Paul McCartney,Wings/UK 1980 Rehearsals 2Days Upgrade

A fact that has been largely overlooked is that Wings continued as a group even after Paul’s arrest ended the 1980 Japan tour as a phantom. However, since full-scale recording and release as a group did not materialize after the incident was over, it cannot be helped that Wings is generally seen as having ended with the cancellation of the Japan tour. However, they actually convened Wings in July to try out their new song, “Ballroom Dancing.” You can get a glimpse of what happened at that time in the bootleg, and it was a documentary that felt like rehabilitation with the band members who had been away for half a year. So Paul created songs for the album that would later become “TUG OF WAR” and concentrated on making demos in his own studio. After completing these demos, Paul convened Wings again in October. There, a much more elaborate rehearsal was held than in July, but the scene here was of course recorded, and Trevor Jones owned the cassette. When a large number of his recordings appeared in 2010, this rehearsal did not receive much attention. The number of released items was also small, probably due to the fact that it was a long rehearsal sound source. It is true that there are many loose scenes in the first half, as it is captured from when the members gather and make sounds. On the other hand, it has the great appeal of being a very clear sound source, and boasts a quality that is especially easy to listen to among the sound sources owned by Trevor Jones. Therefore, the sound quality has been excellent for 10 years, but this time I got the master cassette version, which was only available among some traders. Wonderful clarity and freshness, as if the last fog in the originally clear sound quality had cleared. Of course, the extremely natural texture is also wonderful, and its upper feel is obvious at a glance. It is a big point that the sound quality has been pushed to the limit in this release, and the hurdle of this sound source, which had the impression that it was difficult to access, has been lowered. Therefore, I would like to introduce the contents of each disc. First of all, the first record was made by just Denny Lane, guitarist Lawrence Juber, and drummer Steve Holly, and the jam session, which is typical for band rehearsals, lasted for 30 minutes. Continue across. I can’t help but feel that this part is boring. If you are not a fanatic, you can listen while listening. However, after 10 minutes, the jam got heated, with Juber playing the guitar all the time. However, around the 25th minute towards the end of the jam, in addition to changing the cassette, the microphone setting is done since Paul appeared, but please be careful when listening as there are parts where the volume increases at that time. To make matters worse, I made a mistake in the microphone settings, and the left channel kept turning off after a while. In past releases, this part was converted into a monophonic part, but as this would drastically reduce the freshness and spread of the sound, this time it was recorded as is. Considering this point, we recommend playing from speakers. Paul and Linda also joined, and the voltage of the performance suddenly increased from the 3rd jam. Here, Denny sings whatever song comes to mind. Now that I think about it, I remember that the documentary “WINGS OVER THE WORLD” also showed Denny screaming during rehearsal. This is probably a rite of passage for the Wings in rehearsal. When the band’s engine started running, Paul brought out a new song called “Average Parson.” It was a tragic song that was later rejected by George Martin because it was just as mediocre as the title suggests, but this document shows that Wings was trying to make it into something. At first, Paul teaches the song to the band while playing the electric piano, and it looks exactly like the scene where he taught the Beatles “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” in the movie “LET IT BE”. The rehearsal of the same song continues on the second disc, but the performance begins to come together after 10 minutes, and it is also valuable that there is a scene in the middle where Linda is involved in harmonizing. What is surprising here is that when the rehearsal gets exciting, Paul suddenly starts singing “Mama’s Little Girl” and the band matches it perfectly. It was a valuable scene where Final Wings tried out an unreleased song that can be called a memento of the original Wings. In the end, the song that was played most carefully during the new song rehearsal that day was “Average Parson,” and then Paul performed “Take It Away,” one of TUG OF WAR’s most representative songs, but the members I guess I’m on a break, so I don’t ride as much as I would like. The new song rehearsal that suddenly appears on the third album is “No Values,” which will see the light of day four years later. This is one of the scenes that surprised enthusiasts when the sound source was released in 2010, but as expected, the performance is much looser than the later version of “GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET”, and the lyrics are still unfinished. However, it was a shocking fact that Wings had tried out a draft of this song. At this point, the rehearsal for the new song ended, and during the break, Juber sang a draft of his own song called “Your Lucky Day.” When that was over and he started singing Buddy Holly’s “Oh Boy,” Paul, who loves Holly, joined in as if he had been waiting for him, and the oldies continued from there. However, this was after practicing the new songs for a while, so all of the performances were solid and worth listening to. It’s interesting that the Beatles’ “Lend Me Your Comb”, which is familiar on BBC, is played in a more serious atmosphere, and “Fabulous”, which Paul covered in 1999’s “RUN DEVIL RUN”, has already been played. A precious scene. And at the end, it ends with another instrumental jam that seems like a rehearsal, but here the whole band is playing, and it’s interesting that Linda also cuts into the jam with a synth. At least during her time with Wings, she had ambitions as a musician, so it is extremely valuable to be able to capture a scene in which she participates in a jam session in earnest. Of course, as I said at the beginning, it is undeniable that it is a sound source for enthusiasts due to the nature of rehearsal. However, after all, it is certainly a very valuable sound source that proves that it was originally planned to make “TUG OF WAR” with Wings. It is also true that the superb sound quality of the upper part made it easy to listen to, and if you turn up the volume and play it back, it feels as if you were witnessing a Wings rehearsal. Pugin’s Hall, Tenterden, Kent, UK 18th October & 7th November 1980 STEREO SBD(UPGRADE) Disc 1 (63:27) Pugin’s Hall Rehearsals 18th October 1980 1. Jam Session (Cassette Side 1) 2. Jam Session (Cassette Side 2) 3. See Your Light (tentative title) (Cassette Side 2) 4. Average Person rehearsals, part 1 (Cassette Side 2) Disc 2 (62:12) Pugin’s Hall Rehearsals 18th October 1980 1. Average Person rehearsals, part 2 (Cassette Side 3) 2. Mama’s Little Girl (Cassette Side 4) 3. Average Person rehearsals, part 3 (Cassette Side 4) 4. Take It Away (Cassette Side 4) 5. Improvisation (Cassette Side 4) Disc 3 (63:44 ) Pugin’s Hall Rehearsals 7th November 1980 01 No Values ​​02 Your Lucky Day 03 Oh Boy / Peggy Sue 04 I’m Gonna Love You Too 05 Ain’t That A Shame / I’m In Love Again 06 Rockin’ In Your Seat 07 Fabulous / (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear 08 Your True Love / Lend Me Your Comb 09 Goin’ Back To Tennessee 10 Denny’s Song (complete) 11 Improvisation STEREO SOUNDBOARD RECORDING