[Steve_Seattle]

My opinion is that almost everything McCartney has done since his Beatle days is crap - Band on the Run, Live and Let Die, Silly Love Songs . . . no!

[DIRTYSECRET]

Paul is dead. Have you ever listened to a Wings album?

[Norm Lenhart]

I guess Frank was a perfectionist. Read up on Steve Vai, his early 80s guitarist (he of the shred). Vai often talks about Zappa in interviews and he was a fascinating guy.

[bigbob]

needs more mellotron

[Flycatcher]

I also like "Momma Miss America" from the McCartney album.

Great jangly and somewhat minimalist instrumental piece.

[Hugin]

I saw King Crimson as an opening act when their first album came out and was blown away. That is indeed a flute, played by sax and woodwind player Ian MacDonald. He did also play keys including mellotron, but I clearly remember him playing the flute in that song.

[Boogieman]

I'll disagree vehemently with the people that criticize McCartney's post-Beatles output. You can't compare it to his work with the Beatles, you really have to listen to it on its own to judge it's merits. The first few albums were shaky, to be sure, but he put out a lot of hit songs, consistently, for a long time. If Wings were any other band of the era, without being held up and compared to the Beatles, they would be seen a lot differently, I think.

Also, a lot of the best Wings songs were not big hits so if you only know them from the radio, you would think their sound was a lot more limited than it really was. Here are a few of their obscurer tracks that I think really stand out, give some a listen and you might enjoy them:

Wings - Monkberry Moon Delight

Wings - Get On The Right Thing

Wings - Letting Go

Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five

Wings - 3 Legs

Wings - Little Lamb Dragonfly

[InvisibleChurch]

Paul McCartney has written so much great music that songs like Every Night, panned by critics, would be hits by other bands. And Your Bird Can Sing from Revolver, a song dismissed by John as “rubbish”, left other bands drooling. The Beatles left everyone in their wake.

[Mikey_1962]

I liked “cat food” on the Crimson album.

[Fiji Hill]

The Hornets are better than the Beatles.

[John 3_19-21]

I wonder what Sir Paul thought of this one night show