Getting old doesn't make you a 'national treasure', even if you're black and made a lot of money in the music biz.
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That's a bit of a stretch: Without George Martin, the Beatles would have been just another British Invasion boy band - on the way out by 1965.
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Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
"Hi I'm Quincy Jones. I made a killing off of the parts that all the ace studio cats I hired over the decades came up with on their own. Listen to everything I say about Paul McCartney.
I have to wonder if QJ's position is influenced by PM's fame due to his natural talent vs. studied (meant read, write music in the "educated", formal sense). I can think of at least one revered guitarist that shared similar attributes to PM's. And there are plenty out there then, now and in the future that will be that way. They just "have it in them". But, final truth is that the talent never goes anywhere commercially without a benefactor. In ALL art. Bottom line, it's the money. What we see commercially as art is all about the money and influence to and for the influential. Whether now, or in posterity.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
A great deal of truth in that. Even if you've got the talent, hardly anybody who's anybody got there without a good managers, agents, PR people, etc.
Quincy Jones has an opinion. It's neither right or wrong as an opinion can be neither. The same is true of your opinion if it happens to disagree with his.
Trying to shoehorn your own racially tinged bullsh!t as an explanation for someone else's opinion doesn't reflect badly on them. It only shows the world the prism you view others through.
Trying to shoehorn your own racially tinged bullsh!t as an explanation for someone else's opinion doesn't reflect badly on them. It only shows the world the prism you view others through.
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Quincy Jones Talks About Paul McCartney's Kisses On the Bottom
"The songs Paul chose for Kisses on the Bottom are songs I've heard and loved since I was a kid. I sat with Paul backstage at the first concert of his recent tour and had the privilege of listening to the entire record. These are some of the best songs ever written, and it takes a very special talent to bring them to light. Paul didn't bring 1/8th notes with him to these songs; he knows how to swing like the old school or Sinatra used to say, "he's in the pocket." There is simply no artist today who has the credibility, grace, and depth of character that Paul has. Our 49-year-relationship goes back to before the Beatles came to America and I love that Paul has taken the time to do this album. I've heard a lot of records covering these songs, but none of them have the authenticity that Paul's has."
Q seemed to like McCartney back then.
Quincy Jones Talks About Paul McCartney's Kisses On the Bottom
"The songs Paul chose for Kisses on the Bottom are songs I've heard and loved since I was a kid. I sat with Paul backstage at the first concert of his recent tour and had the privilege of listening to the entire record. These are some of the best songs ever written, and it takes a very special talent to bring them to light. Paul didn't bring 1/8th notes with him to these songs; he knows how to swing like the old school or Sinatra used to say, "he's in the pocket." There is simply no artist today who has the credibility, grace, and depth of character that Paul has. Our 49-year-relationship goes back to before the Beatles came to America and I love that Paul has taken the time to do this album. I've heard a lot of records covering these songs, but none of them have the authenticity that Paul's has."
Q seemed to like McCartney back then.
I think you have it backwards. He apparently wasn't initially impressed with Paul--at all--but became a fan of the musician into which he matured.
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Pbassmanca
In the pocket n' thumpy. So woody, so greasy...
Qunicy Jones is right! They were not virtuosos on their instruments. It was their song writing skills that had the most impact on pop music.
No clue who he was prior to that thread and still couldn't care less about sho the wanker is.
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