VERY funny: "Paul McCartney Heralded As Unknown Artist by Surprised Kanye West Fans"

[SisterNightroad]

Paul McCartney Heralded As Unknown Artist by Surprised Kanye West Fans
by Jeff Giles January 5, 2015 9:42 AM

Just because Paul McCartney is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet doesn’t mean all music fans automatically know who he is.
For proof, look no further than the response that ‘Only One,’ McCartney’s recently released collaboration with Kanye West, has gotten from a handful of Twitter users who don’t have any idea who the former Beatle is — but are expecting him to get a big leg up in his career now that he’s been given a boost by one of hip-hop’s hottest artists.

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Some folks are predictably pretty upset about this, but it’s the way pop culture has always worked; just because McCartney helped lay the foundation for much of what the kids of today are listening to, that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily going to know it — the same way the millions who bought Beatles or Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin LPs weren’t obligated to research their favorite bands’ influences.
Of course, it’s always good to dig a little deeper into the music that moves you, and it probably bears mentioning that it’s never been easier or more affordable to map an artist’s musical DNA (or just, you know, Google “Paul McCartney”). Still, these tweets highlight exactly why McCartney has always been so enthusiastic about branching out into areas like film, television and video games: No matter how big you are, there’s always a new audience for you. Clearly, McCartney’s just found another one.


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[Macfanforever]

They dont know what is good music.

Probably goes for the Mac too.Whos Stevie Nicks.I never heard of him.LOL....................

[vivfox]

They dont know what is good music.

Probably goes for the Mac too.Whos Stevie Nicks.I never heard of him.LOL....................

Wow, I knew we'd get a comment outta you but I never thought you'd be so polite. LOL

And on another note, even in FM's prime years, Some people asked me who he (Stevie) is.

[Macfanforever]

Wow, I knew we'd get a comment outta you but I never thought you'd be so polite. LOL

And on another note, even in FM's prime years, Some people asked me who he (Stevie) is.

I was going to post worse about the current state of pop music but I want to start the year being a nice guy.LOL......................................

I had the same issue at work .The co-workers say who's Stevie.I never heard of him.

[SisterNightroad]

Usually people I know mistake, or worse think that I mistake, the name of Nikki Six from Motley Crue...

[Macfanforever]

Usually people I know mistake, or worse think that I mistake, the name of Nikki Six from Motley Crue...

Hahaha or get confused with Stevie Wonder or Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[HomerMcvie]

I've had people say, when I mention Fleetwood Mac, "oh, I like HIM".

#dumbasses :lol:

[nicole21290]

The people doing those Kanye tweets are pretty much all trolling. And got the reaction they wanted. Though some on Kanye's main forum are now annoyed at how far the media/online commentors have taken it because it makes them look thick.

In 800+ pages on that ONE collaborative song on that main forum, they all knew full well who McCartney was. So, while there may be a few people out there who legitimately haven't heard of him (and that's not THAT big a deal, tbh), these particular tweets are sarcastic trolling, from what I've read.

[SisterNightroad]

The people doing those Kanye tweets are pretty much all trolling. And got the reaction they wanted. Though some on Kanye's main forum are now annoyed at how far the media/online commentors have taken it because it makes them look thick.

In 800+ pages on that ONE collaborative song on that main forum, they all knew full well who McCartney was. So, while there may be a few people out there who legitimately haven't heard of him (and that's not THAT big a deal, tbh), these particular tweets are sarcastic trolling, from what I've read.
It may not be a big deal but it sure is funny as hell since it's not the first time that something like this happened:

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[Macfanforever]

There is tons of songs with the same song titles.

I dont know why the song writers do that.Even some of Stevie's and Mac tune titles were lifted by other song writers.As long the lyrics and the music are not the same they can get away with it without having legal issues.

[SisterNightroad]

There is tons of songs with the same song titles.

I dont know why the song writers do that.Even some of Stevie's and Mac tune titles were lifted by other song writers.As long the lyrics and the music are not the same they can get away with it without having legal issues.
Well, isn't it the same with Christine "Wish you were here" and the Pink Floyd song of the same name?

[singertobe]

I'm more concerned with the fact that Paul is collaborating with Kanye West. What has this world come to?

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[nicole21290]

Why wouldn't he? Believe me, I'm about as big a Paul McCartney fan as you'll find and I have NO problems with this. Paul's always been interested in different musical styles, artists and so on. Kanye, though I'm not a big fan of him as a person, HAS been important and innovative to music. I like Paul's collaborations with Youth as The Fireman, and all this is is further dabbling in a new genre. As long as Paul's not trying to rap and is there to provide melody, harmonies, instrumentation, etc, I think this is a good thing. It's his restlessness, his musical curiosity and his willingness to try, that I admire.

[Macfanforever]

Well, isn't it the same with Christine "Wish you were here" and the Pink Floyd song of the same name?

I think so.I know there is other songs with "Dreams" as title.

[Macfanforever]

I'm more concerned with the fact that Paul is collaborating with Kanye West. What has this world come to?

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I agree.If the older artist,band wants to stay hot.They got to get involve with the current young artists.

I was hoping FM to get involve with the 30th Band Aid recording but they were on tour.

Thats probably why Stevie hangs with these kids these days.

We got Tony Bennett hanging with Lady Gaga.

[PenguinHead]

There is tons of songs with the same song titles.

I dont know why the song writers do that.Even some of Stevie's and Mac tune titles were lifted by other song writers.As long the lyrics and the music are not the same they can get away with it without having legal issues.

You are assuming that they are deliberately stealing song titles. It's very likely they are entirely unaware of a previous song with the same title. It happens a lot of times. Yet Stevie's For What it's Worth is the same title of a well-known Buffalo Springfield song. Why she chose that title is very puzzling , since she must have known the originally titled song.

It's rather alarming there is a generation that has no idea who Paul McCartney is. It reveals how shallow their refererences and depth of knowledge of classic rock and roll music is. Even though I grew up in the 1970s, I was also informed about the musical eras of the 5os and 60s, and found lots of seminal and groups and artists with as much great music as the current era.

[SisterNightroad]

You are assuming that they are deliberately stealing song titles. It's very likely they are entirely unaware of a previous song with the same title. It happens a lot of times. Yet Stevie's For What it's Worth is the same title of a well-known Buffalo Springfield song. Why she chose that title is very puzzling , since she must have known the originally titled song.

It's rather alarming there is a generation that has no idea who Paul McCartney is. It reveals how shallow their refererences and depth of knowledge of classic rock and roll music is. Even though I grew up in the 1970s, I was also informed about the musical eras of the 5os and 60s, and found lots of seminal and groups and artists with as much great music as the current era.

It's a problem caused by the internet culture and is more concerning for the "native digital" kids, I attended a seminar about it two months ago. Since the principal source of knowledge, and therefore culture, aren't books and journals anymore but it has become the web, this encouraged to chop the informations in very tiny pieces and usufruct great amount of little knowledge all at the same time but without making any logical and personal connection between them so the learning process has become shallower.

[Macfanforever]

You are assuming that they are deliberately stealing song titles. It's very likely they are entirely unaware of a previous song with the same title. It happens a lot of times. Yet Stevie's For What it's Worth is the same title of a well-known Buffalo Springfield song. Why she chose that title is very puzzling , since she must have known the originally titled song.

It's rather alarming there is a generation that has no idea who Paul McCartney is. It reveals how shallow their refererences and depth of knowledge of classic rock and roll music is. Even though I grew up in the 1970s, I was also informed about the musical eras of the 5os and 60s, and found lots of seminal and groups and artists with as much great music as the current era.

I dont know if they are stealing titles but I do agree on writers not knowing about the same title is out there already.

I'm alittle shocked about the young music fans dont know who Paul is.
I guess their parents did not give their children classic rock 101 lessons.

On the reverse side .Fans my age or older probably never heard of One Direction and others current artists.I learned alot from this forum and other internet sources about the current artists and bands.I did not know who Nicki Minaj was until Stevie had some words about her.

