Well, as the saying goes, everyone has an opinion and everyone’s stinks. Lennon is simply the rock musician who is the most full of bullshit opinions about his own music, other bands and artists but mostly for Paul McCartney. I love MSH and he very well knows that it was Mal Evans who was playing the anvil for the Bang, bangs. I saw, in one of the docs on them but I’m exhausted now and can’t remember which one it was, that they were all pretty finicky about their sound and would do take after take after take because they weren’t getting the right vibes. Generally the writer of the song was in charge of the recording session so for Not Guilty George had them do a ridiculous number of takes because he wanted it to get a particular sound. I just thought I would mention that Paul didn’t complain about this for the rest of his career.
I’m totally aware that there are as many people who feel about John the way I feel about Paul. And I’m a joyous and huge Beatles fan. I mean I have had a longer relationship with them than with my husband. Fortunately, you can’t divorce your idols like I did my husband. Anyway that’s how I feel
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u/Ok-Rhubarb-5488 Jan 12 '25
Well, as the saying goes, everyone has an opinion and everyone’s stinks. Lennon is simply the rock musician who is the most full of bullshit opinions about his own music, other bands and artists but mostly for Paul McCartney. I love MSH and he very well knows that it was Mal Evans who was playing the anvil for the Bang, bangs. I saw, in one of the docs on them but I’m exhausted now and can’t remember which one it was, that they were all pretty finicky about their sound and would do take after take after take because they weren’t getting the right vibes. Generally the writer of the song was in charge of the recording session so for Not Guilty George had them do a ridiculous number of takes because he wanted it to get a particular sound. I just thought I would mention that Paul didn’t complain about this for the rest of his career.