Drummer reacts to "Dear Boy" / "3 Legs" / "Smile Away" / "Long Haired Lady" by Paul McCartney
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Happy to announce that our Spotlight Artist of the Month is Sir James Paul McCartney... Thank you to our alpha patron Gail and our discord members for getting all of this together. Y'all are the best. I had no idea Paul went blues on this album (thats what you get for not listening to all of it lol) track 2 and 3 are bluesy as hell with a McCartney spin... the other 2.... not so easy to classify. But they sound amazing... This album rocks, man.
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I almost forgot what a great album this is. Almost. It's my favorite album by Paul. We're all so fortunate to have The Beatles in our lifetimes.
The music just pours out of this man...
This is my favourite Paul album.... If I had to choose of course... I wouldn't want to, but there it is. As for John thinking some of the lyrics were about him, it's not a surprised, I remember that back in the day just after they broke up John and Paul were at each others throats for a couple of years... each interview they did back then always had questions about each other. Keep on Rocking young sir.
RAM ROCKS. I've been loving this for 53 years.
I'm always happy to sit in with a reactor and listen to my favorite post-Beatles Beatle album.
Agreed!
me too
Thank you, Lee, you trooper. ❤️
Paul’s irrepressible high spirits creates innumerable memorable melodies! To me, Ram On may be his sweetest…
He has such a lovely voice.
Love love is long… is like na na na na na na na hey Jude!
Paul is a happier person than John was…
Thank you, Lee and Gail!
I love Long Haired Lady!
I’d never heard any of these songs before.
The originality…🔥
I’m glad Paul’s music lifts you. 🙂
SMILE AWAY ABSOLUTELY ROCKS! Always wanted McCartney to perform it live in later years!
Smile Away always makes me smile and rock and I love the way the bass comes in after his "smile away horribly now" :)
McCartney's versatility is off the charts.
It’s great that you can now listen to Paul’s work (almost) without the negative filter that obscured it for the next few decades thanks to Lennon Remembers and Rolling Stone
Dear Boy is a gem!
In my top ten albums ever. And my favorite Mcartney solo album. It does make you feel great!
I love how this album is now considered one of if not his best records.
I bought it the day it came out and loved it but was devastated by how disliked it was at that time. Critics. Many fans and the other 3 beatles all had nasty things to say about.
I think it was pre judged before people heard it.
We were all pissed off at Paul for splitting up the fabs .
When I was issued as paul and Linda it felt like 'here we go again" we all had enough of John and Yoko.
I got a lot of grief for defending this album. I feel vindicated now .
I Loved this Album!!! It was the Summer of 1971. Listening to this brings back wonderful memories of my girlfriend at the time. We didn’t make it as a couple, but we were lifelong friends until she passed 3 years ago. Here’s to you Darlene! Enjoy Eternity!
This was Paul’s opportunity to show everyone how gifted he was as an Arranger, Producer, and Songwriter…not to mention his lead vocals (range), and Harmonies! Most of the Songs on Ram have 3 to 5 different Songs within them! 😮 I knew Denny Seiwell personally. What a great drummer on this album! Paul is just a man with so Many amazing talents!
Yeah! My high school (EHS, Everett, WA) girlfriend and I used to listen to this great album a lot that summer, along with Arlo Guthrie's WASHINGTON COUNTY album (which I consider Arlo's masterpiece LP).
Thank you, Lee, you trooper. ❤️
Paul’s irrepressible high spirits creates innumerable memorable melodies!
He has such a lovely voice.
Love love is long… is like na na na na na na na hey Jude!
Paul is a happier person than John was…
Thank you, Lee and Gail!
Ram On is almost too beautiful to be true.
“Give your heart to somebody soon right away…”
Ram … one of My favorite McCartney Album!! ❤
Yes! Keyword “one of” because everything he made was gold
Top 5 easily!
This is my favorite McCartney album. That is all him and Linda.
Monkberry Moon Delight is awesome, you are almost there.
He already did that one. I requested it months ago. :)
When I was a kid I used to love "Long haired lady", went on a trance.😂
I’ve always loved 3 Legs. Loved it as a kid because I thought it was funny (it is), but have kept on loving it in my adulthood too because it’s just a good tune. Love that switch up at the end.
Back Seat of My Car, love the build up and passion! I use to sing my kids to sleep to the songs on this album!
Loved RAM when it came out! 😎
In many places, this album reflects the influence of the Beach Boys on Paul McCartney, especially "Dear Boy" and "Back Seat of my Car."
A gem off the "Rockshow" film is "Call Me Back Again", one of McCartney's greatest, yet lesser known, vocal performances.
@RobTaylor-cs3bz I agree! That song is so overlooked in the Macca catalog. The same guy who can write and sing lovely tunes like Blackbird, Bluebird, Yesterday etc can bust out a rollicking from-the-gut rocker like Call Me Back Again. The live version on Over America is one of my favorite Paul songs ever.
