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McCartney Sabotaged Lennons Songs?

#141
purdie did some replacing of tracks on the album "the beatles featuring tony sheridan," but pete best was the drummer back then. purdie's made some outrageous claims that ringo never played on any of their albums, which george martin has debunked. however, paul did play drums on a handful of later beatles tracks, mostly stuff he wrote on the white album and the ballad of john and yoko.
 
#143
purdie did some replacing of tracks on the album "the beatles featuring tony sheridan," but pete best was the drummer back then.
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There's a 'interesting' radio interview with Purdie talking about this. Claims he had a 'hush-hush' meeting with Epstein, got a bag o' $$$, blah-blah..."

I can't imagine any reason that Purdie's story could be true. Epstein and the Beatles (at that time) had no reason to be concerned about those recordings. There was only ONE all-Beatles recording from this period and it was an instrumental written by Lennon and Harrison - "Cry for a Shadow" (the ONLY Beatle's recording on iTunes) and the recordings with Tony Sheridan were done with Pete Best, 14 months before Ringo was in the band.

The ONLY thing I can see that would be plausible would be a recording session that Purdie did in conjunction with some kind of sound-alike product - it WAS all about the Beatles at this point in time. Or he overdubbed the Tony Sheridan recordings probably sometime in mid-1964. These recordings were of NO interest to the Beatles, G. Martin, or Brian Epstein. These were simply to cash in on Beatlemania.

Purdie is hallucinating about meeting Epstein.

I think Purdie is misguided, confused and an incredible drummer.

Also, I was not there.
 
#145
williamk said:
I don't really like the debate of which of the 2 (macca or lennon) is the greater genius, in my opinion, the Beatles all together is genius, but none of them alone is a genius. Their solo careers are proof of this; nothing that's been done by any of the 4 Beatles AFTER the Beatles is genius, whereas everything the Beatles have maid is genius.
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Pauls work with wings alone was fantastic. Everything else has just been icing on the cake!

H
 
#147
I dunno, I always thought that McCartney wouldn't have come up with stuff like Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey if Lennon hadn't written the bulk of A Day in the Life type of stuff. Rain is another example of what I mean. Lennon and McCartney really pushed each other to write better even if some of it was from competition between them. And anyone that thinks he wrote simple bass lines for his (McCartney's) songs needs to listen to Paperback Writer.

Kicking bass line on those songs, that's for sure.
 
#149
Stick_Player said:
In Bernard Purdies's own words

Man, this guy is a loon.
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Side note: a friend of mine took a single drum lesson from Purdie years ago. He told me the "lesson" consisted of him sitting behind the kit and just playing while Purdie walked around the room, reached into his fridge to pull out a leftover fried chicken leg, and yelling, "groove!" every few minutes. :confused: My friend never went back.

Further side note: It would appear that Ringo was the only odd man out of all the post Beatle breakup spats that went on in the 70's, since he managed to stay friendly with the other 3 throughout and all 4 Beatles contributed songs and/or appear on his Ringo album in 1973. (Paul contributed the song, "Six O' Clock" and also plays the kazoo on, "You're Sixteen").
 
#150
pjmuck said:
Further side note: It would appear that Ringo was the only odd man out of all the post Beatle breakup spats that went on in the 70's, since he managed to stay friendly with the other 3 throughout and all 4 Beatles contributed songs and/or appear on his Ringo album in 1973. (Paul contributed the song, "Six O' Clock" and also plays the kazoo on, "You're Sixteen").
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Yep, and Ringo appears on more of the other Beatle's solo tracks than any other Beatle as well. He was a good egg, probably the least intense and most easy going of the bunch.
 
#156
I played at an outdoor festival Saturday, and after we finished our set, the soundman cranked up Abbey Road for break music. Now THAT is how I like to hear my Beatles! Nice and loud, with slammin' low end. Still an awesome album, Paul played some fantastic stuff! I knew that already, but I was reminded for the 10,000th time how great they all were!

Re: the OP's original question, I can't imagine Paul intentionally sabotaging anything. He was the opposite of that! He was the guy who wanted to tweak the tunes and make them the best possible. I bet they had to kill the power to get him out of the studio some nights, ha ha!
I think he had too much pride in the Beatles' music to do anything halfass, whoever wrote the song.
JMHO, YMMV, etc.

tifftunes said:
Does anyone actually use iPods anymore?
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I do, and I've got plenty of Beatley goodness on there! :bassist::D
 
#157
Does anyone actually use iPods anymore?
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You can just get ALL the Beatles' remasterd catalog (stereo mixes only) on this little USB stick:

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$280.
 
#160
AltGrendel said:
I think he was actually on Heroin at the time.

among other things.
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There's an interview (can't find the link atm) with George Martin where he talks about reading the Lennon interview(s) where John said some pretty unkind things about GM and the other Beatles. Martin said he ran into Lennon a few years later in a pub and when John greeted him, he said "I'm not sure if you want to speak to me, John..." Lennon replied "Oh, take no note of that, George; I was out of my head when I said a lot of those things. I didn't mean it." and seemed very sincere.
 

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