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Post by bossanova on Nov 12, 2024 15:03:02 GMT -6
We've been hanging out in lobby all day because our room isn't ready yet. We've seen most of the band head out for the venue. There's been increased security gradually lining the downstairs hallways, and there's a couple of families where the kids are all dressed up like the Fab 4 from Sgt Pepper.
Added: one of the Dads may or may not be the guy from Drunk History.
Added 2: we all just got corralled into an area by security so it looks like he's definitely coming.
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Nov 12, 2024 15:41:28 GMT -6
We've been hanging out in lobby all day because our room isn't ready yet. We've seen most of the band head out for the venue. There's been increased security gradually lining the downstairs hallways, and there's a couple of families where the kids are all dressed up like the Fab 4 from Sgt Pepper. Added: one of the Dads may or may not be the guy from Drunk History. Added 2: we all just got corralled into an area by security so it looks like he's definitely coming. If you see him, ask him if he thinks mixing ITB can achieve the same results as OTB and also what his favorite converter is right now. |
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Post by bossanova on Nov 12, 2024 16:09:35 GMT -6
We've been hanging out in lobby all day because our room isn't ready yet. We've seen most of the band head out for the venue. There's been increased security gradually lining the downstairs hallways, and there's a couple of families where the kids are all dressed up like the Fab 4 from Sgt Pepper. Added: one of the Dads may or may not be the guy from Drunk History. Added 2: we all just got corralled into an area by security so it looks like he's definitely coming. If you see him, ask him if he thinks mixing ITB can achieve the same results as OTB and also what his favorite converter is right now. Unfortunately, my technical questions were drowned out by a sea of “We love you Paul!”, but we were 2 or 3 feet away from him. I would have been just as likely to ask if the press material for *McCartney* will ever be updated to indicate that most of the album was recorded (and mixed) at Abbey Road. So many generations of home recordists frustrated and wondering why they can’t get the sound of “Maybe I’m Amazed” from their living and dining rooms 😁 |
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Post by tonycamphd on Nov 12, 2024 16:22:56 GMT -6
We've been hanging out in lobby all day because our room isn't ready yet. We've seen most of the band head out for the venue. There's been increased security gradually lining the downstairs hallways, and there's a couple of families where the kids are all dressed up like the Fab 4 from Sgt Pepper. Added: one of the Dads may or may not be the guy from Drunk History. Added 2: we all just got corralled into an area by security so it looks like he's definitely coming. If you see him, ask him if he thinks mixing ITB can achieve the same results as OTB and also what his favorite converter is right now. friggin hilarious! Ask either that or who's better Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes? |
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Post by doubledog on Nov 12, 2024 16:41:36 GMT -6
If you see him, ask him if he thinks mixing ITB can achieve the same results as OTB and also what his favorite converter is right now. friggin hilarious! Ask either that or who's better Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes? obviously it's Ace Frehley |
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Post by ab101 on Nov 12, 2024 17:37:48 GMT -6
Darn. I was hoping he would share dithering tips.  |
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Post by Ward on Nov 12, 2024 17:44:38 GMT -6
friggin hilarious! Ask either that or who's better Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes? obviously it's Ace Frehley Pfft Amateur. it's Nigel Tufnel |
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Post by chessparov on Nov 12, 2024 17:50:54 GMT -6
friggin hilarious! Ask either that or who's better Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes? obviously it's Ace Frehley Can he even speak freely? |
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Post by Johnkenn on Nov 12, 2024 18:14:43 GMT -6
We've been hanging out in lobby all day because our room isn't ready yet. We've seen most of the band head out for the venue. There's been increased security gradually lining the downstairs hallways, and there's a couple of families where the kids are all dressed up like the Fab 4 from Sgt Pepper. Added: one of the Dads may or may not be the guy from Drunk History. Added 2: we all just got corralled into an area by security so it looks like he's definitely coming. If you see him, ask him if he thinks mixing ITB can achieve the same results as OTB and also what his favorite converter is right now. Well, to be fair…there aren’t many studios with an army of U48s and a REDD47 console hanging around to be recorded in…but your point stands: it wouldn’t have mattered what he recorded it on. |
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Post by poppaflavor on Nov 12, 2024 18:43:34 GMT -6
friggin hilarious! Ask either that or who's better Eddie Van Halen or Randy Rhodes? obviously it's Ace Frehley Lol. Only if Brian May had never been born. King of soaring angelic solos. |
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Post by mike on Nov 12, 2024 19:05:22 GMT -6
Saw him in concert 10 years ago in Minneapolis, and again 5 years ago at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Fantastic both times!
