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  • that guitar with the red detroit logo is THE guitar, is the one he uses to play yesterday in the ed sulivan show back in the 60´s...

    he actually talks a lil bit about it in "Back in the us" dvd

  • Quede maravillado con la forma que toca Jenny Wren ya que me parece que es de sus mejores canciones de ese disco que saco ya mas de media decada estoy con la expectativa de oir Kisses in a Bottom

  • I have the mellotron stuck in my head do wop a doobie

  • whats the song by bach called

  • @childrummer79 thanks for the information, however, I listen it a bit out of tune, and why would Paul put a sticker of the detroit red wings in such a classical historical guitar?

  • @DrKlimax

    Because the Red Wings are like 5% as awesome as Paul, and just that is more awesome than just about anything on the earth today.

  • Just another bit of trivia, the guitar Paul is handed at the 3:30 mark is THE Epiphone Texan Paul used to write and play Yesterday, Blackbird & many other songs. At the time of this taping that guitar was about 42 years old and had traveled around the world quite a few times.

  • lol i like the red wings logo on his guitar

  • At around 2:00 you can hear part of the song "Bison" by the Fireman. Listen to it, then play that part of this vid, you'll see what I mean.

  • does anybody know the song paul played at first on the mellotron??

  • THE GOLD DIGGER THERE. only if he new then, anyway fuck her, dont let the pro spoil the moment, goed MACCA LAD

  • and paul mccartney. he's cool I guess, or whatever, if you're into that.

  • glad to see the mellotron getting some love

  • 2:20-2:25

    :D <3

  • love it! Dooooo

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  • i really like to know what the beatles did in their past lives to be given all that talent and each other in this,got to be a hell of a karmic story

  • damn I want a mellotron. What a sound

  • Detroit redwings

  • Paul looks like Han Solo

  • wow

  • I wish that I could have been in the audience! Entertaining all the way 'round!

  • That's amazing. I always compared Jenny Wren to Blackbird's sound. Not a coincidence. No wonder they're both fantastic.

  • 2:14 paul seduces me. he's a GENIUS!

    my dad and i watched it last week and we just love it!

  • What´s the name of the first mellotron song?

  • 2:21 is like 1964 Paul coming back to life :D aww, so cute!! <33

  • @LeThereBeatles4ever sometimes he looks so much like young Paul ..I know it sounds stupid but yeah he does.

  • did queer have a different meaning back then? when that was written? or was that improv?

  • @MtzUglyDuck It means something or someone is different from the usual. It has more meanings than the one everyone fixes on, same with "gay." Both words seem to have a single meaning, now, but it's only because the most recent uses are so intentionally inflammatory.

  • Paul McCartney has been my fiance's musical inspiration since he was a kid. His father got him into The Beatles when they were reunited (my fiance and his father, I mean). The man is a legend. All that horseshit about Paul knocking Heather Mills about...who knows for sure. But one thing's for certain..you never heard Linda McCartney uttering a single word about him out of place. I don't believe Mills for a moment. I'm surprised Paul didn't see her coming a mile away! GO, MACCA!!

  • I want a mellotron!

  • 1:02 - 2:15 Best part of the entire show ;D Mellotron ftw!

  • Heather mills should have been assassinated

    by the brittish government princess di style.

    I actually feel that my government has let me down. they let a gold digger make a total cunt out of a national treasure. MI5 I'm disgusted.

  • @a1974h I dont get it. what did she do wrong?

  • Omg I love this man...

  • omg when he started playin strawberry fields my heart just raced and my eyes filled with tears its just my favorite beatles song ever

  • Ahh! Why didn't he play all the way through Strawberry Fields Forever? My heart started racing as soon as he played the intro.

  • paul could put out an album of just acoustic guitar and him going "do do do do do do" and it would be better than most of the music today

  • That is so true

  • @ilikepie33445 love your comment I could imagine him doing it. Frankly I would love to have Paul McCartney humming to acoustic guitar in my house

  • The Strawberry Fields demonstration shows the shortcomings of the Mellotron as the notes end before Paul stops singing. This is because the tape note playback limit is approx. 8 seconds.

  • He makes me laugh =)

  • how could anyone thumbs down this?? this is paul at his best, most charming ever

  • 4:29

    is that boureé?

  • @bennydieerbse YESSSSSSSSSS

  • in 1:52 lol xDD

  • "Jenny Wren" reminds me of "Blackbird" because of the tune and the style, but the lyrical message is similar, to me, to "Rocky Raccoon" because of the sort of sad melody, and how poverty, a broken heart, and wounded warriors "took her song away" just like Rocky Raccoon got his love taken away from him.