My parents and my sisters always had the radio or records playing when I was young.
I enjoyed their music from their generations and still enjoying it today.

[singertobe]

Well now that I've listened to the song, I can see why Paul was involved. Just as long as I don't see him rapping with a gold chain around his neck, its all good

[SisterNightroad]

Kurt Cobain Suicide-Note Shirts Pulled After Outcry
by Nick DeRiso January 14, 2015 12:44 PM

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Clothes decorated with the image of Kurt Cobain‘s suicide note have been pulled after public outcry.
Baseball shirts and tank tops, printed with the a copy of Cobain’s hand-written last words, were briefly available via the Etsy site before online protests broke out. (Here’s a link to the page where the items were previously being sold.) A particularly active thread on Reddit deemed the entire enterprise “sick and obnoxious on every level.”
As the news quickly spread, fury followed from Nirvana fans and then the rest of the general public. A petition was posted at Change.org; a string of infuriated editorials were, too.
The yanked shirts then briefly showed up on eBay, apparently through a Thailand-based seller named Nuchyk, but that sale has since also been terminated.
Cobain died in April 1994, memorably quoting a Neil Young lyric as part of his farewell. He and the rest of his bandmates in Nirvana were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. ‘Montage of Heck,’ a documentary on Cobain’s life featuring previously unheard music, is due in May.


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[chelluversu]

The first tweet about Paul McCartney was a joke started by Desus Nice. Basically the media got trolled by actually taking the tweet seriously.

[Macfanforever]

Kurt Cobain Suicide-Note Shirts Pulled After Outcry
by Nick DeRiso January 14, 2015 12:44 PM

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Clothes decorated with the image of Kurt Cobain‘s suicide note have been pulled after public outcry.
Baseball shirts and tank tops, printed with the a copy of Cobain’s hand-written last words, were briefly available via the Etsy site before online protests broke out. (Here’s a link to the page where the items were previously being sold.) A particularly active thread on Reddit deemed the entire enterprise “sick and obnoxious on every level.”
As the news quickly spread, fury followed from Nirvana fans and then the rest of the general public. A petition was posted at Change.org; a string of infuriated editorials were, too.
The yanked shirts then briefly showed up on eBay, apparently through a Thailand-based seller named Nuchyk, but that sale has since also been terminated.
Cobain died in April 1994, memorably quoting a Neil Young lyric as part of his farewell. He and the rest of his bandmates in Nirvana were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. ‘Montage of Heck,’ a documentary on Cobain’s life featuring previously unheard music, is due in May.


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I was never a fan of him or his band but this is sick when people got to capitalize on somebodies death.

[Macfanforever]

The first tweet about Paul McCartney was a joke started by Desus Nice. Basically the media got trolled by actually taking the tweet seriously.

Thats the problem and rumours start .It starts about a size of a mole hill and it turns into a mountain at the end.

[SisterNightroad]

The first tweet about Paul McCartney was a joke started by Desus Nice. Basically the media got trolled by actually taking the tweet seriously.
Yes, nicole21290 have already said that and after I controlled on other sources too, but still I think this trolling acts reflect an already existent tendency of younger generations.
Music acts and songs succed themselves without really knowing the author, meaning and message of the music, I don't identify myself with this.

[SisterNightroad]

I was never a fan of him or his band but this is sick when people got to capitalize on somebodies death.
It's true, but I still don't understand whoever could want to wear this shirts and go in public with them.
Even if you're a big Kurt Cobain fan, or I should say especially if you are one, shouldn't you find it disrespectful towards him?

[SisterNightroad]

14 Reasons Every Teenager Should Know Who Paul McCartney Is



Who Else Was Supposed to Watch These Teen Faves Paying Tribute to the Beatles?

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Fifty years after the Beatles made their U.S. television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, the Record Academy assembled a post-Grammy tribute with a cast of performers designed to appeal to both boomers and millennials. For the latter: Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Imagine Dragons.


He's Stella McCartney's Dad

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Stella McCartney has styled countless Aughts celebs, created lines for H&M and Target and designed a decade of Adidas sportswear. She has appeared on Time's list of the world's 100 most influential people and her work has been honored by magazines like Vogue and Elle. She's also the inspiration for the Wings' band name: During her birth, Stella's famous dad prayed that she would be born with some.


He's Pals With Jimmy Fallon

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In 2013, Paul McCartney appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon for a hilarious sketch in which the Beatle and the SNLer switched accents. The clip went viral (currently at 2.8 million views) and featured Macca saying "Honey Boo Boo." Before that, McCartney and Fallon sang the "original version" of "Yesterday" (with some new lyrics) in 2010.


'Spongebob Squarepants' Loves the Beatles

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Spongebob Squarepants has been on TV for 15 years, so it's a good chance many American teens have glimpsed some of the Beatles references floating around Bikini Bottom. In 2007, Patrick said "Ringo" into a walkie-talkie, there's a 2008 episode called "Krabby Road" and another where you can spot the Yellow Submarine in the background. Naturally, in 2005, the show released a soundtrack called The Yellow Album.


5 Seconds of Summer Love the Beatles

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Earlier this year, 5 Seconds of Summer drummer Ashton Irwin was caught wearing a pair of shirts featuring shots of the Beatles in their early club days. If fans of the Australian pop-punk boy band missed the photos, they were also exposed to McCartney at the Billboard Music Awards, where a video introduced 5SOS by invoking their Liverpool forbearers and Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips covered "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."


Teenagers Haven't Lived a Day on Earth Without the Ability to Use a Search Engine

You only have to type "pau" into Google and his name shows up. Even a teenager at the ripe old age of 19 was born in the days of AltaVista.


The Beatles Are Still Incredibly Popular Among Young People, Like They Have Been for the Last 50 Years

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At least if this video is any indication.



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[SisterNightroad]

Kanye West Quizzes Paul McCartney: ‘What Was P—y Like in the ’60s?’
by Nick DeRiso January 22, 2015 8:43 PM


A recent collaboration with Paul McCartney gave Kanye West an opportunity to pose the one question any fan would ask. No, not which movement, exactly, was on who’s shoulders in ‘Hey Jude.’
Instead, as West explained during a talk he gave as part of an industry event on Wednesday, the duo talked about girls. Specifically, the 37-year-old hip-hop star says he asked: “What was p—y like in the ’60s?” There’s no mention of how (or if) McCartney responded.


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[Macfanforever]

I found this today on RS site.
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Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Rihanna Team Up for 'FourFiveSeconds'
A kinder, gentler West gets mellow, ditches drums with pop superstars
By Jason Newman | January 24, 2015


Paul McCartney and Kanye West linked up with Rihanna Paul McCartney and Kanye West linked up with Rihanna for new track "FourFiveSeconds." Roc Nation

Three weeks after Paul McCartney and Kanye West released their surprise collaboration "Only One," the duo have linked up with Rihanna for the soft, acoustic track "FourFiveSeconds." The song is available at RihannaNow.com.

"I think I've had enough," sings Rihanna over the percussion-less, acoustic guitar-driven track. "I might get a little drunk / I say what's on my mind / I might do a little time / 'Cause all of my kindness is taken for weakness." West takes over on vocals, crooning, "Woke up an optimist/ Sun was shining, I'm positive/ Then I heard you was talkin' trash / Hold me back, I'm bout to spaz." West and Rihanna handle all of the song's vocals, duetting on the chorus with McCartney providing keyboards on the song.

Two days after "Only One" was released, rapper Ty Dolla $ign stoked anticipation for the track, stating that the then-unnamed song was "gonna drop soon." It's unclear if "FourFiveSeconds" will appear on an album by any of the artists, though Ty Dolla $ign told Billboard earlier this month that the song would likely appear on West's upcoming album.

West previewed "FourFiveSeconds" at the IHeartRadio Summit music industry event in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the rapper surprised the audience with a 45-minute, stream-of-consciousness speech about his "responsibility to innovate." (The same speech in which he revealed that he asked McCartney, "What was pussy like in the Sixties?") West played "FourFiveSeconds" straight off his computer, promptly slamming his laptop shut and walking offstage before announcing the song's release date.