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Post by geoff738 on Nov 12, 2024 19:31:22 GMT -6
I have stayed in the hotel Macca and presumably Wings stayed at in the early 70s when they were recording in NOLA. I was ther 15 plus years after the fact. A couple times. As I recall it was pretty reasonable at the time. I saw Lanois in the quarter on one of those visits. I would later learn we were kinda sorta in the same hood in Toronto. But that is getting OT.
Cheers,
Geoff
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Nov 12, 2024 19:55:22 GMT -6
I have stayed in the hotel Macca and presumably Wings stayed at in the early 70s when they were recording in NOLA. I was ther 15 plus years after the fact. A couple times. As I recall it was pretty reasonable at the time. I saw Lanois in the quarter on one of those visits. I would later learn we were kinda sorta in the same hood in Toronto. But that is getting OT. Cheers, Geoff Are you near London ON? |
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Post by drbill on Nov 12, 2024 21:28:04 GMT -6
AWESOME!!!! Ask him if he's still using his Silver Bullet!!!
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Post by doubledog on Nov 12, 2024 23:12:03 GMT -6
obviously it's Ace Frehley Lol. Only if Brian May had never been born. King of soaring angelic solos. in case you missed it... |
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Post by bossanova on Nov 13, 2024 0:31:41 GMT -6
Show was awesome, everything you'd expect. God Bless Paul McCartney.
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Post by thehightenor on Nov 13, 2024 2:28:18 GMT -6
He get’s about - a lot of people have a Paul McCartney story! I sat behind him in the royal box (no less) at a Genesis concert in 1986. I plucked up the courage and asked him what he thought of the band and he was definitely a fan! I went back stage to meet Phil Collins and after 10 minutes it was times up mate ….. Paul’s arrive to see Phil. Phil Collins in his day was super impressive, massive drum sound, spectacular playing and that expressive tenor voice. Talent will out - as I got older I started to realise I just wasn’t that talented |
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Post by miscreantrecords on Nov 13, 2024 3:54:21 GMT -6
This is an amazing experience I envy! Thanks for sharing. Ive loved the beatles since I was born. Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson changed my life. |
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Post by poppaflavor on Nov 13, 2024 13:00:41 GMT -6
This is an amazing experience I envy! Thanks for sharing. Ive loved the beatles since I was born. Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson changed my life. Absolutely do not want to hijack this awesome thread, but just in case you haven't seen this YouTube channel that goes in depth into the Brian Wilson compositions, I'd highly recommend it! It's an utterly fun video series, the creator Tim Smolens is creatively quirky, and the insight into a vast array of Brian Wilson's compositions is stunning. It's truly a tour de force. There's a ton of awesome insight across his videos, here's one for example. |
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Post by geoff738 on Nov 13, 2024 13:33:14 GMT -6
I have stayed in the hotel Macca and presumably Wings stayed at in the early 70s when they were recording in NOLA. I was ther 15 plus years after the fact. A couple times. As I recall it was pretty reasonable at the time. I saw Lanois in the quarter on one of those visits. I would later learn we were kinda sorta in the same hood in Toronto. But that is getting OT. Cheers, Geoff Are you near London ON? Grew up there. Moving back at least temporarily as I have been evicted from my place in Toronto. Cheers, Geoff |
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Post by gravesnumber9 on Nov 13, 2024 14:35:04 GMT -6
Grew up there. Moving back at least temporarily as I have been evicted from my place in Toronto. Cheers, Geoff Good buddy of mine from that area. I think he's back in Hamilton now but during Covid he mentioned he was living like a couple neighborhoods over from Daniel Lanois. Can't remember where exaclty. Anyway, great musician and something of a producer/engineer himself. Bryce Clifford, his brother owns Clifford Brewing (great beer). Great guys. |
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Post by poppaflavor on Nov 13, 2024 17:16:19 GMT -6
