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(回答先: ポール・マッカートニー発言の怪しさ？ 投稿者 ウソ捏造工場 日時 2005 年 11 月 29 日 20:06:22)
ポール・マッカートニーは只今、アメリカ・ツアーの真っ最中！ 但し、チケットはまだ売れ残っているところも多い。従って、今回の中国公演発言は、コンサートのチケット売り上げを狙ってのパブリシティーというのが正解ではないでしょうか（ポールのコンサートといえども、昔と違って、即完売とまでいかないのが現実か）。
Paul McCartney USA Tour
http://www.beatlecollectors.com/pages/32/
それに今回は新アルバム、ツアー、それに子供の本の出版と「三位一体」の「メディア・ミックス」でビジネスを行っている。
子供の本の出版だから、「動物愛護」を声高に叫ぶことも必要でしょうね(笑）。とにかくアングロサクソンはビジネス上手。勤勉が美徳の農耕民族にはとても真似できない狡猾さがある(笑）。
http://maxwelledison.blogspot.com/
Monday, November 28, 2005
Paul McCartney could be forgiven for growing complacent or sounding smug. His provocative new solo album, "Chaos and Creation in the Backyard," has earned rave reviews as one of his most subtle and contemplative ever. The producer of "Chaos," Radiohead and Beck veteran Nigel Goodrich, insisted that the album push well beyond the comfort level of its iconic creator. He also was adamant that McCartney record most of the finely layered album entirely on his own, an approach he hadn't pursued so fully since his self-titled solo debut in 1970. His sold-out North American concert tour is already one of the highest-grossing concert treks of the year. It is rivaled only by the tours of U2 and the Rolling Stones. But McCartney, who recently co-wrote his first children's book, "High in the Clouds," seemed anything but smug or complacent during a recent backstage interview from a tour stop in Northern California. At 63, the former Beatle and veteran solo star exuded enthusiasm as he spoke about his current work, and the future.
"That's the point about the whole thing," said McCartney. "As long as there's an excitement there, in the album, in the children's book, in the live performance, then that's it. That's what's important for me."
Once known as "the cute Beatle," Sir Paul McCartney is now a grandfather of three and - with new wife Heather Mills - the father of a 2-year-old daughter, Beatrice. But at an age when he could be contemplating retirement or coasting on his laurels, he is happily performing two-hour-plus concerts with his band nightly. The shows explore his entire career, from his pre-Beatles days and Fab Four classics (including some he's never performed live before) to songs from his new album and earlier solo outings.
Here are excerpts from a phone interview with McCartney, which took place Nov. 8 as he prepared to take the stage in San Jose, Calif.:
Q: Given all the major events you've performed at over the years, most recently Live8 and this year's Super Bowl halftime show, I'm wondering if you still get stage fright every night, or only some times, or never?
A: It really depends. Not too bad; I'm much better than I used to be. I'm more relaxed about it. It's not that I don't care, but it's just that I'm not quite so worried. I found out that you can stop (a song on stage) and start again. You don't want to do it too often, but it does help.
I've done it once or twice with the early gigs on this tour, where I just made some sort of total goof, stopped and said: "Right, OK, now we're going to start this song again." But it proves that we're not on tape! And the audience loves it, and they respond to it. The funny thing is, it sometimes becomes the best moment in the show.
Q: Nigel Goodrich, who produced your new album, pushed you out of your comfort zone. How easy, or hard, was it for you to go along with him and leave that zone?
A: It was OK. My main disappointment was in not working with the band. I was all geared up - we were geared up - to work together. We were going to a trial period of two weeks with Nigel, and we worked the first week with the band. Then, he wanted to try something different - get out of the comfort zone, as you put it, the second week. So, really, the disappointment was having to say to the band: 'Look, the producer wants to go another way.' But Nigel did say to me: 'Look, blame me.' And you better believe I did.
Q: Was it cathartic to make an album this way, and do you think you might do it this way again with your next one?
A: It was cathartic, to some degree. As to whether I'd do it again, I have no idea. I kind of approach each album as it comes, and it's really down to, you know, whether I have any definite ideas or not. This time, I had some definite ideas on the songs, but not on the production.
Q: You play a lot of instruments on the album, including fluegelhorn, organ, glockenspiel and more. Your musical strong points are a matter of record. Given how much you do so well, and apparently with relative ease, what areas do you feel you'd like to improve in?
A: I'm kind of happy with where it's at, really. My lack of knowledge is not a bad thing, because it gives me a slightly novel approach, because I don't really know what I'm doing. It's a little bit of a Zen philosophy. If someone asked me how to write song, I couldn't tell them. I could give them hints and stuff, but I wouldn't know how it actually happens. It's not a science for me. And so it's the same with playing things.
Q: You recently put out your first children's book. How similar or different is the process of writing a song or an album for you to writing a book?
A: It's basically the same thing, creating a sort of an illusion out of nothing, creating something out of nothing. But the whole process was very different, because I was just the storyteller, really, on this book, and Geoff Dunbar was the artist who created the (visual) illusion, as it were. Where I would talk about a squirrel called Wirral, he would draw it. Then we had Philip Ardagh to help us with the finesse we felt we needed as a team.
In other words, I was just a third of the team, which is a bit different from writing songs. Normally, I'm - at worst - a half. And, more often than not, I'm the whole team. So, obviously, it was something new (to collaborate on a book).
Q: Two of the biggest concert tours of the year are yours and the Rolling Stones'. If you flash back 40 years ago to 1965, most pop musicians had a career span of maybe a few years at best. How long, at that point, did you expect the Beatles to last and how surprised are you to be here now doing so well?
A: When we started with the Beatles, we gave ourselves about 10 years. We thought it would be entirely unseemly after that. We had this wonderful, youthful idea that life ends at 25. But once we got to 25, we found we were just hitting our stride. And then we got to 30 and found we were still kicking. And I think that's the interesting thing about it. When I was about 16, there was a guy in John's art college who was 24, and I thought he was very old. I've since been proved wrong. He was actually very young. But, relative to me, and my perspective then, that was sort of (ancient).
Q: I don't know how actively involved are you in plotting out your tour itineraries. But apart from a private birthday party you played near San Diego in early 2003, you have not performed in San Diego since a 1976 concert with Wings. So I'm curious, don't you like San Diego?
A: I can't stand the place! You know, you're right. I don't really get involved in plotting out the tours. That's kind of a logistic problem. It's a question of how quickly they can get the trucks from there to there. They know I want to play everywhere, basically. I want to give everyone a chance, so I always tell my promoters, look for places we haven't played, or haven't played recently, but it's not always possible.
Q: Now that you're 63, do you ever think: "Damn, why didn't I call the song 'When I'm 74' or 'When I'm 84'?"
A: Hmmm. Well, I'm going to rewrite it.
Q: When you look down the road 10 or 20 years from now, do you see yourself touring, or will you be a semi-permanent member of the house band at Moody's Bistro and Lounge in Truckee, Calif. (at Lake Tahoe and where McCartney has quietly sat in several times with the house band)?
A: The answer, really, is I don't look that far ahead. I never have. I don't have anything planned for next year, and I probably should.
Q: Will you be sitting in with the Moody's Lounge band again?
A: What, in Truckee? Probably. That was just one night I turned up there, and it's become a regular gig for me now.
Q: Are you playing old standards with them, are they doing your stuff?
A: I just got up and sang something. I was probably drunk at the time.
Q: So there are no "Live in Truckee" bootleg albums floating around?
A: I hope not!
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