Fans of West shouldn't be too surprised to hear McCartney on another of his tracks. When "Only One" was released, a spokesperson for the rapper said that the song would be the first "publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists."

McCartney and West began work on "Only One" earlier last year in Los Angeles, starting with, as the statement notes, "a simple brainstorming session between the two, with McCartney improvising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff." It's unclear if "FourFiveSeconds," with its similar mellow vibe, was also a result of these sessions.

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I guess this is the only way that the Mac or Stevie will get played on top 40 stations or get on the current charts.

[SisterNightroad]

I found this today on RS site.
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Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Rihanna Team Up for 'FourFiveSeconds'
A kinder, gentler West gets mellow, ditches drums with pop superstars
By Jason Newman | January 24, 2015


Paul McCartney and Kanye West linked up with Rihanna Paul McCartney and Kanye West linked up with Rihanna for new track "FourFiveSeconds." Roc Nation

Three weeks after Paul McCartney and Kanye West released their surprise collaboration "Only One," the duo have linked up with Rihanna for the soft, acoustic track "FourFiveSeconds." The song is available at RihannaNow.com.

"I think I've had enough," sings Rihanna over the percussion-less, acoustic guitar-driven track. "I might get a little drunk / I say what's on my mind / I might do a little time / 'Cause all of my kindness is taken for weakness." West takes over on vocals, crooning, "Woke up an optimist/ Sun was shining, I'm positive/ Then I heard you was talkin' trash / Hold me back, I'm bout to spaz." West and Rihanna handle all of the song's vocals, duetting on the chorus with McCartney providing keyboards on the song.

Two days after "Only One" was released, rapper Ty Dolla $ign stoked anticipation for the track, stating that the then-unnamed song was "gonna drop soon." It's unclear if "FourFiveSeconds" will appear on an album by any of the artists, though Ty Dolla $ign told Billboard earlier this month that the song would likely appear on West's upcoming album.

West previewed "FourFiveSeconds" at the IHeartRadio Summit music industry event in Los Angeles on Thursday, where the rapper surprised the audience with a 45-minute, stream-of-consciousness speech about his "responsibility to innovate." (The same speech in which he revealed that he asked McCartney, "What was pussy like in the Sixties?") West played "FourFiveSeconds" straight off his computer, promptly slamming his laptop shut and walking offstage before announcing the song's release date.

Fans of West shouldn't be too surprised to hear McCartney on another of his tracks. When "Only One" was released, a spokesperson for the rapper said that the song would be the first "publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists."

McCartney and West began work on "Only One" earlier last year in Los Angeles, starting with, as the statement notes, "a simple brainstorming session between the two, with McCartney improvising on the keyboards and Kanye vocally sketching and shaping ideas in a stream-of-consciousness riff." It's unclear if "FourFiveSeconds," with its similar mellow vibe, was also a result of these sessions.

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I guess this is the only way that the Mac or Stevie will get played on top 40 stations or get on the current charts.
Yeah, I've read that today but I don't know what to think about it. I mean it's certainly positive to mix up different genres and doing new things and Paul McCartney is one that never hung back from it but I don't know if I will love it.

I've read a month ago that the guitarist of the hard rock group Extreme toured with Rhianna and said nice things about her as a performer.
Here it is:

Whatever people’s perceptions are of whatever Rihanna is, it’s definitely a different animal live — completely different,” Bettencourt tells Guitar Interactive, in the above video. “At first, even when I went to work with her, I was, like, ‘Can she really sing?’ A lot of times with the singers you hear now, there’s a lot of that Auto-Tune element and you don’t know who can really sing. But when I went to rehearsal, I could not believe how well she sang, and I could not believe how well she sings live.”
There’s also been a lot more room for guitar than Bettencourt’s initially guessed — and that’s what got him interested in the first place. He’d actually “been asked through the years to do stuff … not just necessarily pop artists but with other rock bands, and I’ve always declined.” Then, not long after finishing the latest Extreme tour, a musical director friend of Bettencourt’s approached him about a Rihanna gig — and, this time, included an enticing promise.
“I was, like, you know what? I’m in my 40s, I’ve been sticking to my guns for so long and not doing anything else,” Bettencourt admitted. “‘Cause at first I said, ‘No. Why would I wanna do it? There’s really no guitar in that stuff.’ And he said, ‘Well, that’s the thing. She wants it to be a lot heavier live.’ And I’m, like, ‘So I get to do what I do.’ And he goes, ‘Completely. Your rig … ‘ [And I said], ‘I get to ruin every one of her songs?’ And he was, like, ‘Yeah.’ So I thought that would be fun.”
And, Bettencourt says, it has been. “The hats that you have to wear, feel-wise — you go from a basic pop song like ‘Umbrella’ to to reggae song to a club track to even, like, a punk song and R&B stuff,” Bettencourt says. “So the amount of different textures and feels, and to have to play along with these incredible musicians who hear everything, it’s definitely not a punch-in-the-clock-type situation for me. Live, it keeps you busy. … It sounds crazy, but it’s really challenging. It really is.”


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[PenguinHead]

I dont know if they are stealing titles but I do agree on writers not knowing about the same title is out there already.

I'm alittle shocked about the young music fans dont know who Paul is.
I guess their parents did not give their children classic rock 101 lessons.

On the reverse side .Fans my age or older probably never heard of One Direction and others current artists.I learned alot from this forum and other internet sources about the current artists and bands.I did not know who Nicki Minaj was until Stevie had some words about her.

My parents and my sisters always had the radio or records playing when I was young.
I enjoyed their music from their generations and still enjoying it today.

Even though I didn't grow up in the fifties, I knew that Buddy Holly was a seminal influence in rock and roll, as was Paul McCartney was in the sixties and seventies.
My influences weren't entirely focused on what was popular. I think radio stations in the 1970s were a strong source for that. They weren't programmed and operated by huge corporations. Disc Jockeys had the freedom to play what they wanted, so I was exposed was a wide diversity and styles of music, including heavy doses of music from the sixties.

I'm aware of the current, younger generation artists if only because you can't escape them in the media. Some of them are just fads of the moment. Others have genuine talent and lasting power. I can acknowledge them, yet they are too young for me to have any connection to them. I'm too far beyond their commercial demographic. You will never see the likes of One Direction, Nicki Minaj or Katie Perry in my collections. I have plenty of seasoned artists that fill the pocket of what they represent.

Some of the artists that really caught my interest in recent years (circa 2ooo onward) are the Scissor Sisters, Amy Winehouse, The Black Keys, and to a lesser extent. Foster the People and Vampire Weekend.

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Even though I didn't grow up in the fifties, I knew that Buddy Holly was a seminal influence in rock and roll, as was Paul McCartney was in the sixties and seventies.
My influences weren't entirely focused on what was popular. I think radio stations in the 1970s were a strong source for that. They weren't programmed and operated by huge corporations. Disc Jockeys had the freedom to play what they wanted, so I was exposed was a wide diversity and styles of music, including heavy doses of music from the sixties.

I'm aware of the current, younger generation artists if only because you can't escape them in the media. Some of them are just fads of the moment. Others have genuine talent and lasting power. I can acknowledge them, yet they are too young for me to have any connection to them. I'm too far beyond their commercial demographic. You will never see the likes of One Direction, Nicki Minaj or Katie Perry in my collections. I have plenty of seasoned artists that fill the pocket of what they represent.

Some of the artists that really caught my interest in recent years (circa 2ooo onward) are the Scissor Sisters, Amy Winehouse, The Black Keys, and to a lesser extent. Foster the People and Vampire Weekend.
I'm much younger than you but from 13 onward I have always listened to older rock music.
I think my parents music choice have influenced me since they used to listen to the same tapes of their favourite artists over and over. To this day some of those albums are my favourite too, but overall they transmitted me the habit of listening to the few things that I really love and that really represents me instead of continuously searching new fleeting things that I may like.
I think it's a mixed matter of education and culture.
Recent music hasn't really interested me in a long time but this last year I downloaded Ed Sheeran's album.