One must remember Paul played every instrument apart from Linda on backing keyboards ! all harmonies are him and linda ! Nobody else could do that !
Smile Away is a nod to Paul's 1950 rock n roll influence called B Bop. Linda was on peddle base and sounded so good. Paul ever so positive has the tile repeated Smile Away and the refrain at first stats, I don't know how to do that,smile, then changes to ,I'm learning how to do that. Paul taking a sad song and making it better.
I love the song Ram On too! I had to learn it on ukulele like Paul.
dear boy's good song
My favorite album of Sir Paul and maybe his best!
Yes ... Paul has some feel-good music .. love it
Listening to Long Haired Lady at the end, I can definitely hear where Beck came up with Loser.
So great you mentioned Linda. I have always thought her backing vocals were an absolute plus to the band.
You have to lisen "The back seat of my car" in this albun. It is the best song
One of the best in an excellent album!
Man oh man you are SO right about “back seat of my car” I can hear it just by thinking about it
It’s on the list for the artist of the month so you should hear it this month.
Hard to believe “dear Boy” and “i wanna hold your hand” came out of the same singer/song writer…when I think of how many great songs were written and arranged by Paul, it just blows me away…he once said on a talk show, that he often wrote complete songs/hits in under 10 minutes…what a talent…
Yeah, kind of hard to believe There were two like that in one band!
@@lauraallen55, three!!
@@sarahfullerton6894 Maybe so!
I couldn't listen to this album after the Beatles broke up, but thanks for introducing me to these great songs. Still not a Wings fan, but definitely want to hear more of this album now!
For anyone else this would be rthe peak of their career. But this is McCartney, and he's been doing it since the early 60's.
"Live and Let Die," anybody??
Maybe the best Bond theme ever?
It’s coming this month.
The audio in this clip is of outstanding quality. I heard some detail that I hadn’t heard before, despite half a century of listening to this album.
hard to believe ram was panned when it came out. paul and linda were great together.
John Lennon assumed "Dear Boy: was about him, but it was to Linda's first husband
McCartney basically calling him mad for giving up such a wonderful woman
Loved this album. At the time when the record was released everyone panned it. His former band members publicly gave it bad reviews. His next album "Wings Wild Life" also had bad reviews. I liked it too even though it was a bit under-produced. It's quite amazing that he continued on since (a) his was getting constant bad reviews, and (b) he wasn't getting much money from Apple Corps/ABKCO. He really needed Linda to make him feel better.
This was the soundtrack to my early childhood, as my older brother (by ten years)had it and played it to death. It’s al2ays been a magical album to me.
Nice to hear more tunes from Ram. Thanks Gail for bringing more of Paul’s music to us for this month. You’re the best.
Ram On is my favorite Paul song too.
Great album.
Linda can be heard singing a lot of background vocals with Paul on this album. You' have actually taken a trip through time back to 1971.
Hi Lee, I’m looking forward to you latching on to “Back Seat Of My Car” which to me is the song of the album. It kinda showed a much younger me that Paul was gonna be more than fine on his own! “The evening lights are pretty, we may make it to Mexico City.,, sittin in the back seat of my car!” Take care Lee
Paul (and John) always loved silly word play in lyrics so lots of songs are like that throughout his entire career. Fun stuff!
You need to wait to Backseat of My Car. It's a masterpiece
Heart of the Country is one of my faves can’t wait
Don't go so far that you can't walk away. Don't plant your feet where you can't stay. And when you wake up in the morning put a smile upon your face and smile away. Smile at the rain. Smile at the snow. Smile about the things that you don't know. And when you wake up in the morning put a smile upon your face and smile away. --Me being inspired by Macca.
Sir Paul!
I can’t wait for you to hear ‘The Backseat of My Car.’ It’s my favorite McCartney song. It’s like a movie in music form. I think the drums will stand out to you. The end is Denny’s claim to fame as a drummer. 🫶🏽 McCartney Mondays! (And yes, he is his own genre :)
Always wanted to play Smile Away and Monkberry live but every band I ever brought it up to looked at me like I was nuts.. Always the vocal thing when trying to cover Paul
Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey and Too Many People are tge best songs on Ram!
The Album Ram is in my opinion his best!! Specially Dear Boy
Ram is an excellent album❤
On Dear Boy, I'd say he was just spiking the football in the endzone on Linda's Ex-husband. With Linda's vocal harmonies on this one, it sounded quite beautiful...
Paul's best album
No one ever makes this connection Ram on - Paul used to go by the stage name Ramone
Kaboom. Bullseye
"3 Legs" is about the Beatles - minus one leg (Paul)
Keep the journey going, you will just keep getting more & more amazed! And we will enjoy the ride...
