the delay. Since the Amazon preview it's not yet available (I'm waiting for a simple password...) here's a taster of what's inside. I hope you'll like it and post it more in the next days. Luca Same Time Next Year.pdf (49.22 KB)
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Post by sayne on Jun 14, 2014 20:59:30 GMT -5
I was always curious why Paul used bassist Stanley Clarke. It actually irked me that he had Stanley play bass. I saw it has if Eric Clapton met Eddie Van Halen and had Eddie play lead while Eric strummed the guitar. I would have rather heard Paul and Stanley play bass together, weaving their bass parts. As I was writing this post, I decided to see if there was anything about Paul and Stanley and found this really good old interview. Enjoy! I found it to be one of the best I've read. Really substantive and not sycophantic or trite. www.wingspan.ru/intereng/gp90.htmlPS: Here's a portion of an interview done with Stanley Clarke about Paul's bass playing: STANLEY CLARKE: "Paul definitely had an influence on my bass playing, not so much technically, but more with his philosophy of melodic bass liens-especially as I hit my teens and the Beatles' records became more adventurous. On tracks like 'Come Together,' the bass line WAS the song. I've always liked that. The only other person I knew of who was doing that was James Jamerson. That was one of the reasons I was inspired to write 'School Days': so I could just play the bass lines and people would hear a whole song. I had the honor of being contacted by Paul through George Martin to play on "Tug of War," and I also appeared on "Pipes of Peace" [both on Capitol]. Paul was very nice. He asked me to show him how to slap. During Pipes we got a groove going in a studio jam, and it ended up making on the album as 'Hey Hey.' He graciously gave me a co-writing credit, and it's still a thrill to see my name next to his above the music in the song book. "
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jun 15, 2014 14:38:23 GMT -5
I was always curious why Paul used bassist Stanley Clarke. It actually irked me that he had Stanley play bass. I saw it has if Eric Clapton met Eddie Van Halen and had Eddie play lead while Eric strummed the guitar. I would have rather heard Paul and Stanley play bass together, weaving their bass parts. As I was writing this post, I decided to see if there was anything about Paul and Stanley and found this really good old interview. Enjoy! I found it to be one of the best I've read. Really substantive and not sycophantic or trite. www.wingspan.ru/intereng/gp90.htmlPS: Here's a portion of an interview done with Stanley Clarke about Paul's bass playing: STANLEY CLARKE: "Paul definitely had an influence on my bass playing, not so much technically, but more with his philosophy of melodic bass liens-especially as I hit my teens and the Beatles' records became more adventurous. On tracks like 'Come Together,' the bass line WAS the song. I've always liked that. The only other person I knew of who was doing that was James Jamerson. That was one of the reasons I was inspired to write 'School Days': so I could just play the bass lines and people would hear a whole song. I had the honor of being contacted by Paul through George Martin to play on "Tug of War," and I also appeared on "Pipes of Peace" [both on Capitol]. Paul was very nice. He asked me to show him how to slap. During Pipes we got a groove going in a studio jam, and it ended up making on the album as 'Hey Hey.' He graciously gave me a co-writing credit, and it's still a thrill to see my name next to his above the music in the song book. "Good point. Maybe Paul wanted to concentrate on guitar/keyboards/vocals etc.? Of course, he wasn't alone - witness previous threads on George never playing lead at his own live performances or Ringo always having a second drummer on stage after the rooftop. Paul - I mean, RTP - would you have any insights?
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Post by backseat on Jun 15, 2014 15:54:02 GMT -5
I was always curious why Paul used bassist Stanley Clarke. It actually irked me that he had Stanley play bass. I saw it has if Eric Clapton met Eddie Van Halen and had Eddie play lead while Eric strummed the guitar. I would have rather heard Paul and Stanley play bass together, weaving their bass parts. As I was writing this post, I decided to see if there was anything about Paul and Stanley and found this really good old interview. Enjoy! I found it to be one of the best I've read. Really substantive and not sycophantic or trite. www.wingspan.ru/intereng/gp90.htmlPS: Here's a portion of an interview done with Stanley Clarke about Paul's bass playing: STANLEY CLARKE: "Paul definitely had an influence on my bass playing, not so much technically, but more with his philosophy of melodic bass liens-especially as I hit my teens and the Beatles' records became more adventurous. On tracks like 'Come Together,' the bass line WAS the song. I've always liked that. The only other person I knew of who was doing that was James Jamerson. That was one of the reasons I was inspired to write 'School Days': so I could just play the bass lines and people would hear a whole song. I had the honor of being contacted by Paul through George Martin to play on "Tug of War," and I also appeared on "Pipes of Peace" [both on Capitol]. Paul was very nice. He asked me to show him how to slap. During Pipes we got a groove going in a studio jam, and it ended up making on the album as 'Hey Hey.' He graciously gave me a co-writing credit, and it's still a thrill to see my name next to his above the music in the song book. "Good point. Maybe Paul wanted to concentrate on guitar/keyboards/vocals etc.? Of course, he wasn't alone - witness previous threads on George never playing lead at his own live performances or Ringo always having a second drummer on stage after the rooftop. Paul - I mean, RTP - would you have any insights? I think during the eighties Paul - without a group backing him - tried different things and approaches. Padgham recalled that during the Press To Play sessions Paul asked to hire a bass player...
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Post by stavros on Jun 17, 2014 16:38:45 GMT -5
I finally received my copy of the book. Luckily I didn't pay £19525.15 as per this link : www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/8890912219/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=usedI haven't read it through as yet but it is very much in the vein of an Encyclopaedia of the post Beatles McCartney songbook. So you can dip in and out at bits you are interested in and/or read it from cover to cover. It's somewhat larger than standard paperbacks and on high quality paper. It also appears to be a labour of love on Luca's part. He's included b-sides, oddities and Fireman tracks as well - from McCartney to New, When I've given it a bit more of read I'll update this thread.
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Post by sayne on Jul 2, 2014 20:20:49 GMT -5
Padgham recalled that during the Press To Play sessions Paul asked to hire a bass player... I really don't like that (along with George and Ringo getting other lead players or second drummers). The only way I would accept another bass player is if Paul needed a double-bass or slap bass playing - to go along with his own playing, not as a substitute. I can't imagine Ian Anderson, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Keith Emerson, Ry Cooder, Elton John, John Popper, not playing while someone else did. I would love to hear them go back and forth with someone who is also good at their instrument, but not instead of them.
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Post by backseat on Jul 3, 2014 8:43:45 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 3, 2014 18:04:29 GMT -5
There was only one and I bought it.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 5, 2014 8:19:49 GMT -5
There was only one and I bought it. There's two more listed now.
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Post by theman on Jul 5, 2014 13:46:15 GMT -5
And then there was one;),
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