  • he actually knew this piece. cuz that's where i assumed "yesterday" must've been inspired by. he said he dreamed it. to know he had this piece in his head as a teen. it's a possibilty :-)

  • anyone notice the detroit red wings logo during "Jenny Wren"?

  • @Staytec Yeah, my dad pointed that out when we were watching the the concert Good Evening New York. when he plays here today I think. He also plays it in the music video for Tug of War.

  • Paul and the other Beatles are geniuses- only someone really talented could take a mistake and turn it into great music! beatles/Wings forever!

  • Jenny Wren = Blackbird 2: the sequel. :P

  • @ScottSextonTV i never thought of it that way- but that's pretty much true- both are based on Paul's mistake playing the classical music song- and both mention a bird

  • What´s the name of Bach´s Song?

  • Bourree in E Minor

  • The mellotron was also used on "Baby You're a Rich Man." But, that song is much less well known than "Strawberry Fields Forever."

  • LOL!!!!!!! 3:18  Priceless!

  • I love how he's got a red wings sticker on his guitar

  • I just recently saw this program on PBS. it has been around for a while, but I only just got around to paying any attention to it. I think this is fascinating and really entertaining program. Love that Jenny Wren song. Beautifully complex and rich guitar arrangement and song melody too. Probably too classical sounding for some peoples tastes but worth it if you can give it serious listening to.

  • @julianllew

    classical?? of course....he tried to recreate a bit of blackbird...which was based on a piece by bach that he and george used to do. I think Bach is classical.

  • My point was that some people may not relate to it all that well because it is so classical sounding. It uses counterpoint like Bach does. I was intrigued by the song Jenny Wren and taught myself to play it after watching this program. I was brought up surrounded by classical music. My Dad has loads of classical music. Hearing Bach first thing on a Saturday morning when I was a kid was the norm.

  • 1:50 paul's feelin' it

  • Strawberry Fields Forever, Blackbird, Jenny Wren...

  • what are the names of the songs ????

  • i love all this! i think its really intresting as a fan of this music and as a producer.

    hehe its funny to--i love his little dance at the start :D

  • Love him. but he does the same things all the time! During flaming pie he did the same stuff (elvis' bass, mellotron...) in the doc in 1997.

  • i love how the gave him a show, just to fuck about with random instruments from the past. the melotron bit was ace hahaha

  • watching paul do that stupid face and foot tapping to that melotron riff was one of the funniest things i have ever seen. haha!!

  • Damn Heather in the background- foot up ass!

  • The Beatles were seriously full of amazing musicians. We should all be thankful to have these geniuses in our lives.

  • god Paul has grat people skills

  • eww, was that heather mills back there?

    gah, i hate her

  • McCartney is even cooler for having the Red Wings logo on his guitar. Great performance. Thanks for posting :)

  • Strawberry Fields Forever is seriously one of the greatest songs ever written.

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  • He's living music - and he did the soundtrack to my life - whish I'd been there at Abbey Road, what a fantastic evening!

  • wow he play with a detroit red wings logo on his guitar, Paul you`re the BEST.

  • so cute!! =D what a man!

  • I hate when people say Lennon was greater, cause thats nonsense. Im a huge Lennon fan. Paul is just as tanented if not more and beleive it or not John looked up to Paul and his skills way after the beatles broke up. Why cant everybody just see that they both had wonderful talents and we're all lucky enough to listen to these to supertalents in the same group. That stuff only happens evey 200 years.

  • Wow. THANK YOU. Finally, someone who GETS it. I'm all for John Lennon--I love him--but I think sometimes people elevate him wrongfully to a God-like status, and usually at McCartney's expense.

  • i don't mean any disrespect but: FUCK YOU HEATHER MILLS!!!!

  • rofl@!!

  • Yeah! Fuck that stupid one legged turd

  • @Zebonka As much as I hate that dumbass motherfucking cock-sucking...and I don't mean she sucks cock, she sucks the life out of men THROUGH their cocks, making fun of her for having one leg isn't right.

  • I'm not making fun of her for having one leg. If she had 2 she'd still be a worthless bitch.

  • @Zebonka I see your point. You win, although I get the feeling we never really disagreed :p

  • @elchingoncabron i think you met quite a bit of disrespect with that statement. but i couldnt agree more. FUCK that BITCH

  • @elchingoncabron I dont get it. what did she do wrong?

