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The Day Rock Legends Answered Paul McCartney’s Call [Highlight From Episode 351] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's just a part of a recent episode of book
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  Speaker 1: Don Rock Luca Parassi. He's the author of Back to
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  Speaker 1: the Egg, the story of Wings last album. They did
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  Speaker 1: record some music at Abbey Road Studios our cover third
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. One particular session, it's so interesting to me.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about a supergroup, this is beyond super Talk
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  Speaker 1: about this track Rochestra theme, and who's on it, and
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  Speaker 1: also who's not on it, because Keith Moon was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be on it, but he had just passed away.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was an old idea by Paul to basically
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  Speaker 2: have a like an classical orchestra, but made of rock instruments,
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  Speaker 2: so guitars, drums, basses, pianos, and put a super group
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  Speaker 2: of musicians together. So what happened was that he talked
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  Speaker 2: about it with the other members of Wings. So they
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  Speaker 2: first recorded a track Rockester Theme, which was an old
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  Speaker 2: track that Paul wrote around nineteen seventy three, and they
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  Speaker 2: they overdubbed themselves at least three times. So they created
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  Speaker 2: a monster basic track as a sort of demo to
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  Speaker 2: present to the other musicians that joined Wings. On the
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  Speaker 2: third of October ninety seventy eight, at Abbey Road, pet
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  Speaker 2: Townsend was there, John Bonham was there, David Gilmour was there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the total of musicians were twenty three, including
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  Speaker 2: wings and a horn section. There there were some missing.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Beck was thought to be in but it didn't
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  Speaker 2: show up. Harry Clapton had a flu so he had
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  Speaker 2: to give up. Alton On has another commitment, so we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be there. But in the end they they gathered
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  Speaker 2: the incredible musicians. So they got I think six or
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  Speaker 2: seven guitars, three drums, three basses, two or three pianos.
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  Speaker 2: There were percussion, Linda on organ, and so they put
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  Speaker 2: together these two tracks. The first one was rochestra theme
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  Speaker 2: and the second another number that Paul as depended in
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  Speaker 2: France in the summer, which was called so Glad to
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  Speaker 2: see You here. And so they went through the numbers,
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  Speaker 2: two three takes at the most. They put the basic
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  Speaker 2: track down. They were filmed, but the musicians didn't know
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  Speaker 2: Paul was filming, and so there's a video out there.
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  Speaker 2: Motions of the video were bootleged since way back, and
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  Speaker 2: potions were also included in a couple of DVD of
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  Speaker 2: Paul McCartney, but at the time the musicians. Musicians didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that they were filmed, and so apparently this is
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  Speaker 2: one of the blocking factors for the archive collection of
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  Speaker 2: the album issues.
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  Speaker 1: They had to give permission, right.
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  Speaker 2: I think so. So it's not a it's a rumored
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  Speaker 2: as it's floating around since the way back. Well, it's
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  Speaker 2: possible that someone says, well, I didn't know I was filmed,
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  Speaker 2: so can you please pay me? Blah blah blah. You
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  Speaker 2: never know, you never know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Gilmore's on there, Pete Townsend, you mentioned John Bonham,
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Jones, Kenny John Paul Jones is in there too.
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  Speaker 1: Ronnie Lane's in there. Now, if you've got a seasoned zeppelineer,
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  Speaker 1: you can pick up on the bond zobeat I think.
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  Speaker 1: But you have to because there's so many musicians on there.
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  Speaker 1: So and it's not like it's not like Paul said
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  Speaker 1: any of them, Hey, you know, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: stand out and do your thing. It's it's an orchestra.
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  Speaker 1: They're all combined. So if you listen closely, you'll probably
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  Speaker 1: hear your favorite artists in there. I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: pick up on David Gilmore's tone maybe in there, but
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  Speaker 1: both tracks are fantastic. I love them.
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  Speaker 2: It's a clever kind of idea because you got all
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  Speaker 2: these these fantastic musicians together. But then the songs are
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  Speaker 2: so simple, you know, rockester theme is just a one
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  Speaker 2: riff which is not particularly complicated. There's no virtuoso or
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  Speaker 2: guitar solos in and the other the other half of
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  Speaker 2: the song is like a sequence of chords, nothing more.
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  Speaker 2: But then again, it's a it's a thing that Paul
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  Speaker 2: likes to do. Maybe calls in the most boutso and
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  Speaker 2: then asks for a completely different thing, right, So he
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  Speaker 2: likes to challenge his collaborators this way. So you got
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  Speaker 2: David Gilmore, but then there's no big solo. Well then
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  Speaker 2: there are other instances where you have Gilmore and you
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  Speaker 2: have a big solo, like was the case of normal
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  Speaker 2: lollin Ice, but in this case, but in this case,
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  Speaker 2: you have to listen very attentively with your headphones to
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  Speaker 2: to understand a little bit better about the contributions of
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  Speaker 2: the various musicians.
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