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Post by debjorgo on Jul 21, 2017 18:58:32 GMT -5
I had to watch this to the end:
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 23, 2017 12:15:49 GMT -5
That is very good! I am still sorry that Wings did not make it to the U.S. in 1980. The radio stations in Chicago said they were coming.
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Post by stavros on Jul 23, 2017 15:53:27 GMT -5
God that takes me back! So please forgive me for a nostalgic ramble to my school days.
And it really was true that around that time the Beatles were somewhat unloved in the city of Liverpool. They'd long packed up and left and Liverpool was not the modern cosmopolitan city it is now. Paul still retained some kudos as he still had a large family Merseyside based. So he was still occasionally seen around and would still give interviews on local radio and TV.
The UK music scene had changed by 1979. The Cavern had 'become' Eric's and a whole host of new bands were sprouting up and playing there. Amongst them were Blondie, Buzzcocks, The Clash, Joy Division, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Police, The Stranglers, Ultravox plus many local acts like Echo and the Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Elvis Costello and OMD. The Beatles were not alone in being sidelined at this time. Popular music faced a generational shift that resulted in an explosion of new musical ideas into the 1980s. With far less media outlets in those days the older bands struggled for a while for credibility.
Of course Liverpool eventually embraced its Beatles history and it also may one day remember Eric's as fondly.
Looking back on that video I think it also shows that the next McCartney De-Luxe set should be 'Back to the Egg'. It has a wealth of material to draw from. There are rehearsal sessions from Lympne Castle, many tracks were recorded live on tour and there was even a 'video' special of the album.
Those live clips also make me wonder what Wings could have achieved had they gone on to tour the world again. If only Macca hadn't have thought he could beat Japanese customs in a game of hide and seek.
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Post by debjorgo on Jul 23, 2017 16:29:37 GMT -5
Those live clips also make me wonder what Wings could have achieved had they gone on to tour the world again. If only Macca hadn't have thought he could beat Japanese customs in a game of hide and seek. I don't think John Lennon getting shot dead outside his home in New York City that year help Paul want to tour at the time either. I remember thinking we'd never see him live again after that.
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Post by stavros on Jul 25, 2017 8:12:24 GMT -5
I don't think John Lennon getting shot dead outside his home in New York City that year help Paul want to tour at the time either. I remember thinking we'd never see him live again after that. Very true of course. But Wings would have had a good 10-11 months before that fateful day to play live. We will never know what might have been though.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jul 25, 2017 8:45:12 GMT -5
I don't think John Lennon getting shot dead outside his home in New York City that year help Paul want to tour at the time either. I remember thinking we'd never see him live again after that. Very true of course. But Wings would have had a good 10-11 months before that fateful day to play live. We will never know what might have been though. According to Howard Sounes well-researched book Fab, Paul was curiously bored and frustrated with Wings during the short U.K. leg of the 1979 Tour. He was also very pissed that he was not touring behind a world-wide #1 album as he did in 1976(at least in America). BTTE was a flop by Paul's then standards. Denny and the other Wings are quoted in the book as saying Wings were playing good on that short tour(as this video proves) but Paul himself seemed distracted, bored. That is not like Paul who loves live performances. It was weird, I think he was starting to feel left out of the then current music scene, the New Wave.
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