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Alan McGee: Paul McCartney should retire

Aragorn said:
Zachary Smith said:
Absolutely. It's one thing to say, "I don't want to hear it." It's another thing entirely to say, "I don't want to hear it so no one ELSE should get to hear it either."
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Sounds exactly like a certain someone on this board when Enterprise was still on the air. :lol:
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Don't believe this is directed at me. I didn't like "Enterprise" much the until the last season and a half or so but I never complained that it was on the air . . .
 
^ That wasn't directed toward you. Last time I checked, people hadn't made avatars that were anti-you. :)

If you were to rank the Enterprise trolls, he would be the uncontested No. 1.
 
Count Zero said:
Man, Dusty Ayres, you assume a lot about the people who disagree with you. It would be almost entertaining if it didn't come off as so condescending. You don't know me and you don't know what other music I listen to. And those local artists you love so much - with your mediocrity rule in effect, nearly all of them would have to retire. ;)

Also, stopping to listen to music one loves just because it happens to be from the past strikes me as pretty stupid. Why should I deprive myself of something I like, just because some minor property of it upsets you? Should I also stop listening to Bach and Händel, reading Shakespeare and Goethe? This arbitrary cut-off point is ridiculous.
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You assumption is that I hate Paul McCartney; I don't. I was just reporting what Mr. McGee said. And wondering if he's right does not truly mean agreeing with him, either.

As for the other thing: maybe Mr. McGee is pissed off and tired of all the hype about the Beatles from last year (the newly remastered albums and The Beatles: Rock Band), and is just letting off steam.

As for the classic rock thing: yes, it's a pet peeve with me, because as was posted in the article I posted about classic rock radio ('All we hear is radio ca-ca') these stations are looking at diminishing returns based on the age of the listeners; getting young people as listeners won't stem the tide, because they're most likely in the minority of their peers as far as musical tastes are concerned. And they're also underestimating the Boomers in the belief that all they want to hear is older rock & roll and nothing else.

Also, as I've probably said before, these types of stations are wasting bandwidth (FM & AM) that could be used to spotlight local artists/scenes. And for what? So that Bob & June Baby Boom can get their youth back? What happened to buying CD's/LP's/MP3's (more importantly, what happened to their youthful 'live and let live' philosophy that they cultivated during the '60's?) What's up with smothering the originality of the 21st century? At their age, and in their financial stage, buying said music shouldn't be too hard. The same also applies to those of us who grew up in the 80's as well, myself included: I don't need classic rock to get my '80's freak on-I can look it up and download it, or check out the videos on YouTube (which I did as soon as I git my new computer!) and then make an MP3 of it, or buy it off of iTunes. And that's what every manjack/womanjack should be doing. Radio should only be for new artists, and for new releases by older artists, with classic rock/pop/whatever relagated to a now-and-then weekly show, or monthly special-just like it used to be when I was a young boy back in the '70's and early 80's.

Time to get off of this treadmill, and to embrace the present we're living in NOW, and the future that is to come.
 
As Aragorn said, good music will be good music no matter when it is heard. If people are still willing to sit through commercials to hear Bach, The Beatles, or George Strait's older music, then it is not wasting bandwidth but satisfying the listeners.

I think you overestimate the percentage of listenership of oldies and classic rock stations that is baby boomers, Dusty. To young people, the songs are brand new, and they offer a wider variety of songs than the Top 40 stations since they are not pressured to play a "new classic" in heavy rotation by the labels and artists.

I don't begrudge anybody the chance to make new music, whether it's McCartney or a young upstart. I just wish that new songs from newer artists or "has-beens" would get a fair shot at radio instead of having to be sought out by devoted fans and the curious.
 
Paul McCartney is one of the seminal artists in popular music over the last fifty years. He and John Lennon changed the course of popular music in the 1960s. He is personally responsible for some of the most influential and popular music written in the last 100 years.

This other guy-a manager or producer thinks he needs to be the "protector" of the art form, protecting it from what? Quality?

Paul McCartney can keep writing and performing music until PAUL MCCARTNEY decides he no longer wants too, any other point of view is absurd.

and BTW-that's SIR Paul McCartney to you!
 
Zachary Smith said:
In a world where songs containing lines like "If ya like it then ya should'a put a ring on it" or "My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps," repeated 50 MILLION times in three to four minutes are hits, PLEASE Paul, keep rocking.
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I know what you mean. That repetitive modern shite can't hold a candle to the transcendent genius that is: "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, and with a love like that, you know you should be glad."

That's some deep stuff right there :lol:
 
Colonel Green said:
Zachary Smith said:
In a world where songs containing lines like "If ya like it then ya should'a put a ring on it" or "My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps," repeated 50 MILLION times in three to four minutes are hits, PLEASE Paul, keep rocking.
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I know what you mean. That repetitive modern shite can't hold a candle to the transcendent genius that is: "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, and with a love like that, you know you should be glad."

That's some deep stuff right there :lol:
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"living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see, it's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me . . ."

"turn off your mind, relax and float downstream-- it is not dying"

"well, you know it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder . . ."

"we were talking about the space between us all"

"Eleanor Rigby waits at the window wearing a face she keeps in a jar by the door--who is it for?"

"She said "I know what it's like to be dead
I know what it is to be sad"
And she's making me feel like I've never been born"

"And when the broken-hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be"

"There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all"

"When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self
assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the
doors.

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me."

"I look at the world and I notice it's turning
While my guitar gently weeps

With every mistake we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps"

And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make . . . "
 
I think Alan McGee should get his head out of his rear end and work on his own business. If McCartney can still pack them in, and can still write, it's none of his business what McCartney decides to do.
 
Axiom said:
I think Alan McGee should get his head out of his rear end and work on his own business. If McCartney can still pack them in, and can still write, it's none of his business what McCartney decides to do.
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This is just another example of generational warfare. The young trying to push these old buggers aside.

If 70 year old performers like McCartney, Manilow, hell even Shatner, think they have fans who will buy/watch their stuff..then more power to them. There is a reason why everyone thinks ABE VIGODA is dead..because he's never on tv!

Rob
 
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