  • Ohh, that "Jenny Wren" (if I wrote that correctly) gives me the chills...

  • Wow, can you two get anymore windbagged and pretentious? Nothing wrong with some intelligent conversation, but f.uck me, this is Youtube. Get LIVES.

  • this is fantastic! thank u for making this available!!

  • there all composers thats my drift....pop music wasnt around in 1700's,if it was mozart would be rockin

  • mozart was kind of pop back then

  • he will be remembered with beethoven and motzart in 100 years

  • probably not considering, classical and pop music are in completely different leagues.

    that's like comparing an exquisite 10 course meal to snickers candy bar.

  • I`m not agree...well I think is the same kind of intelligence... well only the time will decide

  • don't get me wrong, i LOVE paul, but certain things can't be compared even if their both of the same nature such as music and food.

  • the thing we can compare here is that they will be remember still in 100 years

  • You might not think he'll be remembered like Mozart and Beethoven, but you have to admit, the way things are going nowadays in the music industry, in 100 years music is going to be unbearably awful, and the people who will still be able to appreciate real music will see The Beatles as gods.

  • i'll only admit that you don't know how to find good music or you're too lazy to look beyond what's pushed in front of you by MTV VH1 and the like of other mainstream media outlets...

    The Beatles were a revolution of their time and created the basis for all pop music and onto experimental pop. yes they were genius, but pop music and classical music are not comparable in any dimension.

  • Who are you to say that I don't know how to find good music, or to say that I even watch MTV or VH1 (which I don't)? I barely listen to anybody that's come out in the past 20 years, but I'm not denying that there are good artists out there now, it's just that the majority of them aren't that great. No one is qualified to say one genre of music is better than another without being biased, and to say so otherwise is just being ignorant. But then again you're nothing but an atheist, so forget it.

  • oooooooh you just sunk waaaayyyyy down..... lol

    sad you had to resort to that. shows your character; unable to accept and grow.

    you're a sad sad little man...

  • What's so sad about me calling you what you are? As for my character, I'm cordial to those that deserve it. It's hard to accept someone who downplays other people's beliefs just because those aren't their own. You're not really hurting the stereotype that all atheists are narrow minded. And (I'll admit it) I'm nothing but a dorky teenager, not old enough to even enlist, who has nothing better to do on a Saturday. But atleast I'm not a 25 year old posting comments online to argue with a kid.

  • "What's so sad about me calling you what you are?"

    that you put a negative connotation on it, presuming that because i live my life by facts and not myths i'm somehow less than you.

    you said "But then again you're nothing but an atheist, so forget it."

    then you said "It's hard to accept someone who downplays other people's beliefs just because those aren't their own"

    you made the comment about beliefs here not me, so maybe you should take you own advice.

  • You're one to talk about negative connotations when your channel states "I'd be religious too if I desired to be willingly stupid." And I never once said, or thought, that I was better than you so don't feel all threatened and get defensive. I didn't give you advice that you needed to accept people, I simply stated that it's hard to accept people when they downplay the ways other people think and feel.

  • truth is truth.

    what's my channel got to do with the discussion at hand? you just got mad because you went to my channel and don't like my opinion on beliefs that you apparently hold. so instead of keeping with the music discussion you change the subject to something completely irrelevant and you're still doing it. you don't think, you feel; you're religious.

  • It had little to nothing to do with the discussion, I'll admit that. I just figured I might as well kill two birds with one stone.

  • all you have done in your hissy fit to defend your position is change the subject. this was about music and you have gone way off course. not too mention you can't distinguish what i was even saying in the first place.

    "No one is qualified to say one genre of music is better than another without being bias"

    i never said anything about one genre being better than the other. classical and pop music are not comparable. it's not a matter of genre its a matter on content and structure.

  • You said comparing classical music with pop music was like comparing a ten course meal with a snickers bar. That's not comparing based on content and structure, that's comparing them with your own personal preference.

  • apparently you don't understand analogies...

    any candy or snickers bar is like pop music. it's nice it's quick its a sugar high, but no real nutrition or content. it just tastes sweet and it's always the same.

    classical music is complex and multifaceted, can display a wide range of emotion all within the same piece of music. classical music is like a ten course meal, satisfying and diverse from simple appetizers to the main courses to the fine wines and desserts.

    content and structure.

  • do you always have to have everything spelled out for you?

  • All you did was prove my point. You said that pop music only satisfies a "sugar high" while classical music is "complex and multifaceted." Which basically means you like classical music more so you think it's better. That's called being bias.