Lol. Only if Brian May had never been born. King of soaring angelic solos. in case you missed it... Sir, I'm afraid perhaps it May have been you who isn't privy to the most pertinent information critical to resolving this conundrum. Please, allow me to elucidate the insight upon which my premise was constructed so you May be enlightened? You May find this heresy, but in my opinion the best guitarists are NOT those who gloriously dominate the stage with their incessantly wailing doodly doodly dooooO0Oooooooo (SRV, Yingve Malmsteen), or those who look tooo cool for school while incrementally and intricately riffing on esoteric minutiae (Paco de Lucia, Pepe Romero), or those who feign to be in a band but as soon as the spotlight May swing towards them lose no time in stealing it to showcase their personal sizzling solos that rip my ears out of the song's storyline and scream to me "Look Ma, No Hands!!" (Ace, Eddie). No sir. To Poppa, the best guitarist is that who isn't necessarily front an center at any point, but isn't some shrinking violet lurking about and wallflowering in the back. One whose contribution is absolutely essential to making the song the song. One whose guitar completes the story... Like you can hear the rest of the song singing "You Complete Me" when the guitar dips in and out. One who, even when their 'solo' time arises, ensures that it continues the breathtaking story unabated even as I listen with bated breath. There is no limelight here for this guitarist, just a set of sweaty dudes rocking their souls out to tell us their story. Each has a part to tell, and our guitarist doesn't sit at the campfire and demand to deliver the story punchline from The Golden Arm while relegating other band members to clapping at the delivery. Brian May is this mythical guitarist incarnate. Evidence is everywhere, but this following piece of evidence is utterly irrefutable that he fufills the purpose and function I described above: I mean... My God Man! May literally carries the story in his solo (2:55 timestamp)! May's guitar literally completes Freddie's topline melody with his guitar at points as Freddie's vocals acquiesce. I never hear other guitarists do that. I'd love to listen to other May-esque examples if they exist. PS- I respect all those other guitarists listed above and all other that fit the egotistical archetype. But, May? I like him :-) |
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Post by chessparov on Nov 13, 2024 17:17:51 GMT -6
It’s a Mac(-ca) and Cheese (me!) dinner tonight. I’ll ask Sir Paul about the Night Before.  |
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Post by ericn on Nov 13, 2024 17:50:37 GMT -6
Sir, I'm afraid perhaps it May have been you who isn't privy to the most pertinent information critical to resolving this conundrum. Please, allow me to elucidate the insight upon which my premise was constructed so you May be enlightened? You May find this heresy, but in my opinion the best guitarists are NOT those who gloriously dominate the stage with their incessantly wailing doodly doodly dooooO0Oooooooo (SRV, Yingve Malmsteen), or those who look tooo cool for school while incrementally and intricately riffing on esoteric minutiae (Paco de Lucia, Pepe Romero), or those who feign to be in a band but as soon as the spotlight May swing towards them lose no time in stealing it to showcase their personal sizzling solos that rip my ears out of the song's storyline and scream to me "Look Ma, No Hands!!" (Ace, Eddie). No sir. To Poppa, the best guitarist is that who isn't necessarily front an center at any point, but isn't some shrinking violet lurking about and wallflowering in the back. One whose contribution is absolutely essential to making the song the song. One whose guitar completes the story... Like you can hear the rest of the song singing "You Complete Me" when the guitar dips in and out. One who, even when their 'solo' time arises, ensures that it continues the breathtaking story unabated even as I listen with bated breath. There is no limelight here for this guitarist, just a set of sweaty dudes rocking their souls out to tell us their story. Each has a part to tell, and our guitarist doesn't sit at the campfire and demand to deliver the story punchline from The Golden Arm while relegating other band members to clapping at the delivery. Brian May is this mythical guitarist incarnate. Evidence is everywhere, but this following piece of evidence is utterly irrefutable that he fufills the purpose and function I described above: I mean... My God Man! May literally carries the story in his solo (2:55 timestamp)! May's guitar literally completes Freddie's topline melody with his guitar at points as Freddie's vocals acquiesce. I never hear other guitarists do that. I'd love to listen to other May-esque examples if they exist. PS- I respect all those other guitarists listed above and all other that fit the egotistical archetype. But, May? I like him :-) When you work in a building where 90% of the employees were musicians, the argument of the “ best ..” was a daily ritual, the default answer always is “ some guy you never heard of & probably never will playing in his bedroom. |