I love Paul's sense of humor in "Dear Boy" (kind of gloating), "Three Legs", and "Smile Away", and even at the beginning of "Long Haired Lady"! 😂🤣
Dear boy was written about Linda's ex-husband. Telling him how much he out missed by not being part of Linda and their daughters's life.
I don't think being indirect is the same thing as sugar-coating. I know you're not doing this, but a lot of people use terms like that to dismiss Paul's lyrics as meaningless, saccharine or superficial, when they are not. The first 3 songs you reviewed here are a case in point. Dear Boy is Paul being a sore winner; he is calling out his rival for not appreciating Linda when he had her. 3 Legs also has a nasty streak in it. Smile Away is about resilience, not letting what others say or think about you get you down. The lyrics are pretty graphic rather than sugar-coated, though it has a positive message. Smile through the pain; you will persevere. Rise above it.
Ram is a fantastic album. Enjoy it! 🎶🎶🎶🙋♀️
You have to listen to the extra song from this album. “Oh Woman, Oh Why?”. One of Paul’s best singing performances ever!
And it's flip, another great song, "Another Day"!
A great track from these sessions is Oriental Nightfish. It features Linda on vocals and Paul playing everything else. Very Beatles like and psychedelic. It’s on utube with a cool video.
Another Day and the b-side Oh Woman, Oh Why was the single at the time and the bonus tracks on the CD. They were Paul and Linda McCartney as well.
Great reaction Lee! Have you heard Too Many People by Paul? Also, Junior's Farm.
He's already listened to Too Many People. But Junior's Farm is a must!
Wow, thanks, Lee. This is a great start of my day. Couldn't ask for more, wouldn't have asked for less.
Ram is, still after all these years, my favorite post Beatle solo album of all time. No disrespect to AllThings Must Pass, which is a close second
I sure wish someone would react to the title track from the 'Wild Life' album. Paul's vocals are impressive on that one.
I love Wild Life! I also love the one hand clapping version….
Although Linda showed great balls going on stage with Paul, she was not a musician and was taught by her husband how to do simple things. She was originally laughed at, but eventually, people came around to love her.
This has always been my favourite McCartney. Just got bad press. McCartney at one of his many, many peaks.
Really looking forward to this!
I think I liked Smile Away best.
Thanks for reloading this video, sir!! Fantastic review!!
He did other songs during this session and they turned up on red rose speedway.
Now when you have grown up with the Beatles and after that this kind of fantastic work, then you can realise that Yes, Genesis Gentle Giant etc are a logical follow up. The early 70's were just great, montly new releases. And lots of us lived it all!!!
Dear Boy was not about John. It's a message to Linda's first husband
True true. That still didn’t stop John from hearing it as a message to himself tho.. haha.
Not about John and his first wife Cynthia. Get Back had the lines about Tucson Arizona about Linda's first husband too. "Get back Joe! Go home!"
@@debjorgo Interesting ; but when he sang get back Joe that was in reference to the main character in the song JoJo and not Joseph See In the Published lyrics the name is Jo
@@genegarrett3372 Wow! Joe See went to the University of Arizona in Tucson Arizona, where he met Linda, who was going there too. And JoJo came from Tucson Arizona. You think I just got them confused?
This is the McCartney album I would choose to take to an island if I could only take one.
Paul McCartney is prolific ❤
Listen to Junk by Paul.
Over the years, this has become my favorite McCartney album. While, IMHO, nothing he did solo can compare to the masterpieces he wrote with The Beatles, this album is so chock full of wonderful melodies and artistic exploration that it stands at the top of the McCartney's extensive solo catalogue. As an example, if you listen to "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey", every second, from the first moment to the last, is brimming with melody, counter melodies, on and on. Like the song "Band On The Run", this song has a number of sections or "movements" that a less talented artist would have made into an entire song.
Ironically, this album came out at the height of his vitriolic and contentious exchanges with John Lennon. But, while Paul's "digs" against John Lennon were fairly constrained, Lennon was not a constrained man, especially when he was angry. And his album from the same year (1971), "Imagine" contained the brutal "How Do You Sleep", as well as "Crippled Inside" and others that left no doubt as to his feelings to his former best friend and writing and singing partner. But, like "Ram", Lennon's "Imagine" album was probably my favorite of HIS solo album. It's strange how often "negative" emotions (rage, sadness, hatred, jealousy, etc.) produce great music. Both "Too Many People" (from McCartney) and "How Do You Sleep" (from Lennon) are GREAT, memorable songs.
Ram is by far my favorite McCartney album, but as far as John’s, it has to be plastic on band- Talk about feelings and emotions!
@@lauraallen55 , the "Plastic Ono Band" album is definitely the other strong contender for Lennon's best solo album. But, for me, songs like "Jealous Guy", "Gimme Some Truth", "Oh My Love" and, of course, the title song, makes it an album that I'm more often in the mood to listen to than the intense pain and anguish of the Plastic Ono Band album, as brilliant as it is.