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Even though I didn't grow up in the fifties, I knew that Buddy Holly was a seminal influence in rock and roll, as was Paul McCartney was in the sixties and seventies.
My influences weren't entirely focused on what was popular. I think radio stations in the 1970s were a strong source for that. They weren't programmed and operated by huge corporations. Disc Jockeys had the freedom to play what they wanted, so I was exposed was a wide diversity and styles of music, including heavy doses of music from the sixties.

I'm aware of the current, younger generation artists if only because you can't escape them in the media. Some of them are just fads of the moment. Others have genuine talent and lasting power. I can acknowledge them, yet they are too young for me to have any connection to them. I'm too far beyond their commercial demographic. You will never see the likes of One Direction, Nicki Minaj or Katie Perry in my collections. I have plenty of seasoned artists that fill the pocket of what they represent.

Some of the artists that really caught my interest in recent years (circa 2ooo onward) are the Scissor Sisters, Amy Winehouse, The Black Keys, and to a lesser extent. Foster the People and Vampire Weekend.

Yes Radio was radio back then with real people behind the mike and spinning records.The stations were owned by ma-pa not corrupt corp ownerships that robo run their stations with voiced track DJs on dozens of stations they own.


Yes with todays things like the internet with its gadgetry of Ipad .Iphones and the media in print ,TV .Theres no way anybody can escape hearing about these younger artist.

At times my 95 years young friend ask me whose this young artist he hears or seen on TV.I think Pink and Lady Gaga was the last artists he was wondering who they were.

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Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West to Perform ‘FourFiveSeconds’ at Grammys
by Dave Lifton February 3, 2015 11:51 AM


Paul McCartney, Rihanna and Kanye West will give the first-ever performance of their new song ‘FourFiveSeconds’ at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. They have also released a video for the track, which you can watch above.
The song, which is the lead single from Rihanna’s new album, was released last week. It features Rihanna and West singing over some atypically rough acoustic strumming from McCartney, with very little additional instrumentation. Billboard reports that it debuted at No. 54 on its Hot 100 chart.
The black-and-white video for the song is as stark as the music, with the three stars performing the cut on an empty set.
‘FourFiveSeconds’ is the second song from McCartney and West’s collaboration to reach the public. On New Year’s Eve, West released ‘Only One,’ an imagined conversation between himself and his mother, who passed away in 2007.
The Grammys will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be televised on CBS beginning at 8PM ET. You can find our guide to the Grammys here.


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Paul McCartney Recording With Lady Gaga
by Jeff Giles February 4, 2015 10:34 AM

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Whatever’s in that vegan diet of his must not have any kind of negative impact on Paul McCartney‘s energy level, because the 72-year-old ex-Beatle seems to be everywhere these days.
As previously reported, McCartney recently raised eyebrows (and confused a few younger listeners) when he collaborated with Kanye West for West’s new ‘Only One’ single — and repeated the feat when he joined West and Rihanna for another new track, ‘FourFiveSeconds.’ With that out of the way, he’s apparently moved on to some sort of project with Lady Gaga and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready.
Gaga, who previously rubbed shoulders with greatness when she recorded an entire album with Tony Bennett, broke the news on her Instagram account, posting a series of photos and telling followers, “Had a beautiful session with Sir Paul McCartney and friends. Working on one of his many secret projects! Killer musicians, vibe and lots of laughs.”
And for those of you who take offense at the notion of McCartney working with a performer who once appeared in public wearing a dress made out of raw meat, just know that it almost didn’t happen. “I’ll never forget when he called me last year to work,” wrote Gaga. “I hung up the phone cuz I thought it was a prank!”
We’ll doubtless hear the results of the Gaga/McCartney/McCready summit soon. In the meantime, check out photos from the sessions below.

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Had a beautiful session with Sir Paul McCartney and friends. Working on one of his many secret projects! Killer musicians, vibe, and lots of laughs.

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Studio rat house.


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Paul Stanley Says Beck Should Have Kicked Kanye West ‘Right in the Nuts’
by Matthew Wilkening February 9, 2015 5:52 PM

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Kanye West is apparently lucky he interrupted alternative hero Beck instead of Kiss star Paul Stanley last night at the Grammys.
“Beck should’ve kicked Kanye right in the nuts and said, ‘Get the f— of MY stage!” Stanley declared on Facebook. West — who famously interrupted Taylor Swift’s win at the 2009 VMAs to declare that Beyonce was more deserving of an award — pulled a similar stunt during Beck’s Album of the Year acceptance speech last night. Although it seemed like a lighthearted joke or self-parody at the time, with West offering a sly smile and not actually speaking, later on he made it clear he had problems with Beck winning the award over Beyonce:

"I don’t even know what [Beck] said. I just know that, the Grammys, if they want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us. … And Beck needs to respect artistry, he should have given his award to Beyoncé. At this point, we tired of it. What happens is, when you keep on diminishing art, and not respecting the craft, and smacking people in the face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration. We, as musicians, have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyoncé album, and they feel like it takes them to a different place. … I am here to fight for creativity. That’s why I didn’t say anything tonight, but you all knew what it meant when ‘Ye stepped on that stage."

For his part, Beck seems to be taking the whole thing in stride, saying “I was just so excited he [West] was coming up. He deserves to be onstage as much as anybody … How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?”


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Nikki Sixx, Michael McDonald Blast Kanye West’s Grammy Actions
by Nick DeRiso February 10, 2015 10:19 PM

The hits keep coming for Kanye West, and not the Billboard kind.
Nikki Sixx has taken the hip-hop star to task on the issue of respecting artistry, a key element of West’s controversial Grammy-night complaints about Beck‘s best-album win, while Doobie Brothers star Michael McDonald is questioning whether West has any talent in the first place.
“I don’t think it even really bears too much thought”, McDonald tells Dan Le Batard. “It’s pretty obvious what Kanye’s problem is. When Kanye gets to a point where he can actually put a couple of notes together either vocally or two bars of valid music playing an instrument, then he might have a right to criticize somebody else. Until then, I think he’s just talking to hear the sound of his own voice.”
Sixx, meanwhile, has reposted a opinion piece from Variety with the headline “No, Kanye, It’s You Who Needs to ‘Respect Artistry’” to Facebook — and added the comment, “I couldn’t agree more.”
McDonald also dragged out the age-old is-rap-real-music debate, one that’s been around since the genre emerged in the late ’70s, before going on to praise Beck. “The whole kinda cut-and-paste thing is a certain kind of artform all by itself”, McDonald adds. “I don’t know if I call it songwriting from a musician’s standpoint. … Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of computer operators onboard.”


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Kanye West Says He Restored Missing ‘Angst’ to Paul McCartney’s Music
by Jeff Giles February 12, 2015 10:53 AM


Longtime Paul McCartney fans may have raised an eyebrow when word got out that he was collaborating with Kanye West, but as West argued in a recent Ryan Seacrest interview, he’s really part of a long tradition of songwriting partners who’ve helped add a little grit to the former Beatle‘s gift for singalong melodies.
“We just went in and we vibed out,” West told Seacrest. “As you can see, I might be a little bit more ‘angst’ than Paul. And remember the last time when Paul had somebody really ‘angst’ working with him, the type of music they made?”
West was referring, of course, to John Lennon — although he quickly took pains to make it clear that he wasn’t putting himself on the same level. “Hey, everyone, America, I’m not comparing myself to John Lennon”, he insisted, adding that he only meant he added something similar in the context of McCartney’s music. “The tension, the ‘salt and pepper’ — I mean, maybe that’s bad because it sounds like ‘black and white’ — but the tension creates a new magic. The pressure creates the diamond from the coal. And he came in with the best vibes ever. And I said, ‘Four, five seconds from wildin’,’ and he said, ‘It’s great, everyone.’ And we just had that.”


