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Why is it that every Beatles/McCartney website totally sucks?

http://www.meyesight.com/

"Sucks" might be a little subjective. This is sort of normal operating procedure for McCartney. It's abstract and atypical, like, say "Wild Honey Pie" or any one of his paintings or "Standing Stone." He was considerably more artistically experimental, or avant-garde if you want to use a euphemism, than a certain writing partner of his was in the mid-1960's. Aside from John's relatively short flirtation with avant-garde art (Revolution 9, Mary Jane, a few homemade records and movies) Paul's affair with the unusual has just carried over a few decades.

I don't think the guy is a saint or that everything he produces is sheer genius, but he seems to have the best of all worlds - he's an artistic expressionist but can still make a meat-and-potatoes pop record, and everything in between. There's nobody like him. I'm no art critic but this is sort of how I see it.

I hear you Simer. And every one knows how much of a McCartney "Butt-boy" I am.

I was just on his website. It's not all that bad if you use the filter. The music is actually pretty good this time round IMO. The site is a bit self indulgent...but that's our Paulie.

"Wild Honey Pie" is nothing more than one of Paulie's little Tin Pan Alley ditties played through a ring modulator. I don't see how you could possibly call that more 'artistically experimental' than any of the examples of Lennon's work you cited...

I will grant you: that "Band On The Run" song was pure Stockhausen...especially the 'Admiral Halsey' bit! Meat-and-Potatoes never tasted so expressionisticky...

From YouTube

The song was surprisingly decent. Thanks for putting it up, Peter.

Wow, nothing like dropping a name to make yourself sound like you know something. I'm shocked: we never see smart *** posts from you, Dane. Maybe you should actually read my post before insulting my opinions.

Sarcasm is obviously your forte but how about actually saying something substantive? My comments didn't speak to the QUALITY of the work, only to the fact that the guy has continued to experiment, and that he did more than any of the other Beatles.

By your rationale, if Wild Honey Pie was simply a throwaway done with a ring modulator, then Lennon's Mary Jane & Revolution 9 (not to mention a self-made film of his tumescent "equipment") are just nonsensical collections of bile vomited onto tape. Jeez.

My point was that his websites are never easy to navigate. I like getting in and out and his sites don't allow that.

Rumbush, I agree that McCartney was the one that was experimenting in the avant garde before Lennon. In fact, wasn't McCartney instrumental in getting the famous gallery open that John met Yoko in?

Rick, no comment about my McCartney III post?

Yes sir Mr. Simer, that would be the Indica Gallery opened by Peter Asher and Barry Miles; in fact it was the latter who wrote "Many Years from Now."

((heh I'm probably the only one that likes the McCartney II LP anyway. I think "On The Way" makes the record)).

J: There is a lot of talent in McCartney's work, but the Fab Four is a tough act to follow. Little did Paul know in the early days that he would have to follow himself one day.

Very few groups were consistently excellent from one album to the next as we saw with The Beatles and even they had some issues during their career.

My expectations of Paul have always been that he will exceed the Beatles and in that sense perhaps I am being unfair. While I do not think he has surpassed his Beatles' days my desire to hear something close to the Beatles is so strong that I will listen to each of his recordings. There is always a hint of the old genius, but it has yet to break through completely.

And so I wait...

"And so I wait..."

Me too. I could not agree more with your sentiments Peter.

Rumbush, I think Mr. Roosa would give you a run for our money on being a "McCartney II" lover!.

I will admit that "On the Way" isn't too horrible.

Tosh. "...isn't too horrible."

On The Way is boss. Great lead guitar tone on that track. Wide open, headroom for ages.

I'm a liker not a lover, Simer.
Hehe we're probably the only two forumites who do like it anyway.

Hey, I really like "Waterfalls"...but I've never heard the whole album. My temporary secretary did.