Whenit comes to solo singles, Lennon's contributions beat his former partner's, certainly IMO. Songs like "Cold Turkey", "Power To The People", "Instant Karma", "Happy Christmas", "Mind Games", "No 9 Dream" "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" and "Woman" are all-time classics. They are much stronger than hit songs like "Silly Love Songs" and "With A Little Luck", on which McCartney's reliance on putting out shallow, cutesy records sometimes obscured his genius as a songwriter.
@@alanstein5930 No, POB is not music to have a pleasant time to for sure, but it is important work if there ever was any.
You perfectly expressed how I've always felt about that side of Paul's writing. While there are some of that style I like well enough to go out of my way to listen to, most of it I go out of my way to avoid. I much prefer the type of thing he did for Ram over With a Little Luck type of song.
Even some of his big ones with the Beatles, I could do without. Songs that everyone went gaga over like Yesterday and Let it Be are not songs I ever care if I hear again tbh. Songs like For No one, though, yes. I wish that's about as far as he ever went in that direction.
But Paul knew it sold, and apparently that mattered to him.
@@lauraallen55 , I agree with you COMPLETELY!!!
@@alanstein5930 I oftentimes wonder why those type of songs are so appealing to so many when those requiring challenging himself and bringing out his uniqueness and creativity are just more interesting (if nothing else)....
We’re so sorry, Uncle Albert, but we haven’t done a bloody thing all day, all day……….
This album is certainly Paul's best output post beatles. I love how strange it gets! 😊
Until I read Paul’s explanation in the last decade or two, I too thought “Dear Boy” was for John- interestingly, from the Wing’s Wild Life album there is a song for John, “Dear Friend”
These were great - thank you. SMASH THE LIKE BUTTON, fellow listeners! And no doubt Paul is all over the place - in a good way - in his style/genre of song. But I disagree - sort of (after all, we should all be allowed to agree to disagree as long as it's done with respect) - with your comment on "Smile Away" backing vocals sounding like The Beach Boys ... sort of. They do kinda sound like that, but to me it is more reminiscent of the sort of swing rhythm and shooby-do-wah backing vocals on "Revolution 1" from The Beatles aka the White Album (my personal favorite as opposed to "Revolution" - the B side of the single "Hey Jude") - but "Smile Away is just a smidge faster than "Revolution 1" in tempo. And of these 4 songs, I think "Smile Away" was my favorite.
on the album cover you see lily. stella mccartney made perfume named lily. means.... linda i love you
"3 Legs" is an example of why this album came under criticism at the time for being loaded with trivial songs that feel like 'White Album' leftovers. Many of the songs also promoted a rural domesticity that felt a bit out of step with the protest sentiment in vogue in the early 70's (that John had fully embraced). But the album has aged well, with "Smile Away" being a highlight for me. It's a great throwback to the kind of thing the Beatles did in the early days on songs like "Shout".
Dear Boy is awesome!!! The harmonies are incredible!!! No Denny. This was before Wings.
Denny seiwell. The drummer. Not Denny Laine.
@@L33Reacts Right! And I’m with you! I’ve always loved Paul but I think Paul and Wings is my favorite music! I just seem to really love the songs with Linda harmonizing the most.
The tone of the bass guitar on Smile Away is nasty AF
Juniors Farm is by far the best rocker of this era. Way too short though.
Just watched live version.
And the flip side was Sally G. Whew
That thing that you were listening that sounded like a synthesizer to you on Smile Away is actually a bass with a fuzz pedal
Hi I don't usually have a lot of comments I enjoy your reviews. That being said since I found out that you get better credit when someone makes a comment just now and will keep sending thumbs up and things like that just letting you know in case you possibly read this
Monkberry Moon Delight!! Please! Actually, I like the whole album. Please do the rest! ❤
He has reacted to "Monkberry Moon Delight" already.
@@sarahfullerton6894 I guess I forgot!
@KimSimful , that's okay. I love "Monkberry Moon Delight", too, so I understand that you would want this smart young man to hear how amazing it is!
Don't forget Oh Woman Oh Why, the bonus track from this album. It was AC/DC before AC/DC and another insane vocal performance by McCartney.
The end of LHL has a Hey Jude feel.
I always thought Smile Away was about John but nobody else does.
Same here, a radio DJ said on air that “Smile Away” started the song salvos or jabs thrown at each other
The critics panned his first solo album, calling it too raw, sophomoric and underproduced, so he produced the crap out of this album!
Us music `rag` `Rolling Stone` Ripped the album to shreds! Just slaughtered it. Not because of the musical content - no! Because Editor Jann Wenner had sided with Lennon and did his `dirty work` for him!
Well, John didn’t ask him to
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