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Watch ‘Paul McCartney’ Explain Kanye West to John Lennon
by Jeff Giles February 13, 2015 9:03 AM

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Paul McCartney surprised older fans (and younger listeners) when he collaborated with Kanye West, and West himself later explained that he brought McCartney’s music the sort of “angst” it had when the former Beatle wrote with John Lennon. What would Lennon have thought of all this? Dana Carvey has a few ideas.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member, recently back on the set for the show’s 40th anniversary special, sat down alongside fellow SNL vet Bill Hader for a chat with the Hollywood Reporter, and — as often tends to be the case with Carvey — the conversation quickly turned to the sort of pop culture comedy riffing at which the master impressionist has always excelled.
Part of Carvey’s THR routine was offering up an imagined conversation between McCartney and Lennon, with Lennon phoning in from the afterlife with a series of confused questions regarding West’s role in the creative process. “Well, what does he do? Does he play an instrument? Does he sort of just hum along?” asks Lennon, while McCartney tries in vain to explain the concept of Auto-Tune — and Hader collapses in hysterics.
We’ll have another chance to see Carvey back in action Feb. 15, when the SNL 40th anniversary special takes over NBC’s primetime schedule: The show, which just added another half hour to its already-extended running time, will air from 8-11:30PM ET.


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Kanye West’s Music ‘Sounds Like Hamster Turds,’ Sings Steel Panther
by Matthew Wilkening February 15, 2015 9:22 AM


You know, we promised ourselves we were going to stop writing posts about rock stars making fun of Kanye West for his behavior at this year’s Grammys. After all, it’s been a week now, and the controversial rapper publicly backed off a bit from his critical statements about Beck winning the Album of the Year award over his friend Beyonce.
But this is too funny to ignore. Steel Panther, our favorite purveyors of heavy metal with a dirty sense of humor, have just posted a minute-long musical response to Kanye (embedded above), accusing him of sounding like everything from “hamster turds” to “donkey farts.” They also one-up Kiss star Paul Stanley‘s “kick him right in the nuts” comment by adding steel-toed boots to the equation.


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Kanye West’s Music ‘Sounds Like Hamster Turds,’ Sings Steel Panther
by Matthew Wilkening February 15, 2015 9:22 AM


You know, we promised ourselves we were going to stop writing posts about rock stars making fun of Kanye West for his behavior at this year’s Grammys. After all, it’s been a week now, and the controversial rapper publicly backed off a bit from his critical statements about Beck winning the Album of the Year award over his friend Beyonce.
But this is too funny to ignore. Steel Panther, our favorite purveyors of heavy metal with a dirty sense of humor, have just posted a minute-long musical response to Kanye (embedded above), accusing him of sounding like everything from “hamster turds” to “donkey farts.” They also one-up Kiss star Paul Stanley‘s “kick him right in the nuts” comment by adding steel-toed boots to the equation.


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Rubbish putting it nicely and explains it in one word.

I'm not familiar with Steel Panthers tunes but I agree with them.

They have nice looking hair though.

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Rubbish putting it nicely and explains it in one word.

I'm not familiar with Steel Panthers tunes but I agree with them.

They have nice looking hair though.
I'm not familiar with Kanye West's music; I heard two songs maybe, but I generally don't love rap.
His behaviour though is certainly rubbish.
This Steel Panther look awesome...

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I'm not familiar with Kanye West's music; I heard two songs maybe, but I generally don't love rap.
His behaviour though is certainly rubbish.
This Steel Panther look awesome...

Yea I think Kanye likes to run his mouth and stir up some trouble.

I agree with Steel Panther but I'm not into heavy metal but they look so 1980's and stand out from the other current bands.I love the 1980's big hair thing.

[SisterNightroad]

Yea I think Kanye likes to run his mouth and stir up some trouble.

I agree with Steel Panther but I'm not into heavy metal but they look so 1980's and stand out from the other current bands.I love the 1980's big hair thing.
80s' hair is glorious but I prefer 70s':

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80s' hair is glorious but I prefer 70s:

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Yes .I agree.The Farrah style was everywhere.

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Yes .I agree.The Farrah style was everywhere.

Sure, that's my favourite Stevie hairstyle:

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Sure, that's my favourite Stevie hairstyle:

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Yes I love all eras of Stevie's hair.Stevie got into the Farrah which she looks so beautiful with it.

I guess today nobody has any time to play with their hair like they used too including Stevie.Stevie looks so beautiful now with her long strait hair.Not many women her age let their hair get that long.

As of Lady Gaga.She got a quite of beautiful wig collection .She always looks great every time I see her.

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Watch ‘Paul McCartney’ Explain Kanye West to John Lennon
by Jeff Giles February 13, 2015 9:03 AM

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Paul McCartney surprised older fans (and younger listeners) when he collaborated with Kanye West, and West himself later explained that he brought McCartney’s music the sort of “angst” it had when the former Beatle wrote with John Lennon. What would Lennon have thought of all this? Dana Carvey has a few ideas.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member, recently back on the set for the show’s 40th anniversary special, sat down alongside fellow SNL vet Bill Hader for a chat with the Hollywood Reporter, and — as often tends to be the case with Carvey — the conversation quickly turned to the sort of pop culture comedy riffing at which the master impressionist has always excelled.
Part of Carvey’s THR routine was offering up an imagined conversation between McCartney and Lennon, with Lennon phoning in from the afterlife with a series of confused questions regarding West’s role in the creative process. “Well, what does he do? Does he play an instrument? Does he sort of just hum along?” asks Lennon, while McCartney tries in vain to explain the concept of Auto-Tune — and Hader collapses in hysterics.
We’ll have another chance to see Carvey back in action Feb. 15, when the SNL 40th anniversary special takes over NBC’s primetime schedule: The show, which just added another half hour to its already-extended running time, will air from 8-11:30PM ET.


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Hahaha.I taped the show.I got to watch the whole show.


Speaking of artists being pissed off on live awards shows.

40 years ago .I remember watching country singer Charlie Rich setting John Denver's ballot on fire on camera on the 1975 CMA awards.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-charlie-rich-sets-fire-to-john-denver-s-cma-slip-20140601

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Hahaha.I taped the show.I got to watch the whole show.


Speaking of artists being pissed off on live awards shows.

40 years ago .I remember watching country singer Charlie Rich setting John Denver's ballot on fire on camera on the 1975 CMA awards.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-charlie-rich-sets-fire-to-john-denver-s-cma-slip-20140601

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Oh my God, and I thought that country music stars were boring... That's brutal!
I don't believe in the alchool and meds theory passed off by the son.

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Oh my God, and I thought that country music stars were boring... That's brutal!
I don't believe in the alchool and meds theory passed off by the son.

Thats what they say about the older country artists and bands plus classic country from 1980's and earlier is boring.I dont think so.

Like your original post about Paul McCartney .I wonder if Luke Bryan's or Jason Aldean's fans ever heard of Loretta Lynn,George Jones ,Tammy Wynnette ,Roy Acuff or Eddie Rabbitt are unknowns to them.

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Thats what they say about the older country artists and bands plus classic country from 1980's and earlier is boring.I dont think so.

Like your original post about Paul McCartney .I wonder if Luke Bryan's or Jason Aldean's fans ever heard of Loretta Lynn,George Jones ,Tammy Wynnette ,Roy Acuff or Eddie Rabbitt are unknowns to them.
I think that a lot is up to the individual personality of the fan.
Those that truly love music, are curious or thirtsy of knowledge will investigate on their idol's usical influences and artists that inspired the genre.
Others will be perfectly content to keep on listening just their favourite band or artist and what radio or I-tunes or spotify make available.