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Post by Darren Boling on Nov 13, 2024 18:43:50 GMT -6
Saw him in concert 10 years ago in Minneapolis, and again 5 years ago at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Fantastic both times! I got to see him 5 years ago at Dodger stadium and he brought out Ringo! |
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Post by mike on Nov 13, 2024 19:56:22 GMT -6
Saw him in concert 10 years ago in Minneapolis, and again 5 years ago at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Fantastic both times! I got to see him 5 years ago at Dodger stadium and he brought out Ringo! Nice! , I think I may have seen YouTube footage of that one online, but what a treat. |
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Post by bossanova on Nov 14, 2024 8:37:13 GMT -6
He get’s about - a lot of people have a Paul McCartney story! I sat behind him in the royal box (no less) at a Genesis concert in 1986. I plucked up the courage and asked him what he thought of the band and he was definitely a fan! I went back stage to meet Phil Collins and after 10 minutes it was times up mate ….. Paul’s arrive to see Phil. Phil Collins in his day was super impressive, massive drum sound, spectacular playing and that expressive tenor voice. Talent will out - as I got older I started to realise I just wasn’t that talented I deeply understand that one. I was still slogging at it until a few years ago thinking that it was just a matter of me catching my break. Then, of all things, I watched Lady Gaga perform on the Oscars and it sank in all at once that I'm "talented" but I don't have that level of world-class talent in any of the areas that one needs to really make it to the next level as a musician and/or performer. (Phil Collins does.) And that's okay, it was just jarring to come to that conclusion around the age of 35, but it's a relief in a lot of ways as well. |
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Post by thehightenor on Nov 14, 2024 9:29:16 GMT -6
He get’s about - a lot of people have a Paul McCartney story! I sat behind him in the royal box (no less) at a Genesis concert in 1986. I plucked up the courage and asked him what he thought of the band and he was definitely a fan! I went back stage to meet Phil Collins and after 10 minutes it was times up mate ….. Paul’s arrive to see Phil. Phil Collins in his day was super impressive, massive drum sound, spectacular playing and that expressive tenor voice. Talent will out - as I got older I started to realise I just wasn’t that talented I deeply understand that one. I was still slogging at it until a few years ago thinking that it was just a matter of me catching my break. Then, of all things, I watched Lady Gaga perform on the Oscars and it sank in all at once that I'm "talented" but I don't have that level of world-class talent in any of the areas that one needs to really make it to the next level as a musician and/or performer. (Phil Collins does.) And that's okay, it was just jarring to come to that conclusion around the age of 35, but it's a relief in a lot of ways as well. I still write albums and perform, I’m now 61 years old. I have my own band made up of ex pro touring players who clearly don’t agree with my conclusions! They give their time for free, even pay towards rehearsals because it appears they love performing my songs. So you know you’ve got to take the little things and pat yourself on the back every now and then. |
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Post by chessparov on Nov 14, 2024 12:46:20 GMT -6
I’m confident you’re being modest. |
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Post by bossanova on Nov 14, 2024 17:58:50 GMT -6
In an amusing postscript, my wife and I were asked a series of questions by customs upon returning to Austin. They were curious as to why we went to Mexico for 36 hours with no suitcases.🤔
Fortunately, the customs officer was satisfied by our enthusiastic descriptions of our brush with Sir Paul and the following concert.😁
I spotted some members of Paul's band hanging out in the hotel the day after the show and I wanted to tell them how much I appreciated their playing, but I hesitated both times and next thing I knew they were headed elsewhere.
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