onosideboards
Oct 06, 2003, 04:28 PM
Well, here it goes, my very first beatleg review. I always seem to have a new favorite Paul bootleg, but this one has held up a few weeks so I thought I'd share.
Amazingly (for me anyway), this boot is mostly instrumentals. The songs are so smooooooth. Just real easy going and delicately played. Sound quality is excellent for every track. I should also add that I am not an expert at Paul's vast discography, so I could be getting excited about stuff that's very normal.
So here it goes, a review by moi of Strawberry Records' Macca Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2 (and no, I don't have vol. 1). http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/378627/str003b.jpg
1. Bridge Over the River Suite (3:16, incomplete): One of those nice isntrumentals I was discussing.
2. Back Seat of My Car (5:18): Oh my gosh, lushous, gorgeous instrumental version. You can hear all the little piano and guitar dittys so much better without the voices. It works just as well as an instrumental. Superb composition. But I'm biased cuz this is one of my fave Paul songs.
3. Best Friend (4:12): Live, I dunno where (bootlegzone is down). Great rocker--Paul's voice is perfect. He's not screaming, he's not trying too hard, and it's a tad scratchy. The best. This sounds like a great, underrated band that had a couple hits in the 70s and were forgotten, but have a good cult following.
4. Mamma's Little Girl (3:45): Nice acoustic ditty, a la McCartney (the album). Some basic, soft drumming and light backing vocals surround Paul and his guitar.
5. Hey Diddle (3:50): Another nice acoustic masterpiece. Looks like Paul added those clever lyrics later, as this is an insturmental. images/icons/wink.gif
6. A Love for You (5:43): Fans of this unreleased-until-this-summer gem will adore the instrumental version heard here. It's so weird because again, this sounds like a different band! I guess, in a way, it is though. That neat little country-ish twangy guitar line is more apparent, and it's fabulous. Paul can be heard making yelping noises--this was probably meant to be a backing track.
7. I Would Only Smile (3:25): A Denny Laine song. Sounds like Donovan in a coma. Kidding. No, it's good. Paul's bass is very heavy--splendid. Kinda folky/rocky.
8. Tragedy (3:23): Gosh, this sounds like another Macca song, but I can't put my finger on it. Very slow, with a sitar.
9. Long Haired Lady/Love Is Long (6:01): This medley has very faint vocals, but the instrumentation is fine.
10. Sunshine, Sometime (3:21): An instrumental acoustic ballad with Paul's count in.
11. Rode All Night (8:47): Wow, what a rocker! It's kind of in the jam-band style, which I normally hate, but Paul's scratchy, screaming lead vocal does me in. The drumming is exceptional. Not much on lyrics, but is that anything new out of Macca? images/icons/wink.gif
12. Night Out (2:17): Another rocker, this time with a strange, very 70s sounding guitar effect. There's no real words, but there's vocals...something like, "na na na na" to the hook. It fades out.
13. Seaside Woman (3:59, written by Linda): Catchy, funky beat, kinda primative sounding. Linda and Paul share the lead vocal.
******
I give this boot 5 out of 5 stars. Each track is a good representation of Macca history, perhaps the best part of Macca history.
[ Oct 07, 2003, 09:34 AM: Message Edited By: onosideboards ]
Amazingly (for me anyway), this boot is mostly instrumentals. The songs are so smooooooth. Just real easy going and delicately played. Sound quality is excellent for every track. I should also add that I am not an expert at Paul's vast discography, so I could be getting excited about stuff that's very normal.
So here it goes, a review by moi of Strawberry Records' Macca Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 2 (and no, I don't have vol. 1). http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/378627/str003b.jpg
1. Bridge Over the River Suite (3:16, incomplete): One of those nice isntrumentals I was discussing.
2. Back Seat of My Car (5:18): Oh my gosh, lushous, gorgeous instrumental version. You can hear all the little piano and guitar dittys so much better without the voices. It works just as well as an instrumental. Superb composition. But I'm biased cuz this is one of my fave Paul songs.
3. Best Friend (4:12): Live, I dunno where (bootlegzone is down). Great rocker--Paul's voice is perfect. He's not screaming, he's not trying too hard, and it's a tad scratchy. The best. This sounds like a great, underrated band that had a couple hits in the 70s and were forgotten, but have a good cult following.
4. Mamma's Little Girl (3:45): Nice acoustic ditty, a la McCartney (the album). Some basic, soft drumming and light backing vocals surround Paul and his guitar.
5. Hey Diddle (3:50): Another nice acoustic masterpiece. Looks like Paul added those clever lyrics later, as this is an insturmental. images/icons/wink.gif
6. A Love for You (5:43): Fans of this unreleased-until-this-summer gem will adore the instrumental version heard here. It's so weird because again, this sounds like a different band! I guess, in a way, it is though. That neat little country-ish twangy guitar line is more apparent, and it's fabulous. Paul can be heard making yelping noises--this was probably meant to be a backing track.
7. I Would Only Smile (3:25): A Denny Laine song. Sounds like Donovan in a coma. Kidding. No, it's good. Paul's bass is very heavy--splendid. Kinda folky/rocky.
8. Tragedy (3:23): Gosh, this sounds like another Macca song, but I can't put my finger on it. Very slow, with a sitar.
9. Long Haired Lady/Love Is Long (6:01): This medley has very faint vocals, but the instrumentation is fine.
10. Sunshine, Sometime (3:21): An instrumental acoustic ballad with Paul's count in.
11. Rode All Night (8:47): Wow, what a rocker! It's kind of in the jam-band style, which I normally hate, but Paul's scratchy, screaming lead vocal does me in. The drumming is exceptional. Not much on lyrics, but is that anything new out of Macca? images/icons/wink.gif
12. Night Out (2:17): Another rocker, this time with a strange, very 70s sounding guitar effect. There's no real words, but there's vocals...something like, "na na na na" to the hook. It fades out.
13. Seaside Woman (3:59, written by Linda): Catchy, funky beat, kinda primative sounding. Linda and Paul share the lead vocal.
******
I give this boot 5 out of 5 stars. Each track is a good representation of Macca history, perhaps the best part of Macca history.
[ Oct 07, 2003, 09:34 AM: Message Edited By: onosideboards ]