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Paul McCartney Has a Top 5 Single for the First Time in More Than 30 Years
by Jeff Giles February 19, 2015 10:45 AM

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It’s hard to argue with success, so the next time someone gives Paul McCartney guff for collaborating with Kanye West and Rihanna on their recent “FourFiveSeconds” single, he can just point to the pop chart.
ABC News Radio reports that the trio has leaped to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “FourFiveSeconds” this week, in the process delivering the former Beatle his first Top 5 single in 31 years. That sets a new record for longest gap between Top 5 hits; the previous record holder, Carlos Santana, went nearly 29 years between 1971′s “Black Magic Woman” and his 1999 collaboration with Rob Thomas, “Smooth.”
Some might quibble that since this isn’t a solo McCartney single, it doesn’t count — but McCartney’s last Top 5 hit, “Say Say Say,” was a duet with Michael Jackson, as was the one before it, “The Girl Is Mine.” The one before that, “Ebony and Ivory,” found McCartney singing with Stevie Wonder; to get to his last truly solo single to reach that high, you have to go all the way back to “Coming Up,” which topped the U.S. charts in the summer of 1980.
The moral of the story, as fans of his work with John Lennon have known all along, is that collaborating agrees with McCartney — and perhaps more importantly, that taking unexpected creative chances can pay off in big ways. Here’s hoping Sir Paul keeps surprising us for many years to come.


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Billy Corgan Wants Rock ‘To Be More Aggressive in Taking on Pop Music’
by Jeff Giles February 26, 2015 11:38 AM

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Rock artists have been losing ground on the pop charts for years, and Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan thinks it’s time to go back on the offensive.
In a new interview quoted by NME, Corgan says he thinks rock “needs to be more aggressive in taking on pop music,” explaining that the “cozy relationship” between rockers and pop stars needs to end: “Everybody belongs on their own side of the street for a good reason. By definition, a rock star is supposed to be an independent individual who pursues a vision to an end – an Axl Rose, an Elton John. And a pop star is supposed to do whatever they can do to pray at some horrible idol of fame which is ubiquitous and fleeting. And that contradiction, to me, is why everyone should stay on their own side of the street.”

That kind of thinking only darkens the artificial lines between genres that close a lot of fans’ minds to “other” types music even before they’ve heard it, but in Corgan’s eyes, the difference between “rock” and “pop” has more to do with intent than execution — and when rock stars try to imitate pop stars, everyone suffers.
“
[B]What’s difficult about it from an insider point of view is that it sends out a message to kids that that’s the only way to be successful in the music business, is to sort of package yourself,” he argued. “Quite frankly, if you look at the history of the music business the biggest stars are individuals. There’s only one Bob Marley, there’s only one Ozzy Osbourne or Madonna. You can try, but you can’t recreate them. So the industry has become about following rather than leading. I think it’s reflected in the sales.”



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Ted Nugent On Kanye West: ‘I Just Don’t Get It’
by Matt Wardlaw March 1, 2015 8:07 AM


While Kanye West certainly ticked off plenty of classic rockers with his recent actions at the Grammy Awards, Ted Nugent tells Ultimate Classic Rock that it didn’t raise his blood pressure. Calling West “super-talented,” he also admits that he doesn’t pay a lot of attention to the music that Kanye and his contemporaries are making.
“You know, I don’t get much of that anymore. I don’t understand. … I mean, I understand beauty and I understand fashion and trends,” he says. “You should Google my son Rocco, he goes by ‘Rocco Moon.’ He’s deep into the hip hop/rock stuff and I just don’t get it. I try to watch Eminem and all of these other guys and I don’t get it. It doesn’t light my fire like ‘Long Tall Sally’ or ‘I Feel Good’ or ‘19th Nervous Breakdown’ or ‘Tush,’ you know?,” Nugent says with a laugh.
“I kind of shrug my shoulders and I’m sorry to say, I just don’t get it,” Nugent explains. “I understand he’s a super-talented guy. Nobody likes naked girls more than I do, but would you really want to have your wife completely naked in a magazine? It’s a different world to me."
“Then again, I see where the industry is just so suicidal. Even the incredible U2, so they go in and spend a million dollars to make a record and give it away? Well, that’s convenient, if you’ve got that kind of money, which they do. But what about these new incredible artists around the country that don’t have enough money to invest in a free handout? I’m heartbroken by the whole thing. I know there’s some killer music all across this country that we’ll never ever get to hear because the industry won’t compensate.
As a career musician with many decades in the business, Nugent recognizes that he’s in a good spot compared to the up and coming talent.
“I’m lucky. I’m financially independent and still young at heart and I’ve got a million musical ideas. … I played some s–t this morning and goddamn, is it fun,” he says. “I can’t wait to get in the studio and I’ve got musicians everywhere if I need them and they’re the best. So there’s no telling what I might do.”
Still, he remains troubled by the current landscape of the music business. “I don’t know how we’re going to get out of this technological musical suicide. There would be no more apples if all of the orchard growers were forced to give away all of their apples, they wouldn’t bother growing any,” he points out. “They’d find something that they could actually get compensated for and pay for their property taxes and the fertilizers and the grooming and the transporting of the apples to the market. If you can’t pay somebody to bring your product to the market, you’re not going to grow that product anymore.”


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Paul McCartney Posts Unreleased Wings Tracks for Free Download
by Jeff Giles March 5, 2015 11:04 AM

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Paul McCartney has been plenty busy on the new music front lately, but he hasn’t forgotten about his illustrious past.
McCartney reached into his vaults for a surprise series of free downloads recently, casually asking fans, “Have you heard these previously unreleased tracks from ‪Wings‬?” and posting three songs that had yet to even surface on any of his archive collections. The tracks, which you can listen to above, are available to anyone who provides their email address at McCartney’s official site.
One song, “Love My Baby,” first surfaced last fall, and comes from the 1974 Wings film One Hand Clapping. “It was made by a friend of mine, David Litchfield,” recalled McCartney at the time. “We decided that he would shoot a very simple piece, on video. We would just go into Abbey Road and play basically what we had rehearsed. So we went in there and it was very simply filmed, absolute basic stuff, and I think its charm now is that there’s no pretense. It is what it is. We just called it ‘One Hand Clapping,’ for absolutely no reason.”
The three-song set is rounded out by an extended version of “Letting Go” and a remastered version of “Rock Show,” both from 1975′s Venus and Mars LP. Meanwhile, McCartney’s latest recording, an appearance on the Kanye West single “All Day,” seems likely to hit the upper reaches of the charts when it makes its first appearance on Billboard’s Hot 100 next week.


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David Crosby Calls Kanye West ‘An Idiot and a Poser’
by Dave Lifton March 5, 2015 8:38 PM

Yet another classic rocker has expressed his displeasure with Kanye West. David Crosby recently took to social media to give his opinion on the star.
Crosby was answering questions from fans on Twitter when one asked him about West. “He’s an idiot and a poser,” he replied. “Has no talent at all.”

Artists that did meet with Crosby’s approval include Billy Joel (“Very talented cat“), Eric Clapton (“I think he’s wonderful. Maybe even better singer”) and Jimmy Page (“Totally freaking great“). He also revealed that he kept his ears open by expressing admiration for excellent current acts like Wilco and Americana singer-songwriter Jason Isbell.
Crosby didn’t restrict his scorn for hip-hop stars, though. He said that he “would not” work with Mike Love (“Not a good person“) and that he wasn’t a fan of neither Jim Morrison nor Phish.
The public backlash against West has reached a fever pitch over the past month following an incident at the Grammys, when he walked onstage as Beck was accepting the award for Album of the Year. Paul Stanley said that Beck “should’ve kicked Kanye right in the nuts and said, ‘Get the f— off MY stage!’” Five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald added his two cents by adding, “When Kanye gets to a point where he can actually put a couple of notes together either vocally or two bars of valid music playing an instrument, then he might have a right to criticize somebody else. Until then, I think he’s just talking to hear the sound of his own voice.”
It’s important to note that Kanye has since publicly apologized to Beck, and stated that his album ‘Morning Phase’ was “kind of good.”


