tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post870444733424047287..comments2024-02-19T14:51:00.611-06:00Comments on The CD Project: Paul McCartney - Wingspan: Hits and History (2001)Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13004375650529185768noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post-68566098608219298162013-07-20T13:11:44.622-05:002013-07-20T13:11:44.622-05:00Forgot to say Happy 900th Post!
That's a hell...Forgot to say Happy 900th Post!<br /><br />That's a helluva milestone.HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3716854468261033292.post-90138611164659430742013-07-20T11:54:48.498-05:002013-07-20T11:54:48.498-05:00A few of my McCartney Memories:
"Silly Love ...A few of my McCartney Memories:<br /><br />"Silly Love Songs" was the first record I ever bought for a girl. It was also the first scratched record I ever owned when she gave it back to me that way about a week later. Fourth grade was rough. Definitely going to put that story on my site.<br /><br />"Say, Say, Say" always reminds me of watching <i>Friday Night Videos</i> and making out on the couch. With a girl.<br /><br />"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" brings to mind one of the last epic road trips I took as a single man which is probably why it has appeared on virtually every Road Trip mix I have made since. The whole <b>Band On The Run</b> album is a favorite - is it in your collection?<br /><br />"Listen To What The Man Said" is the song that takes me way, way back to my youth. My memory of the song has me riding in the baby blue Gran Torino my Aunt Judy and Uncle Sam shared - they (brother and sister) were a year apart in age but ended up in same grade. Both of them would get in car, slam in the 8-track and off we'd go. I'll get into a mood to hear McCartney solo music and they usually last for days - there's just that much good, good stuff.<br /><br />I eagerly gobbled up this collection upon release but like you I had issues with it. I was expecting a thorough compilation, with all the hits, not a career sampler. But with a long and winding career like McCartney's, I can see the inherent difficulties. The fan-made 13 volume compilation of UK singles filled in all the holes in my collection ("where the rain was getting in.") And I am enjoying the Archive versions Sir Paul has been ekeing out over the last few years. (Hopefully, Prince is cribbing notes.)<br /><br />While I have never partaken of Paul live, I was fortunate enough to run into him and his son James outside a Walgreen's here in town, when we parked next to each other and all got out of our cars at the same time. I said "Hi", he said "Hi", smiled that cute smile and waved. There would probably be more to that story but I was on a most urgent mission to buy... prophylactics. There was no time to lose. Had it been anything else or another time, the story would have been better. The McCartneys lived here for years until the lovely Linda passed.HERChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00361888365133381438noreply@blogger.com