  • wrong, it's the truth. pop is a song that is around a basic 3 - 5 minute mark and has a consistent feeling. a classical piece of music is much longer and moves through tempo and various emotions.

    you don't seem to grasp i'm not stating opinions about each, i'm stating facts.

    pop and classical music are not in the same realm of music. i like both and what i'm saying has no significance in my preference. i, in fact like pop music very much. but this is irrelevant to my point.

  • What about rock operas like Tommy, Jesus Chris Superstar, Ziggy Stardust, The Wall? They all contain songs that tell stories, move through different tempos, and touch base on many emotions.

  • He is god

  • hes dressed like han solo

  • JJaahahaha :P

  • There's a little lick in there from Rushes... does he explain that? Damn, I have to listen to this whole thing.

  • he doesn't mention donovan for the fingerstyle he learnt from him!

  • paullie i love  you

  • paul is in such great shape!

  • The man is brilliant!!! For you little c**ksuckers that disagree, kiss my arse.

  • How sad it is!!!

  • wts the name of the song he sung at first?? :D

  • bachh inspired BLACKBIRDD?!? holy crappp lol. that's so awesome. and jenny wren, nicee :).

  • does somebody know what kind of bracalets or "wristbands" is paul wearing ??? the white ones ^^

  • I love that song Jenny Wren !!! WOW long since I didn;t dig a Paul's new song !! English TEa also, very good, For No One style ...

  • OHHHHHH...Heather was there!!!!!!!!!! Please somebody delete her from the video!!!!!

  • where was she?

  • Right at 1:25, somebody please delete Heather form this great piece of material?. Thanks!

  • AHHHH YOUR RIGHT BURN HER!!!!!

  • Well ... just as John picked a Witch, Paul picked the Thief ... now he has to Carry that Weight ...

  • heather who??

  • Mills ... not his daughter ..

  • yes i know, but i was just trying to say she is meaningless... like "heather who? who? i never met any heather"... ahh y'know

    i will try to make it clear next time lol

  • Got it!!

  • i love ya paullie

  • paullie wooooooooooooooooooooo youre cute and handsome

  • th closest thing u can get to the Mellotron is the sampletron by sampletank if ur a audio producer its the shit trust me

  • What Bach?

  • i think he means Bach as in the Classical composer...

  • I meant to know that... :)

    But which piece of Bach's music does he use?

  • Bourree in E Minor

  • Sorry, meant that in response to those asking what Bach song Paul's on about - it's Bourree in E Minor.

  • Bourree in E Minor .

    Thank you Tofellasmeet. :)

  • Yes, Bourree in E Minor. ;)

    No problem.

  • Which Bach song is that?

  • Omg i want a melletrom now so bad. I wonder if i can find one on Ebay.

  • Holy SHIT! its AMAZING! probably costs an Arm and a Leg, buddy!! :$

  • Jenny Wren is so beautiful.

  • strawberry fields, timeless.

  • WHAT A JOB!

    30 years of giving Paul McCartney a guitar!

  • no one comes close

  • which guitar is he playing???

    =D

  • Epiphone

  • this is funny go  paullllllllllllllllll

  • Jenny wren is amazing. However, I must say, in this, I miss the Duduk. That solo was so awesome. Does anybody know if he played the duduk, or if it was a studio musician?

  • The guy who played the duduk was a guy named Pedro Eustache.

  • Hmmm? He's saying he's returned to that style for the first time in 30 years, and you're replying by saying he "can't escape" from it?

  • Which part? I didn't find them similar at all.

  • GO PAUL HAHAHHAHAHA I LOVE YOU

  • i love you paully

  • I love jenny wren! i could dream to that song forever! =)

  • Does anyone else just get this feeling of awesomeness learning how songs like blackbird and strawberry fields came to life, theres just something so special about seeing how real it is, makes you feel closer to the reality of the music

  • Thanks for this new information nobody knew of before you told us.

  • Your welcome, mug.

  • lol. you idiot. listen to johns demo. he might have written it but he couldn't realize his ideas without mccartney and george martin.

  • So just because in the demo, its not at its peak development means that Macca helped out? ALL the Beatles have said that John wrote that song and it was ALL his creation. He TOLD George Martin what to do with the studio techniques and Martin did it. I'm not saying Macca isn't a great man and great songwriter,I'm just upset that some people forget John's great work because he's dead and Macca is regarded as greater simply because he's alive. Both are great.