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Paul McCartney Is Taking Part in Alice Cooper’s New Supergroup
by Michael Gallucci March 5, 2015 5:56 PM

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Alice Cooper‘s new supergroup — which also happens to feature Joe Perry and Johnny Depp — now has another big name on its roster: Paul McCartney.
The Hollywood Vampires project, which Cooper formed and named after a group of famous drinking pals — including Keith Moon, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and Harry Nilsson – of his from the ‘70s, got together last year for some recording.
And apparently McCartney was there. According to Rolling Stone, McCartney dropped by one of the sessions and performed his song “Come and Get It,” which he gave to Badfinger, who had a hit with it in 1970. McCartney has rarely played the song.
But Perry told Rolling Stone that McCartney had no problem performing it with the Vampires. “I was joking with him and said, ‘You probably wrote this in 20 minutes,’” he said. “And he said, ‘Actually, I was in bed sleeping and I knew they needed a song for this band we signed, and I went downstairs and played it on the piano and then went to Abbey Road an hour before the rest of the , played all the instruments, made the demo and gave [Badfinger] the song.’”
[B]McCartney and Cooper share lead vocals on the song, according to Perry. An album by the Hollywood Vampires is on the way, but no details have been announced yet. And it looks like the group plans to hit the road for a tour in the fall too. Right now, the only show they’ve booked is an appearance at the Rock in Rio festival in September.


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David Crosby Calls Kanye West ‘An Idiot and a Poser’
by Dave Lifton March 5, 2015 8:38 PM

Yet another classic rocker has expressed his displeasure with Kanye West. David Crosby recently took to social media to give his opinion on the star.
Crosby was answering questions from fans on Twitter when one asked him about West. “He’s an idiot and a poser,” he replied. “Has no talent at all.”



He is obviously a shameless poser. I think he has talent beyond being an obnoxious and offensive ass, but his arrogance and inflated ego gets in the way. I don't see any appeal in his personality or his wife, whose main claim to fame seems to be, ironically, her big offensive ass -- I believe that is where she stores her "hard earned" obscene amount of money.

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Paul McCartney Explains Why He’s Working With Kanye West
by Dave Lifton March 7, 2015 1:00 PM

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Cross-cultural collaborations are nothing new to Paul McCartney. After all, some of his biggest hits in the ’80s were duets with Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Still, we were all surprised when it was revealed last summer that he was considering working with Kanye West. McCartney recently explained how West caused him to understand what hip-hop was about.
As he told NME, it happened while seeing West and Jay Z‘s Watch the Throne tour at London’s O2 Arena in 2012. “I was expecting it to be, ‘Oh it’s great, it’s hip-hop, it’s loud…,” he said. “But I hadn’t until then got the urban poetry aspect. Like, Bob Dylan is a poet. And so is Jay Z and Kanye.”
While it may have seemed strange for a man in his 70s to be listening to hip-hop in the first place, no less attending concerts, for him, keeping his eyes and ears open to what’s new is a way of preventing himself from going stale.
“If I’m gonna do a tour I like to go and see what other people are doing. I didn’t wanna bring my tour out and be amazingly old-fashioned. So people if are going, ‘Oh man, Beyonce, she was killer!’ I like to go there and go, ‘Yeah, we can do better than this.’”
To date, the pairing of McCartney and West has produced three songs. “Only One” was released on New Year’s Eve. “FourFiveSeconds,” which features Rihanna on vocals, arrived three weeks later and became the first McCartney song to hit the Top Five in more than 30 years. Earlier this week came the newest offering, “All Day,” which has its roots in some unreleased music McCartney wrote in 1969.
West, for his part, has said that it’s a successful pairing because his knack for exposing his emotions is similar to the way John Lennon did. “I might be a little bit more ‘angst’ than Paul,” he said. “And remember the last time when Paul had somebody really ‘angst’ working with him, the type of music they made?”



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He is obviously a shameless poser. I think he has talent beyond being an obnoxious and offensive ass, but his arrogance and inflated ego gets in the way. I don't see any appeal in his personality or his wife, whose main claim to fame seems to be, ironically, her big offensive ass -- I believe that is where she stores her "hard earned" obscene amount of money.

Maybe you don't remember because it's been a few years but Kim Kardashian first became famous for a "leaked" sex tape of her and her then boyfriend, another rapper whose name I don't know.
That "earned" her a reality show; after that she became a "star".

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It may not be a big deal but it sure is funny as hell since it's not the first time that something like this happened:

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Ignorance and illiteracy at its finest! Welcome to the new generation.:distress:

Funny thing is, I was thinking of another band and another song: Jefferson Airplane's signature song "Somebody to Love."

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Maybe you don't remember because it's been a few years but Kim Kardashian first became famous for a "leaked" sex tape of her and her then boyfriend, another rapper whose name I don't know.
That "earned" her a reality show; after that she became a "star".

For the life of me.What does Kim K see in these idiots.I know its not the money.She has plenty of that without them.

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Ignorance and illiteracy at its finest! Welcome to the new generation.:distress:

Funny thing is, I was thinking of another band and another song: Jefferson Airplane's signature song "Somebody to Love."

I agree. I guess they dont teach 20th century pop music in schools these days.

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For the life of me.What does Kim K see in these idiots.I know its not the money.She has plenty of that without them.
Well, apart from her striking good looks she doesn't really have any other good quality...
I suppose they deserve each other.

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Ignorance and illiteracy at its finest! Welcome to the new generation.:distress:

Funny thing is, I was thinking of another band and another song: Jefferson Airplane's signature song "Somebody to Love."
Yes, I thought about it too but, while Queen's music is quite across-the-board, there's no way that a specific acid rock act like Jefferson Airplane could reach the same audience as Justin Bieber.

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Maybe you don't remember because it's been a few years but Kim Kardashian first became famous for a "leaked" sex tape of her and her then boyfriend, another rapper whose name I don't know.
That "earned" her a reality show; after that she became a "star".

I actually take pride in not having a firm grasp of anything to do with her. When anything about her (or them) invades my TV screen, I change the channel. Unfortunately they've become media fixtures that are hard evade.

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I actually take pride in not having a firm grasp of anything to do with her. When anything about her (or them) invades my TV screen, I change the channel. Unfortunately they've become media fixtures that are hard evade.
Among people my age is practically impossible to avoid them because even even my favourite TV shows are full of references about Kardashians or Kanye West.

[Macfanforever]

Heres a story with Pres Obama talking about Kanye on the Jimmy Kimmel show.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/13/president-obama-dishes-on-kanye-west-i-don-t-think-i-ve-got-his-home-number.html

Marlow Stern

POTUS TALKS
03.13.15
President Obama Disses Kanye West: ‘I Don’t Think I’ve Got His Home Number’

On Thursday night, the president appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and opened up about Ferguson, race, and his relationship with rapper/entrepreneur Kanye West.

When I spoke to Jimmy Kimmel this week, the first-rate host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! said that, despite the comedic nature of his show, he wasn’t going to pull any punches when it came to his interview with President Obama.

“I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on foreign policy, or health care, or any of those things. But we will definitely get into stuff that is a little more serious,” Kimmel said.

And that he did.

On Thursday, the late-night host grilled the commander-in-chief on a variety of subjects, ranging from his daughters’ use of social media (“Michelle and I try to emphasize to them that we don’t want them on TMZ,” Obama said.) and Hillary Clinton’s new email address (“I don’t think she’d want you to have it, quite frankly!”) to the recent events in Ferguson, including a Justice Department report revealing gross misconduct within the city council and police department, a bevy of racist internal emails being circulated among cops, the police chief’s resignation, and two officers who recently were shot.

“The first time was when I was a senator and he was with his mom. He’d just gotten big. He’s from Chicago, so they wanted to meet, and he was very soft-spoken and very gracious.”

“What had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and worthy of protest, but there was no excuse for criminal acts,” Obama said of the two officers that were shot. “What we have to make sure is the folks that disregard and disrespect the other side, the people that resort to violence, that they’re marginalized. They’re not the majority. In the same way that you can’t generalize about police officers who do an extraordinarily tough job, overwhelmingly they do it professionally, you can’t generalize about protesters who, it turns out, had some very legitimate grievances. The Justice Department report showed African Americans were being stopped disproportionately mainly so that the city could raise money, even though these were unjust.”

Kimmel also took the time to address Obama’s historically strained relationship with the musician/entrepreneur Kanye West. The president once famously called West “a jackass,” but has since backpedaled off that statement. And in a recent talk with Oxford University students, West said, “I understand that I’m a servant. And with my voice, with my ability to build relationships with amazing people, speak to amazing people... Call Elon Musk out of the blue or call Obama out of the blue… he calls the home phone, by the way.”

