“You try doing that for three minutes,” says McCartney, pantomiming Lennon’s furious strumming, before patting his sore arm.Ģ. McCartney mimes John Lennon’s rhythm guitar part for “All My Loving,” which sounds like a relaxed song but, when you pull it apart, has Lennon doing something deeply frantic.
Since the songs and time frames of “McCartney 3, 2, 1” are presented in no particular order, chronological or otherwise, other than seeming to have some kind of basic flow, here are 10 similarly random favorite moments from the series:ġ.
The nice thing is, even if you’re a young person who hasn’t heard yet how the British Invasion revolutionized culture, you’re probably just as likely to respond to Rubin pulling up a really bizarre bass or guitar part and asking: How the hell did you do that?
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There is a near-complete randomness to the series that’s kind of refreshing, with no beats to hit to establish where the Beatles were at their career - just mainlining hit after hit of anecdotes about “Baby’s in Black” or “Eleanor Rigby” or “A Day in the Life” or “Penny Lane”… or, in the very, very moments when Rubin finds something after 1969 valuable, “Band on the Run” or “Waterfalls.” (Barely a few minutes are spent on McCartney’s Wings or solo careers let’s hope that means there’s a sequel in the works using more of the 15 hours of footage reportedly collected.) Maybe structure and narration are overrated? That’s not something we’d say a lot, but it may hold true for the McCartney hardcore who really don’t need any of this contextualized for the 150th time as they wait for the good stuff. Having cranked McCartney up, he then knows to more or less shut up and listen to what the man said. As a music producer, Rubin has alternately been described as a goader and a stay-out-of-the-way guy - usually doing one and then the other at points on a project - and that’s how he operates here. He’s a wind-up toy whose springs sometimes take him down expected paths to familiar anecdotes but just as often turn up something you never realized about a three-minute song you’ve obsessively (or accidentally) heard hundreds of times. But with McCartney, if your goal is to get him to reminisce about the creative process, they don’t need to be. Rubin’s questions aren’t always deep or penetrating, although occasionally he comes up with a zinger that reminds you he didn’t earn a Malibu compound just by being a fanboy. And he always has an answer, and if you care about this recording stuff, the whole series exists somewhere around the intersection of catnip and nirvana. Most of the time when Rubin is getting his idol to join him in a light head-bang, he starts fiddling with the board and pulls up a stem of an instrumental curio and just asks McCartney how he or they came up with something that ingeniously odd. But there’s really not a lot of that over the three hours of Q&A. There are a few moments of that in this, where it’s like the high-rent version of that “SNL” skit with Chris Farley on the elevator, with McCartney acceding that his former group was, in fact, awesome.
Until then, I hope the titles above satisfy your need for a binge of all things Beatlemania and beyond that McCartney 3, 2, 1 ignited within you.If you saw the teasers for the six-part series, and saw the shots of McCartney and Rubin standing over a mixing board and both nodding their heads vigorously to the playback of Beatles master recordings, maybe you wondered if there was any value left in yet another interview where an interrogator gets Macca to confess that, yes, in fact, he has realized how great the Fab Four were and is kind of objectively gobsmacked about it himself, now that he thinks about it. In November 2021, fans will be treated with even more to learn about Paul McCartney and his former bandmates when director Peter Jackson’s three-part docuseries The Beatles: Get Back becomes available to stream on Disney+. Stream Springsteen On Broadway on Netflix (opens in new tab). Why it’s worth checking out if you like McCartney 3, 2, 1: Unlike McCartney 3, 2, 1, Bruce Springsteen reminisces about his own career, not to just one person, but an entire live audience in Netflix’s Springsteen on Broadway (directed by The Boss’ frequent collaborator, Thom Zimmy), but still results in an equally, if not exponentially more, intimate music experience with a taste of his craft. Bruce Springsteen uses an acoustic guitar, harmonica, piano, and his famous talent for monologuing to tell his life story during the final presentation of his one-man show at the Walter Kerr Theatre on Broadway.
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