Kimmel, as is his wont, asked Obama if there was any truth to this whatsoever. And it turns out… there isn’t.

“I’ve met Kanye twice,” Obama said. “The first time was when I was a senator and he was with his mom. He’d just gotten big. He’s from Chicago, so they wanted to meet, and he was very soft-spoken and very gracious. He was a young guy, and hadn’t quite come into his own. And about six months ago, he came to an event and, look, I love his music and he’s incredibly creative. I don’t think I’ve got his home number.”

The president added, “I do love his music though. He’s terrific.”

[SisterNightroad]

Heres a story with Pres Obama talking about Kanye on the Jimmy Kimmel show.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/13/president-obama-dishes-on-kanye-west-i-don-t-think-i-ve-got-his-home-number.html

Marlow Stern

POTUS TALKS
03.13.15
President Obama Disses Kanye West: ‘I Don’t Think I’ve Got His Home Number’

On Thursday night, the president appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and opened up about Ferguson, race, and his relationship with rapper/entrepreneur Kanye West.

When I spoke to Jimmy Kimmel this week, the first-rate host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! said that, despite the comedic nature of his show, he wasn’t going to pull any punches when it came to his interview with President Obama.

“I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on foreign policy, or health care, or any of those things. But we will definitely get into stuff that is a little more serious,” Kimmel said.

And that he did.

On Thursday, the late-night host grilled the commander-in-chief on a variety of subjects, ranging from his daughters’ use of social media (“Michelle and I try to emphasize to them that we don’t want them on TMZ,” Obama said.) and Hillary Clinton’s new email address (“I don’t think she’d want you to have it, quite frankly!”) to the recent events in Ferguson, including a Justice Department report revealing gross misconduct within the city council and police department, a bevy of racist internal emails being circulated among cops, the police chief’s resignation, and two officers who recently were shot.

“The first time was when I was a senator and he was with his mom. He’d just gotten big. He’s from Chicago, so they wanted to meet, and he was very soft-spoken and very gracious.”

“What had been happening in Ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and worthy of protest, but there was no excuse for criminal acts,” Obama said of the two officers that were shot. “What we have to make sure is the folks that disregard and disrespect the other side, the people that resort to violence, that they’re marginalized. They’re not the majority. In the same way that you can’t generalize about police officers who do an extraordinarily tough job, overwhelmingly they do it professionally, you can’t generalize about protesters who, it turns out, had some very legitimate grievances. The Justice Department report showed African Americans were being stopped disproportionately mainly so that the city could raise money, even though these were unjust.”

Kimmel also took the time to address Obama’s historically strained relationship with the musician/entrepreneur Kanye West. The president once famously called West “a jackass,” but has since backpedaled off that statement. And in a recent talk with Oxford University students, West said, “I understand that I’m a servant. And with my voice, with my ability to build relationships with amazing people, speak to amazing people... Call Elon Musk out of the blue or call Obama out of the blue… he calls the home phone, by the way.”

Kimmel, as is his wont, asked Obama if there was any truth to this whatsoever. And it turns out… there isn’t.

“I’ve met Kanye twice,” Obama said. “The first time was when I was a senator and he was with his mom. He’d just gotten big. He’s from Chicago, so they wanted to meet, and he was very soft-spoken and very gracious. He was a young guy, and hadn’t quite come into his own. And about six months ago, he came to an event and, look, I love his music and he’s incredibly creative. I don’t think I’ve got his home number.”

The president added, “I do love his music though. He’s terrific.”
God, how can you lie about being friends with the US president? It's like those lies you say in kindergarden to impress people: "I'm friends with the Queen of England!" I used to say.

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Paul McCartney’s Ex Mocks His Collaborations With Kanye West and Rihanna
by Jeff Giles March 16, 2015 1:45 PM

You can add Paul McCartney‘s ex-wife Heather Mills to the list of people who seem to think he’s been expanding his list of collaborators in an effort to remain relevant.
Mills, who went through a publicly nasty split from McCartney after their 2002-08 marriage, weighed in on the subject during a recent appearance on Ireland’s The Late Late Show. After insisting that she didn’t want the interview to be all about her ex and saying she found the subject “so boring,” Mills still found herself drawn in after host Ryan Tubridy suggested that she probably has to field questions about their relationship on a regular basis.
When Tubridy argued that more people are interested in the subject than she realizes, Mills said, “No, they’re not. That’s the thing. If I go down the street, all I get is kids coming up to me. Half of them don’t even know who he is. That’s why he’s got to do songs with Rihanna and Kanye West, so people remember.”
Whatever the reasons for McCartney’s growing series of recordings with West, the gambit seems to have worked: As previously reported, “FourFiveSeconds,” his song with West and Rihanna, has given him his biggest hit in roughly three decades, and it’s exposed him to a whole new generation of listeners.
According to Mills, however, most people she meets are really interested in what she’s done with her career — which, she reminded her host, included a list of accomplishments that’s impressive enough in its own right. “When I go down the street,” she told Tubridy, “It’s ‘Oh my god! You’re a ski-racer,’ or ‘You help the animals.’ You know,” Mills added, “I own the biggest vegan company in the world.”


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Courtney Love Says She and Kurt Cobain Made a Sex Tape
by Nick DeRiso April 21, 2015 2:36 PM


Director Brett Morgen was given full access to Courtney Love‘s video and audio collection while making the Kurt Cobain documentary Montage of Heck, and Love says he stumbled across something naughty.
“Somehow, Brett found the sex tape,” Love said during a premiere Q&A session at the Tribeca Film Festival, according to the Pulse of Radio. “Everyone makes one sex tape once in their lives.”
Love, who was speaking over the weekend at the event, didn’t give any further details – and for that we can all be thankful, right? She did reveal, however, that personal footage of Love and Cobain was shot by Eric Erlandson, a pre-Cobain boyfriend who later served as guitarist in Love’s band Hole. (Erlandson, years later, also wrote a book of poems dedicated to the late Cobain.) “Eric would come over to our house,” Love told the audience, “and shoot really intimate stuff with me and Kurt.”
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, which premieres May 4 on HBO, uses personal video footage and audio documents to tell the doomed Nirvana frontman’s story. Among the many surprises is Cobain’s touching cover of a Beatles song.
Morgen, during the same Q&A, praised Love for being so open, saying she was “completely courageous” to provide such sweeping access to family material. Love said she’s already seen Montage of Heck four times – including a very emotional viewing with Frances, her daughter with Cobain.


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Paul McCartney Had an Escape Plan for Kanye West Collaboration
by Dave Lifton May 2, 2015 2:31 PM

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While the collaboration between Paul McCartney and Kanye West has resulted in a handful of hits, the former Beatle wasn’t sure that it would work. In a new interview, McCartney admits that he went into the sessions knowing how he would get out of it if needed.

“My first thought was, ‘Woah, what am I going to get into here?’” he tells the Sun. “He is amazingly talented but controversial and can make eccentric moves. I realized if it didn’t work out we’d just say so and shake hands and leave.”

The first song the two released, “Only One,” was, as it turns out, inspired by one of McCartney’s most famous tunes. “We sat around and talked an awful lot just to break the ice,” he continues. “One of the stories I told him was about how I happened to have written ‘Let It Be’. My mum came to me in a dream when she’d died years previously. I was in a bit of a state — it was the Sixties and I was overdoing it. In the dream she said, ‘Don’t worry it’s all going to be fine, just let it be.’ And I woke up and thought, ‘Woah’ and wrote the song. I told Kanye this and he said, ‘I’m going to write a song with my mum.’ So then I sat down at the piano.”

But is there any truth to West’s claim that he helped restore some John Lennon-esque angst to McCartney’s music? He didn’t say, but he did note that their writing process was similar to how he and John wrote together in the Beatles.

“When I wrote with John, he would sit down with a guitar. I would sit down. We’d ping-pong till we had a song. It was like that.”




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